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Tough Week to be a Seattleite - Ep. 12
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Ari and Noah talk about the USMNT loss to Panama is the Concacaf Gold Cup, Seattle Sounders FC loss to San Jose Earthquakes, preview Sounders vs. FC Dallas, and Messi going to Publix.
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Transcript
Introduction and Corrections
00:00:10
Speaker
Everybody, welcome in to episode 12 of Lobbing Scorchers. This is Ari Lilianwall. I got producer Noah here with me. Noah, say what's up to the people.
00:00:23
Speaker
Ari, you need to make a correction. You need to make a correction to a correction. I do. I do. We're we're going to hit the correction segment to start the show first.
Seattle Soccer Woes
00:00:34
Speaker
But we've got an unfortunate pod here for you all today. We had a double dub pod on the last episode and we had a great time with it. But we got a double L pod.
00:00:47
Speaker
today, Noah. It's a tough week to be a Seattle soccer fan. Last week was a tough week to be a Canadian, but that got turned around real quick in short order. So we're going to have to dive into all that. We've got a US men's national team, Elle in the gold cup.
00:01:08
Speaker
We're no longer in the gold cup. It's a very sad day. I'm pretty busted up about it. US men's national team Twitter is going crazy against Christian rolled on. They're not handling it all well. So we're going to talk about that. And then we got a Seattle Sounders L midweek at San Jose two zero. So we're going to have to dive in and break down both of those L's unfortunately, but, uh,
00:01:32
Speaker
We don't shy away from L's here. We don't. We take every result head on, regardless of what it is. Correct. So we're going to dive into both of those L's and then hit some quick hitters, I think, from around MLS at the end. So let's get into it. But before we jump in, like Noah said, I got a couple corrections for the correction segment here, actually.
00:02:01
Speaker
Noah hates the correction segment he says I should just double down and never never correct anything but I disagree you know I always want to be accurate so yeah you don't want to be a Seattle Times columnist oh boy we were loving scorchers right yeah yeah so yeah I'm gonna hit both these corrections real quick the first one is a pretty small one on the last show
00:02:26
Speaker
When I was talking about the handball that the Vancouver Whitecaps may or may not have committed, I called Luis Martins Felipe Martins, so just the wrong name there. To be fair, Felipe Martins did play for the Whitecaps at one point, doesn't anymore. Now he's on Orlando City FC.
00:02:42
Speaker
got that name wrong there. Notice that one was like, God damn it. That's not the right guy. Apologies to his family. Apologies to Luis Martins. It's Felipe Martins for the... It's Luis Martins for the Vancouver Whitecaps. Felipe Martins for Orlando City SC. The other one is a pretty funny one.
00:03:01
Speaker
I corrected on a previous show my pronunciation of Christian Pulisic's name, and Christian Pulisic just transferred to AC Milan, and apparently he told Italian media that it actually is pronounced Christian Pulisic, which is how I had been pronouncing it, and I corrected it from that. I had it right, I guess. I'm correcting the correction.
00:03:24
Speaker
I don't really know what to call him at this point. I don't know if it's Pulisic for Italian media and Pulisic for all of us. I might just go back to Pulisic because that's how I had been saying it. And he said that that's how you say it, which is like the Croatian pronunciation of the name. So.
00:03:42
Speaker
I just call him Christian not ruled on. That's fair. Anyway, we'll see how we handle Christian's name moving forward.
US Men's National Team Analysis
00:03:51
Speaker
That'll be a storyline for you all. It's a point of contention on this pod, you know? But, you know, that's a good segue. I'm going to start this show cooking on some U.S. men's national team gold cup takes. You know, ordinarily I'd probably lead with the Sounders, but, you know, here's my condition.
00:04:07
Speaker
The Seattle Sounders can always guarantee themselves a spot leading this show if they score multiple goals in whatever game that they played. They got shut out in this game, so they get the second half of the show. Multiple goals is my condition, and they'll always lead, but they couldn't do that this week. So unfortunately, we're going to have to dive into some gold cup takes to start it off here.
00:04:32
Speaker
Not really looking forward to it, but like I said, you know, I don't I don't shy away from the results So we're gonna talk about this gold cup out Just all around unfortunate everyone's pissed off But let's get into it. I'm not pissed off
00:04:47
Speaker
Yeah, no, I'm chilling. I'm fine. I'm actually really happy. My day went pretty much normally. Yeah, it's actually a dub for Seattle that the US got eliminated because now Jordan and Christian come back. Christian wanted to come home. He did. He saw the struggles that the Seattle Sounders had and he said, it's time for me to come home.
00:05:06
Speaker
Um, let me just start by telling you all how I feel about the gold cup because We've talked a lot about how much we don't care about the gold cup on this show And I don't say that to disparage the gold cup for all the gold cup enthusiasts out there I think the gold cup is fine but for me personally
00:05:30
Speaker
I have a lot of other stuff in my life that I need to expend emotional energy on before I can really get up a lot of juice for the Gold Cup. For as blazing hot as the discourse on the timeline has been regarding this Gold Cup L over the last 48 hours or so, it's been blazing hot. I can just tell you how I look at the Gold Cup.
00:05:51
Speaker
And the first thing you need to understand about the Gold Cup, and I tried to explain this on the last show, but USMNT Twitter clearly doesn't listen to this show, unfortunately, because they haven't been heeding what I said at all. But this was a situation where we had two tournaments in highly close proximity to one another, schedule-wise. We played in CONCACAF Nations League, which we won, famously. And then six days later, we had the Gold Cup.
00:06:19
Speaker
So with that in mind, we couldn't just call in the exact same team for the Gold Cup as we did Nations League. Couldn't do it. Doesn't make sense. These guys already play 127 games a year between their club teams, playing their league seasons and 14 different tournaments at the same time on top of their international games. They just wanted that tournament that they played in, famously. And on top of that,
00:06:42
Speaker
You don't really need to evaluate anything among that group of players who are the top players in the pool and most of whom are known commodities at this point. Nothing to learn. So with that in mind, made way more sense to use this tournament as an opportunity to evaluate a lot of players who there is more to know about and just see what you have. Give them an opportunity to show what they can do, compete to show that they can contribute to the first choice team.
00:07:11
Speaker
Guys like Brandon Vasquez fall into that category. Georgie Mihailovich, Cade Cowell, Jalen Neal, DeJuan Jones, Jesus Ferreira has more caps than those guys, but he falls into that category, believe it or not. He gets talked about like a known commodity where we already know for a fact that he's hit his ceiling as a player, but that's not the case.
00:07:35
Speaker
Anyone who says that they know that Jesus Ferreira has already hit his ceiling as a player and doesn't have any more possible upside is lying to you. They don't know that. I could go on with the list of names, but not every player that got called in for the gold cup falls into that category. They mixed it up between those younger and more inexperienced guys and supplemented it with some more familiar faces. I would imagine the logic being, you know, you're also trying to win.
00:08:04
Speaker
If you throw out a team that's entirely the U23 squad, realistically, it would be fun. I would like to see that. But a team that inexperienced is not going to be ready for the smoke of a CONCACAF tournament. So the other portion of this squad were more familiar faces, few MLS guys that are more role players within the program to fill out the roster.
00:08:27
Speaker
Guys like Miles Robinson, who's not really a role player, but more experienced guy, DeAndre Yedlin, Aaron Long, Christian Roldan, and Jordan Morris.
00:08:37
Speaker
Matt Turner stayed in goal for this tournament. And I don't even necessarily agree with all the names that got called in in that vein. There's probably a couple of names where I feel like we have probably seen enough. And I would rather have seen the roster spot go to a more unknown commodity. But the difference is I'm not going to throw a temper tantrum about that. I don't really care if Aaron Long gets called in for the goal cup. Sorry. I don't. I wouldn't have called in Matt Turner for this. I would have put Gaga in there and let it rip.
00:09:07
Speaker
I would say there were enough unknown commodities to keep me mildly interested in how some of them would do. Vasquez and Ferreira, that was something I was watching. Who's going to win the backup nine sweepstakes that people care about way too much, but sort of matters. Cade Cowell, I think, is becoming a pretty intriguing one. He was one where I looked at it as if he goes out and has a dominant gold cup. I could get talked into that as a significant storyline.
00:09:36
Speaker
On the defensive side, Brian Reynolds and Jaylen Neal are two players that haven't gotten many caps and who I haven't seen play a lot, but who I've been told by the pundits and analysts are generational talents, apparently. Those are two where if they performed well, I might consider it significant.
00:09:52
Speaker
Georgi Mihailovic, that's one I have some degree of investment in. He went from MLS to the Air Divisa, so he's allowed to be part of the program without slander now, and I wanted to see something from him. You know, I'm gonna start calling out the bots here. When you guys hype up a guy, like Brian Reynolds or Georgi Mihailovic, because they play in Europe, and talking about how much they deserve caps over guys like DeAndre Yedlin or Kellan Acosta or whoever it is, I'm gonna start asking where the substance is. It's time someone did.
00:10:23
Speaker
Ask the bots about some of these guys.
00:10:26
Speaker
I've heard a lot about how it's a national disgrace that Brian Reynolds didn't get called in or didn't get minutes over DeAndre Edlin over about 158 times over the last two years or however long it's been since he left FC Dallas because he plays in Italy and that automatically means that he's at this higher level. Okay, the Gold Cup's here. This is his chance to prove the bots correct. Show they know what they're talking about when they make their evaluations.
00:10:55
Speaker
He plays in Italy. He should be able to show out at this tournament. And this is kind of a tangent, but I'm going to go on it. I'll tell you what I saw from Brian Reynolds. And I don't say this to sandbag the player or write him off. I think he's clearly a talented attacking player. And I would never write off a player over one or two bad games. And I'm honestly down to give Brian Reynolds more caps and show that he can actually hang. He's got some skills in attack.
00:11:21
Speaker
But I gotta be honest, what I saw in the gold cup wasn't that good. It wasn't that good. He got cooked on by Jacob Schaffelberg pretty mercilessly. Jacob Schaffelberg looked like the next Alfonso Davies going against Brian Reynolds. It was absolutely electric and I'm not trying to, I'm just telling you what I saw. I saw Jacob Schaffelberg out there cooking with diesel fuel.
00:11:47
Speaker
I haven't seen a Canadian cooking with that much gas since Wayne Gretzky on the Edmonton Oilers in the 1990s.
00:11:56
Speaker
I don't know what you all saw, but that's what I saw. So anyway, the point is, this is that type of roster for this tournament. It's not our first choice players. It's more developmental players, prospects or young guys that we're trying to either evaluate or give a chance to keep improving at this level. And role players, guys who theoretically have more experience, keep the ship steady and ideally help compete to win the tournament.
Player Evaluations and Roles
00:12:22
Speaker
That's the type of roster that this was.
00:12:24
Speaker
So with that in mind, I personally don't really give a flying fuck if we win or lose the Gold Cup. I don't. Sorry. I know that's a controversial take. From looking at the timeline, you would think that winning the CONCACAF Gold Cup is the most sought after trophy of any federation on earth. A lot of people apparently really love the Gold Cup. But for me, it's like this.
00:12:49
Speaker
Given that I'm mostly invested in the tournament for the development of specific players, I'm personally less concerned with winning it than I am at how individual players perform, if that makes sense.
00:13:01
Speaker
If we lose the tournament, but K. Cowell has like eight goals and is creating a bunch of dangerous chances and these CONCACAB defenses look like they can't handle him, I would be pretty happy. He didn't do that, but K. Cowell had a pretty good tournament. I was happy to see that. If Brandon Vasquez scores a bunch of goals, which he scored two, I'd be pretty happy.
00:13:20
Speaker
If Jesus Ferreira scores a bunch of goals, which he did, he scored seven, I'll take that. Seven goals, including the stoppage time equalizer in the semi-finals. That was one of the best goals that any player scored for any team in this tournament. That's sick. This is by JMO assisted by JMO. So, but they don't, I'll take that Jesus Ferreira six of his goals. Don't count. You're right.
00:13:41
Speaker
I don't know why I would root against Jesus Ferreira scoring a bunch of goals given our striker depth, which is still not great. So that's just more of the stuff I'm looking at. I really don't care that we lost to the Panaman penalties. Sorry. I just can't get the juice for this one. The USMNT plays in a lot of tournaments that I do care about winning. They played in the World Cup. I cared about those games.
00:14:04
Speaker
Nations League had all our best players and the team looked amazing, so I cared about those. But this is more about the individual performances of players that I don't know about and want to see play more.
00:14:17
Speaker
The only sense that I really care about the results is, number one, that we don't do anything actually embarrassing, like not make it out of the group or crash out in the quarterfinals. And basically just make it far enough that we get an actual extended look at the players. So the semifinals are the final. That's fine. We can make it to either of those points really. And then I'm good on the gold cup. We can call it a day on the gold cup. All right.
00:14:42
Speaker
I'm looking forward to Copa America. That's the only big tournament. Yeah of like coming up that I actually got to be an important one that you'll see the a squad in that tournament. It matters. It matters if we win that for sure. I can just tell you about Jesus Ferreira and Christian rolled on because those are the two players that have taken the most vitriol since we lost because they missed their penalties. So if you've been keeping cursory track of all this and haven't really been dialed in
00:15:12
Speaker
I can just give you context on that and why it's so dumb that both these players have become such polarizing punching bags among the fan base. If you're wondering how Jesus Ferreira actually played in this tournament, Jesus Ferreira played really well in this tournament. He scored seven goals, led the team.
00:15:31
Speaker
Like you mentioned, Noah, there was a lot of talk about how six of those goals don't count because they came against countries that people don't deem worthy of playing international soccer. That's not true. Those goals do count. When we're playing countries where we have a supreme talent advantage, we need players who will go out and bury them. The USMNT hasn't always done that.
00:15:51
Speaker
You can go throughout our history and find games where we've blown results against teams that we should have buried. It's a dark history. It happened in 2018, famously. I don't know if you all remember that one. We lost to Trinidad and Tobago in a game where we had a supreme talent advantage and needed to be able to bury them. And we didn't miss the World Cup because of that. So if Jesus Ferreira's only role on this team is just the guy who goes out there and absolutely torches over matched opposition, that's a useful role.
00:16:21
Speaker
I don't need Balgan starting in those games necessarily. If we have a guy who can reliably take care of business and pile up goals in those games, I'll take that. There's a role for that.
00:16:33
Speaker
But here's the thing, we don't even know if that's Jesus Ferreira's only role on this team. We don't know. People act like they know, but they don't know that. Jesus Ferreira is 22. He's been pro for a long time now, so he gets talked about like he's 28, but he's 22. And he's probably going to go to Europe at some point.
00:16:53
Speaker
And I think he should. And if he goes over there and does well and keeps getting called in and takes another leap in his development at the international level, which is still possible, there's for sure a possibility where he could be a player that contributes to the first choice squad or in big games, whether that's as a spark plug coming off the bench or if he takes a really big leap, maybe as a starter in some cases. We don't know. We don't know.
00:17:19
Speaker
And on top of that, he did not only score against these quote unquote minnows in the gold cup. I hate the term minnows. I'm going to I'm going to just stop using that. I don't like that, but I'm going to use it in this case because that's the terminology that all the bots are using. So.
00:17:38
Speaker
That narrative doesn't even apply. In this case, it doesn't. In the semifinals, we were playing a Panama team that was actually pretty good. Them and Jamaica were the best teams that we played. Jesus Ferreira scored a huge goal against Panama. He almost won us the game. So it's not his fault that we lost because he missed the penalty. The fuck do you think we were even in penalties to begin with? It's because Jesus Ferreira scored a goal. He's the only reason that we had a chance to win the game. Him and Jordan Morris.
00:18:08
Speaker
You want to talk about Brian Reynolds and Georgie Milevich? Give me those sales pitches. You know, what did they do to help us win that game when it was really on the line? Jesus Ferreira and Jordan Morris were the ones who bailed us out, so I hate to point that out, but that's just the facts. Christian Roldan also missed his penalty, which is just highly unfortunate on multiple levels, number one, because he actually played well in the game. I thought he looked pretty good. We didn't get any goals off the danger he created, but
00:18:37
Speaker
He was part of a couple of good looking sequences and he put in some good service. I thought he played pretty well, but look, I gave my spiel on Christian's place within the national team on the last show, so I don't want to rehash it too much and repeat myself. But just to make it clear, the hate he gets is idiotic and just way, way over the top and melodramatic.
00:18:57
Speaker
Christians had two years where he really got a lot of caps with the national team. He had double digit caps in 2019 and 2021. Aside from that, he's never had more than four caps in a calendar year. He was one of the last guys on the roster for the World Cup, barely played at the World Cup. I don't know if he played at the World Cup at all. I don't remember, but if he did, it was not a significant amount.
00:19:18
Speaker
whatsoever. He's never been given a defined role or position, has made his appearances in spot duty at the end of games off the bench, and mostly been a role player for this team. He doesn't play all that much. So anyone who gets called in over him instead of him would also be a role player. That's what people don't really acknowledge. You could say you want to see that roster spot go to a younger player, but the reality is those roster spots pretty much all go to
00:19:47
Speaker
Fringed role type of players by definition who probably aren't gonna play all that much These are guys there are guys like that on every roster both club and international. That's how a depth chart works So if you're the type of person who hates on role players and backups lamest type of fan there is boring lazy Put me to sleep
00:20:11
Speaker
something that you do when you try to make it seem like you're super smart and know what you're talking about but you actually don't so congratulations their couch posters are couch posters keyboard warriors whatever whatever term you want to use
00:20:26
Speaker
If you're the type of fan who personally attacks players for missing penalties, you're also the lamest type of fan. Get your ass out there. I want to see you smoke that. Take one from the spot. Let's go. Yeah. Against a concave half keeper, because you can say what you want, but all those players are professional soccer players.
00:20:46
Speaker
Panama is a pretty good squad. I was impressed with what I saw from them in that game. You know, they're, they're, they're a middle of the pack CONCACAF team. They made the world cup in 2018 and we didn't shout out Ramon Torres. So it's not like we have all that much of a right to be saying that we should be swamping on them. There's no rhyme or reason to penalties.
00:21:06
Speaker
It's as random as it gets. It's a guessing game. If you're a fan of this game long enough, players on teams that you support are going to miss penalties. So when a player on a team that you're a fan of does miss a penalty, the correct response is to go, damn, he missed it. We lost. Unfortunate. We'll get him next time, hopefully. Any other response that involves anger or vitriol directed at the player
00:21:32
Speaker
It's just coming in way too hot and you're weird and honestly a little creepy if you do that stuff. So it's not Christian Roldan's fault that we lost the game. It's not Jesus Rares fault that we lost the game. And that's pretty much all I have to say about the gold cup.
Seattle Sounders' Challenges
00:21:48
Speaker
That'll do it for gold cup coverage. Fortunately.
00:21:52
Speaker
I'm going to move on and never think about the gold cup again, Noah. I think that's a good idea. I hope you all will do the same. So sorry if that was a negative segment, but it was a tough L and the discourse has been blazing hot. So to take the temperature down a little bit, we're going to move on and cover a team that generated no controversy or negative storylines over the past 48 hours and where everything is fine and chill. The Seattle Sounders.
00:22:20
Speaker
They are coming off a really fantastic game that was super fun to watch and didn't get anyone mad so Looking forward to diving into this but are either number three in the MLS power rankings They were yeah, they were after the Vancouver game, which was pretty funny, and they're also still number three on the Western Conference table so
00:22:42
Speaker
I guess you can take solace in that, but it was a two zero loss for the Seattle Sounders at the San Jose earthquakes at PayPal park on Wednesday. Loan's not repaid. Nope. Christian Espinosa scored on a penalty kick 20 minutes into the game. Miguel Traco scored one of the best goals I've ever seen. And that was a wrap. Seattle fell from second to third in the Western conference with the defeat and the same questions we've been asking over the past eight or so weeks.
00:23:10
Speaker
just resurfaced once again after the bad win, the big win in Vancouver. The vibes got tanked, but they're not chalk. So we're going to talk about all that as this double L pod turns onward. Unfortunately.
00:23:26
Speaker
I raised my eyebrows before this game even kicked off about an hour before, to be exact, when I saw the lineup. On the preview show, I predicted that this game would necessitate a lot of squad rotation, given that they just played in Vancouver on Saturday and that this was their second match of a two-game road trip being played midweek on short rest. I was making all kinds of outlandish predictions about the lineup. Noah, I was predicting Josh Atencio was going to start. I was dropping some absolute names. I think I said Dylan Tevez. I said AB Sisoko.
00:23:56
Speaker
I was dropping names and instead they rolled out starting 11 that had two changes a bear for Rui Diaz and Cody Baker for Alex rolled on and the rest of it was the exact same no rotation at all. So needless to say the game that did not pay off Seattle generated absolutely nothing on offense after they conceded the penalty. I thought the first 20 minutes up until the penalty were actually playing out fine. They were they were dominating for sure. They were pretty good in possession.
00:24:24
Speaker
a bear bear had a great chance. He had a shot saved, unfortunately. So don't worry guys, breakout for a bear. His big, listen, his big chances created. They're up to 12 now. Okay. He's probably still leading the league. Okay. They were hanging with it, but, uh,
00:24:41
Speaker
Then they conceded another soft goal in the first half for a second straight game. They did the same thing in Vancouver and they got away with it. And they came back and won that game, but they did it again in this game. And this time you didn't get away with it. And you can't do that. You can't keep doing that.
00:24:56
Speaker
If you get bammed on by a highlight real goal like Trako hit later in the game, or they slice and dice you on a counter or with some intricate interplay or something like that, that's one thing. But conceding a penalty right there in that situation can't do it. Puts you behind the eight ball and you have no margin for error. The margins for this team are too thin right now to be conceding goals like that and to still be able to expect to have a chance at taking a result on short rest midweek on the road.
00:25:23
Speaker
Seattle never really bounced back after the penalty Alex rolled on and Rudy Diaz subbed on in the second half, but they never scored They ended up with something like 0.6 Whatever xg my eye test didn't tell me that they were anything more dangerous than that Trockos goal was insane I mean you can't really do anything about that except tip your cap but it ended up being an insurance goal anyway because Seattle couldn't score and
00:25:48
Speaker
I'm going to be critical of Schmetz right here. I'm going to be critical of Schmetz. I don't know if Schmetz listens to lobbing scorchers. I doubt it. But I know Schmetz well. Reasonable people can disagree. And I know he knows ball more than I ever will. And he also knows the health and physical capabilities of his players much better than I do. But that being said, I just disagree with the lineup. It's not how I would have lined it up. If I was the coach, which I'm not, but if I was, I just think you have to rotate right here.
00:26:17
Speaker
You have to, you know, it's no fun. No one likes to do it. Guys don't want to sit out. I get that. I'm sure that's something he was also dealing with too. But in MOS sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and fire out the novelty lineup and just let it rip. Can't play the same starting 11 for a three game week. I mean, you can, but a lot of the times the result is going to be a performance that is heavy legged and lethargic. And that's what it looked like happened to me, to my eye in this game after after the penalty.
00:26:49
Speaker
I don't think Nico Nico Ledera should have started in this game. He's most freakishly fit physical specimen that I've ever seen up close. But at 34 years old, I think you got to just sit him right there as sharp as he looked against Vancouver. And he looked very sharp. He was equally unsharp in this game. You know, start Rusnak if you think you have to. But just put Dylan to visit right mid and let him cook. That's what I would have done. Jophalo didn't play poorly in this game, but I think you have to sit him right there.
00:27:19
Speaker
The issue is in this situation, you now have another game coming up on Saturday. So by playing Joe Paulo in this game, are you going to ride him again on Saturday for the third time in a week? How much is he going to have left for that? I would have sat him and wrote the Josh attention Obed Vargas double pivot. Obed is 17. You can play an unlimited number of games, but correct. Joe Paulo is 31 going on 32. I think you sit him right there. That's what I would have done.
00:27:50
Speaker
I wouldn't have played Alex Roldan or Rui Diaz at all unless you absolutely had to. To me, that's just the type of game this was. Schmidt said after the game that he felt like the group that won in Vancouver looked good and he felt like essentially that they earned the chance to build off of that and keep it rolling.
00:28:07
Speaker
I get he's not wrong in principle, but I'm just thinking about the big picture of a three game week and trying to preserve some energy and freshness so you can come home at FC Dallas on Saturday and have your first choice guys a little more fresh.
00:28:23
Speaker
Now you're in a situation where, you know, do you play Niko Lidero and Jau Paulo on Saturday or is that the game now where you rotate? I don't know. This team has not been good on short rest this year. Jeremiah O'Shan from Sandra Hart was dished in a bunch of stats about this, wrote a column about it on Sandra Hart, which is worth reading. But they're like 0.3 and 4 now, 0.33 points per game playing on short rest this year. That's the majority of their bad results that they've taken this season right there.
00:28:50
Speaker
So you might still take a bad result with the novelty lineup, but I'm of the mind that sometimes you just have to eat it and do that. That's how I see it. So there was a handball controversy in this game. The quakes almost got VAR'd for one around the 80th minute or so where the guy was trying to chest it, but he had his arms all the way out flying like a bird and it looked like the ball bounced off his chest and into his arm.
00:29:15
Speaker
You know for my money. I don't know if it was clear and obvious that the trajectory of the ball changed due to hitting his hand I think it looked like it did but honest. I honestly couldn't really tell at that point. Did it really matter? Yeah, either way even if they had gotten the penalty kick It wouldn't have mattered because unless they had somehow scraped out another goal in the remaining 10 minutes Which they didn't look especially close to doing it's kind of a moot point so
00:29:40
Speaker
As we said last time, don't leave it up to a call from the officials.
00:29:47
Speaker
The good news is that with the US losing, Jordan Christian come back now. And I honestly do expect that to help the situation. I don't know how much they'll be playing on Saturday. Schmidt said he doesn't know, but I think adding two players of that caliber back into the group will elevate the group. And I think at this point, it's just about hoping that them coming back reinvigorates the offense and they can get rolling because they got to get rolling. They got to get rolling.
00:30:13
Speaker
Leagues cup is coming up. You got the rest of the season and you're trying to get a home playoff game. So, um, what do you think about leagues cup? Do you think, do you think they try and just tank, like tank it? No, I mean, they're not going to take it. Um, I think they're probably going to play roughly first choice lineups.
00:30:31
Speaker
for those games. Maybe you see him rotate it early, but no, I think they're going to try and win it. I think everybody, everybody wants to win the first game. Anytime you're playing League of MX competition, you want to show out. You're not, you're not punting league's cup. No.
00:30:47
Speaker
The last thing I'll say is now that this whole stretch without the full team is over and they're going to have the group finally getting back together again, when you have a team that relies way too heavily on one player.
00:31:03
Speaker
You're playing a dangerous game. You're playing a dangerous game. It's fine. And it's all well and good to say that, you know, we haven't had Christian here. And when he comes back, it's going to fix a lot. And the offense is going to be firing again.
00:31:20
Speaker
Look at Nashville SC right now. That's the example I would point to. Nashville SC has been riding Haney Mook Tar and only Haney Mook Tar for the past three years now. And a lot of the time it's been phenomenal. He's the best player in the league. When he gets cooking they look like the 1996 Bulls just because he's that good a player.
00:31:38
Speaker
But the last few weeks, they've been in a bad run of form because Hany Mukhtar isn't blazing hot anymore. Teams are scheming it up to take him out of the game. When he's missed games in the past, they've looked like a shell of themselves. Their level has dropped a lot just like Seattle's has on offense the last few weeks.
00:31:55
Speaker
So Christian Roldan is going to help. Jordan Morris is going to help. But Christian Roldan cannot play every game. And you've got to be able to take results when he's not playing. To be fair, Seattle did take enough results while he was out to stay afloat on the table. You've got to give him credit for that. They did beat the Red Bulls. They did beat the Dynamo. They did beat the White Caps. They grinded out a couple of draws. So if you look at the table, they actually managed to keep themselves afloat decently well on the table.
00:32:24
Speaker
But the offense should not have tanked this badly without them. They should have been able to score more goals than this. They should have been able to put themselves up higher towards first place in the West during this last stretch. But
00:32:41
Speaker
Thankfully, now they're getting the squad back and we're gonna just see how it looks going forward. We've been talking a lot about how much we expect Christian and Jordan, but mostly Christian, honestly, I think that's really what's tanked the offense to me. Leo Chu's been doing what he can, but I think we saw in the San Jose game that he can't just carry the full load every single week, every single minute of every single game.
00:33:10
Speaker
You got to be more multifaceted. You've got to be able to find ways to hurt teams without Christian rolled on on the field. And they couldn't really do that to the degree that they needed to over this last stretch of games. I think it's fair to say that. But like I said, they took enough results to keep themselves right in the thick of it for the number one seed in
Managing Player Fatigue
00:33:30
Speaker
the West. So that's the good thing.
00:33:35
Speaker
You have anything that you wanted to talk about with the San Jose game, Noah, before we talk about Dallas a little bit? I think you should just throw that one in the bin. You throw it in the bin? Just poor performance, bad lineup, should have rotated, would have made it sting a little bit less when we lost.
00:33:54
Speaker
I think we both expected that to be a tough one. And it is, it is what it is. You were in a, you were in a tough situation, admittedly that the situation there is you either throw out the novelty lineup and the novelty lineup, maybe it gets you a result, but I would say it's vastly less likely. I will say that, or you throw out the first choice lineup on short rest, which is what they did. And you're probably looking at players that are tired and just, it's, it's tough to give
00:34:21
Speaker
You're you're full juice on that short of rest, especially for in travel. Yeah on in the travel. That is the second straight road game, especially for guys like Nico Ledero who are 34 like I know he wants to play every game. I know he does. He's going to say that he can play every game, but
00:34:38
Speaker
Think that game kind of showed that he should not he should not be playing on that short of a turnaround or if he is it should be 20 30 minutes off the bench at the end of the game and not starting and trying to carry the full load correct now so I Also my last my last point on this my bet of a bear is not gonna score the rest of the season I think it's gonna catch I
00:35:11
Speaker
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00:36:06
Speaker
I mean okay you can take your little victory lap on that you know a bear is still not scoring he missed another big chance in this game that bet is probably not going to cash the odds statistically are that he's going to get at least a couple before the end of the season but it is getting to the point now where you're like you know is this just Nelson Valdez you know that it's possible that that's the situation but
00:36:34
Speaker
Either way, he's not a bad player. He's putting himself in positions to score goals. You know, the guy just, he can't catch a break right now. He is very unlucky. He can't catch a break. So for as much heat as he's taking... I want him to score. I love the guy. It's like a pretty mind-boggling league.
00:36:57
Speaker
Unfortunate run. It's almost like it is really it is Nelson Valdez cheese committed to the bit for sure I mean it's it's pretty like when he when he got that first one saved in in San Jose. I was just like dude God damn it like Yeah, it's five minutes into the game and his XG is already off the charts
00:37:18
Speaker
so you know uh... i still think he's probably gonna get it would be a mind boggling statistical outcome if he's just putting up
00:37:30
Speaker
big chances like this every time that he's on the field and none of them go in. That's just really usually not how it works. Like usually the law of averages dictate that a few of those start to go in. It hasn't happened yet. I don't really know what to say about it other than that. The dude is about as snake bit as anyone I've seen on this team since Nelson Valdez. So it's just unfortunate like
00:37:55
Speaker
Realistically like Ruby Diaz is also at an age where you can't play every single week And he didn't start this game. He was on a minute restriction and for the rotated lineup Or the the second choice lineup to be successful a bears got to be scoring that's like that's part of what's gonna make the formula work and
00:38:18
Speaker
The guy can't catch a break. He can't catch a break. So unfortunate. It happened again in this game. Like when he missed that, I was like, yeah, I think we all were. We all were hard sank a little bit. Big game. Big game this weekend. Big game. And I've seen that here. Yeah. I'm actually going to miss this game. One of the few Sounders home games that I will ever not be at.
00:38:45
Speaker
My friend's getting married. I'm going to the bachelor party, so I'm not going to be in the city of Seattle. Not too bummed to miss this game, honestly. I mean, we'll see how much Christian Jordan play. Schmetz said that's TVD. So, you know, if Christian's out there and cooking at full capacity, maybe it's a more fun game to watch. But I kind of expect them to be more eased back into it. Maybe they'll come off the bench. So I think, you know,
00:39:12
Speaker
If it's not a rotated lineup and Schmetz just rides the same 11 for the third game in a row this week It'll still be it'll still be the lineup that hasn't really been scoring that many goals outside of the Vancouver game the last few weeks But yeah, this is gonna be I think I've missed like three sounders home games since I started this job in 2014 and
Upcoming Match Preview
00:39:39
Speaker
God, yeah, I missed one in twenty fifteen when I was covering the Seahawks at the same time and the Hawks were playing at home at the same time. The Sounders were in Houston, so I missed that game. I missed one last year when I had Covid and I missed another one last year when I was on vacation, but other than that, I've been to every single one, so I'm missing another one, but
00:40:06
Speaker
It's at the point in the season where you know, I'm actually kind of looking forward to just I don't think I'm even gonna watch the game No, I think I'm just gonna catch up on you need me to fill in for you. Yeah, you can blow right. I'll write the monologue You can blow up the group chat write the monologue and tell me how it goes. I might watch on TV. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see how I'm feeling But either way, I mean I can tell you about FC Dallas a little bit. Yeah, which
00:40:30
Speaker
You know they've been struggling. They've been struggling. They got a lot of injuries. They got a lot of injuries. Jesus for who carries most of the load for them on offense has been at the Gold Cup and it's probably a similar situation where they might not start them. Maybe they will. I don't know if Nico Estebas is going to look at that differently than Schmetz.
00:40:53
Speaker
But either way, they are a team where their spot on the table kind of surprises me compared to what their roster looks like. SC Dallas's roster has some fun stuff going on. Jesus Ferreira and Paul Arriola are really good MLS players. Alan Velasco is a highly touted U22 signing who
00:41:17
Speaker
You know, I feel like he hasn't really popped as much as you would expect. I'm going to pull up his numbers real quick, but he was a guy who when he was signed, that was like considered a big signing. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. He was considered a, you know, he's a young player. He's only 20 coming from Argentina.
00:41:36
Speaker
But yeah, he's got two goals, three assists this year in fifteen hundred minutes. That's kind of not the production that people were telling me that Alan Velasco's was going to provide an MOS. You know, it's kind of a Brian Reddell situation. You got everyone talking about how
00:41:56
Speaker
generational talent we're talking about and it just hasn't really popped yet. He's only 20, so he could still pop. He had six goals, seven assists in closer to 2,000 minutes last year. But I think part of what's going on with them, why their record might not be as good as people anticipated is that he just hasn't really popped. He hasn't really popped.
00:42:20
Speaker
There eight nine or yeah eight nine and five with negative one goal differential one point three two points per game So this is a middle of the pack team basically is what I'm saying. It's a middle of the pack team It's a team. You should be able to take three points against playing at home Whatever the lineup is You know if it's a more novelty lineup because they just played the same lineup two games in a row That team should still be able to at least take a result in this game
00:42:49
Speaker
so I don't know I guess you just hopefully Christian and Jordan both play at least a little bit and they can start getting worked back into it and this team can get on a run we're gonna see we're gonna see I've been given grace on the fact that all right you just have to grind through this stretch
00:43:08
Speaker
Without Christian without Jordan you also had some injuries in that time to some suspensions So I've been saying that you just have to grind through it wait for him to get back and then hopefully you can start cooking again So we're gonna see if that was actually the case and if they can do that I do think that the level is gonna raise a lot with Christian and Jordan back in there, but
00:43:31
Speaker
Now they got to do that, and it starts on Saturday against FC Dallas. That's probably going to be a work into it type of game for those guys, but it's an opportunity to get back up towards first place in the West. They're still right in it. They're still right in it, despite the loss at San Jose. Their last five games don't look bad, though.
00:43:56
Speaker
FC Dallas it's Seattle Seattle you know what I mean like so are we that's my you mean the games that they just played or the games coming up the game the games they just played like it's no they beat Houston yeah beat Vancouver honestly like if you if you just look at the results
00:44:13
Speaker
Like I don't think it's been the worst stretch of games, but I'm I'm someone who looks at performance as well. Correct. Yeah, like that's kind of more that what I'm what I'm talking about is just that like, you know, yeah, they beat the Red Bulls and the Dynamo one zero. I didn't really see much in either of those games that where I'm like, oh, okay, like they could really cook without Christian field, you know.
00:44:39
Speaker
even the Vancouver game you know I talked about it a little bit but like yeah they scored three goals but two of those were offset pieces and one of them was when they were up a man yeah so like I didn't really look at that game as evidence that they had it all figured out with with the lineups that they had been putting out there so in terms of results it honestly it wasn't that bad a stretch you're right like they lost but you they took three wins and they grinded out a couple draws so that's fine but you know I
00:45:08
Speaker
I'm more looking at how they played in the games during that stretch and I'm going like I don't really think this team figured out how to play without Christian at all. You're right. You're right. You're right. But the fact that they did keep the results afloat is good. Like that's what that's what they had to do. I would have liked to see.
00:45:30
Speaker
a couple more draws grinded out and another win. But the results they did take kept them right in the mix for a top two seed. So that's the good news. That's the good news. But hey, a win a win this weekend. That's 38 points. St. Louis on 38 points.
Western Conference Standings
00:45:49
Speaker
Yeah, so St. Louis lost to LA FC 3-0 hung over LA FC. They got brought on St. Louis FC. Yeah, you know, I know. Yeah, yeah, they might be. They might be. You know, they're still first in the West and they've still got a plus 13 gold differential. Their record still looks really good. They're still at one point seven three points per game. Five road wins. So St. Louis are having a really good season. I don't know if lost to Dallas though.
00:46:14
Speaker
I don't know if they lost FC Dallas and they got absolutely bammed on by LAFC. That game was tight and competitive until the second half and LAFC got the first one. And what happened was LAFC or St. Louis city was pushing for the equalizer opened themselves up and then they instead got bammed on a couple more times. So I don't think it was like every 10 minutes. Yeah, I got squared on from the 72nd. Exactly. Exactly.
00:46:42
Speaker
So I don't I don't think that game was as one-sided as the score line, but you know credit to hungover la fc. They did not look hungover in in that in that stretch for past the 70th minute, so You know what a top two seed is right there for Seattle it still is it still is despite the San Jose game, so Gotta beat FC Dallas though. You got to beat FC Dallas and
00:47:09
Speaker
You know one thing I will say you know there's been a lot of negativity flying around, but Seattle does have an elite defense. I think it's fair to say that you know despite the goal concessions in San Jose You know they conceded a penalty and then Trocco. I mean that's like that was such a sick goal honestly Like what like
00:47:31
Speaker
off a corner kick volley. It looks like the Jimmy Madranda goal from the timbers game and in the six to game, but he was he was further out than Jimmy and he just caught it perfectly perfectly. So like you really you can't really fault anyone for that one. The penalty like yeah, you marsh into made that challenge, but
00:47:50
Speaker
What are you going to do a more is having a good year? I was going to say yeah, I wouldn't really I'll trade that penalty all day for the year he's having yeah. I'm not as long as he's not doing that regularly. I'm not going to like be overly harping on him for that penalty like they didn't lose the game because of that penalty. They lost the game because they couldn't score and he won the game literally. Yeah, he scored the game winner in the Vancouver game.
00:48:14
Speaker
So I think like when you Seattle statistically has an elite defense and when you have an elite defense That's always gonna give you a chance in most games that can take you pretty far honestly you got to be able to score goals too, but it's good that they have an elite defense and that can keep you competitive in games when you can't score goals and
00:48:40
Speaker
And I think we've seen that. That's why Seattle has been able to take the results that they've been able to take is they've been able to grind out 1-0 and 0-0. So I hope they can start taking wins where they are also scoring goals consistently and generating chances and scoring goals from open play and when it's 11 on 11. That's what they got to start doing. So I don't know. You got anything else on FC Dallas or?
00:49:05
Speaker
Used to live there. First team I ever covered as a kid, so always a fun matchup for me, but please, please take three points. Score some goals, man. Score some goals. Score some goals from the run of play when it's 11 on 11.
00:49:21
Speaker
You're not going to get a red card every game. And you're not going to be dominant on set pieces every game. I mean, that's kind of the thing. Like if it's the same lineup that they've been putting out, I don't really see why it would be. I'm not going to believe.
00:49:36
Speaker
in a breakout with that personnel until I see it. So he basically got to dominate on set pieces like they did in Vancouver. So if you can do that, you can probably score two or three goals. But outside of that, I think you just gotta hope that Christian comes on at some point and cooks and the offense looks like it looks when he's played this year, which has been really good. So that's kind of how I see it.
00:50:06
Speaker
a couple other quick hitters results from around the league I guess let's look at these what was notable we talked about hungover la fc not looking that hungover they really bammed on saint louis city oh that's what I want to know our saint louis city fc fraudulent
00:50:23
Speaker
I don't know if they're fraudulent, but I don't think they are as good as their record and their GD. I don't think they're that good. Because their away record's not very good, is it? No, it is good. They have five wins and two draws on the road. Okay, that is very good. That aspect. When you look at the record and the points per game and the goal differential, none of it looks fraudulent. But I test-wise,
00:50:51
Speaker
Just I still am like dude really like but they solved them a lesson thought they I mean yeah, apparently That take might actually been a good take like I don't know if I believe in it still. I don't know But like they keep doing it. You know they keep doing it They got bammed on against LA FC and so like you know and they got bammed on by Seattle earlier this season and So there those results still pop up for them when you're like maybe this is fraudulent But I mean you know they can they can just as easily be like
00:51:21
Speaker
check the scoreboard check the record we're in first place we're averaging one point seven points per game no one else in the west is doing that la fc ain't doing that seattle ain't doing that la fc and seattle don't have a plus thirteen goal differential true so i mean fair enough like their fans say that i can't really argue with that yeah but
00:51:44
Speaker
I am waiting for the shoe to drop on that because you know you see you see a performance like the one that they had against LAFC where they got bammed on pretty good and you're like okay like are you really that good I think it's a fair question you're asking
00:52:00
Speaker
I think it's interesting because looking at LA FC and looking at st. Louis City I'm not scared of either of those two teams like like the Sounders I feel like if they Pick it up figure it all out get there get Christian back get Jordan back Keep them back Dude, they can they could easily launch in and hold first
00:52:25
Speaker
Yeah, they can in a theoretical playoff game against either of those two teams. They could play either of them straight up like I have no doubt about that at full strength. It would be it would be a good game be competitive, but I don't think that it's a situation where I'd be like oh Seattle is going to get blown out even on the road. You know yeah Seattle shown historically that in in big playoff games like that even when they have to go on the road.
00:52:53
Speaker
they can win. So, assuming that getting all their personnel back does fix the offense, yeah, no, I would like their chances in a theoretical playoff matchup against either of those teams, even if LAFC stops being hungover, which, you know, I'm not ready to say that they're not hungover off one game. At this point, they have like a seven or eight game sample size since CCL of being hungover in one game where they're not hungover.
00:53:22
Speaker
And like you said, it wasn't like the score line was an indicator of the game as a whole. Exactly. Exactly. Like it was zero zero until the 70 whatever. So I'm not ready to call them fully hungover yet.
00:53:39
Speaker
They might be they might be they did they looked really good and scored some nice goals After that 70th minute, so it's definitely possible that the the fun that we've had tracking the LA FC hangover has come to an end But you know I'm not ready to call that just yet um Let's see
MLS Trades Impact
00:54:01
Speaker
There wasn't really that many other results that jumped out to me. Minnesota United bammed on Houston 3-0 on the road. Timu Pukki scored a goal for Minnesota United. That's a big signing for them. He's the leading all-time goal scorer for Finland, and he's already banging in goals. And Emmanuel Reynoso, who's one of the best assist guys in the league, assisted on that goal. So Minnesota United might be cooking a little bit if they can get Pukki going.
00:54:28
Speaker
I actually wrote an article for MLS off of Pookie's intro press conference kind of breaking down That signing so go check that out on MLS soccer comm if you want to learn more about him We all saw Lake had a good result They went down to O to sporting KC on the road and then came back and tied it there was some controversy Peter Vermees and the sporting KC fan base weren't happy because they felt like Anderson Julio and
00:54:57
Speaker
fouled their guy to get the ball off him and get a break wiggle to tie that. It was a 50-50 call. I didn't really, I don't know, I just watched it once and I didn't really know if it was a foul, so I don't really know what they were on about with that.
00:55:13
Speaker
But other than that, I would say, oh, I guess the Philly Nashville game kind of popped off. I don't know if you saw all that, but who on Carranza and Shaq Moore got double red cards in that game. They had a little frockess.
00:55:32
Speaker
They had a frock there was a frock us in that game. They I don't think Jim Curtin and Gary Smith were both pissed that the double yellows came out and I agree you know it was a frock us for sure there was like a there was like a tackle involved they like went to ground I think and they were going at it but Jim Curtin was saying like dude that should have been a yellow move on with it. I don't really know why there's double reds.
00:55:58
Speaker
Gary Gary Smith agreed. I kind of agreed to I don't really know why they got sent off. But either way, Daniel Gazdak scored two penalty kicks for Philadelphia and they won two zero and that was a classic funny game where one team is kind of dominating on offense and the others just absorbing pressure and the one who's absorbing pressure ends up winning Nashville SC. I'm actually going to look it up. They racked up.
00:56:24
Speaker
hella xg in this game and just couldn't score so in frustrating game for them yeah yeah the xg in this game was two point two to one point eight both these teams were firing two point two xg and you don't score any goals is that's tough
00:56:45
Speaker
Seattle did that against San Jose earlier this year but uh that's that's a frustrating one for Nashville SC 2.2 to 1.8 athlete 18 shots yeah is tough yeah so that was probably the most entertaining game of this slate but I think that was pretty much it as far as results go there was one big trade this week
00:57:12
Speaker
The New England Revolution traded Latif Blessing to Toronto FC in exchange for Mark Anthony K. So that's a swap of two pretty big name midfielders in MLS. Both of those guys have been around a lot and have been really high level players. Latif Blessing was a really good player for LAFC for those early glorious that they had. He goes to Toronto, Mark Anthony K.
00:57:41
Speaker
has also, they both were really good players for LAFC actually, both of them. Mark Anthony K has bounced around quite a bit since then. He was on the rapids for a minute. He went to Toronto and now he's going to New England.
00:57:57
Speaker
You know I think it's a good swoop for New England, but I don't know I actually I kind of see these players as pretty similar in value so I feel like it was probably like salary cap type of stuff that led to this like They're there's probably they're they're slightly different in terms of skill set but in terms of like value and what they bring to a team Latif blessing and Mark Anthony K. I actually kind of view that as kind of just
00:58:24
Speaker
bang similar yeah in what they bring it's an interesting trade yeah i mean i don't know realistically like how much of a different level you're getting putting marking at the decay on the revs compared to latif blessing i haven't really just like get me out of this hell of a locker room for the revs oh i guess he was on the rise who would the toronto um
00:58:50
Speaker
Lateef blessing went to Toronto and oh Mark. He said get me the hell into this lock. Well said I want to be with Bernadette. He's like I love vaping something that's funny with Toronto FC is we so we talked about the whole Atlanta United Franco de Barra debacle and he was openly talking about like
00:59:15
Speaker
I don't want to go to the last place team. I'm pissed off that yeah, Atlanta is loaning me to this team like I want to play there, and I'm like dude like you got to go play with these guys like how and Franco Bar put out a statement. He was like I did not mean to disparage my new team. I apologize. I was speaking in the heat of the moment, and I was like okay. Yeah, there it is like I
00:59:37
Speaker
you got to go you got to go play for him. You got to just come come in blazing hot talking about how much the team you play for sucks. It does, but you know you got to go play for him now, so he did I think probably to you know you had to extinguish fire. He had to put that fire out, but so Toronto FC now have Franco Abara and Latif blessing
01:00:01
Speaker
So I mean they're eating up that's guys who can help them, but I don't really know realistically how much that moves the needle you know maybe it'll help to know but You know the revs have been good this year and Mark Anthony K is a good player. He's an above-average MLS midfielder so I think he probably slots in there and They they maintain a similar level. I don't think like puts them over the top as juggernaut or anything, but
01:00:31
Speaker
Find trade it was a you know anytime you get a trade that involves actual players. That's a novelty in MLS It's not like game for Tam in an international roster spot you had you had actual You had actual movement cooking on this one. Yeah a fun little trade fun little trade fun little MLS trade I think
Messi's Publix Adventure
01:00:50
Speaker
that's about it
01:00:50
Speaker
No, oh you forgot the most important one Ari what what did I miss messy buying every cereal possible in a in a Publix messy messy went to Publix, which I don't is that like a Miami thing. It's it's a Florida Okay, like that general reason went to the grocery store, and there was some good content about that. I saw that there were some tweets that were little over the top in terms of
01:01:14
Speaker
the deeper meaning behind Messy's trip to the grocery store. This means everything. Yeah, he can shop at the grocery store. He's probably never been able to do this. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, though. I was enjoying the content of Messy just out at the grocery store. He was taking selfies with people and people were getting pictures of him, so that was fun.
01:01:39
Speaker
They put up a mural of him. I mean, it's happening folks. It's he's there. He's in market. Yeah, he's going to start playing soccer and MOS soon. And you know, he goes to the grocery store when he needs groceries. Yeah. So he's just like you and me. He's just a normal guy hanging out at the grocery store. Just wait till he finds out about DoorDash.
01:02:01
Speaker
he's probably not going to be going to the grocery store where you know if he has to take a selfie every ten feet, but you know credit to messy for going out and indulging the people and giving them those selfies yeah. I appreciate that I feel like even though he wasn't like mobbed.
01:02:18
Speaker
videos I saw pictures but yeah people were letting him shop which that's good let him shop if you want to ask him for a selfie that's fine but you know yeah don't mob the guy yeah let him let him try his Ritz crackers in cereal yeah he's just trying to he's just like us he's just like you and me he's probably getting overstimulated at the grocery store just like me
01:02:40
Speaker
uh...
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:02:41
Speaker
so yeah that was good content unless you had anything else i was gonna call it a wrap right there for episode twelve let's wrap it up i'm gonna be out of town this weekend i'm going to a bachelor party i'm gonna miss the game but don't worry i'll catch up on the highlights i might rewatch the full thing if it's worth if it's worth okay how about this if it's worth rewatching multi-goal game yes if the seattle sounders score multiple goals in this game i will rewatch it i will rewatch the entire game front to back
01:03:09
Speaker
If they don't score multiple goals, I'm going to only watch the highlights and I'm going to fire all my takes on the next reaction podcast based off highlights and not on the full game. And so they're going to be really uninformed and bad takes. And you know, that's what I do every day. Yeah. So that's what that's that's my condition. If you want me to throw down actual informed takes, score multiple goals. Correct. You got to have the team score multiple goals.
01:03:33
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so but you know i trust everyone to keep me updated on what's going on no if a bear scores a goal i trust that you will blow up the group chat and take your l yes so yeah no keep me keep me posted i don't know if i want to be fully in the dark but i'm pretty i'm pretty much considering just not watching at all
01:03:55
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but anyway we're gonna call it right there thank you everyone as always for listening we continue to put up numbers downloads wise that drastically exceed my expectations so i love that i love all of you i appreciate you for listening uh
01:04:12
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01:04:42
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Yeah, if you see messy at Publix tell them to listen to lobbing scorchers. Yeah, we'll get them on but anyway Yeah, thank you all for the support really appreciate it. If you have questions or takes About the show you can always hit me up on Twitter. My Twitter will be in the description But thank you as always for the support and we'll see you next time until then we out