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Episode 377: Leo Chu and Jordan Morris are Sounders' new dynamic duo
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The Sounders won their second straight game, again going on the road to beat the LA Galaxy. Again it was Leo Chu and Jordan Morris providing the offense and staking them to a 2-0 lead. This time, however, the Sounders had to hold on for dear life in the second half, narrowly escaping with a 2-1 win.
Still, a win is a win, especially on the road and the Sounders will now be playing for first place this weekend when they host St. Louis City.
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Introduction and Sponsor Highlights
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Seattle Sounders MLS Cup Celebration
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Hey, this is Christian Roldan. And Jordan Morris from the Seattle Sounders Football Club. And you're listening to... There's no study at this. Come on! Hey, Ocean! Let's go! I want to say bye-bye! The Seattle Sounders have done it! MLS Cup winners! And Portland can't say he's cheating! Here comes Rudy Diaz through the middle to crowd it for Seattle! They have climbed the mountain!
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Sounders vs LA Galaxy Match Analysis
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Welcome to another edition of NOS Audio Disc, sponsored by Full Pull Wands and Watson's Counter. This is episode 377, and we're recording on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023. I am your host, Jeremiah O'Shan. Joining me today is Aaron Campo and our engineer, Lickett.
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The Sounders won their second straight game, again going on the road to beat the LA Galaxy. Again, it was Leo Chu and Jordan Morris providing the offense, staking the Sounders to a 2-0 lead. This time, however, the Sounders had to hold on for dear life in the second half, narrowly escaping with a 2-1 win. Still, a win is a win, especially on the road, and the Sounders will now be playing for first place this weekend when they host St. Louis City. Aaron, what did you make of this one?
00:03:03
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Hey, you said it, man. You get three points on the road. You get to feel good about it. There were lots of things to be positive about. There were things that weren't as good. The sounders attack early on looked very good. Jordan Morris-Leo Chu once again, looked really well.
00:03:21
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The second half, not as good, I think, fair to say. The sort of dominance that we've kind of taken for granted in midfield really fell apart. And that was a little frustrating. I feel like it was a lot closer than it needed to be. That Galaxy team is not good. But I think you do have to give credit to Greg Banning for the halftime adjustments for the substitutions. I think it's fair to say his adjustments
00:03:45
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got the better of the sounders and branch metzer a little bit and that'll happen from time to time but I think the sounders by the same token adjusted pretty well in-game. I think that the extent to which the galaxy dominated the second half was reasonable to be concerned about but maybe a little overstated
00:04:05
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I don't know if it was as close as it felt, to be honest with you, that was kind of my takeaway. This was nerve-wracking, but I don't really feel like the sounders were ever unlikely to get out of there with three points.
00:04:18
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I think the Galaxy had a lot of the ball and had a lot of dangerous seeming opportunities without really coming that close to scoring, if that makes sense. I know the XG numbers maybe disagree with that takeaway, but that'll happen from time to time. All in all, I think you do have to credit the Galaxy for their second half performance. The Sounders were certainly not the dominant force that they have been at times in the second half.
00:04:43
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But they got three points on the road and I don't care who you're playing and MLS getting three points on the road. You got to feel pretty good about it. They've got some learnings to take from it. Um, I think that there were some practical changes that maybe didn't work as well as we would have liked. And so if you can learn some lessons about your team and come home with three points, I think you got to feel pretty positive about that.
00:05:06
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Yeah, so in that second half, I think I basically agree that it was probably closer than it
Controversial Handball Call Discussion
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felt. But on the same token, I think that the first half was a little skewed more towards the Sounders' favor than maybe the run of play would have suggested it should have been. The Sounders did the best scoring chance of the game was Jordan Morris' goal.
00:05:34
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goes almost without saying. But, you know, Lao Chu's goal didn't really come out of a ton. I mean, he ended up going into space, but it was sort of taking advantage of a galaxy mistake. And they didn't have any other really good scoring chances in the first half. I did think they had a couple of good opportunities to make it 3-1 or 3-0 in some cases. You know, Nico Lidero had a really good look at a potential
00:06:04
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a third goal. Raul Ruiz Diaz probably had the second best look of the game. It was a shot that ultimately got blocked. But the Sounders had some good buildup that nearly came off and I think would have really put the game to bed. And the Galaxy, I think the big play that sticks out in people's head and maybe makes it feel a little more lucky that the Sounders got out of there was that
00:06:34
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potential handball on New Who where he has his arms behind his back and a cross hits him in the elbow. Now, I think we've probably both seen plays like that called the penalty, but the more I watch it and the more I hear sort of like rules experts talk about it,
00:06:56
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I'm kind of inclined to think that it was the right call, but more than it being the right call, it's just not the type of thing that's going to get overturned by VAR.
00:07:06
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Yeah, it's, I think that the histrionics around it from Greg Manning, which I'm sure we'll get into that in the questions. Although that's not the question section anywhere, I keep forgetting. Oh yeah, I guess the whole question show. Yeah, tune back in later this week. But yeah, I mean, I saw it, you know, I saw the replay. I said, if they call that a penalty, I'm losing my mind. And I'm very glad that they didn't. And yes, I've seen that call the penalty. I've had teams benefit from it being called the penalty.
00:07:36
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And I guarantee you that when my teams benefited from it, I said, well, I'm not going to complain, but that's definitely not a penalty because it's not a penalty. What else are you supposed to do? You've got your hands behind your back. You should be allowed to turn your body.
00:07:56
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And if not, then defenders just like it's all luck, right? Like you should just pull a Robbie Keene and start hucking the ball at defenders and the general vicinity of defenders arms that that's going to be the rule. Yeah. So I just I don't think there's any galaxy in which that's no no pun intended in which that's a penalty. And I think that if that's the thing you were whining about after you were frankly lucky not to be down four nil at halftime,
00:08:24
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That's the hill you're gonna die on. That's the thing you're gonna make a big show of You've kind of Already lost it and I know the galaxy have got a lot of things going on And most of them are not in their favor and I'm sure Greg Vanni feels pretty powerless because he's in a really bad situation like I think Greg Vanni is a good coach and that teammate doing squat for for a while and and I'm sure that's frustrating but It's not a penalty in a million years. It's just not
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Greg Vanney is a pretty good coach who has had a really hard time going against the Sounders in his career. It's funny, like every week the MLS puts out a notes package and I had to double check it, but I think Vanney is now 6-1-3 head-to-head with Brian Schmetzer.
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Yeah. I mean, he did one of those, like he didn't win an MLS cup. Right. So I should think about, he's seven, seven, two, and four, I think. And across, if you include the three MLS cups, uh, with the asterisk, obviously on one of those ties, since it's the worst kind of tie, if you're, if you're a great granny. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, I mean, it's, it people have their, their, uh,
00:09:42
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their teams that they just struggle against. It's too bad for Greg. It's unfortunate. Frankly, he should have known better. He should have known when he took that job what he was in for. Well, that whole presser was hilarious.
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And part of it
Greg Vanney's Press Conference Highlights
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was he allowed himself to get so worked up that he, and if you have, if you are listening to this podcast and you have not seen the footage of this presser, I implore you to hit pause, find video of Greg Vani complaining about the handball and watch that. And it is absolutely hilarious. He puts his hands on his hips
00:10:31
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he says this is apparently he's like even crouched down sort of like in this very awkward Spongebob-esque pose and it is absolute like he just made himself into a meme and it would be one thing if like he has the semblance of a point and but it's like really if you watch this pressure he gets so wrapped up in
00:10:55
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previous calls have nothing to do with the sounders and it seemed if I'm to read into this I think what's happened is that he feels really hard done by an accumulation of apparently three calls that have gone against the galaxy on various types of handballs and this was sort of the last straw for him
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and I imagine like I haven't seen all the other plays he's talking about but my suspicion is that this is the least egregious and in fact the one he has the least valid case to be complaining about and so he may have let that get the best of him but I have a feeling that this is going to stay with him for a while because it was a very meme-able moment. I think that
00:11:43
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Unless you're talking about like Luis Suarez in the World Cup quarterfinals style handballs, like very blatant, obvious, trying to get an advantage style handballs. If you were whining about handballs, you're a loser, right? Right. Like that's just, it's just loser behavior. Like it happens. Sometimes there's a handball and it doesn't get called. And most of the time no advantage was gained. Nothing could have been done about it of all just at somebody's hand. And yeah, it should be called if the ref sees it, but
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And I do think it comes off as way more bitter to complain about not getting the penalty awarded for a handball than it does to be complaining about a handball that was called and you end up giving up a penalty on or whatever.
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I don't know. It just came off to me as sort of like hilarious. And I do think the Sounders deserve this win. I think that they played well. I think they all deserved is a wrong, is the loaded word. I think they did what they had to do to get this win. And I found that to be a very positive sign because I went back and looked at this. I had to sort of recheck some. I did a lot of research into this last year.
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But the Sounders were so bad in one goal games. They lost 15 games by one goal last year. Most of those were on the road. The last time they won a one goal game was almost exactly a year ago from this game was on April 2nd. It was a game against Minnesota United, you may remember, and they actually were really good in that game. They were up 2-0 and then they gave up a late goal.
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that they had not won, they had not, they'd only even gotten two ties on the road, I think since then. It had been really, really bad away from home, just, or in one goal games, I should say. And it was just,
00:13:36
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it had been abysmal. And the Sounders, it was
Sounders Lineup and Player Competition
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fair to start wondering if the Sounders had forgotten how to win closed games. And this was just a perfect example of the kind of game you win when you're going to have a good season. I did the math to figure this out. If the Sounders had
00:13:56
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performed at their historic norm under Brian Schmetzer. They would have picked up 16 more points in those one goal games than they actually did. And that doesn't mean they would have been a much better team, but it's different to be finishing 11th in the table and finishing second. Yeah. I mean, that's what regression is, right? You do make your own luck. The Sounders played,
00:14:23
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pretty poorly for a lot of last year. And they got into situations where they were in a lot of one goal games where maybe they wouldn't have been in the past. Right. And they got unlucky in those games. Like both of those things can be true. And I definitely think that, you know, we kind of talked about this last week.
00:14:39
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in this morning Kansas City game and this was even more indicative because we said, you know, the Sounders went behind early. That's the situation. A lot of times last year we would have seen their heads drop. They had the exact opposite reaction. This game was another game where I haven't looked at the numbers, but I definitely feel like blowing leads was a problem last year as well. Yes, it was. And
00:15:00
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It, the sounders gave coasted in the first half could have scored a couple more probably maybe arguably should have scored another, at least one more. Uh, and struggled mightily in the second half gave up a goal would have been very, very easy for them to ship another goal or two.
00:15:17
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last year feels like it probably would have happened this year. Uh, they, they tightened things up and they, it wasn't comfortable. The galaxy were still creating danger, still creating chances. So a lot of the ball, but I think, you know, they, they didn't get lucky. I would say they did what they had to do. They did what they had to do. They saw the game. They got three points.
00:15:38
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And I think that's an encouraging sign. One of the other things that I think has gotten a lot of discussion this week is both the lineup decisions and the substitution decisions. Now, I was not surprised by the lineup that Brian Schmetzer used in part because I saw what was, I saw some of the early signs at training, but also if you listen closely to what he's been saying, he's been sort of like laying these
00:16:07
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these breadcrumbs around the idea that there needs to be more competition in practice, in trainings for starting spots. And that means that if you don't, if you're not at training, whether you're fault or you're, or not, you're just working, like you have more ground to make up. And so like, I think last year in this exact situation, if new, like new who got back on Thursday from Cameroon,
00:16:36
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or from playing for Cameroon. And so we got one day of training in before they went to LA and
00:16:45
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And I think a year ago, he probably starts that game, but in this one, they're basically saying like, look, if you're not here all week for training, you can't start because we have, there's expectations of like you knowing the game plan and doing all this other stuff. And it's not your fault. You're not being punished, but we need to start someone who was here all week. And so it wasn't that surprising to me that Alex Roldan got the start there. Similarly, you know, Leo Chu,
00:17:10
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balled his ass off in Kansas City, how do you not start him again? You're going to want to ride the hot ham of the Jordan Morris up top. And Josh Atencio was very good as well. Those guys were all starting again that Christian Roldan also showed that he was capable of playing right back. Why not roll out as similar of a lineup as you can with the one change being Alex Roldan at left back? And Alex was the first one back from
00:17:35
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international duty I supposedly he picked up a little knock when he was in with El Salvador, but I Saw no signs of that in training. He trained in full all week And I kind of like that lineup I like the message it sent more than that that like you can win you can earn more time by playing well and I think what it does though is set up a really interesting conundrum for this week, which is like are you really gonna set roll really ideas after a full week of training and
00:18:06
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You know, uh, like, I don't know. What do you, what do you, what do you fall on this? The role really is question. It's tough, man. I'm glad I'm not the one making the decision. Um, I think if it's up, if it were up to me, I probably.
00:18:23
Speaker
put Jordan on the right, put you on the left, put Raul in the middle and push Raul down back a line. Uh, I don't think Rusnak has played poorly by any stretch. And I think his worst game came playing on the right, which is, I think not his best position. He hasn't done anything wrong, but he also, I mean, everybody's playing at a really high level. Like the people he's competing with are playing at a really high level and
00:18:53
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Somebody's got to be the odd man out, right? And I think I do think Raoul is just sort of in a position where you could say well He you know, he was hurt. He was away with the national team like he should have to earn his spot back And I think that that's all well and good But I think the reality of the situation is that he has
Debate on Player Performances and Team Dynamics
00:19:12
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won that spot yet it's his to lose and maybe when he goes away on international duty, maybe he Doesn't start that week and I and I like that
00:19:23
Speaker
from the perspective that you mentioned, which is we have tactical plans that we have to implement and you need to be around to take part in learning those plans and everything. I like it from that aspect, but I also like the aspect of this long season, we've got a fair number of international breaks.
00:19:42
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this is a way to get these guys some rest, right, is to not have them come straight in and play 90 minutes. So I like it from that, you know, from that aspect of as well. But I do think that he needs to have a run of games in the team where he is not performing to even consider him not starting if he's healthy.
00:20:02
Speaker
And it should be said, I know people have been saying he's been bad. I don't know that I agree. He hasn't scored, but he's played about 120 minutes. So that's like a game and a half of playing time. And he's getting into dangerous spots. I mean, he had probably the best chance of the game in this one. He put it on target. It wasn't technically on frame because it got blocked by a defender, but it would have been on target.
00:20:29
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It may have been a goal if the defender doesn't block it. And so I think the degree to which he's bad is being overstated.
00:20:40
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It's more about the team hasn't looked as good when he's been on the pitch. I think there's a lot of mitigating factors that probably explain that. And I think the only way we're going to find out is if we give him a run of games. That said, I'm not sure how I feel about what the starting lineup should be. Just from a purely tactical perspective, I am very sympathetic to the lineup that you suggested.
00:21:05
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But the one thing I will offer as a sort of like counterpoint is to me, Albert Rusnak is probably the most
00:21:15
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press-resistant midfielder that they have and the St. Louis City is going to come in and my assumption is they're going to try to press the hell out of the Sounders and I kind of feel like Rusnak might be a really important piece to that midfield. Now of course the nice thing is the Sounders have a lot of players who can play a variety of positions
00:21:39
Speaker
I mean, does it make sense to put Christian Roldon at right back? And even if that means bringing Alex, Alex Roldon off the bench, or do you really like, I dunno, do you, do you find that argument sympathetic that you got to, you sort of have to keep Russ neck on the field? I, I, that's a good point. And it's, it's something I hadn't thought about. I don't love the idea of putting Christian at right back. I'll be honest with you. I think he's done a serviceable job, but I don't think he's.
00:22:05
Speaker
He's not just starting right back for you. If the choices between Alex and Christian and one of them is sitting, but they have to play right back, I might go with Alex, honestly. I just think he's a better right back. Now, that might be different after Christian's had a few games in the position.
00:22:27
Speaker
But I also have a really hard time seeing Christian roll, hold on, not starting. Like that just seems, it's almost like, and if what Brian has said and sort of done through the example of his team selection so far is true, nobody's job is safe, right? And I think you can make an argument that Christian has struggled at times this year.
00:22:54
Speaker
So maybe he's the odd man out. Maybe Joe Apollo is the odd man out. That seems very unlikely to me. I actually thought he was really good against the galaxy. I guess he wasn't perfect. There was a lot of problems in the midfield, I think, in the second half. And Joe Apollo was not his dominant self. But he made some good plays.
00:23:22
Speaker
But I guess what I'm getting I guess the other thing if you haven't said this but is it at this point you can't take leo chew off the I mean not stardom is that what I'm getting from you I
00:23:36
Speaker
I think that you can definitely not start it, right? Like, I think you definitely can. But does it send the wrong message, I guess. I think it might. I don't know. And that's the thing. I mean, that's why Brian Schmetzer gets paid the big bucks. Right. Because he and he has information that I don't like. Right. But if I were Leo, too.
00:23:58
Speaker
And I had just racked up five assists in a goal in the last two games. And I had even before... The best form of my life. Yeah. And I had been coming in and playing as well as I had. And I was being benched in favor of somebody who was not playing as well to keep their spot.
00:24:19
Speaker
Even if I was like a professional about it, and even if I understood, I think it would be impossible for that not to be a little bit of a ding to your confidence, right? Yeah, I mean, I suppose that's sort of what we get into here, right? Like this is the balancing act that Brian Schnitzer has to pay play because he can definitely make the case like, look, this is there is no
00:24:40
Speaker
starting 11 like none of you guys are like the starter here uh every one of you and and this is obviously like this isn't true there's certain guys on the scene that are like if they're healthy they're starting but uh all you know just
00:24:56
Speaker
like really pounding home the idea that like everyone's gonna have to come off the bench at some point like that's just that's what we have to do we have to rotate you guys this is how the strength of our team is in the is in the is is in its depth and we need to like this is for everyone's benefit and so maybe it's albert's week maybe it's christian's week maybe it maybe it is leo's week maybe it's raul's week again i don't know but uh
00:25:23
Speaker
Hell, maybe it's Jordan's week. I really don't. It better not be Jordan's week. I'm going to have some questions if it's Jordan's week.
00:25:33
Speaker
These are good problems though. We've talked in theory for a long time about how deep this team is.
Sounders Team Depth and Rotation Challenges
00:25:44
Speaker
Sometimes you rotate the lineup for Champions League and you find out how deep you are. You're in a really busy period and that's when you rotate your lineup.
00:25:52
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Right, exactly.
00:25:55
Speaker
To me, this is a fundamentally different question than we've really ever asked ourselves. I mean, here we have A-Bear, by the way, who we haven't mentioned at all. All he did was score goals in his first two games. He couldn't even get off the bench in his last one. And so, like, what are you telling him, right? Like, it's like, hey, don't forget about me. I'm like second in the league still and expecting goals that I haven't played for a month. And I mean, we had this conversation before he got hurt, too. And when Raoul's coming back of like, well, can you really bench A-Bear?
00:26:25
Speaker
Right? Yeah. Unfortunately, he kind of made that decision for us. He sure did. But yeah, I mean, these are, these really are problems that we should be relishing in. One of the things I said in my, I wrote this week was
00:26:41
Speaker
The good news is that you don't need to know what your ideal eleven is today and frankly your ideal eleven today might not be the same as your ideal eleven come playoff time or come a month from now but like these are these are these are the kind of problems that.
00:27:00
Speaker
good teams in Europe have all the time, where they're just sort of constantly having to rotate lineups just to get everyone on the field. And God, I hope we continue to deal with this problem for a while. Yeah, that would be nice. I do not have that stretch in the late summer, early fall, where everybody is just completely exhausted. Like, do we have 11 guys we can play?
00:27:26
Speaker
Yeah, that would be nice. That would be nice to not have that for once. And if you're going to win the supporter shield, you kind of have to have a stretch to avoid a stretch like that. And I would, you know, we've talked over the years on the show about the supporter shield.
Sounders' Ambition for Supporters' Shield
00:27:42
Speaker
at a time, I think it was valued a lot more highly by us than it is now. I'd still really like to win it. It would still be really nice. I was just thinking about this and I'm sure like this, I'll say this in all like where I'm sitting today, if you asked me which one trophy do you want to win this year?
00:28:01
Speaker
Right now, today, I would love to win Sportershield. It'd be great. I don't know if I, I can't say for sure I would rather win that than MLS Cup. And I'm sure when push comes off shove, I'd probably rather win MLS Cup. But I really like this is this, it feels like a realistic goal. And I hope the Sounders are contending for it all year. And if they don't win it, I'm going to be bummed. I'll admit that. Yeah. Like MLS Cup would be a great way to solve that, that wound. But
00:28:32
Speaker
I'm like excited about going for it, I guess. Yeah, I think that in years past, it was definitely a question of.
00:28:41
Speaker
is going for the supporter shield, putting the team into disadvantage in the playoffs. And I don't think that that, I think there's a good chance that's not the case this year. I think there's a good chance that the Sounders have the depth that they need and the positions that they needed in that they can do one without sacrificing the other. Right. And who knows, maybe I'll be singing a different tune as soon as like injuries start piling up. For sure. But if you're asking you right now on April 4th,
00:29:08
Speaker
This is what I, this is the thing I hope, and I'm like excited. I love, this is something that I don't feel like has happened very much in the last year at least, is I'm genuinely finding myself looking forward to games in a way that I, like it's nerve wracking and there's a nervous energy, but like I'm excited about seeing how the Sounders match up with St. Louis City. I was excited about seeing how they matched up with FC Cincinnati, you know?
00:29:38
Speaker
And I don't remember the last time I really felt that way where I was like, yeah, I want, I want to see, I want to see how this team stacks up. I really like, I'm looking forward to this. And that, and that is one of the advantages of hearing about the supporter shield is being emotionally invested in these match-ups in April and in March.
00:29:59
Speaker
It's been a very long time. Obviously, we had some pretty serious emotional investment in the team this time last year, but it wasn't an MLS games. Right. Right. And and it's nice. I've missed that, you know, and who knows what it will be like in August. I feel like that's one, you know, reality set in. Yes, for sure. A
Closing Remarks and Future Plans
00:30:21
Speaker
lot of time. But for now, it's it's good that these games feel like they have stakes.
00:30:25
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Well, I think that's a good place to call this a show then. As a reminder, we have decided to break off the question and answer session into a separate show. So you can look into that later in the week. Hopefully you are enjoying the shorter elements of this. And if you don't, like,
00:30:47
Speaker
Seriously, tell us because we're trying to make this like a fun thing for listeners and for everyone involved. So this is going to be an evolving thing. We're also going to kind of keep trying to do this sort of scouting report where we talk to someone who kind of represents the opposing team.
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and hopefully we'll be able to continue this cadence. We're hoping to bring the the RAINN podcast back into this feed as well, so you can look for that. And yeah, a lot of exciting things. I can't get into details right now, but this is promising to be a very monumental year in the history of both Sounder at Heart and No Sadietes. And on that note, I want to
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give a massive shout out to all the people who are subscribing to our sub stack. If you don't know about our sub stack, it's nosadietes.substack.com. There is both a free and a paid tier that you can join there. There's a few perks that come along with being a paid member, but we are also happy to just sort of build our audience on that platform.
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Also, a massive thanks to our sponsors, Watson's Counter and Fullpool Wines. With all that said, I am Jeremiah Shan signing off on behalf of Aaron Campo and Lickit. This is no study at this. Remember, we will never get alone. Green, Douglas, where were the waters cut through? Mountain wild mountains and tangents you flew. Canadian Northwest to the ocean so blue. It's roll on, Columbia roll on.
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Roll on, Columbia, roll on. Roll on, Columbia, roll on. Your power is turning our darkness to dawn. Roll on, Columbia, roll on. We love you. Let's win another one!