Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Episode 443: The Sounders are riding a 10-game unbeaten streak
74 Plays2 years ago
The Sounders ran their unbeaten streak to 10 games and took a 1-0 series lead over FC Dallas in the first round playoff series. They got goals from Albert Runsak and Jordan Morris, a 12th career playoff shutout from Stefan Frei and generally looked about as good as they’ve looked all year.
I still don’t quite know how to feel about this three-game series, but I know winning your first game is a lot better than losing it!
Sponsors
Nos Audietis is the flagship podcast for Sounder at Heart, which became a reader-supported website on Aug. 21. You can support us by becoming a paid subscriber, learn more: https://www.sounderatheart.com/about/
You can also support the show by checking out our line of merch including every past YachtCon design and our latest skull-and-crossbones logo.
Recommended
Transcript
Introduction and Sponsor Welcome
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey, this is Christian Roldan. And Jordan Morris from the Seattle Sounders Football Club. And you're listening to NOS Arietes. This episode of NOS Arietes is sponsored by Full Pull Wines, a Seattle-based wine retailer and proud sponsor of NOS Arietes since 2011. Full Pull was founded in 2009, is based in Seattle, and is owned and operated by longtime Sounders supporters. They offer the best boutique wines of the world to members of their mailing list, with special focus on their home, the Pacific Northwest.
00:00:28
Speaker
A.O. Shen! Let's go! What a save by Fry! The Seattle Sounders have done it! MLS Cup win! Here come three years through the middle to crown it the vehicle! And now they truly can't stop the celebrations. It's the Sounders' MLS Cup! Niko Liddo leaves out!
00:01:12
Speaker
Is that what you young people call twerking?
00:01:26
Speaker
Welcome to another edition of Noose Audiotis, sponsored by Fullpool Wines, Watson's Counter, and our subscribers. This is episode 443, and we're recording on Wednesday, November 1st, 2023. I am your host, Jeremiah Shan. Joining me today is my co-host, Aaron Campo, and our producer, Lickett.
00:01:42
Speaker
All the Sounders ran their unbeaten streak to 10 games and took a 1-0 series lead over FC Dallas in the first round playoff series.
Sounders vs. FC Dallas Playoff Recap
00:01:50
Speaker
They got goals from Albert Rusnak and Jordan Morris, a 12th career shutout from Stephen Fry, and generally looked about as good as they've looked all year. I still don't quite know how to feel about all this being in a three game series, but I know winning your first game is a lot better than losing it. Aaron, I don't know, what do you make of all this?
00:02:09
Speaker
I mean, I think I said this was as optimistic as I felt about the Sounders in months going into this game, and I feel even better now. I think that they completely controlled the game. I don't think that there was any question who was the better team in this one. I expected the Sounders to win this game.
00:02:28
Speaker
And they looked better than I thought they would. I think that 2-0 was probably flattering to FC Dallas. It's not that I can think of like a ton of clear cut chances that the sounders should have scored on, but I just felt like the game flow, right? Like if you were to say like,
00:02:47
Speaker
you know, assign a percentage, I don't know, be 90% sounders in that game. They just, Dallas didn't have a whole lot in them. Sounders were in complete control. And I think especially after the second goal, the way the sounders just completely suffocated the game was really, really encouraging.
00:03:02
Speaker
Yeah, there was maybe a 15 or at most 20-minute stretch where Dallas seemed to be giving the Sounders some trouble where they were having a hard time playing out of the back. During that stretch, they generated two pretty good looks, both of them off of pretty avoidable mistakes by the Sounders. One of them was a Jackson-Reagan pass that got picked off. Another one was a Jow Paulo pass that got picked off both times. The end result was Jesus Ferreira getting a decent look on goal.
00:03:32
Speaker
First one, Fry comes off his line, saves really well. Second one, Frodo is totally skyd. And really, other than those two chances, there was nothing that Dallas had in this game. They did get credit for a high XG chance late in the game, but I've watched the replays of this a few times, and listening to the commentary, I'm pretty sure that was offside. So it doesn't really, in any case, ended up being a weak shot that Stephen Fry saved.
00:04:00
Speaker
But yeah, the Sounders just did not give Dallas almost anything in this one. On top of that, Dallas also looks like they may have lost Allen Velasco, who was the top player in the MLS 20 under 20, and is probably their most dynamic player. And it looks like he's got like an ACL injury on kind of a weird
00:04:23
Speaker
situation where Alex Roldon basically fell into him after getting into a tackle with Paul Arriola. But it's not looking real great for Dallas right now.
00:04:33
Speaker
Yeah, that was a that was a bummer of an injury to see. It was. It's just like those freakish injuries. No injury is good, but those are really freakish ones where and especially seeing a kid crying is always brutal. But, you know, I mean, it's part of the game, I suppose. But yeah, I don't I would not be at all shocked to see Dallas, you know, when at home. I think there's a decent chance this wouldn't comes back here. But I mean, it's easy to forget that the Sounders
00:05:02
Speaker
at least over the course of this season were I think better on a points per game basis on the road than almost the same they were quite better but they were I think they had 50 they had 27 points at home and I think 26 on the road yeah I think it was like an equal number of wins away yeah you're right seven wins I think both away and home
00:05:23
Speaker
And I suspect maybe we'll talk about this very thing on the Q&A show for our subscribers. But I think that the way the sounders like to play, especially down the stretch here over the past month or so, really sets them up well for this game. Because I just think that they don't really have to change a whole lot about their approach.
00:05:44
Speaker
to approach this game in the way you'd want them to. They're certainly not going to pack it in, but they like to get out on the counter. They're, as we know, very solid defensively.
00:05:59
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I think it's as optimistic as you can ever really feel in something with as much randomness as the MLM Cup playoffs. Right. Yeah. I mean, the defense is playing as well as it's had all year. And it's defense, frankly, that has been playing at a high level all year, and it's looking really good. But the offense is
Key Players and Game Strategy
00:06:22
Speaker
creating chances again, and they aren't just sort of
00:06:26
Speaker
They feel like very repeatable type of chances like in this game, they were finding so much joy in that right on the right wing, where it was, you know, Christian Roldan, Josh Atencio and Alex Roldan kept getting into that pocket and being able to put in sort of those man city passes. And they were a little unlucky not to get a goal from one of them directly, but
00:06:49
Speaker
that was sort of how they got the penalty, which I did think was kind of funny. Nico Estevez in the post game, he's the Dallas coach, was complaining about how I guess there was some sort of directive from IFAB about players changing their path to seek content, contact. But I don't know, I look at this replay
00:07:13
Speaker
Christian Roldan is doing a smart soccer thing. He's shielding the ball and he gets kicked. He just gets kicked. Like that's going to be a penalty. Oh, like there's, I don't, I don't, I don't see how that's not a penalty and to complain about it. And he's like, Oh, and then they took the throw too far forward. And I don't know.
00:07:30
Speaker
The way I felt at the end of that game is that Dallas was extremely frustrated and extremely gotten to. I think if your coach is saying this kind of stuff after a game in which you got completely just washed, not a great sign.
00:07:45
Speaker
Whether you think that that was or was not a penalty, I think it was a pretty clear one. I completely agree with you. I think if you were whining about a throw-in, you're done. I think it says really positive things for the figures about the state of mind down in Dallas. Maybe the strategy here is to
00:08:08
Speaker
You know, try to give his team something to hold on to. So they're not, they're not too down, but man, not just, I would not like hearing that stuff from my coach. I think if it's where you're taking throw-ins from, like you've sort of lost the plot a little bit. Caleb Porter in the final days in Portland kind of stuff.
00:08:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I did not have a lot of sympathy for that one. There was one other kind of funny incident that didn't get mentioned by Estevez, but it was funny seeing it in real time.
00:08:42
Speaker
And I did, I think, also speak to sort of the mindset of Dallas being gotten was after Jordan Morris scored, there was this big commotion up at midfield. And apparently, Jackson Reagan bumped into Paul Areola while he was going to go celebrate. And Areola made a big, a big meal of it. None of this was caught on the broadcast, but
00:09:04
Speaker
Like there was a there is a tactical cam that that catches everything that's going on So there was video of it and it did not so presumably it was reviewed and and nothing happened but it just felt like like everyone was so worked up about this thing and By the way, the goal would accounted anyway, right? so it wasn't like they were appealing something to get a goal taken off they were just like I
00:09:30
Speaker
throw a guy off the field. We just wanna, it was like, I don't know, it just seemed so silly. Yeah. I definitely like, for better or for worse, it was pretty clear that they were letting them play in this game. There were some pretty hard fouls, the one against the Saunders that didn't get called. And it's like, you know, you just have to accept that that's part of the reality of the playoffs in MLS. They just let stuff go. And... Yeah. playoff hockey. Yeah. And the extent to which,
00:09:58
Speaker
Dallas was just really begging to be bailed out. Was again, I think another really positive sign for the Sounders going into the second, I guess not leg, but the second second game in the series. Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess it's not a leg. I hadn't really considered that, but you're right. I mean, it still works. Yeah. Game two, second leg either way. But yeah, I mean, I certainly am hopeful the centers don't go to a third leg.
00:10:26
Speaker
The big drawback of this format, I think, has always been the possibility that a team could lose one game in regulation and then win two games and penalties in advance. And of course, that scenario is still alive and well, although from where I'm sitting right now, I'm less worried about it than I was before. But it's obviously still very much in play.
00:10:50
Speaker
So, fingers crossed. I would almost rather lose the second game in regulation than lose it in penalties, just on principle.
00:10:59
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I know we differ to some degree about this playoff format. My issue was not necessarily with the three legs. We're going to have to not use third leg, I think, unfortunately. But it's not with the three game series necessarily, but I do think the penalty aspect of the three game series is really... I agree with you there.
00:11:22
Speaker
really bad. I would I like three games best, you know, first to five, first to five. I think that's a great system if you're going to use it all the way to the final. Yeah, I I've been sort of pushing back on this idea. But I think I agree with you. Because it does feel like MLS sort of wanted to have its cake and eat it too, which was it's have having the cake was
00:11:47
Speaker
giving Apple what they wanted, which was just literally more games. But then MLS got to eat it too by saying like, everyone loves single elimination, so we're keeping that. But we're going to keep it for the last three rounds. It feels like a sort of Frankenstein monster playoff format. And that does suck. I agree with you.
00:12:10
Speaker
And I think that just the penalties aspect of the three game series is really the cherry on top. Yeah, you're right. I'm very hopeful that penalties did not come into play here at all because I think the Sounders are clearly a better team than FC Dallas. I do too. And not getting out of the series because of two games that go to penalties would be
00:12:33
Speaker
Yes, it would really make me hate this playoff format. Yeah, I agree with you. My, my, my feeling on the playoff format will change dramatically. Once that happened, that would happen. A good playoff format is when my team wins, I think is the right. And I guess the other thing I'll say is, um,
00:12:49
Speaker
I think the big thing I was pushing back against is sort of like people are already insisting that this playoff format devalues the championship and I just sort of like roll my eyes at that one because they've changed the format so many times. I feel like at the end of the day,
00:13:08
Speaker
Usually a rightful, like very rarely does a team win where you feel like, you know, they didn't really deserve to win. They, whatever the format was, they didn't really deserve it. If there ever was one, it was probably the 2016 founders. So yeah, maybe, but that was, but you know, they, they had to get through two, two legged series. They had to win a wildcard game. I mean, they, they had to kind of go through a gauntlet to get there.
00:13:33
Speaker
Uh, they had to win on the road. So like, I dunno, I'm not super inclined to give that one away either, but yeah, you're right. Like if there was one, maybe that was it. Uh, but there was also, I thought a lot of really encouraging individual performances in this one as well. Uh, maybe at the top of the list was new who, who I thought.
00:13:52
Speaker
you know, there have been times this year where he looked like a complete mess. Yeah. And this might have been his best game that I've seen him play for the Sounders. Yes. And that was before he had the assist was sort of just the cherry on top. But I know I said this in my, my post.
00:14:09
Speaker
that it was almost a flawless game for him and people were coming in saying like, oh, I remember all these bad passes. I'll tell you, I just rewatched the game and I'm sure he had some bad passes, errant passes, but none of them were costly. He had a ton of like line breaking dribbles. He was just completely shut down that side of the Dallas offense. I thought he, I thought he was absolutely spectacular in this one. Absolutely. I think that if you evaluate new who's performance,
00:14:38
Speaker
And you want to be critical of what he does in the attacking phase of the game. You have to be honest about what position he's playing. Right. And like he's nominally a left back on the team sheet. And I wouldn't say that like he's playing as a traditional center back. He's getting forward more often. Things he's doing. I mean, he's he wasn't doing a whole lot of overlapping in this game. He was doing things in the attacking phase of the game that are.
00:15:05
Speaker
beneficial with his skill set, like line breaking dribbler. He's a good dribbler. And so allowing him to do those things without having him dominate possession or be like the creating all the width on the left hand side, like that's where the Sounders get into trouble with him in the final third.
00:15:24
Speaker
Yeah, he wasn't doing that in this game. And he did he did overlap on the the assist, but that was only after Nico Lidero came in to play left wing and he is way pinching it like that's by design like once to like where where new who gets in trouble with his overlapping is when he's like trying to combine with two and it's like just get out of his way, dude. Yeah.
00:15:47
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, it's it and I think that the way that the sounder shifted after Nico did come on was a great example of how Nico can be valuable. But you do have to I mean, you have to change the way that you're you're going to play the game when he comes on. And so that requires new who to play, I guess, a little more traditionally as a left back. But he hadn't been in that space all game.
00:16:13
Speaker
He it seemed like he kind of took Dallas by surprise by getting into that space or they just decided it's new who we don't care what he does out there puts in the ball of his life. Jordan Morris scores a header of all things. Yeah, I mean, I think that I don't want new to take that as an, you know, as proof that he can be. But I think if he can get forward in the ways he got forward in this game,
00:16:39
Speaker
and continue playing the kind of defense he played in this game.
Lineup Analysis and Reflections
00:16:44
Speaker
You know, I mean, I was starting to ask questions about whether or not Reed Baker Whiting was a better option. Yeah, I think it was a reasonable question. If Nuhu plays like this, it's pretty clear that he deserves to be starting as long as the Sounders are going to play a system that allows him to play, you know, play the position in this way.
00:17:03
Speaker
Yeah, the other player who I really liked in this game, maybe unsurprisingly, was Josh Atencio, who, you know, his numbers weren't that great. Like, if you just go through and look at his, you know, he was in a lot of duels, he didn't necessarily win a lot of duels. But his just, again, his activity is so helpful.
00:17:24
Speaker
Uh, he had five shots. They were almost all like dangerous looks. He was getting forward a ton. He put in a couple of dangerous crosses. He's just very active, especially in back in the back press and, or in the counter press. Uh, and he just provides a level of energy that.
00:17:45
Speaker
I think is really, really helpful for the sounders right now. Yeah. I think that having that level of energy and industry in multiple areas in the pitch is really important to the way the sounders want to play the game. And Christian brings it on the right.
00:18:05
Speaker
Atencio is bringing it in the middle, and his own way is bringing it on the left. And then when Nico comes on, it's a different kind of energy that Nico brings, but it's an energy nonetheless. And I think just making Dallas deal with that everywhere is really critical just to creating the sort of, I think, chaotic situations in the midfield that the Sounders really thrive on.
00:18:29
Speaker
Yeah, they're there. And, you know, and this having Christian out there again, he's just such a call, a positive influence. And so like he had the penalty, but he's just constantly doing stuff to disrupt opposing offense or opposing defenses. And, you know, I don't know, I don't know if this is the most talented 11 that they're putting out, but it does feel like it's
00:18:54
Speaker
pretty clearly the most complimentary 11 that they have.
00:19:01
Speaker
You know, I understand, like, uh, I, I think roll really ideas is going to have a role to play. They probably need to get a goal or two out of him at some point during this playoff. If they go, if they're going to go on a serious run, I think Nico Lajero has clearly has a role. He had a secondary assistant. This one, I think he'll have a role to play too, but this to me is the starting lineup. Like the way that it lined up in this game is.
00:19:25
Speaker
You know, it's only the second time they've actually used this lineup, this exact lineup this year, but I kind of think this is what we're going to see until something forces them to change.
00:19:36
Speaker
Yeah. And I totally agree with you. And I think that the really important thing too is that Niko and Raul bring something totally different and that it can be very valuable. We saw that with Niko. Niko came on and I think part of the point, the plan there was to take the air out of the game and just kind of dominate possession. And that's exactly what the Sounders did. I mean, we talked about it earlier. There was just this long stretch where Dallas had nothing and they were, I mean, they completely shut down.
00:20:06
Speaker
They didn't, they couldn't get the ball at all. Sounders get the second goal. There was no urgency from Dallas after that. Cause I think they were just completely taken out of the game. And I don't think that the 11 that started the game can do that, but I think we're in the ego on and changing the shape a little bit. They can do that. Raul's a much different forward than, than Jordan Morris. He's not as well suited to the way the rest of the 10, you know, the 10 other guys that are in the starting lineup are playing.
00:20:30
Speaker
But it's easy to see a situation where he is the guy you want in front of goal. And the Sounders, it felt like a lot of the time earlier in the year, they didn't have any other options when Nico and Ro were on the pitch because Jordan was still on the pitch, Leo Chiu was still on the pitch, and they didn't have any other options.
00:20:49
Speaker
for lack of a better metaphor, they didn't have any other bullets in the chamber. And now they do, you know, because they've, instead of trying to get all of the guys that we think are our best players on the pitch, they have a more cohesive 11 that works really well together. And then they have these other options that they can bring on when they need to change what they're doing. Right. Yeah. And they have, they, they have different tactical approaches that they can, they can, you know,
00:21:17
Speaker
unbalanced defenses in various ways. I don't think this team is going to go on a juggernaut-esque run. They probably aren't going to reach the heights that they reached earlier in this season.
00:21:30
Speaker
but they don't really need to, especially if they are as sound in the back as they have been. And I would not be at all surprised, like at this point, I would not be at all surprised to see them go on a nice little run. But I don't wanna get too far ahead of ourselves either. And I guess that's a good transition. We're gonna take a break, we're gonna come back and give a little bit of a preview for leg two. You're listening to No Study At This.
00:22:01
Speaker
Watson's counter wants to thank everyone for their patience, but now the wait is over. Located at 6420 24th Avenue, Northwest in Ballard, they've reopened in a brand new location with the same bomb ass coffee and the same dumb ass vibes. You can still expect their classics like the gochujang fried chicken sandwich and free pebbles French toast alongside their new soft serve program and their world-class coffee. Make sure to follow them on Instagram for all the latest and greatest.
00:22:31
Speaker
Welcome back to NOS Adiettis. So leg two is Saturday, Aaron. What are you expecting to see?
00:22:41
Speaker
I mean, I'm hoping to see something a lot similar to what we saw in the first game, right? The dominant sounders win, that would be great. I think that Dallas is going to be a little more energetic. I think the sounders are probably going to be okay with that because I do not think Dallas has
00:23:03
Speaker
the juice to break down the Sounders team very easily. Like they've got talent, they've got attacking talent, they've got creativity. I don't want to undersell them, but I think that if they're really putting, you know, if they're really going after it, they're going to leave a lot of space in behind. They're going to leave a lot of holes in the Sounders are pretty good at taking advantage of those things. I think if my read on Dallas's mental state at the end of that game is accurate,
00:23:33
Speaker
It's not going to take a lot for them to fold like house cards. And so I'm kind of just hoping for them to overcommit the Sounders to get an early goal. That's what I'd love to see. I don't expect it to be that easy. And I wouldn't be shocked if this one goes to penalties or if Dallas just snags like a 2-1 or something, or even a 1-0. I wouldn't be shocked if we come back here for game three, but I really feel like the Sounders have a really good shot at not having to deal with game three. I just think that they're pretty clearly
00:24:01
Speaker
a better team than FC Dallas at this point. Yeah, and part of what gives me some confidence going into this one is so the Sounders were in Dallas not that long ago.
00:24:12
Speaker
and they tied that game 1-1. If you remember though, they started the game off really, really badly and then sort of dominated the last 60 minutes or so after they made some adjustments. That was the game where Ledero started at the 10 and they had Rusnak and Morris playing wide in that game and they ended up flopping Rusnak and Morris about 30 minutes into the game after
00:24:36
Speaker
I guess after Dallas scored, and Ruby Diaz was playing forward that day. And basically they gave Reed Baker Whiting also started in that game and they gave him sort of a little bit more license to get forward. He ended up putting in the assist.
00:24:51
Speaker
to Alex Roman, actually. But I bring all this up because that was a pretty disjointed effort from the Sounders, and they were still really the better team against, I think, effectively a first-choice Dallas. The Sounders were also on a two-week break, so they maybe had a little bit of rust going into that one. They were also coming off that 2-2 tie with the Timbers, so I don't know if mentally they were exactly in the best head space.
00:25:19
Speaker
But, you know, although the sounders are in a much better position, I guess, right now than they were in that last one.
00:25:28
Speaker
But man, I am definitely, uh, not rooting for, for penalties. Uh, as you, as you probably remember, they, the centers do not have a great record in penalties. Uh, I actually don't think they, they haven't won a shutout since, or they haven't won a shootout since beating Toronto in 2016 in the final. They've only had three shootouts since then, but still doesn't fill me with a lot of hope.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, shootouts suck just generally as a thing to have to endure. I think in a game like this, where there's not even finality to it, it's just like, okay, well, we lost the shootout, so now we have to go play at home again. But I'm sure that's deflating, you know, but I'm kind of, I think you said,
00:26:15
Speaker
Uh, it would have had to been earlier in the show. Cause of course we record the Q and a show after this one, um, that, you know, you'd almost rather lose this, the second leg outright than lose on penalties. And I think I kind of agree with that as well. Um,
00:26:31
Speaker
But yeah, I just, I know I don't want to relitigate the penalties thing, but it's just, it would be a really, really unsatisfying way for, for, I think, for this game to end. And then it makes you feel really queasy. I think going into the third game, because you've, you've, there's a proof of concept. Dallas has gotten you to penalties and beaten you. And you can feel as confident as you want that you're the better team.
00:26:54
Speaker
If they have a blueprint, you know, for getting the game to penalties, that's going to be in the back of your mind the whole time and in the third game. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I, I think that's a.
00:27:06
Speaker
That's all that's all true. That's all very true. Another thing, though, I guess maybe I mentioned this in the first segment, but it is going to be a pretty big loss. I think it was confirmed today that Alan Velasco is going to miss this. He's going to miss a lot of time, but he's definitely not going to play in this game. And so Liam Fraser is probably the guy, I assume the guy who's going to play. That's who replaced him in this last game and
00:27:34
Speaker
say what you will, he is not, you know, I basically, I assume what they'll do is move Paxton Pomacol a little bit more into a more aggressive role. But that's a pretty big blow for Dallas. Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen a ton of Dallas this year, but I've seen him enough to know that he's a player that concerns me. And I think that given how good the Sounders defense is,
00:28:01
Speaker
I mean, you're already really, it's an uphill battle. And so when you lose your creative engine, and I think it's, I think it's fair to call them that based on what I've seen. Yeah. Yeah. That makes it much more difficult. And, um, yeah, I mean, it's a, it's, it's a bummer, um, for FC Dallas to, to have to go into this game. So, so weakened, but you know, so she goes sometimes, I guess. Uh, and I think.
00:28:29
Speaker
I mean, if you're the sounders, you have to try to take advantage of that. It's really the only thing you can do. And I think it does have to encourage you because I think the sounders have to feel pretty confident based on the last 300 odd minutes or whatnot that they can keep the team from scoring. And I almost, I know we just talked about how unsatisfying penalties would be, but if you can go nil, nil and losing penalties,
00:28:58
Speaker
Maybe that's not the worst thing for your mentality. But I'd obviously prefer to go 1-0 with a win. Let's win this in regulation. That's my strong preference. Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's the most likely outcome. If I were handicapping this game,
00:29:20
Speaker
I have the Sounders' favorites here. Not heavy favorites, but I feel really confident in their ability to score. I feel really confident, even more confident in their ability to prevent other teams from scoring, especially a weak and dusty Dallas team, a creatively weak and dusty Dallas team. So yeah, I feel good going into this one with caveats, you know? Same ones that there always are in the playoffs. Right, exactly. There's no such thing as a...
00:29:48
Speaker
overwhelming as a pre-determined outcome when it comes to the playoffs especially. Absolutely. That's all I got. I don't know. Do you have anything else you want to get into? Not really. I'm ready for this playoff series to be over, even though it's only been one game and that was only a couple of days ago.
00:30:11
Speaker
I'm not looking forward to actually seeing what a three game series is like. Yeah, not at all. And I think the one game series, you know, that's it. Whatever happens, it's over with this one. I think having the potential of it even dragging out is pretty agonizing.
Closing Announcements and Events
00:30:26
Speaker
Yeah. So I will give a plug for we're doing a viewing party on Saturday for this game. We're going to Watson's counter. We're charging $10 for tickets. It's a private that's just basically to cover it being a private event. And all that money is going to go to the sounder heart travel fund so that, you know, we can potentially cover some travel if we
00:30:52
Speaker
need to do that. But yeah, there's not a lot of tickets left, but if you want to go, I think if you go on to watsonscounter.com, they should have a link there to get tickets. Again, they're 10 bucks. Hopefully we get some people out there and we'll come say hi. Should be a good time. They're going to be serving food and drinks and should be a good time. So leave it at that.
00:31:20
Speaker
I should also say that if you want to become a subscriber of sounder heart and really support what we're doing, we are always looking for new subscribers. We have gotten off to a great start as far as that goes. But you guys have made this a lot more doable and sustainable. And I want to say thank you to everyone who has already done that and encourage those of you who are listening and aren't already.
00:31:45
Speaker
to go ahead and subscribe. It's as cheap as $19 a year or $2 a month. So, a smoking deal, if I say so myself. Agree. And with all that said, signing off for our sponsors, Watson's Counter and Full Pull Wines. I am Jeremiah Shan, signing off for Likit and Aaron. This is No Sadiettis. Remember, you'll never get alone.
00:33:04
Speaker
We love you. Let's win another one!