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What We Learned This Week: Talking ‘bout 9s, who are Seattle’s best centerbacks, the summer window and LAFC preview
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Niko Moreno and Tim Ostlund-Foss joins Jeremiah to discuss the Sounders No. 9 position and the growing list of contenders at the centerback position. In the second segment the fellas talk about how LAFC is going to play desperate.
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Will Bruin: From Sounders Legend to Podcaster
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Hi, I'm Will Bruin, and I was just recognized as a Seattle Sounders legend. Now I get to do voice reads for the Sounder at Heart podcast network. Here we go.
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Come on. Hey, O'Shaughness. Let's The Seattle Sounders have done
Seattle Sounders' MLS Cup Victory
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it. MLS Cup winners. The Sounders rule the region.
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Ooch of a gooch! All creatures, great and small! Rothrock gonna collect it, he does just about, runs into the advertising order. Low to our left, ball goes in! Oh, what a goal! Where's my copy? got bunch of them How many do you cost them? 50 bucks.
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I'll deadline you.
Nos Adientes Podcast and Sponsorship
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Welcome back to another episode of Nos Adientes on the Sounder Heart Podcast Network. We are back at Sounder at Heart headquarters in the International District. ah We are not on video this time, but that's okay. People will just have to imagine our wonderful faces here. I'm here with Nico Moreno on this beautiful Friday afternoon doing what we learned this week. How are you doing, Nico?
00:02:08
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slightly annoyed, ah slightly annoyed because Noah let me down and that Noah is my guy. He's supposed to be the the Chris Bosch to a D way LeBron trio here at the studio settings. And that's why we're not doing the video, but it's OK. I still love him.
00:02:26
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uh but other than that i'm good it was a a fun week of training to a certain degree not not newsworthy but but it was fun i mean you know we only got to see them wednesday through friday but uh there were some interesting things that i want to share there with the audience i know that they like to hear from us in that regard we had fans today at There were fans at training and and we got some sort of secondhand news. ah Not news. I don't know. News. We got some gossip. that got I like gossip. I like gossip.
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So we'll talk about that a
Danny Masofsky's Resilient Performance
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little bit. But let's start with what we do know for sure. And that is that Alex Roldan is already back in training. So is Danny Masofsky. Danny Masofsky apparently didn't even miss a day of training. Which is crazy. It is crazy. I mean, like, let's.
00:03:17
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Let's talk about this ah Danny Masofsky situation first, I guess. He lost a tooth. Root and all just got popped out of his head. Basically, they went back into the locker room and they shoved it back in And then he had a, he basically had a ah root canal and they did some bonding work and he'll play with a mouth guard, but he's, he's fine. Apparently it's crazy.
00:03:43
Speaker
Very Eastern European, very rugby-ish. He gained three to four points on my street cred map. Yeah. So if you're out there, Danny, listening to this, it's good five points on my my book. Because, man, it's not easy to just...
00:03:59
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have that sort of collision, have, I don't know, is it was a tooth? Well, he's they they said tooth. I still don't believe it's a tooth. I mean, it was so long, but maybe it was the root of the nose oh the of the whole tooth. Because I thought it was a veneer, but apparently wasn't because Brian said it was not. So we're going to take it at their word. But, you know, that that whole thing coming out. Literally, it was the root in everything. crazy.
00:04:22
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And so no, he, I'm sure clear concussion protocol because he was under it. He got that thing back in his mouth because apparently he used the Kraken doctor, which that was pretty interesting, right? Obviously this kind of a hockey move to a certain degree. Yeah. But the, the fact that on Wednesday,
00:04:40
Speaker
On Wednesday, he was fully in training, no mouth guard, no no helmet or shoulder pads, nothing. Because would have been out there in bubble wrap. Like, I just lost the tooth. Or you know what? I would have been in my couch, actually, chilling with a nice glass of some really good whiskey. Because it's just crazy to me. So Brian did mention that he might use a mouth guard in in game.
00:05:09
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in game that's that's what i heard right say that's what he said yeah that's what he said he he'd wear mouth guard in the games but i i suppose on some level it underscores for danny how there's this sense that this still is a wide open job and he can't afford to just sort of take games off and i think we're gonna see that we're gonna continue to see that i mean it's not no one's gonna take forever claim of the job this week.
00:05:38
Speaker
I think the reality is that this is, this position is very open and you know, the roster might even be more fluid than it seems in a lot of ways at the number nine position. I, you know, Danny only played five minutes in this one. He, you know, he, I guess in some ways he was showing some positive signs, but it It was not a game, certainly, where anyone at the number nine position took any steps forward in any significant way.
00:06:08
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No. um This was, to me, another example of if you...
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have any sort of continuity because correct me if I'm wrong, but has Danny gotten the most chances at the nine? It feels that way. We don't got to double check it. He kind of feels like that. Now you got me double. check So, uh, yeah. So, you know, he was coming in, um, from, uh, playing dad, uh, Wednesday game against San Jose, uh, because,
00:06:44
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Jordan Morris had a pretty hard time against San Diego before that against Dua. So i thought, hey, rotation is fine in that particular game.
00:06:56
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and he started again at the nine. And so i have been proposing and i have been i have concluded that whatever it is that you want to do with this number nine position,
00:07:14
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and the four up top, you have to just let it ride in order to work out the kinks. I said that before the San Diego, because to me, that's the only way you're going to be able to build some continuity, some cohesiveness.
00:07:29
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And to be honest, you... Get that nine in rhythm, because if you're not getting what you need out of the nine position, or at least that starting position, you have to figure out a way to just unlock it. So to me, that's the only way.
00:07:43
Speaker
When I saw Danny Wissowski do it again, I was like, hey, you know, maybe this is the way they're going to go. And so he looked good in the five, six, seven minutes he was in there. He didn't put the ball in the back of the net, but he did create some pretty good chances. Yeah.
00:07:59
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And I believe, and we don't have to get into this because it's been way too long. I think that after Danny Mosavsky comes off and b Brian brings in Albert is when things kind of go out of whack for the offense and they kind of lose
Sounders' Tactical Challenges
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those players.
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positive patterns that they were doing some of that very early intensity and, and almost inertia that that they started or, or, you know, the feel of the game that they had to start off with. So it was good for Danny, but I think it's not just Danny, but it's about just having a consistent group up top. And that's just my opinion. Yeah.
00:08:38
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I would agree with that. I think that the big thing with, you know, it was interesting to hear Brian second guess himself about the lineup changes on Wednesday because he was really focused more on the Peter Kingston and Tino Lopez pairing and basically saying he didn't put them in a position to succeed and that they really needed a lot more forward thrust from, you think the game plan was for Peter to get forward.
00:09:06
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And I don't know if they were surprised that Paintsoul started, but Paintsoul proved to be a little bit too much for Tino and Kingston as far as their ability to unlock things Peters ah joining into the attack. He just was not involved in the attack very much.
00:09:23
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And that he did an okay job defensively. Schmester made a point of saying that, but that he, you know, he he ultimately felt like Kalani probably could have done a better job of being a two-way player that they needed. And he did do a better job of being a two-way player in the second half.
00:09:39
Speaker
But I was a little surprised that, you know, while he was in a second guessing mood, that he didn't second guess the decision to bring in Albert, who I don't necessarily think Albert was bad, but clearly they did. They had a game plan that Albert was not really part of.
00:09:56
Speaker
And, you know, we saw that when they they were trying Jesus at the number nine, where he was sort of playing like as a false nine. And, you know, they briefly put Morris up top, but they were not really committed to Morris playing up top.
00:10:08
Speaker
And then finally, De Rosario came in later. Rosario did come in. Hit it. But it seems like it would have made a lot more sense just to bring De Rosario in. Totally. At the jump. And then if you want to bring in Albert later in the second half, bring him in the second half. Why?
00:10:23
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Like, I didn't really understand the point of giving Albert the day off and then bringing him in 10, you know, 10 minutes into the game. And I think that was the biggest problem, right? And and I said this on Monday.
00:10:34
Speaker
I thought that Osasio should have come in just because it at least holds your game plan together. right Right. Which was keep Jordan on that wing play. You hold Albert until the 65th or 70th, whatever you had in your notes to bring him on. Right. and then you move on from there. But that's not what happened. There was already issues with those collective...
00:10:58
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duos in the field because the Peter Kingston and Tino Lopez and Jackson Reagan, that that that it wasn't quite working.
00:11:08
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Then you had Hassani, Dotson, and ah Snyder Brunel that I didn't think also was working great. ah So you already had so many changes. And then you add one more and one that you had not even planned for. and and so it was it it looked incredibly disjointed. And that that's the word I use at halftime.
00:11:30
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That's the word that I think really narrows down what we saw from the Sounders for the majority of that game. And look, I love that Brian takes accountability and says, this is what it is. It's on me.
00:11:46
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However, i also think that it's it's a positive and it's important that we see what these guys can provide in high-stakes situations against competitive compass competition.
00:12:02
Speaker
And you got to trust the guys. I remember two, three, no, maybe more than that, maybe five, six years ago, we used to be like, Brian doesn't trust certain players. And Brian won't bring in certain players. And Brian, you know, with the young guys, he just doesn't give them...
00:12:16
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you know some some some repetition and and and some some some competitive minutes. Now he's doing some of that. And Peter Kingston is not young in the sense of age, but he's young.
00:12:26
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in Exactly. In the sense of just being a professional soccer player. So I thought it was important. I've been high on Peter Kingston. yeah And i've I've watched that game three times already. And I don't think he was terrible. I just think that i thought he started off good, courageous. But as the game went on, he started to struggle and he decided i would rather keep pencil from painting my face and just getting away from me and causing a goal and he did that instead of getting forward right and i think he he did defend he did defend pencil and i think it's a little unfair to put the sounder struggles on oh no peter kingston and i don't think no you're not doing that and i don't think brian was even doing that but i just think it's
00:13:12
Speaker
I do think that there is, it becomes a convenient narrative. It's like, oh, well, their right back was not as good offensively as they needed. It's like, if your right back isn't as good as there's more problems, right? Totally. And and for this system specifically, because you get all your whiff or the majority of your whiff of that right side through your,
00:13:31
Speaker
Right back. can You know that, right? he yeah He's supposed to be your whitest guy on that yeah side. So it's it's difficult. It is difficult. And we and we've seen that also. But it was, i don't know, I just thought it was an interesting thing. I think this was, this again, this was an opportunity to see Osaze.
00:13:46
Speaker
And if you know it almost feels like Brian was almost wanting to avoid creating more complications. Like if Osaze scores... What's that going to do for the the the depth chart?
00:13:57
Speaker
But I don't know, whatever. I don't want to spend too much time talking about San Jose, but I do think it it does highlight that this number nine position really is unsettled. It's not. It's it's.
00:14:09
Speaker
and And I wouldn't at all eliminate the chance of a number nine coming in this summer. In fact, From what I understand, Craig mentioned that is at least some possibility when he was talking to fans today.
00:14:22
Speaker
I don't know the exact quotes, but there was some allusion to his desire to still bring in like a top goal scorer. And I think that that's that's fine. I think that, you know, it it's maybe a little convenient of a way of approaching it because I don't know how much flexibility they have to do that.
00:14:40
Speaker
But they could they could do something if if they open up the purse strings. I would love to see it. you know We've talked about it a lot. ah there's a you know Depending on how creative they get, there's you know there's unlimited possibilities here.
00:14:52
Speaker
But I
Roster Dynamics and Future Speculations
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Speaker
don't know. i just it's It's an interesting situation that I don't think is going to go away anytime soon. Unless, you know, if hey so if ah Jordan Morris has like a good game against LAFC, maybe that puts it to bed for a little while.
00:15:06
Speaker
It'll put her bed for couple months. Sure. Sure. Do we have games again? And this is all in line with the, what we learned this week, conclusions of the last three months. And I'd like to put those in some sort of bullet ah form bullet point form. And it's what we have here at the striker position is fine, but it's not great. And it hasn't produced. Number two,
00:15:38
Speaker
It's anyone's job to have and nobody wants it or nobody has owned it yet. And number three, although maybe there's a possibility that these guys do get hot, there's a need for something different and for another guy to come in and have either a different profile, dynamic, production, whatever it may be, but you need something at least to...
00:16:05
Speaker
put more fire under these guys or just to have a guy for the future and hopefully there is enough scouting that you can put together and enough resources to go right next to that in order to bring the next best thing because I hear you guys out there i hear the Sounder fans which they're so passionate and they all want to feel like they have a role radius out there. And I know we don't have that. I know that and we we've said this, that could be bullet point number four of what you and I have talked about, Jeremiah consistently, is that there is not that assassin in the box. There isn't that goal scorer that every single time you get into the field, you're just wondering when he's going to score and not if he's going to score. And that's not...
00:16:56
Speaker
i don't I don't want to say that in the criticism to Jordan, but at the same time, not just looking for the next guy for the next five years, but Jordan Morris right now, he's going to need...
00:17:14
Speaker
sometime to hopefully get to his best form. And eventually he's going to have to need someone to pass that torch to. And as much as I really like Osase, like such a cool dude, just absolutely loved him as a person. i think he has a lot of good qualities. I think he looks really, really good on the field at times.
00:17:37
Speaker
I don't see that nine of the future in Osase. Yeah. i mean, we haven't seen it enough. That's for sure. right I mean, he, he has moments. you there There are times when you can kind of talk yourself into him being a really good player. I think this preseason, we sort of talked to him and we talked ourselves into really sure liking him, but,
00:17:57
Speaker
he's going to have to do it on a more consistent basis than he's been doing it. And that's going to require playing time. And we'll see if that ever comes, but it's, you know, it's, it's, it's not a situation that feels like it's going away anytime soon, unfortunately.
00:18:10
Speaker
And we'll just have to kind of live with it for now and and make do with the best that we can, unless all of a sudden Adrian Hanauer and Sanders ownership decides, you know, we want to write a big check and this is what we're going to go do. I don't see that happening, unfortunately, but That's how it is. Yeah. I think that you 22 is a good start. Yeah. I hear the comments as well of, you know, what's going to happen with the DP positions.
00:18:35
Speaker
Like there isn't anything coming anytime soon. Albert is coming off one and he's not going to get that one back, but that's going to be Ferreira's right after that.
00:18:46
Speaker
That is just what I think is more feasible. And then after that, then maybe when Jordan Morris comes with his, that's when you can maybe get that DP guy to come in and give you a high level,
00:19:02
Speaker
I mean, depending on, you know, Adrian's decision on on on how much he wants to spend, we could have that. But the U22 might be a good starter. It might be just, ah yeah you know, maybe not the whole Hershey bar, but the the Hershey's kiss. Then you get at least a little something to just, hey, you know what? It might be okay.
00:19:21
Speaker
Yeah. So the other player who came into the lineup that or the other injury that we learned about this week was Alex Roldan. And he looks like he's back. I don't know if he's going to be starting.
00:19:33
Speaker
He I don't know if he trained yesterday. We neither one of us were here on Thursday, admittedly, but he was fully in on Friday. i suspect Tina Lopez is going to get another start, but I wouldn't be shocked if Alex Roldan is back there.
00:19:48
Speaker
But this is another, you know, the center back situation is another one that is open, but not in as... In a different way. It feels like they have a lot of all good options. ah Jackson Reagan, pretty cemented as a starter.
00:20:04
Speaker
And Yamar, you would think, will eventually be the starter. But he is going to have to, I think he has to win his job back a little bit because he's missed a lot of time with injury. And the players who have been in his place have looked good.
00:20:20
Speaker
They have. They have. What I would say is that he has to come in and not lose it rather than it. Fair enough.
00:20:32
Speaker
I think that he just has to come in and be that guy that he was before. He doesn't have play out mind. Totally. He has to come in and perform and be that physical presence. And look ah I even think Tino Lopez himself hasn't had to do a lot on the ball and do a lot of passing. He he has those those tools in his shed, but the system continues to just rely on Jackson Reagan being the guy that puts the breaking balls through, that breaks lines with his passing. And he's been doing it phenomenally, by the way. And he's had some really good games.
00:21:05
Speaker
couple of boo-boos, including that that last Galaxy game. But, you know, we'll move beyond that. But I do think that when Jaymer comes back, it's all about him showing the group, showing Brian, showing the club that he's still that physical. Yeah.
00:21:24
Speaker
dominant athlete that can be a lockdown center back. And hasn't lost a step. Now, if he comes in and doesn't do that, that's when things get a little bit dicey. Cause as you mentioned, there is a lot of competition.
00:21:41
Speaker
Stuart Hawkins, he's a guy that maybe is not fighting for that top spot, but he's fighting for those rotational minutes. And he just was awarded man of the match in the last Tacoma Defiance game.
00:21:54
Speaker
He looks really good. It's not like i'm watching Tacoma Defiance because I wouldn't lie to you guys. I did not. I saw some highlights. I heard from a couple of fans that do follow the team.
00:22:06
Speaker
And Stu continues to perform. And that is something that I expect him to do. I think this is a good way for him to earn himself more minutes in the first team because unfortunately he lost that privilege. Yeah. Not by any doing of his own, by because of injuries. And so there is a lot of competition. I mentioned in Loving's quarters,
00:22:29
Speaker
on Monday that Kim Ki-hee was visually upset after the ah the game against the Galaxy. He throwing his things around his locker room.
00:22:42
Speaker
and And it's, to me, obvious that if I'm Kim Ki-hee and I'm sitting on the bench and Brian calls Christian Rodin to get on the field, whether that a smart decision and and Brian's chasing the game and he wants maybe a ah center back that could field in as a midfielder because I'm trying to break down a low block or or whatever it may be as a center back. I'm still going to feel some type of way that, Hey, I'm right here. It was a curious decision and I don't necessarily think it hurt the Sounders, but it was a curious sort of man management decision because,
00:23:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, they he brought Christian Rol in to play center back. There was no question about it. And it wasn't like he had... two you know He had two players on either side of him who could deputize. you know It was Kalani and Nuhu.
00:23:40
Speaker
So it was a weird... I don't know. that was a It worked out fine, I guess, to the degree that it... i mean, they were chasing a goal. They didn't get their goal. But it wasn't like they were looking really dodgy back there. But it was a weird one.
00:23:51
Speaker
And it certainly makes you wonder, like where is Kim Kiki on the depth chart if he's using Christian Roldan over him? Today, Brian Schmetter mentioned he has eight center backs. Yes. I guess we could count them up, but we don't really need to do that. No. he was just doing it to. He did have Alex in there, which we all know. He must have. Maybe he was even including Christian in there.
00:24:13
Speaker
but Maybe me because you're right. Even with Ryan Saylor. Now it's counted up. We got Jackson. We got Yamar. We got Saylor, Kim Hawkins, Alex, Tino, Tino, and Christian. I guess Christian. Yeah, that's eight. He's at eight. So yeah, my guess is that he's adding Christian on there. Maybe we should ask that because yeah. who are your eight yeah who who Who's the Yeah. Yeah. Is it Danny Musavski? No, I'm kidding. No. yeah New. Maybe new. Yeah, right. now No seriousness, maybe he's new. It might be new. Yeah, but whatever. it it It's definitely not that broad, but it's definitely...
00:24:55
Speaker
a very competitive group. It is. And he goes by tiers. And i in my opinion right now, tier one of three is Kim, Yamar, Tino.
00:25:06
Speaker
That's the top tier right now. And Tino has earned it. That's why I asked it. I asked Brian, look, it's it's a good problem to have, but you have Tino Lopez earning himself some minutes and the Tino Lopez game will forever be that San Jose away game.
00:25:22
Speaker
And, So it's a good problem to have, but you brought him kinky heat to be that third guy, that veteran, that guy that was supposed to be your rock in case you needed somebody to play x amount of minutes.
00:25:35
Speaker
So him as a player, you know, he, he's in every right to feel some sort of way, but that's not Brian's problem either because things are working. Tina's performing. So, you know, it's, it's,
00:25:46
Speaker
It goes back to what you just started with, which is competition. I'm not counting eight. I'm counting six, maybe seven at that position. So we'll see what happens moving forward. But when Yammer comes back, that's when things really are going to get competitive. Because in my opinion, I would never, ever, ever. And I think even if you ask Alex, because I think we asked him this. When Yammer comes back, he will gladly give that position up. When I asked yeah Alex about it, and so I don't think he sees himself. No, yeah. I don't think he loves it. So he's doing it because Alex is a dog and he's going to do whatever he needs to do to get the team on the right path. But that doesn't mean he's out there just loving playing center back.
00:26:31
Speaker
No, I think he would much rather be playing right back. And that's much more to his broader skill set. Totally. i And I still think he's the best right back. Yeah. Totally.
00:26:41
Speaker
So it's the most complete rate right right back. Because look, Kalani, he's so fun to watch. He's so athletic and they're dynamic, really dynamic. And he gets forward so
Player Highlights: Alex Roldan and Paul Rothrock
00:26:54
Speaker
easy. But i just I can't get past that the the quality of services that Alex puts in The way he reads the game...
00:27:05
Speaker
I don't think he's ever phased by a name that gets in front of him. Call him, you know, Payne Soul or Peck or Danny Buonga or whoever it is that he has to play on that side. He just has that ability to just be like, I can hold the four down. So I'm a big Alex Roldan guy. So when it comes to what you just said, yes, I think he's still the best complete right back that this team has.
00:27:34
Speaker
changing subject a little bit. One of the other things I thought was interesting this week was Paul Rothrock gave an interview today and it was, you know, we were as as, oftentimes happens with Paul, we're talking to him because we're just looking for something to,
00:27:49
Speaker
Clip. Yeah, to clip or whatever. But I thought one of the the things i thought I really appreciated about Paul was I think you asked him about this his performance this season and if he's been happy about it.
00:28:02
Speaker
and Like if he was surprised that he would, if he thought that this far into the season, he'd be the leading scorer and he'd be the starter of this And so he's got six goals and an assist. He's off to a great start counting stats wise.
00:28:15
Speaker
And he's basically said he's not up to his standard that he he's not real. He doesn't feel like he's played one game where he felt like he was just on it the whole time. And I think it's interesting that he continues to hold himself to a standard that I don't know that anyone else is holding him to, but I guess that's what makes him tick. That's sort of what makes that's his X factor. That's the thing that makes him different than a lot of other people is that he it doesn't really matter you know he's no one's expecting him to be a superstar but he sort of holds himself to the standards that you might hold a ah really a star player to and he he basically just said he's he's pushing him he he thinks he can get better which is you love to hear right
00:29:02
Speaker
I was shocked and, you know, I think my next question, because it was too early in the scrum, but he said,
00:29:13
Speaker
I don't think I've come off the field and thought that I had a good game. Yeah, you And I was like, wow. definitely did say that. I mean, that's that's shocking because, I mean, he's had some really good performances. He's been an X factor.
00:29:25
Speaker
Yeah. He's scored a lot of goals. So this just goes back to Paul Rothrock, the player. Paul Rothrock, the guy that everyone doubts, that everyone...
00:29:39
Speaker
thought the team was overspending on and don' don't negotiate with this guy, offer him 300 and call it a day and all of this craziness.
00:29:52
Speaker
And he's performing and he knows, he knows what he's worth. And I even think that he shoots beyond that. And, and man, I cannot tell you how,
00:30:08
Speaker
hard it is for me to be objective anytime that it comes to be to having Paul Roth for conversations because I'm not saying he's the GOAT.
00:30:19
Speaker
You know what? I'm not saying he's the most amazing winger I've ever seen in my life, but he has so many components of a really good soccer player ignited, powered by this infinite amount of just effort and and desire-ness to just prove people wrong that it it makes a really good fucking soccer player, man. It it really, really does. So I love Pedro La Vega.
00:30:52
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I mean, that's my guy. love him and he's been so good and he could do... It was good to see him today. It was good to see him today and good to say hello to him.
00:31:00
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But man, it's hard. It is hard for me to to just... say when Pedro gets healthy, you got to give him a spot back. Because Paul is, he's just that dude. Like he, he just puts in the work on the, on, on the field and people are going to be like, this is ridiculous. And and you're you're crazy, but I just think he's the perfect guy for this system. I think that he puts in the work and and sometimes it's just hard to think.
00:31:31
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Where else do I put Paul Rothrock unless you go out there and bring in Salah and then you're having to figure out what to do with your with your wingers. But until that day, man, you got to beat Paul for his job.
00:31:45
Speaker
Paul is not going to. I think what Paul is basically saying is I'm not giving this up without question. Yep. I'm not, I'm not here to be anyone's backup. I'm here to push, to be the starter. And if I'm not the starter, I'm going to be pushing whoever's ahead of me every day to hold me off.
00:32:02
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Cause he, that, that seems to be his approach. He's not, he is not just happy to be here. He, he has a mission and he, you know, and i I, don't know, I guess this is in some ways, this is just like professional athlete mindset.
00:32:17
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But I think with a player like Paul, you sort of, get you or you're willing to give him a pass, but he's not willing to give himself a pass. And and think that's great. I mean, I really am. I'm encouraged by that.
00:32:30
Speaker
And, you know, he had another. He also said that you asked him if he was, you know, almost intimidated going up against. Yeah. ah Sort of the the LAFC firepower that they have. And he was like, oh, I'm I'm into this. This is what it's about. And you got to love that.
00:32:45
Speaker
You just got to love that with Paul. You do. You do. And and I really do think that he is. someone that the Sounders need to continue to perform. and you know what? I would agree with him that against LA Galaxy, maybe he wasn't at his best, but I just think that the team was so disjointed that it was really hard for even him to get into that specific game. But love that. I love that accountability. I love the fact that he understands it, that he sees it, that he's like, look, it's not good enough. Regardless of where I'm at statistically, you see it one way, but I just, I need to provide more. And that that that to me is worth,
00:33:21
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A whole lot, man. It really is. It is. It is. Well, why don't we take a break? Because I feel like we're getting ready to just start talking LAFC. So why don't we take a break? We'll come back after the break and we'll get into the LAFC game.
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00:35:36
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Welcome back to Nos Adientes on the Sounder at Heart Podcast Network. All right. LAFC is the last game the Sounders will last competitive game Sounders will play for almost two months.
00:35:48
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They're going to take a break from May 25th until July 16. Eight weeks, I believe, is actually how that breaks down.
00:36:01
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A lot of things will be interesting to see what changes, what stays the same. But this is the last chance the Sounders have to make a good impression on fans. But more than that, it's the last chance to really make a statement
Critical Match: Sounders vs LAFC
00:36:13
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in the standings, because if they win this, they're going to be in a really good position to make a second half run. They're going to have games on hand in ah on virtually everyone the ahead of them.
00:36:27
Speaker
they will be in, you know, they they'll be able to be, make a supporter shield run now. And you have to assume that a lot of the teams that they're chasing are going to get stronger during this two month break.
00:36:41
Speaker
But before we can talk about any of that, LAFC is maybe not a must win, but it's a game where they really do need to get a result in order to have any realistic hope of staying in the West and supporter shield races.
00:36:58
Speaker
Before I get into LAFC, I just want to send get well soon to coach for the Sounders, Stephen Leinhart. That's right. I saw him today. told me he tore the ligament. He's on crutches. Apparently, he was, you know, taking a PK I don't know, the training sessions or sometime in the day. And he is...
00:37:28
Speaker
plant foot in that shot just gave out. But he just gave out. That's what happens when you get old. That's it that what we said, you know, is me and Matt Winters were talking to him and we were like, man, look, getting older sucks. And so, you know, love Stephen Lightheart. I've been hoping to do something with him one on one because I think he's so interesting in so many ways. um Hopefully we'll get to do that at one point because right now it doesn't seem feasible. But yeah,
00:37:56
Speaker
Just get well soon, man. You are a big component of some of this grit and like mentality that the team has had going back to last year. So just get well soon. When it comes to LAFC...
00:38:10
Speaker
Look, the crazy part about this game, Jeremiah, and Sounder at heart audience is that both teams and and obviously LAFC more desperately needs that win. But the Sounders in a low key situation, yeah they really need this win. So it's going to be two teams that are hungry for a W Clearly LAFC's at home. The Sounders have never beat LAFC at home in the regular season. um
00:38:42
Speaker
So it's not going to be a easy game regardless of LAFC's track record and and and overall performance over the last seven or eight games, there is a lot of firepower.
00:38:55
Speaker
ah There's going to be a lot of components that the Sunners haven't seen this season. They've never seen an attacker of the quality of of of Sun Yong Ming so far. They haven't had a guy like Danny Buonga coming at him. So it's going to be a real test regardless, regardless of where LAFC is in the standings and where they have been and how inconsistent or poor they have been over the last seven, eight games.
00:39:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's been remarkable to see LAFC go from being a juggernaut. I mean, at the beginning of the season, the first couple of months of the season, they looked unstoppable.
00:39:36
Speaker
They were a buzzsaw that was just ripping through teams. they didn't I don't think they gave up a goal in their first five or six league games. yeah They were scoring goals for fun. They beat Orlando 6-0, I believe.
00:39:48
Speaker
And at that point, it just looked like this was... you know i thought they were going to I thought they were the favorites in Champions League, Champions Cup. it It was going be them and Toluca was how I, or I guess they were going to play Toluca in the semifinals. But I thought either one of them, one of those two teams was going to be easily the winner.
00:40:07
Speaker
And now they come into this game limping In a way that I did not see coming at all. And I don't know if there is something you can point to as saying, well, Denny Bwonga got hurt. Oh, son got hurt.
00:40:20
Speaker
Oh, whoever, you know, like someone's been on whatever. I don't know what the I don't think I can easily diagnose what has happened to this team. Look, Ostakio got hurt for a while, and I thought that he sure he was a player that gave them a lot, but he came back, and he still has not been able to do it. So to your point, I do think that this team got some really heavy CONCACAF Champions Cup players Hangover. Yeah. And they were exhausted and that created some really bad turmoil within the locker room. Dos did not rotate the lineup much at all. Dos Santos, he has not been perfect. I thought the rotation has not been what it should be. don't blame him as straightforward and consistently and directly as other pundits have.
00:41:14
Speaker
Because when I look at the bad performances over that stretch of games that they've been so poor, there are so many times where his individual mistakes, going back to this Nashville game, look, I'm going to say three things. Number one, Denny Buonga said something about where he was taking clear shots at Dos Santos.
00:41:35
Speaker
And then he came back and apologized for it on X. because he said he didn't mean to and words were misinterpreted. But he clearly said that him and Son were playing different positions. Right. And it was difficult for him to do what he did last year. so In Colombia, we have a saying that is basically in English, if you have a tail of hay, you don't get close to the fire.
00:42:01
Speaker
Meaning that if you haven't- What a good saying. Yeah, it's it's it's great. I love it. We use it all the time, right? And and that's so- Denny Buonga, look, Denny Buonga, as good as he's been, He hasn't been in big games. He wasn't against Toluca. He missed opportunities, cleared chances in front of goal. And it was him. It was nobody. It wasn't Los Santos. It was you in front of goal and your inability to finish the the play. Clear plays. Same thing goes for Son. In this Nashville game, he had a one-on-one against the goalkeeper in the fourth minute. He did not put it away.
00:42:38
Speaker
I hear people criticizing, crush Jordan Morris for using the wrong foot. He didn't use his his right foot. if If Son uses the right foot, chips the the goalkeeper, puts it across his body, he probably puts the ball in. He did not do that. So when those players are not performing to the level, and... Look, Sun makes $11 million. He's the second best player on the team. So excuse me if a eight assists in MLS is not enough. Zero goals.
00:43:08
Speaker
That's just the way it is because you're an $11 million player. 14 in all comes, whatever. I don't care. You have not scored in MLS play. so And he wasn't the son that said that, but Danny Buongo was the one who said it. And he hasn't been great either. This is your team. You're supposed to be the guy. So...
00:43:25
Speaker
Going back to the saying, if I haven't been performing great, I shouldn't be taking shots at anybody because you are part of the problem, my man. So regardless of, this team has had some real turmoil happen and there is...
00:43:41
Speaker
If not a broken locker room, there is some clear features in in the ground. And that's what needs to be taken care of. I like Mark Dos Santos. Clearly like Andy Rose. I think they're a good duo together.
00:43:56
Speaker
ah But they got to figure it out. And this game needs to be the one that gets them on the right path. If not, if not, they will not survive the break. If Dos Santos does not figure it out against the Sounders, he's not making it through the the break. Look, Thornton to me is one of the best in the game, best in MLS. He's not someone who i would think would panic into making a decision, but there's so much pressure on him that...
00:44:26
Speaker
that break that gives you a lot of time to think. And that's not good for any coach. When, whenever front office has two weeks to think about how well you're doing, it just, it doesn't go well. Right. Two months, two, two months to to just sit there and be like, I wonder if this guy is good enough. It's just not, it's not good for you. I mean, look, the reality is that if l LAFC were to lose this game,
00:44:51
Speaker
they would be in, they would potentially be out of a playoff spot. Yes. Yes. If they going into the break, which is wild. it's crazy. it's crazy.
00:45:02
Speaker
ah The Sounders, meanwhile, can you know potentially move up to third. with They're in fifth right now, so it's or fourth right now. So it's not a bit not as big of a swing, but it's more of a mental swing, I think, for the Sounders.
00:45:16
Speaker
And it would be... Look, the way the Sounders started for them to go into the break on two straight losses would be... I mean, that would be bad. It would be really bad. Now, no one's job is on the line.
00:45:30
Speaker
i don't think anyone's sitting here saying, know, fire Brian Schmetzer or anything like that. It may turn up the heat a little bit on... their need to do something in the off season or in the, in the, during this break. But I, I, someone actually suggested to me, I actually hope that they lose the l LAFC because then they might feel a little bit more pressure to sign someone. And I hate to break you. I don't think that's how it's going to go.
00:45:55
Speaker
And that's to make a difference. No. And I, I don't think that, I don't think their decision making is going to be based on, At all, like in any way, shape or form is going to be based on what happens against LAFC.
00:46:07
Speaker
They either believe in this team and they don't think it's a big deal or they don't have money, whatever it is. If they make a move, it's going to be because they feel like they can make the team better. They know that they can get better.
00:46:19
Speaker
And look, losing this game is not going to help. There's no positive to come out of losing this game, no matter how much we want to believe otherwise. I assure you that is just not the way that Adrian Hanauer thinks.
00:46:31
Speaker
It's not the way that anyone in this organization, i don't think, really ah considers it.
Pursuit of the Supporters' Shield and Special Guests
00:46:37
Speaker
But it is an important game for them. from a ah you know And I love that. players continue to talk about chasing the supporter shield. You know, Snyder was talking about chasing the supporter shield on Wednesday.
00:46:50
Speaker
It's clearly a thing that is being talked about in the locker room. And I think that's great because it's, we haven't talked about the Supporter Shield in a long time. And i don't know that they're going to win it.
00:47:01
Speaker
I think it's a worthy goal. I know there's a lot of debate as to how big of a deal it is. Look, I don't think there's any real debate as to what's the bigger trophy, MLS Cup or Supporter Shield. But the Supporter Shield is a worthy trophy of something worth chasing after and trying to win.
00:47:15
Speaker
It doesn't have to be the most important thing for it to still be important. And I'm glad that the players are still talking about it, but I hope that they are focused. They understand that this game. Maybe, you know, you they they keep saying you can't lose. You can't win the supporter shield in these first few games.
00:47:33
Speaker
But this is a this would be one where you're kind of out of it if you can't win. If you can't get points here. Look, I.
00:47:44
Speaker
This is probably going to make me sound bad because, you know, I'm not like oh cook i'm I'm not an expensive drinker here. But to me, to me, the the the the supporting shield is like when I ask the bartender for, ah you know, Jack and Coke. And he's like, I don't have Jack. I got beam. And I'm like, you know what? It's fine. Like, I'll take the beam. You know, i really want to subject. That's what I think of the supporting shield. So I don't really care. I feel like it's fine. Like, yeah, yeah, sure. i'll get Whatever.
00:48:12
Speaker
I think that when I hear players talk about the support of the show, though, it at least maybe feel like they're just going after every game. Right, exactly. And that's good enough for me. That is, I think, what they're trying to sort of send the message that every game is important and that you can't afford to just take games off.
00:48:29
Speaker
And you get you end up having games like you had against the Galaxy when I do think there was probably some belief that they were that that was a ah manageable game and they they didn't manage it as well as they needed to.
00:48:42
Speaker
So hopefully there was a, you know, i also asked Paul this week if it was a wake up call or if it helped that they didn't have, they didn't get the points that they needed to get in this homestand.
00:48:52
Speaker
And he also rejected that idea and just said, look, we got humbled a little bit against LA, but that doesn't change. We know we need to like, we knew this was a big game. Yeah, totally. Totally. So look, to get a little bit more, more serious, I did take some notes on what I think the Sounders need to do to just get a good positive. Look at that. Look at that. All coming in prepared. That's right. You know, we just what I think that they need to do. Right. So they're working against a 4-3-3 that a lot of times looks more like a 3-4-3. Maybe not as good as when Chirundula was because I think that the fullbacks have been a little bit timid there with with Marco Santos. um I think that.
00:49:31
Speaker
Hollingstead will start his game because Hollingstead has a good record against the Sounders. i'm saying that because Palencia could be that guy on that side, but I think Hollingstead is going to be the one to play this game. He's a better dual player. I think that there's going to be a lot of overloads on Devin Martinez's side, and that's going to put a lot of pressure on Paul Rothrock. both being dangerous enough to force Hollingstead back to defend and pin him back farther down the field and being really good in transition when those moments arise. Hugo Lloris is out.
00:50:08
Speaker
I think this game again, he was out last game with a groin injury. As far as I know so far, that's not any better. Or he doesn't feel like he's going to start this game. Don't know if that's for sure, though. Don't. I'm just saying that that's what I'm i'm hearing. He is key to them.
00:50:25
Speaker
playing long, right? Because he's so good at quick starts and and he puts the ball in a dime wherever he wants it. He's heard the sounders with those long kickoffs. So I think they're not going to have that.
00:50:39
Speaker
The goalkeeper in place... In this last Nashville game where they gave up three goals, I think he's culpable for like two of those goals. oh And on set pieces specifically, he's just the the wall set up wrong. He's positioning correctly. He doesn't anticipate where the shot is clearly going. So the Sounders are going to have a little bit of of that under their belt where maybe set pieces is somewhere where they can really get an edge. This is Thomas Hassel, who the Sounders have played several times before, and he's he's been rough.
00:51:12
Speaker
So there you go. So that's something that this team can do, whether it's tested in for mid-range or instead pieces. I feel like that's going to be a big component for the Sounders. b Brian said it today.
00:51:25
Speaker
LA Galaxy is probably the the best... test or dress rehearsal or pregame that they can have to play Son Han Ming because Royce was dropping so far back as that false nine that it was really dragging those center backs and creating that huge gap in space that you saw in that Marcos Royce passed on to Peck.
00:51:50
Speaker
So, Hopefully, the Sounders learned their lesson because they're going to get a lot of that with Song Ha Ming where he's just dropping in, trying to drag whether it's Tino Lopez or Jackson Reagan or Alex Rodin, whoever's at center back, and then creating those gaps. So being able for your center backs to when they changed when lafc changes the point of attack and you shift and there's a gap you got to adjust that gap so there is no clear pathway for that pass to go through so eliminating those passing angles is going to be key for you to keep a guy like denny buonga guy like san jamin away from those high scoring position songs
00:52:30
Speaker
Oh, it seemed like you did your research there and I appreciate that. Oh, yes, of course. No problem. ah Anything else we got for this game? The Sounders have not won a regular season game at Bank of California Stadium, but they have won two big playoff games there.
00:52:46
Speaker
So it's kind of a weird venue for them in that they haven't had a lot of success, but the success that they've had is very memorable. Yeah. Yeah. ah Was it was the last win that that playoff?
00:52:58
Speaker
the That was the last time. they Yeah, that it was 2024 that they had that oh playoff win. And then last year when they were there, they had the four zero loss in the regular season.
00:53:09
Speaker
So they've had some kind of bad performances yeah at LAFC, mostly in the regular season, which. Unfortunately, this is. ah i was there in 2019, so I wanted to stick on my chest and say the last time they won, i was there. Maybe i need to go, but never mind. So 2024, that kills it. But yeah, no no, the reality is that obviously this year, the set has not been good on the road.
00:53:35
Speaker
But to me, I usually don't know if they do the best work away from home. There have been seasons where they do. Yeah. I think the LAG, though, there's a lot of pressure on that team. and and And being at home, even with your own fan base, can be a double-edged sword where you know you feel this necessity to to win. And if the game is zero zero or you're down a goal through the half, that could really just...
00:54:07
Speaker
take the oxygen from that stadium. So the Sounders overall, and we heard a little bit about it from Parag today, just having long spells of possession and not allowing this game to be an open-ended game, like a back and forth. You do not want to get in a, in a, in a track race with this LAFC team. So although the Sounders have not been good at LAFC in the regular season the They haven't won in the regular season.
00:54:42
Speaker
They have the components to, in my opinion, get a result over there. I have it as a draw on my board. And I think that's an acceptable, actually a good result.
00:54:54
Speaker
I know fans want to win, but this is a very good, very talented LAFC team. My concern though, is that everything that has been going wrong for LAFC all of a sudden is going to click because i talked about that song, huh that, that, that sunny, uh, opportunity in the fourth minute, there was an other chance that Tillman had,
00:55:23
Speaker
to make it 2-2 where I don't know what he's thinking. He's in the 18 near the goal. He has no angle. All he has to do is drop the ball to Sun and he doesn't. He takes a random shot.
00:55:35
Speaker
Those things, they shouldn't happen. So if if the Sounders unlucky enough that maybe it all clicks, that's going to suck. But individually, I think that Tillman has gone from bad to worse this season. I think that defensively, they've gotten really gappy. I think that Tafari, as...
00:55:53
Speaker
athletic as he is, a lot of times he's just, he does too much ball watching. And i think that happens when you think you have the ability to recover. So the Sounders really need to be able to put those through balls and and force the Fari off of a comfort zone and maybe drag him out a little bit. So I think that they have the components to get a result.
00:56:14
Speaker
I just think it's going to be really, really hard. And this is the desperate a desperate LAFC team. So, so I'm not confident, man. I'm not, i know I'm not feeling super confident going into this one either. just feel like they can get a result, but a win feels like maybe a little too much to ask. little bit, yes. I would agree. I would agree. I think that a draw is about as much as I want to ask from this team. And you know what? A lot of times they make me look silly. So I hope they listen to this and be like, ask Nico Morano. We got you. That's right. Yeah. We're to make you look silly, Mo. We're going to win this damn game.
00:56:44
Speaker
Yeah. ah So anything else from this week? I will say one thing I thought was kind of funny is i was the Sounders were talking to this guy who looked like a ah player on the sideline today. And I just wanted to share this because it was kind of funny.
00:56:58
Speaker
And the guy starts talking to me and he's like, he says his name and it doesn't doesn't really mean anything to me. But he says he's a goalkeeper and he plays for Schalke. And and he yeah he's talking Seahawks with me. He's like, oh, yeah, I'm a I'm a big Seahawks fan. And he's like breaking down like, you know how this was a good year, but it felt like it was revenge for 2015. And he's going into the whole pass versus run thing.
00:57:26
Speaker
And he's like breaking it down. and I was like, oh, this guy really knows. I really knows football. And anyway, so then I i look it up and i was like, oh, I know who this guy is. It's, oh, I'm going to blow his name now.
00:57:39
Speaker
Loris Karius. There you go. From ah you of Liverpool fame. Now, that was a long time ago, but he's kind of most known for this intent for making a couple of mistakes in the Champions League final in 2021.
00:57:52
Speaker
2018 but he's had a really he's gone on to and they got he had a concussion he had some concussions that he had to deal with but he was awesome this year for Schalke and he led him back to the they helped him get promoted and it was just he was just here visiting I guess ah someone told me that he's actually like the head of the German 12s that he's like the head of the fan group in Germany for the for the Seahawks and he was telling me his whole story how his how he got how he became a Seahawks fan but ah Just kind of a funny little anecdote that these are the people that are coming through. He was here to go visit VMAQ and he came to Longhaggers just to sort of see what thing what's going on.
00:58:33
Speaker
But he seemed like a ah chill guy that seemed really happy. And I don't necessarily think the Sounders are in the market for a goalkeeper, but it was neat and little fun exchange. ah but that's I just wanted to share that.
00:58:44
Speaker
No, I like that that. That's always interesting. And i saw you talking to him and like, huh, for a second, I thought he was a scout. And there was other people that I thought were scouts, but apparently they weren't. I'm always on the lookout for, you know, what's going on over there. But no, i thought that that was pretty interesting. And, you know, he's a goalkeeper still young enough. I think in Ambalise. like 33 or something. Yeah, in MLS, like Atlanta needs some veteran Sporting at the city. yeah As much as I like Matt Cleveland. No, Matt Cleveland. Stephen Cleveland. He, you know, they can use some veteran-ness over there and and when it comes to MLS. So, yeah, I mean, that that was very interesting. Yeah. Anyway. Well, ah all right. Well, let's get out here, I guess. ah
00:59:25
Speaker
Once again, one, apologize for ah no video this week. I will share a couple more notes, but but actually before we I lied. ah One is if you want to get the second issue of for the Sounder Heart magazine, ah you got to get that order. If you want to get it before the World Cup, I would urge you to get your order in before Monday. We are finalizing the addresses that they're all going out to for the bulk order.
00:59:49
Speaker
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01:00:00
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I also wanted to make sure everyone knows that we are going to be doing some live events around the World Cup. We're going to be doing a... The big one is on June 19th, the US-Australia game.
01:00:11
Speaker
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01:00:22
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We're going be doing it over at Fast Fashion in Soto. ah Doors are going to open at 8, and we're probably going to be there until like... five at night or something like that all day kind of thing and then the night before on june 18th we're going to be doing sort of a meet and greet at uh at project nine over in maple leaf so if you want to come out and just sort of meet some of the media people that are going to be in town meet other fans it's going to be low-key kind of casual but should be a lot of fun Love Project 9. That beer hits. The food is delicious. Last time I was there, was a blast. Got to meet a lot of cool fans. That's right. We did recording from there. Yeah. So I will end the um Andrew Thomas thing. Yeah. that's where the project that's where the That's where that was. Yeah. Yeah. So I really like that place. So I'm...
01:01:09
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I'm hoping to make it there. I'm i'm doing some things for FOX 13 throughout the World Cup. You're going to be doing a lot of FOX 13. Yep. We're doing a lot of FOX 13. I even have a spot this Sunday after the LAFC Sounders game. So check me out. I'll be out there. Are you going to be in studio? I'll be in studio. Nice. I'll be in studio on Sunday. And there will be some stuff throughout the World Cup where I'll be in studio, sometimes in in the stadium. Although...
01:01:37
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The FIFA guy is still has not, although he told me where i was good, he's not sending me my credentials. But yeah, regard regardless what I'm doing, I'll be doing some other stuff with Fox 13. So it will be something to check out. But I will definitely try to be there, without a doubt, Project 9 on the 18th.
01:01:55
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Sounds good. Sounds good. All right. Well, ah hopefully we'll see some of you out there. We're going to have some more event stuff, I think, to be sharing ah relatively soon. But we're going to keep doing shows. You don't to worry about that. we are We're lining up some interviews. It should be a fun...
01:02:10
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You know, some surprises. Yeah, I think it'll be I think it's going be good. I think it's going good. I think people are going really happy with ah with what we are. We're able to lean into the studio and get some people out here and and have a good time. And, you know, the the winners are going to be our listeners, I suppose. That's right, baby, as they always are.
01:02:27
Speaker
All right. Well, let's get out of here. i am Jeremiah Chan signing off for Nico Moreno. This is Nos Adietes, part of the Sounder Heart Podcast Network, and we will catch next time.
01:03:07
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Let's go at Sounders.