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Fans react to Seattle Sounders ADVANCING in Concacaf Champions Cup!
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We react to the Seattle Sounders' historic victory at ONE Spokane Stadium to clinch a spot in the Concacaf Champions Cup quarterfinals!
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Introduction and Episode Details
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Well sir, we got a scorcher today. Gonna be a real scorcher today. Why the scorcher today? Well it's gonna be scorcher.
00:00:44
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What's up everybody? Welcome back to Flagstick Pub in Spokane, Washington.
Sounders' Victory Recap and Reactions
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The Seattle Sounders are through to the CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinals after topping the Vancouver Whitecaps.
00:00:57
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One, two, three, four, five, one. five one goals on aggregate count them out barry one two three four five tommy mule's head tommy mule who are you five one are you through to the ccc quarters uh after a historic occasion in spokane we got benji wade from the spokane soccer show back with us to uh yeah rip this post game live we're gonna be uh Given our takes on the match. Taking calls. Taking calls. taking calls The whole nine yards at Spokane ah Flagstick Pub.
00:01:34
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That's the word. That's the word. ah Where do you guys want to start? no i think I think we first have to check in with Benji. yeah First Sounders game. Give us your review. Give us your feeling.
00:01:46
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Are you converted? I'm baptized. That's what we were going for. There we go. Dude. What a night for you because a Sounders victory and then tell the people what happened with Spokane Velocity as well this evening.
00:01:58
Speaker
Yeah, what happened? yeah ah Such a great question. In the midst of this whole thing happening, I think it was zero zero um I've lost my voice a little bit. Yeah. As a result of my support for both teams.
00:02:10
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It was a zero zero. I'm sorry. It's one zero velocity scored early and everybody was just kind of monitoring. They had a they had a monitor set up in a tent so that everybody can kind of check in on it while we were watching the game.
00:02:23
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And for the most part, that was working great. But then I'll just get it out. All the takes about what happened. Classic US Open Cup. You have no idea what the F is going on with the ref. Yeah. Well, yeah. Classic. Yeah.
00:02:36
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A foul occurs outside the box very clearly the coverage. They were like, I think i could kind of tell it's like, are we going to run this back and show people how clearly outside the box it was no who's outside the box. fusion, they get a Yeah. They level.
00:02:50
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fusion ah they get a pk yeah they level So going into minute 85, it's one one and I'm like, yeah, and I'm getting, yeah, I'm getting those. sweat i'm Sweating.
00:03:02
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But then we get a PK and Joe Gallardo, who just came to velocity FC from union Omaha, where he was like player the year, two years ago, his stud. Yeah. He can. He's got a young guy from there too.
00:03:14
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Mark. bronnic Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I know that hearing about, big bronicica we've been hearing about to tell us more about, I didn't make that connection. I'm sorry to do Joe Gallardo.
00:03:25
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puts us up two to one from the PK, from the spot, and we see it out and we win. And then I get to turn around and enjoy the hell out of what was happening in our stadium. I got a video of the goal. We don't know if I'm going to get flagged by CONCACAF. They might kill you. They might kill me. It's fine. They might, but you know, it'll be worth it. It's worth it. The Seattle Sounders, they beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 in leg two at one in Spokane Stadium.
Game Tensions and Vancouver's Pressure
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But I think, you know, it's a good place to start as we kind of, let's talk about this game because it ends up 5-1 on aggregate and it was 2-1 at the end of this, but it did not feel that comfortable. it did not. Most of this game at all. And let's start with that because after Vancouver went up 1-0 on a freaking Galazzo by that kid,
00:04:10
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you know i wasn't feeling terrified, but yeah, actually you did. It was actually your fault. You saw the whole sequence from the giveaway. I walk in, sit down, I look at the i look at the roster, I say I like that. bo dual kid I like that. bar call yeah I forgot you called it. fireback that guy And then, ah you know, I'm sitting there. me and Nico are talking, talking, you know, whatever. We were also basically in the owner's box. so We're also like covering our mouths, you know, trying not to get in trouble. um Just kidding. ah But we were, you know, we were up there in the press box and we were.
00:04:45
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I immediately see the giveaway happen and I'm like, they're scoring this. Like I literally said that out loud. I like this is a goal. Pings it outside. Tommy Mule sees it, opens it up.
00:04:57
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Just beautiful pass. Bodge wall rips one curl. But what are you going to do? And at that point, you know, it's three to one, which is still a decently commanding lead. What I was telling myself is like when, when it got to the second half and it was still three, one on aggregate. And I was like, all right, it's like, okay, you know, well, it's, it's, it's not, as comfortable as you would like it to be after being up 3-0 after the first leg. yeah but But if going into the series, you told me it would be three one aggregate to Seattle in the 50-whatever minute of the second leg, I mean, I take that all day. So that's how I was trying to like comfort myself. But the reality was they're in a situation where if Vancouver gets one more, that's all they need, and then it's like series on. Like it is on, on. And that was nerve wracking. And was even more nerve wracking because the goddamn Vancouver Whitecaps were, they were putting Seattle under it for most of the, most of this game, honestly, until really the the subs. And we're going to get to that. yeah But it really, to me, what that, what that reinforced was this Vancouver Whitecaps team, they they might be the best team in MLS right now. I don't know if people realize this,
00:06:03
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They're literally off to the best start statistically in MLS history. They have a plus 13 goal differential in league play through four games. No MLS team has ever done that. That's how good that team is. And I think you all you saw it. We saw it in this game how good that team really is. That is much more representative of their quality than what we saw at BC Place. What I was thinking to myself was...
00:06:27
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damn this team is really good how did they three owe them in vancouver yeah that and really but honestly honestly ari i gotta be honest with you how many opportunities did osazi de rosario kind of bottle oh boy i think that that game could have gotten out of hand it could have been way more gold scored same thing albert rustic a couple of times the rustic haters were definitely eating in this game but Well, Bruce Mack had a wide open shot literally like right after But that's what i'm saying. I think like when you look at this game, yes, you're ah you are so right. But I don't think I was sitting there saying, I don't know how we 3-0'd him.
00:07:04
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I think this game could have easily been 3-0, 3-1, 4-1 situation. for one situation It just, the shots didn't hit. That happens. That happens sometimes. That's soccer. The shots weren't hitting. It was 1-0 caps into the second half. And, you know, for me, it's like, when I'm in that situation where it's just like a clock watching game, I try and do a thing where I just don't look at the clock. yeah So I was kind of just like focusing on what was going in the field, not looking at the clock at all. And I was like, all right, it was the 30th minute. I haven't looked at the clock for like 10 minutes. It's probably at least in the 40s by now. I look up the 32nd minute. like Yeah, exactly. I hate that. But like, that's kind of, you know, these games are intense like that. And this had that this honestly had that feeling longer than I expected it to. But let's let's get to some shout outs for the best performances of the night. And hold up. We got we got we got a super chat for the best performance of the night. So you say it slow roll it and then I'm going to hit the super chat. This this is where I'm going to start. There's a lot of places I could start.
00:08:02
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Pete. King Pete. 999 from Steven EBFG. Signed Peter Kingston now. Two games in a row. Defiance to the first team. Pete Kings. Here's what I'll say about Pete.
00:08:14
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Pete Kings. He genuinely changed the game when he came on the field. And... After I saw how he played, he has the assist on the Moose goal, and then he creates the sequence that leads to the Rothrock goal. don't know if he... think Moose might have touched that, I don't know if he got two assists on the game. But he had one primary assist. Primary. That counts. Primary assist for Pete. What's your take on secondary assist?
00:08:41
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I don't know. Do you believe in secondary assist? What are we doing? A little bit. little bit? We had to shout out a local... A youth academy contract player. Yeah.
00:08:52
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Rocky Wells. Okay. Local kid shout out who plays for velocity FC and he got his first start. in an Open Cup game, he had a secondary assist. They count. They count. Pete's was primary, but like what I'll say about Pete is that you know I think it started out as kind of, not a bit, but it was more like, oh, this is a fun little story. Pete, yeah we saw him on Ballard FC, and he's like actually in the Knicks for the first team. blogger. That's kind of cute. That's kind of cool. He good grinds content like us. yeah pete Now i'm like, Pete is just good. No, the fact that I'm here in that
00:09:26
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name came up yeah in a game where sounders are playing at our stadium and we all know the six facts that i could draw about sounders fc one of them was not a pete king's fan peter kingston was one of them you took a nome uh osaze will get to maybe yeah yeah didn't love what i saw there 4.99 from from one of our fans here kingston to assist hashtag up the bridge he got to He got to. oh i Somebody knows I'm here. It might have been a primary because I couldn't really see. Moose was going for the Pete pass, and it went over him.
00:10:01
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And then Paul Rothrock, of course, obviously, crashing the far post. And he made he made it. He had to make it happen, though. He took a couple touches in the box and then close range finish. So that was cool. But, like, ah when when I saw Pete was subbing in, I was like, oh, yeah okay, it's like that. Like, you're putting Pete in and, like, legitimately – big spot here. which What's he? What's he going to do? Like, this is your opportunity. What are you going to do with it? I mean, that's what he did with it. That was he got he assisted on both the goals, including the goal that really like after Moose scored that I was like, all right, we can exhale a little bit. Finally. God. Yeah, I was i was like, kind of.
00:10:36
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That Rusnak chance early was flashing through my mind. Like, oh, my God, if some crazy shit happens right now and they score it because it really they looked the more likely to score. Seattle was kind of doing the thing where they couldn't keep the ball for a lot of this game. And we've been doing a lot this season. Yeah. Like, especially, you know, the this road trip that they're on right now, i think we can all accept that there's going to be.
00:10:58
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sequences of games that are like that. yeah and I fully expected there are to be sequences of this game that would be like that, but it was definitely more so than I would have liked sure, but you know fair play to the team like they they have gotten really good at absorbing pressure like that and not conceding they can they conceded the first goal tonight, but I mean Holding this Whitecaps team to one goal over 180 minutes, you were probably never shutting them out in this series. That's another thing I was telling myself to cope after they scored was like, all right, that's one goal for them. Congratulations.
Defensive Strategies of Seattle Sounders
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But I mean, that's a actively good total to have given up at this point in the series against a team that's that good. And on a goal to that, like, what are you going to What are you going to do? ask you guys some questions? Yeah.
00:11:45
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Number 22 for Vancouver. Who is that? AZ Jackson. That kid looked threatening. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's pretty good. And I was like, who's the right back for Seattle? Because i was like, that kid has a job to do. kalon yeah costa ri And he did a good job. yeah He stood up.
00:12:02
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He was strong. He got stuck in when he needed to. But I was worried about 22 from the jump. Yeah, yeah. And the yellow for diving was fire. I wanted to say shout out to the ref for that. For calling that. Because CONCACAF refs give that PK all day, all the time. Absolutely. And the fact that he didn't give it and then also actually gave the yellow to simulation. Because that's another thing. And was so clearly a dive. yeah if you don't uh if you don't give the pk on that you have to yellow him a lot of refs don't do that so shout out yes the ref for that but yeah az jackson az jackson that was the biggest cheer for counters in the first half yeah was the the yellow for the dive yes no but uh kkr on az jackson is a good shout because he is known as an attacking right back that's kind he actually is not a right back by trade but they've been putting him there because they realized he's pretty damn good at it man but like He was poised. Yeah, his whole thing is that he offers a lot going forward. And think he's actually actively good at defense at this point. I think this matchup against AZ, I think showed that.
00:13:06
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Because that kid is good. He was doing his thing on the left flank. And KKR was up for it. And yeah, again, I feel like we've been saying it a lot lately. But shout out to the defense. like They were under it. from i think that is probably the best team in MLS. If you look at...
00:13:21
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how they played this season and the numbers that they've put up, what they did to Minnesota United in their league game right before this six owing him. I mean, it's just, that is, that is going to be, if not the toughest in the top two toughest teams that this team, that Seattle will have to play in, in this whole tournament. These Liga Ameki's teams aren't looking as good as the Whitecaps right now.
00:13:44
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So that, that was a tough matchup and they five, one them. If I, five, one, they didn't even, so, yeah, I mean, you can't really argue with that. ah Noah, who do you want to shout out? get I mean, man, okay, I'm going to go to the super chat really quick. um If I can here, I'm sorry. I'm trying to post. I'm posting. I'm doing – this is classic Noah postgame content here. ah $2 right here. Noah calling the two goals plus Kingston sub.
00:14:12
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Guys, I honestly don't remember saying that, but ah if the chat's saying that, hell yeah. I – You called the Kingston sub. Pete Kings, Paul Rothrock. Let's talk. let's talk yeah I just just like, listen, let's just talk. Let's just talk about him Paul Rothrock wins the CONCACAF man of the match for this match. And frankly, ah yeah.
00:14:35
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Is he not just an absolute engine? You put him on in any game. He he turns, he runs, he sprints, he demolishes. I don't know what much more to say about him. He's a beast. And shout out to his family. They were at the game and they tried to give us his man of the match trophy. And I was like, dude, I can't. He's like, can you give this a pause? I can't take this because I'm going to take this home with me. I'm taking the Michelob Ultra. The Michelob Ultra Superior Player of the Match trophy. No, I kind of felt like when Rothrock got into the game, he was kind of like,
00:15:14
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I don't really like how this has been going so far and it's not going to be going like that. that's exactly how it felt was he, he, took he, take he took he took over the game. He did. he He asserted himself in a way that you kind of expect from a Paul Rothrock performance at this point, but shout out Paul. And then the second, the secondary thought Jesus Ferreira,
00:15:36
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The vision, the passing, everything that he does when he touches the ball is just extraordinary. He was getting stuck in as well. He was getting recoveries. He was just looking nasty. He had that one play where Vancouver had it at the top of the box and it like popped up to him somehow. And he had it and like three white caps just surround him. And he just kind of weaves his way out of there and then is just dribbling. And it was such an important...
00:16:05
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like just lessening of the pressure. Yeah, for him to get out of that because if he gets the ball taken off him right there, those guys are going to be going gangbusters. Yeah, so that he there was a lot of that tonight where it was.
00:16:17
Speaker
He was doing a good job of there's times where this game just needed to slow down. Correct and chill out and in the first half. I don't think they did a incredible job of that, but you know, I'm not even going to get on them for that. Like that's, that's what you have to be able to do in this tournament against teams like this is when they have control of the game, when they're on top of you, you have to be able to handle that and absorb that. You're not going to be on top of the Vancouver whitecaps,
00:16:45
Speaker
for 180 minutes of a CCC series. We talked about it before the game. Did you think they were going to try to kill this game off by soaking up pressure? And it did look like that. Let's be honest. Oh, yeah. The entire first half. Yeah.
00:16:58
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If it wasn't a low block, it was something approximating that. And they whenever they had a chance to just clear it into the next dimension, they would take it. They were not like interested in keeping the ball. canbell and or when...
00:17:12
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Okay. When Osase de Rosario was called upon to come back and start the discourse. Let's start the discourse. All right. Let's dive in. Okay. Sorry.
00:17:23
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No, no. I mean, to keep going. Yeah. keep going I just thought he looked, uh, he looked a little rattled and ineffective in that role. And there was a moment where knew who was on the left and He expected to get some help and didn't get it.
00:17:41
Speaker
It was extremely frustrating. was yeah he was he was And it was like, it was like instance number 10, where I feel like De Rosario was just kind of not together. And it's like, you're the biggest dude probably on the pitch. They were bullying the shit out of him. And he is usually bully ball is his strength. Exactly. And I actually thought that I know why people think that he didn't have a great performance. He definitely did not have a great performance. But when you're getting mugged the entire that's basically role is to get mugged the entire game. And he was taking the punishment. You're going to get abused. He was taking the punishment. And.
00:18:17
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because I was thinking, you know, Moose gets the goal after he came on. I'm like, you know, should they have just started Moose in this game? yeah But like, I think bully ball in a situation like this is pretty important. And Osaze is the one who does that for this team in that role.
00:18:30
Speaker
And yeah, no, he had, ah this was probably his biggest, like welcome to a top flight league moment. Like this is how it goes down and you have to be ready for it. yeah And he was, he was under it. Like there's no question about it. So you do have to like, hopefully this will be like a I think it will be a gro lesson a growth moment where it was but he'll be he will be better for having gone through that against a team like this. It was bad.
00:18:55
Speaker
he He was not good. But I also think that there were moments... He had to give away that led to their goal. I don't think he had a good performance. I don't think he would tell you that he had a good performance. I don't think he would even want us to sit here and defend it. I think...
00:19:10
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He sees himself and I see him as a really talented player who has good vision and good body positioning and his push is like a very line pushing defender. And he did a lot of that well.
00:19:23
Speaker
But he also could not finish. he He made a lot of bad finishing decisions. He also was just not really there when it came to that final times where he had a chance to spring counters, which he's usually good at. He missed it. was bad It was a bad boost game for whatever. or It was not a bad boost game. going to get to that.
00:19:44
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but i think you can sit here and say yeah they did win despite de rosario but whatever man like he did his job you're not always going to get production out of your nine that's how it goes especially with the seattle sounders team i do think though if he was on honestly this this would have gotten out a hand and yeah and that might have that might be the case like if moose had been starting this game might have gotten out of hand very quickly So let's ah let's get to that because I knew you weren't going to have the courage to make it one of your shout outs. No, I mean, shout outs to Moose. You haven't even shouted out Snyder Brunel yet, and Snyder literally looked better than Obed Vargas ever did. And I think we need to talk about that before we talk about Danny Muson's team score. Let's do Snyder next because he was the best goddamn player on the field.
00:20:29
Speaker
Like he, Oh God, he's good. So like that, that one run he had where he just like went through their entire defense and then drew the foul after it looked like the guy bodied him off the ball. And then he's like, i no, you're not going to do that to me I'm going to that to you. And he did that and won the ball back and the guy fouled him and it was a dangerous free kick. I was like, this kid is on some different stuff right now. And, uh, when I, when I watch him play, no, I know we've said this a few times, but honestly, it's kind of eerie how much he reminds me of Obed.
00:20:59
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Like when he when he makes those, when he gets out of pressure and makes those proactive runs and then the foul drawing. Yeah. From the school of Nicholas Ladero, who taught that to Obed. Obed taught that to Snyder. It's just gets getting passed down. They're educating the youth. And Snyder got, he they were bullying the shit out of him too. He got fouled four or five times, pretty hard a couple times. And ah I think he drew a yellow card. But man, like when you need to. drew that CB yellow in like the fifth minute. Yeah.
00:21:27
Speaker
Like when you need to when you're under a lot of pressure against a desperate opponent. He killed Kubas. He was giving Kubas hell. Like one of the best players in his position in the lead in the league. In the league. And that was something that he did. Kubas didn't play in like one. no And I was like, okay, he is playing in this one. he got injured.
00:21:45
Speaker
But... it Oh, yeah, he came he subbed off early. But the fact that he was on the field in this game, i was like, that's going to give a
Player Performances and Team Dynamics
00:21:52
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big boost to them. And it's also, like, one of those situations where you're like, as much as I like Snyder, when you're going up against an elite player like that, what do you expect? Like, is he going to be up for it? He he looked better than Kubus when they were going at it. Easily. Easily. I don't have a problem saying that. So, I mean, if anything, the the Snyder B-stock is through the roof after that game. I loved how he played. I thought that was...
00:22:16
Speaker
Given the circumstances and the pressure that he and the team were under, that was probably his best game, I think. Do you have anything to say about Snyder? but i don't.
00:22:29
Speaker
um Kid with the really bright-ass cleats. Oh, okay. Yeah. It was like wiggling around. He did the, he took on like the five guys on the, on the right side on the corner. He dribbled up and then did the 360 and then he was like, and then he was like, you know, it's a good breakdown. it's a good breakdown it It was, I felt like I was there.
00:22:50
Speaker
Uh, I think that the thing I wanted to say dude, dude Osase and that role is thankless and it sucks. Yeah. Yeah. That's, you know, that your team's going to be soaking up pressure. They're going to be playing a little bit cynical and you're probably going to get some balls played to you at your feet. You're going to be back to goal. There's going to be four guys on center center. Hats that are just putting their body into you every time you touch anything.
00:23:17
Speaker
And if you always be, and if you miss it, if you miss even half a beat, they're going step in front of you. They're going to take the ball. it's It's very thankless. Yeah. So the fact that his sub came on and did what he did, i do want to point out that I did see the last 10 minutes he was on the pitch.
00:23:35
Speaker
It started to look sharp. Yeah. It started to show what the reason he's on this team. So I didn't want to like completely shit on this player. Thankless is a good way to describe it. That's how I feel about it. Because that role sucks. Yeah. Nobody wants to it. That can't be like playing soccer is fun. That can't be fun. No. Your whole job is to get your ass beat. Get your ass beat. That's right.
00:23:58
Speaker
For 90 minutes. And there's a term used in. And also seven feet tall. that Thank you. There's a term in basketball. that I think is fucking funny, which is that player is big for nothing.
00:24:09
Speaker
Yeah. There were moments in this game where he was big for nothing. Yes, for sure. But in the last, I would say 15 minutes, he was on the pitch. You could see glimpses and he was doing a more effective job. I just didn't want it to go.
00:24:22
Speaker
I didn't want to to make it seem like he was completely without quality tonight. There were moments. Yeah. But for the first 30 minutes, it wasn't great. Yeah. And I mean, to be fair to like, I think Tomas Mueller had a shit show out there. You know he was du you want to talk about you want to talk about finishing woes. I mean, I was putting it in the i kept i kept going. next gal He is he is say he was 37.
00:24:44
Speaker
almost thirty seven yeah these guys try to say he was thirty seven And i thought I thought he thought he was and he's not left footed. So just throwing that out I was there were two attempts with his left foot where I was like, yeah, yeah I don't know. We were talking to Jay about it, though. It's pretty impressive for an almost 37 year old man to be popping up in all those different parts of the field. Like I would be looking and like all the sudden he's out on the left. i'm like, thank you. I thought the same thing. what That guy is completely position position.
00:25:12
Speaker
They just go, hey, you're Tomas Mueller. You do whatever the fuck you want. Whatever you want. Yeah, exactly. yeah So he he was doing his thing out there. He missed all his shots. ah So that that was yeah can we get a fuck Tommy Mule. in the chat dudes our got Shit. He really did. He did not have a good game. No, he literally had he was invisible in the first game, invisible in the next game. i'm I'm starting to question this whole idea of signing okay superstars when they're 30. Settle down. five Can I ask a question? Yeah, eight. So there's this kind of well, Mesut Ozil, even in his prime played like this. Messi, certainly for the last eight years has played this way. be have This kind of languid.
00:25:55
Speaker
I'm going to I'm going to pick my spots. I'm going jog. I'm going stand. I might not even move, might even lay down and take a nap. And then when there's a moment I will burst. I'll do my thing. Yeah, that style.
00:26:09
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Again, i don't like watch a lot of and MLS games. It didn't really seem helpful to the Vancouver Whitecaps tonight. No, that style of play that languid. I'm kind of picking my spots. I'm positionless. I'm I'm Tomas Mueller. I do what I want. It didn't really work.
00:26:25
Speaker
I don't think he was really helpful to that team tonight. gonna be honest. Yeah, no, I think work rate and pace and something more dynamic might have served them better. it's a fair point. It's a fair point. And You know, we've talked we've talked a lot about how much he's kind of elevated their team in their organization in a lot of ways that have nothing to do with happen with what happens on on the field. yeah But I think there might maybe there was a reality check of like.
00:26:48
Speaker
Now, this is a two legged conga calf series against the team that's won this tournament before, like. Are you going to be up for it, Tommy Mule? Are you going to be up for CONCACAF?
00:27:00
Speaker
I mean, it did I don't know if he was. i don't i saw him running into spaces at points where he was calling for the ball. he was looking for He was looking for something from his teammates, and they were just kind of like ignoring him. Yeah. Did you guys notice that?
00:27:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I think they were trying to find him, but he was he was pretty locked down there in the central so the central channel just all the channels. I mean, his his vision and his book the thing is, yeah it like he he is still really talented at like kind of being that maestro and directing that play. Like you saw that with that that goal that I don't know if he got a secondary or primary assist on that. He did make that happen. And that was fully him.
00:27:37
Speaker
Yeah, yelling for it and screaming for it and not also that run that like delayed run was really good on the back post. But but a player like that's all always only going to be as good as the people around him. Sure. Yeah, which they have a really yeah talented roster. It's just I mean, honestly, I just think the sounders are better.
00:27:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they definitely were in this series. You don't five one a team without that being the case. But I ill kind of on this topic, can we just take a moment and bask in the fact that inner Miami.
00:28:10
Speaker
I crashed out of CCC. Can we do our Super Chats and then do that discourse? Yeah, because I want revel in that. What does Super Chats mean? Tell me what that means. Our viewers pay us money. They say, hey, buy another beer. And then we listen to them and we say, absolutely.
00:28:27
Speaker
Derek Richards, thank you for being a member for 15 months. CCC Championship number two coming, exclamation mark? I mean, I think so. It sure seems like it. I mean... I mean, like, feels like it could be. I'm not going say it. I'm not going to say it. Ari believes in jinxes, so he'll never say it. But Derek Richards with the super sticker for $5. Thank you, my friend. Rhombus, bias smack talk. Vancouver is a mid-team that hasn't been challenged until now. See, that agenda's heating up. After leg one, was kind of thinking that.
00:28:59
Speaker
And then they six-owed Minnesota, which you could say, oh, it doesn't count. It's Minnesota, but it's like that. ah Shout out to Boss. Shout out. Shout out. Yeah. And then next up, we've got, thank you for always providing the great content. Thank you, Ghost Trick. Thank you.
00:29:17
Speaker
um and sign Snyder to a U22 very soon. Craig, please don't make the Obed mistake again. Yes, just get that done. Sign him. Literally right now. Right now. Just give him the contract on the bus ride home. They should be doing that.
00:29:31
Speaker
not Don't even wait until the bus. He should have done that on the locker room. I actually, i they've got to. They've got to do it. Wait, Kingston, you guys were saying. Yeah, maybe not to a U22 for Pete, but like sign him to a total contract. This is where the mechanics of U22... I was going to say, I'm not going to explain U22s. Don't, please don't.
00:29:48
Speaker
just think I don't have a law degree, so please don't try to explain MLS signing rules. Sorry, sorry, sorry. We got the chip put in our head. Gam and ham and jam and yeah. It's in that. Sorry. We got the MLS chip implanted in our head. I'm sorry. No. I'm sorry. Yeah. Got you. All right. Cool. Yeah. No pour on your beers. don't know what that means, but chicken boy, thank you for the $2. I will drink a beer for you. Cheers, boys. Cheers.
00:30:18
Speaker
What a fucking atmosphere tonight. Yes. And shout out Vlad Stick Pub for hosting us. Shout out Vlad Stick Pub. Shout out one Spokane Stadium. You were right. It was rocking. It was rocking. What did do you guys think? It it was i love fun. It was great.
00:30:29
Speaker
Beautiful. That pitch is tight, though. Is it? It feels it feels tight. yeah It was pretty narrow. Which I don't mind. yeah And also, it was the ball I felt like the ball was taking some crazy bounces. like It was definitely bouncing around like guys did not expect at times. Yeah, the Terp played. We're used to seeing that at Starfire. Yeah, no, it's not. sort It kind of reminded me of that. Yeah. Okay. And Brittany with the $1.
00:30:53
Speaker
Just the dollar. No comment, just the dollar. Thank you, Brittany. Shout out for the dollar. Holler for a dollar. And I hollered. So can we revel? Yeah, yeah. I want to revel. I want to revel. Dude, they're going be. Okay, I'm sorry. They're never going win Champions Cup. And Messi's reign here, one MLS Cup and a couple of Mickey Mouse supporter shields. He's an absolute fraud. It's one of the worst signings in MLS history. He's like, can you really call him the GOAT? Oh, I love this. Thank you. Can you really call him the GOAT? Well, you definitely can, but I'm so glad you're saying this. Yeah, you can. Yeah, you should, and you will. MLS opened their pocketbook. They literally were like, here's half of all the Apple TV money. You can take all of your jersey money. We'll actually buy you a house in Miami. We'll actually give you half the team. What is he going to do?
00:31:40
Speaker
win a mickey mouse cup yeah mickey mouse cup against vancouver whitecaps sure okay buddy we could do that and a fucking mickey mouse shield it's just dude they're terrible it it is they're trash everyone in the league's paying for this too by the way every team is paying for that i participation in it i We are revel reveling because this is funny as hell that they are already out. Reid Baker Whiting fucking owns Messi. Reid Baker Whiting. RBW is going further in Champions Cup this year than Messi. He beats Messi in the only final that he plays in. And gets him and then Reid Baker Whiting gets subbed in in this game.
00:32:19
Speaker
it bounces him. I mean, I'm just saying, dude, I wrote a CONCACAF Champions Cup preview before this tournament started for Sounder at Heart. Shout out. Shout out. And I was kind of going through like ranking every team's chances and who had the best chance, who like who can actually win and who's going to have a short stay. And my conclusion on InterMiami was if they don't win this tournament this year, it is actively embarrassing for their whole club and the entire city of Miami. Correct.
00:32:49
Speaker
There's no way you can tell me. They signed Berterame. They signed Mikael. They signed this guy. They signed that guy. They're like, oh, every Argentinian prospect to ever play. No one cares about the roster rules when comes to that team. I'm glad that you're on board with me now for that. They can do whatever they want, and that's fine.
00:33:07
Speaker
And then you get banned on by Reed Baker Whiting. You bomb in the round of 16. And also to Christian Espinoza. MLS lifer Christian Espinoza owns Lionel Messi. Yeah. No, it's that's a tough scene for them. But just I want to bring it back to like the fact that the Seattle Sounders advance in Champions Cup 5-1 on aggregate over one of the at least the two or best three teams in MLS right now. Yeah. And they do it in Spokane historic fashion. The vibes at the stadium were incredible. Like we we got to we got to do all that. And they're they're fighting for their lives against Nashville SC and then crashing out of the whole tournament. That's crazy.
00:33:46
Speaker
Like, what do you even mess? He's going to be 39 soon. Yeah, yeah. He's going play till he's 40. It's like, I'm going to play it. Okay, this is
Inter-Miami's Exit and Contrast with Seattle
00:33:56
Speaker
the other. This other thing I was going to say is like, first of all, for them, like when things don't go their way, they crash out.
00:34:03
Speaker
So yeah, that's also going to happen. Did you get to meet security gene? Who got spit on? Yeah, all we got that Suarez spit on after the Cup final was there. Yeah. Was there tonight? Yeah, well, here he's there staff. Oh, yeah he's cool as hell. He's cool as hell. And Suarez spit on it. And that's why I like I don't feel bad trashing on it. No, we fucking like it. Yeah, we know. And you know, we are their fans over the offseason. I was saying yeah today I said it earlier. The only people who like Inter Miami didn't even make it out of the goddamn round of 16.
00:34:35
Speaker
You lost to Nashville SC. They don't even have a team. How do you lose to a team that doesn't exist Let's be actually serious about what's going on. But also, the other thing I was thinking was like, you know, how are you talking about how when the Sounders make runs in these tournaments, there's these like stars aligning moments where the biggest threats like crash out. And then you look at it and you're like, wait a minute.
00:34:54
Speaker
They're not a factor anymore. They're not a factor anymore. if it's a matchup with this team, you can beat this team. And then if you beat this team, then you have that team. Like, you could actually win this thing. Like, When Inter-Miami crashed out tonight, I felt like that sensation. When do we find out?
00:35:09
Speaker
Tigress or Cincinnati? Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm paying attention. I've been baptized. You're locked you're lock in. I'm in. You're locked in. Let's go. you love to see it. New conference. And then hopefully there was a lot of people in a similar situation at the stadium tonight. Well, all right. I have thoughts on that. Yeah, please. Yeah, give us your thoughts on that. What I really loved is shout out Emerald City supporters group.
00:35:33
Speaker
Shout out. shout they They brought it. They showed our local scene, which we have a wonderful supporters group. But in terms of the density of the undertaking, as far as all the the details, the embellishments, the fact that when player announcements are made, issuing a first name and having the supporters groups and people that are there shouting out their last names, things like that, you know, it makes a difference.
00:36:08
Speaker
But I also want to say something to local Spokane people. I saw you. No one's going to watch this. I saw some people there that I'm like, I haven't seen you at a Velocity or a Zephyr game, but I see you tonight for the Sounders game.
00:36:23
Speaker
and that bummed me out. But in general, I thought it was just great vibes. And it was super cool to see that stadium filled with people that are supporting soccer.
00:36:35
Speaker
Yeah, and they I liked how they brought the smoke out, which you can't do at Lumen Field. That was pretty cool. Wait, did Yeah, after after the moose goal, I want to say, there was green smoke flying around. I didn't catch that. so that was pretty cool. And honestly, the post-game vibes were incredible. we were We were kind of trying to hightail it out of there to get here to do the show. And when we were walking, we got were walking down on the field to get out of the stadium, and we were like, you know what?
00:36:59
Speaker
Let's just like soak this in for for a bit because this is just like – It was incredible. It was incredible vibes. like Where were you guys? we We were both so we were we were up in the press box, but but then it turned out the press box was outside. Okay. so we were And then it started raining a little bit. and we were like, well, probably we probably shouldn't have our computers and stuff out here. so we went to the covered area, which was not technically the media area, but they were like, you know what? I mean, this is as long as chill. Don't be hooligans and you can. Yeah, which like that's a tough fast for us, to be honest. Yeah, no, yeah they were very firm about that. If it's not obvious, I was watching this game with my wife and my daughter and my friends. We were on the east side in the bleachers area and like section 124, 125. So right on near the center circle side of the pitch on the east side.
00:37:55
Speaker
And I was just Very distracted. I did not get a chance to lock in on what was happening on the pitch like I would normally do. Like I mentioned before, I sit below the press box typically yeah and just watch from kind of FIFA mode.
00:38:10
Speaker
So I didn't. I was also distracted by what was happening in in California with philosophy FC. But yeah famously, that is the team you cover. Yeah, so i'm exactly that' that does it I I was distracted. it doesn't You have to do it. Sometimes you got to do the phone and the game and the phone and the get, you know,
00:38:26
Speaker
It was very odd, but I'm a poster during the game. Like I'm laptop. We didn't for the first time, I think in I don't even know how long, five years. I literally didn't have my laptop in front of me for a game, which made, I think, the atmosphere even better. Like, Ari didn't have his laptop. I didn't have my laptop. I'm so conditioned to be, like, working on stuff while the game's going on and being, like, half yeah attention, and I didn't have my laptop. Like, taking notes and stuff? or I mean, yeah you know, i'm on I've worked for the MLS editorial staff, so we're, like, we we're covering games. I'm ah i'm like working while the game's happening. now I'm posting, doing content. You boys are hustling while this is happening. But tonight, i wasn't hustling. I was just lock i was just locked in.
00:39:14
Speaker
yeah it was It was fun. like I actually felt like I got to really experience the the vibes. I respect the show that. I remember when I was watching the Ballard game in Memorial Stadium, which we talked about, the Open Cup game.
00:39:27
Speaker
And I was in the media section yeah with just random people from Seattle. I'm Spokane soccer show. I'm not media, but I'm kind of pretending out of media. Yeah, got to cosplay that. Totally cosplaying. Oh, Jeremiah. Jeremiah's calling in. I'm an official reporter. Jeremiah's calling in from the car. We got you. We got you. Finish your story. Long throw in the winner by Andre Lewis. And I start screaming, and this guy looks at me, he's like, you can't be doing that up here. You're in the media section, bro. That's true. And he was right. I felt so stupid.
00:39:56
Speaker
they're the uh I think it was the but I think it was the if it makes you feel better I think that it was the whitecaps video team or something was up where we were sitting and after they scored their goal this guy almost crashed out yeah but like you everyone else in down and screaming them and everyone else was just silent it was kind of weird because where he was it was like the literal owner of the Sounders is sitting next to this guy too yeah he's he's screaming celebrating whitecast video guy and owner of the sounders is chilling he gets up and moves seats after that i honestly i've never heard a celly like that i he didn't like move it was minute 24 and that's what made me nervous i felt like i was watching kind of like the all the math that they do of like how much clock you have to kill off to win a game blah blah blah analytics i was like
00:40:43
Speaker
Are they going to low block and soaking up pressure because they think if they can just not concede within the first X and then they can see them minute 24. And I was like, yeah, that's a lot of time. why Yeah, that was exactly what they're in through my mind. J.O. J.O. J.O. You are you were on the stage. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. wait wait OK, talk now.
00:41:02
Speaker
The lighting on here is so fucking awesome. Dude, I know we're top tier. Are you calling from the car? Is that what's happening? Oh, in the car. Yeah, definitely in the car.
00:41:13
Speaker
Another car. We're on our way back from, ah we're making the the long haul back to Seattle tonight. Dude, you're insane. You guys are wild for that. ah J.O., 5-1 on aggregate through to the quarterfinals. what did you What did you think of the game and then also just the scene in Spokane for the game? How do you think it came off?
00:41:33
Speaker
You know, I think the scene in Spokane was awesome. The crowd was great. You know, it it felt like a, you know, like Benji was seemed a little
Community and Fan Engagement in Spokane
00:41:41
Speaker
worried about the ah the education level, the soccer education level, the soccer IQ of the fans.
00:41:48
Speaker
And I think they they met it. You know, this was a good crowd. It was it felt like a it felt like a Sanders game, you know? Oh, yeah. You know, like the the boom boom, you know, there was no boom boom clap, but there was, you know, the CL Sounders stin and chant got going.
00:42:02
Speaker
ah You know, it was good. I thought it was a good atmosphere. It felt intimate. Man, that is a steep rake of ah of a stand there on the on the the press box side. Yeah.
00:42:15
Speaker
You know, I think it's great. It's a great little facility. I think it was a lot of fun. As far as the play goes, you know, the one of the the recurring themes from the players was that they were they know they can't keep playing like this and winning.
00:42:31
Speaker
Like they have to control games more than they have over these last four games. They gotta clean it up in possession. They they got clean gotta to clean it it up in possession, but they're also showing they can win ugly and they can you know they can win games that they weren't always winning last year, especially.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. what was What was going through your mind when the Vancouver scored that first goal? Because for me, it was like, yeah, well, seriously there there was that. i was like, you know, there's still, the way i was I was telling these guys, but the way I was thinking of it was like, okay, 3-1 aggregate.
00:43:03
Speaker
It's not ideal that you gave up the goal that early, but if you told me it was going to be 3-1 on aggregate at this point in the series, I would be happy about that. So were you more on that end of the spectrum, or were you like, oh, this is dicey, dicey?
00:43:15
Speaker
I mean, I think it was more of I'm glad they had the 3-0 lead going into this thing, and that's why you want it. But the the thing that was so nerve-wracking about the goal was that it didn't come from nothing. You know, they were they were applying pressure. They were controlling the game.
00:43:30
Speaker
And so you could see this spiraling where it wouldn't have been shocking if they had got a second goal. And if they had got a second goal, it would have gotten real squeaky bum time, you know? it's right.
00:43:43
Speaker
I agree. i mean i think that they I think a big credit to Brian Schmetzer. The subs worked as perfectly as they possibly could have. Yeah, probably Brian.
00:43:55
Speaker
When they brought in Peter Kingston especially, it was sort of like, okay, this is not what I expected to put him in. Yeah. what do you What do you make of that, though, that he entrusted Pete with that? And then also Pete comes on. Someone was saying he got credit for the second assist. That is a two-assist game for Pete. oh that what do you What do you even – I think he was balling. I think he deserved player of the match.
00:44:21
Speaker
I was very impressed. The first goal that he set up was was a veteran move. you know he He fights off a defender. First of all, he gets a ball that, you know, Paul Rothrock was saying, I'm not really sure that if he doesn't make that play that we're not looking at that ball for a very different reason. Like he was not, you know, he he knew it was a risky ball.
00:44:46
Speaker
And Kingston came up with it, made a great play. And, you know, I think you've got to feel, you've got to love a guy like that just taking his opportunity and making the most of it.
00:45:01
Speaker
You know what? i your're my my oh yeah no you could you look You know, he could have fought for player of the game. mean e I I didn't know he had a game like that. I'll tell you right now. Yeah, Nico was chirping. and door He was chirping. at I got that game. I got to tell you, my player of the match is Noah.
00:45:21
Speaker
Oh. Well, dude, I was – I don't normally sit next to Nico in the press box. I need to do it more because, dude, I was just – we were talking to each other back and forth. And, you know, I mean, I did call that goal. I was talking about the plays. We were talking ball. Listen, this is what Moz gets to hear all game, Nico. Maybe I should sit next to you. He loves it too. He loves it. Yeah, when Pete got that first assist, my reaction was kind of like,
00:45:49
Speaker
I didn't know you were like that, Pete. I didn't. But I think I come out of this feeling like they got to sign him. Like, this is a first-team player. don't know. Yeah.
00:46:00
Speaker
What was your take on this? I love this so much. Ryan made it sound like they they they're going to have to figure out a way to sign him. they And I think that that's that's true. They do. You know, Peter Kingston is a player who is a, I don't know, i don't want to call him a late bloomer because he was very highly considered when he was in the academy. But he spent four years in college where he wasn't really considered a pro prospect. He didn't get drafted.
00:46:26
Speaker
You know, he went to Ballard FC. played really well for Ballard FC. But, you know, he was available to for the Sounders to just pick up on a free. And he played for – it wasn't a sure thing he was going to sign with Defiance.
00:46:39
Speaker
I mean, it was – this is a guy who is really kind of riding a second chance right now. Yeah, and that's that's something that I think is a lot of fun about the whole story. But what I was going to say is that it kind of reminds me a little bit, and, you know I don't want to put this on it too early, but, like, it reminds me of the start of the Rothrock thing where, you know, he kind of gets in the mix unexpectedly, and you're like, all right, this is this is kind of cool and kind of fun, but he's probably not a regular first team contributor realistically. And then you kind of plays his way. he just, you know, scratches and claws into the mix. And we've seen what happens with Rothrock. I'm not saying Pete's going to do that. But to do that, you need to do the first step, which is what he's been doing like it with his opportunities so far. So it's ah it's a fun subplot. I'm not going to lie. I'm like pretty pretty locked in on the Pete subplot. I followed that kid after watching that game with Velocity FC and Ballard in 2024.
00:47:40
Speaker
i talked to him briefly after the game. I knew nothing, guys. yeah I knew nothing about Velocity FC because they were brand new team. yeah They were playing their... This is kind of the perfect breakout game for him to have you here watching. It's insane to me. I'm sitting here just going, I can't believe this happening. yeah It was ah the second professional game for Velocity FC, I think, when we played Ballard.
00:47:58
Speaker
And i talked to him briefly after the game. He was a little cagey. You could tell that he was super ambitious, but he also completely stood out in that game. the quality of it The quality of his his contributions in passing and the attack, just his awareness. And then i followed him on Instagram, and he's just like this young dude. He's got a family. He was at University of Washington. Yeah.
00:48:22
Speaker
Ghost of Defiance. This is such a cool story. It really it it blows me away that this is happening. And I love that. You know, we talk about it all the time, but I love that this club gives opportunities to guys like that. Not every club does not every club, not every coach trusts a guy like Pete to be put in into a CONCACAF Champions Cup.
00:48:42
Speaker
rounded 16 game where you're ahead. Yeah, but it's not over yet. Like, and and you're going to put Pete out there and then he's going to get two assists. You got to credit Schmetz for that. It's crazy. J.O. I think Noah wanted your take on ah Moose and then we'll, ah we'll let you go and get our other callers in here.
00:48:59
Speaker
You know, Moose deserves credit for that goal. i mean, he makes the run. But it's funny because even in a game where Osaza de Rosario was not sharp, where he, you know, was a little wasteful with some chances, he was, you know, very hit and miss in possession, wasn't clean in his passing, and yet you can still see why – why he's playing more than Moose right now because Moose makes great runs, but he doesn't really, he's not doing a lot else. And you love that he's he's a poacher like that. You love that he's getting in spots.
00:49:36
Speaker
But at the same time, it's it's not, like, I don't know I don't think, to me, it's not a mystery why Osase is playing more minutes right now after, you know, a game like today. Osaze took one for the team tonight. I thought Benji described it best. He was given a thankless job. The job was go out there and get the tip beat out of over an hour. he did that. And, you know, it wasn't always – it was actually very not pretty lot. But that, to me, that's taking one for the team.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I don't think you're wrong on that at all. And I do think that Jordan Morris is very much in contention to be starting at the number nine in a couple weeks. Yes, 100%. He will 100% be doing that. I'm excited for that. I think that's going to, to me, it's like his skill set's just a more polished version of Osaze. I think that's kind of how I've been describing it. So I think if you once you once you inject inject that into this attack with the Pauls doing their thing and...
00:50:34
Speaker
you know, Rusnak out there. i wish Rusnak had scored that early one tonight, but i think I think Jordan coming back should theoretically elevate this offense. Jordan Morris, you can't escape it. don Go ahead, know bring us home.
00:50:48
Speaker
Oh, that's it. I mean, I think and I'll just one one more thing about Paul Rothrock. I am just continuously amazed at how this guy has such a sense of narrative and story.
00:51:01
Speaker
This guy, he's talking about how his dad is from Spokane. He had a bunch of family here. Apparently some big person in his family just died.
00:51:15
Speaker
And that was sort of like the moment for it to bring the family together to come out to Spokane and watch. And it's just kind of unreal the way that he just seems to always have a ah the story to be able to tell after like every performance.
00:51:33
Speaker
He's literally walking, breathing, living sounder, dude. yeah like So much aura. He did his his sister. We did get to meet his mom and his sister after the game.
00:51:45
Speaker
And she gave us the champion, the like man of the match man of the match fucking thing. here's a can you give us a pause? like did I can't. You should keep that. you should usually keep that so Wow.
00:51:58
Speaker
Look at that. Yeah. But all right. Well, one of his older sisters. um We're not sure. It's not his toy. wasn't his twin. I don't think. Yeah. He's got some much older sisters.
00:52:10
Speaker
but Yeah. But anyway, family, we love the Roth rocks. We know you listen. We love you guys. You're the best. Oh, by the way, he he was aware of our of our car stream last week.
00:52:23
Speaker
Really? He's a content grinder. He's a content grinder. He's a content grinder. love to see it. Why does Paul Rothrock know about our car stream? He's like, well, you know, it's not my business to have opinions on your guys' takes.
00:52:39
Speaker
And I was like, But why do you know about this thing? That's how hard that stream went. Everyone knows about it. Everyone's talking about it. Weren't you going through like drive-through at some point? Yeah, we did. We streamed ourselves going through. I love imagining Rothrock watching you guys order food.
00:52:57
Speaker
That might have happened. That is an event that might have taken place in reality, which is crazy to think about. That is incredible. Well, Jeremiah, will you please, if you and Nico stop, will you film a video on your phone vertically and text it to me of you eating that food so that can post it. Vertically.
00:53:15
Speaker
Yeah. All right. I'm going to scare all the people in the chat by showing Nico on the camera. There you go. Yeah. They were getting mad. We mobbed him. Nico looks locked in. Nico looks locked in. Nico's locked, bro. Good luck, boys. Let me know when you get home, okay? We got driver assist on this thing. Oh, yeah. It's good. It's good. It's good. Don't worry. It's got Tesla AI, dude. You're fine. Get these guys off the screen. All right. Bye, guys. Bye. All right. Let's take some calls. Kenny, are you ready? you're looking ready to chat. We got Kenny leading it off. Kenny. Kenny. What's up, y'all?
00:53:52
Speaker
Superchats really quick because Jeremiah was clogging it up. But, like, we want your reaction to these Superchats, too. Yeah, literally. Kenny's doing the supers with us, dude. all right. Do you want to read them? Do you want to read one of them?
00:54:05
Speaker
I'm on my phone. I can barely see them. Okay. I'll read them. I'll read them. We'll read them. We'll read them. Rhombus with $5. Good riddance to Inter-Miami. Goat? question mark More like goat shit. Let's get it right. Inter-messy. Inter-messy. Inter-messy. Give us a reaction there.
00:54:19
Speaker
Yeah, we got a sacrifice a goal. We already did it. We got Rothrock. We got Rothrock. I did want to say I saw the Spokane velocity goal. That first goal was sick, man. Hey, let's go. he's so you're real ballard You're a Ballard head, though. Anwar Pelaez. Tacoma Stars, baby. Tacoma Stars. What you know? Okay. Shout out Tac Stars. We got we got more. usually Should we...
00:54:44
Speaker
Can we hit the rest of these? Yeah, sorry. get Can't wait for Cincinnati or Tigres. Bring it one. Yeah, let's see. let's All right, $10. Thank you for that. Bring it one as in bring it one stadium. Bring it to one Spokane Stadium.
00:54:58
Speaker
Who knows? It's working. No comment. Just Just saying. What do you want? Do you want Cincinnati or Tigres? I want Cincinnati because they look like trash. I'll take either. I'll take either one. yeah That's how I feel. Yeah, we can beat them both. Give me either. Give me either. $5. We got Pete Kingston.
00:55:17
Speaker
Time to refill those beers, boys. Do number 16 of plastic now. We'll have to do that right after. there sixteen I don't know what the number 16. Rob Rock is fire. Miami coach. ah On down Miami Miami coach on down like on down on down ourcraft our cry babies. Oh, man. They are. Can you imagine how rancid their vibes and are tonight? Oh, my God. I wish I could be. And how glorious our vibe. Oh, God. it's just It's injected into my veins. And final super chat here until you guys super chat more because we know you will. SFC goals this season. The Paul's five non Paul's four. the but just carrying the team cancer and it's the Paul patrol.
00:55:54
Speaker
paulro Paul Paul Patrol. Dude, we were singing. I was singing the car. i was like, Pete Kingston's on fire. Your defense is terrified. But maybe it should just be like, the Pauls are on fire. yo deep Anyway, we'll let you cook. okay Kenny, welcome to the stream. Fire away. aggregate, 2-1 in Spokane. what did What did you see? What did you think?
00:56:18
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Fuck the white crap.
00:56:22
Speaker
Yeah, up Spokane. Shout out to everybody who went to the game. I know people travel. I know people, locals showed up. um Shout out to all the influencers up in the dry side for sure.
00:56:34
Speaker
um Snyder Brunel, first 30 minutes, best player on the field. All-star midfield, Kubas, Berhalter, Muller, couldn't touch him. Couldn't touch him. Isn't that crazy? Like how good he looked against that competition. 19 in a couple of days. That's insane. Koumas is literally, I don't know if people understand. Like that guy is, if not the best at that position in the league, in the top two or three. Yeah.
00:56:59
Speaker
It's him and Rodon. Yeah. Pretty much. and mine you know You know, Roldan, ever since Pochettino said it, like he has a little bit of everything.
00:57:10
Speaker
And he even said that he has a nastiness and a sneakiness. I've kind of noticed him. more He's not dirty, but he is fucking chippy, bro. He'll log roll somebody who don't deserve it you know Give him an elbow out of bounds. He is... I mean, when you're in CONCACAF, you kind of got to. And Snyder Brunel, 11 of 19 on duels.
00:57:29
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um and snyter brunell eleven of nineteen on duels Every fucking where. He's everywhere. He's everywhere. everywhere He's here. He's there. He's everywhere. Kalani outplayed Nuhu, and I'm the Nuhu guy. Yeah, that's true. Nuhu didn't play the best, but he wasn't a disaster. You know what I noticed that I wasn't expecting? Nuhu seemed to be the most like fan favorite.
00:57:53
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like every time who was see Oh, yeah. They started early with that. juhu And every time he made like a good play on defense or everyone went nuts. He was kind like the man of the hour. But he was taking these moments to look over at the bleachers in particular in the east side and he would throw up the hands and he'd be like, what's up? Yeah. Where is everybody? He's a total showman. Absolutely. Faith of the club.
00:58:23
Speaker
Face of the franchise. Build a statue. Decide on a DP deal. Escalators. Escalators. Escalators FC. I want to cook a little bit more. Some of the negatives. um I wasn't super comfortable. you You guys already hit it. I wasn't super comfortable the um since the first goal. I mean, knew who might have been a little bit late to that, but then you got the ground service, the long ground service square.
00:58:49
Speaker
kind of like trickled through everybody. um And ah we weren't we were struggling to get into it. They were kind of on top of us for maybe the the the middle 30 minutes, I would say. think so. Before and after halftime. And i I want to put the blame Osase and Albert.
00:59:08
Speaker
They were trying to play the same position, and Osase was colliding into Ferreira and getting the the ball picked off him from behind. But... yeah um Through all of that, I think you mentioned it, you see all the talent, you know.
00:59:22
Speaker
Sometimes he wants to go 1v3 by himself, you know. And some of the decision-making wasn't there, but you see the talent through it, like you said. i mean, their their plan was every time he gets on the ball, send three guys to jump on him and beat the shit out of him. He seemed really frustrated.
00:59:40
Speaker
yeah. They got to him, I think. I wish they, I guess, had an advantage of... all the attention Osaze was getting a little more and just in general taking advantage of the situation better and kept the ball a little more and gotten when you're playing a desperate opponent, you're going to you should have more chances than they did over that period of the game. my god they They didn't really open up all the way until they're like the last 20 minutes after all the subs came in, they sort of opened up more. Like, look how few people are in the box on both of our goals.
01:00:12
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um Even when Peter Kingston has some possession in the corner and he's able to turn his guy, skin his guy inside out and get a little bit of momentum into the end line.
01:00:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. what are you yeah What do you think of the whole Pete thing? It feels like it kind of took to another level tonight. I mean, ah these Tacoma Defiance guys are our lifeline at times. i mean I mean, Rusnak misses his early chance, and he's the one who's been telling the team, you you might only get one. And Schmester's like, oh, Rusnak, what a great saying.
01:00:47
Speaker
Rusnak, it's such a great thing to say. You only get one chance. Everybody listen to Albert. And then we see him fucking up people's chances in the last game, missing his chance in this one.
01:00:58
Speaker
And then, you know, 24-year-old Pete Kingston comes on and saves the day, King Pete. So, um... I mean, I'm not trying to put the blame on Reznak. You know, he was kind of, i don't want to go snack, but Arreola was go snack too.
01:01:13
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no. It's tough, like, because was thinking about it too. i was like, I don't remember that player. Areola doesn't look as nearly like he did in Vancouver. But when you have that little of the ball, it's kind of hard for anyone anyone to look good. Like, you need to be, for Paul Areola to be effective, you need to be feeding him down the flank. And you can't do that if you don't have the ball at all. what Does anyone know the possession splits? I felt like it was like 9 to 10,
Challenges in Player Coordination
01:01:37
Speaker
dude, I swear. I'm not sure. well felt great It felt pretty one-sided at times. um i know I know we had more XG and it was five to four in their favor on shots on target. I don't remember possession.
01:01:52
Speaker
But one time, Nuhu beat three people up the flank and then ah leaves it to Paul Areola. And then Paul Areola tries to find Osaze, and Osaze is not on the same page as him.
01:02:04
Speaker
And then there's a counter, and then I'm like, oh, now Nuhu's going to – if we get scored on, Nuhu's going to get blamed for being upfield. And it's just the – you know Yeah, I don't know if you caught the moment where I was talking about how Nuhu got really, really frustrated specifically was with Osage. He was throwing his hands around. He was. And i I think that it's like, it's it's micro decisions in a fraction of a second in that thankless role as that nine who's meant to just kind of,
01:02:31
Speaker
put your put your ass to goal and get your and get beat up on and I that's where I felt like Osase he looked a little rattled he looked a little young he looked a little naive and there were moments where was just kind of like they're the defenders are anticipating what you're doing and they're that fraction of a second ahead of you and it's killing any opportunity for link play for bringing a counter from an aerial or whoever and that's what I felt like I saw I honestly feel like Osaze might not work well with Rusnak at the moment. I think Ferreira could work really good with him at the 10 central because Ferreira loves to give and go. He loves to be the runner. He loves to run ahead of a center forward if Osaze does want to come into the center attack.
01:03:22
Speaker
I just felt like Osaze and my friend Ree said this, Osaze and Rusnak was playing the same position at times. But I'm a hop up on out of here and let somebody else cook.
01:03:35
Speaker
Shout out to the dry side. Shout out to Lobbing Scorchers. Sign Peter Kingston. Sign Pete. And let's go win another CONCACA Champions, baby. Let's do it. Super champ. Thanks, Kenny. Appreciate you.
01:03:49
Speaker
All right. Tap in. We've got a live call in. Live call in. Come cook. Come cook. Sorry, everyone in the queue, but we're live. We promise we'll get to you. We'll get to We'll get to you. It's just...
01:04:02
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Let's get them in here. All right. Start with an introduction. Introduce yourself to the people. How's going, everyone? My name is Corwin, student at Gonzaga. Let's go.
01:04:14
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section Resident member of ECS 113. Years going on now. years going on now Happy to be at the game, capitalizing off being a Gonzaga student. yeah Spontaneous little decision here, but ah no regrets. It was a spectacular game. You were not actually planning on going to the game, and then you ended up pitch side? How did that happen?
01:04:35
Speaker
No, yeah, exactly. So I figured i was checking the tickets when they came out and college budget was not necessarily in the window. So I figured I'd come out to the pre-match event and everyone is spectacular here. I met people traveling from the West and the East, a couple of guys driving from all the way out Montana more than five hours. Wow.
01:04:54
Speaker
It was just great. And so I decided I walked out with everybody and then sat myself out at the box office. And when they said, You know, the limited amount of tickets they had, one of them was box side and difference in money was negligent. So here we are. I said, screw it, let's let's send it.
01:05:12
Speaker
Went to the game and had a blast. It was a spectacular game to be able to watch pitch side. Great to be able to yap at Vancouver members and cheer on the boys on the defense in the back line.
01:05:23
Speaker
what ah What was the atmosphere like down there? What you think of? how a Sounders game played at one Spokane Stadium. It was actually um amazing. I mean, I saw after after the fact the attendance at Spokane was actually the record for the stadium. So nobody else has had more attendance in the stadium.
01:05:42
Speaker
Sounders traveling just spectacularly for that. Everyone I sat back with was just amazing, got to meet some new friends even, and then just being able to hear the ECS throughout the stadium was honestly impressive yeah for just the amount of people who traveled. It was actually a great environment.
01:06:01
Speaker
I enjoyed it. I mean, I loved i loved seeing this. Did you have any game takes? Any players that stout you didn't stand out? You know, I think the first thing I would say is credit to the back four, the back line for holding it back.
01:06:17
Speaker
The goal we conceded I don't think was quite on a
Missed Opportunities and Team Depth
01:06:20
Speaker
defensive error. it was more of a Vancouver capitalized very well off of – misplayed touch yeah so great transition you know and fry was their full extension right there for the save it was a shame that it went in shot yeah insane shot yeah that's one of those ones for me where if it's like remember the marin chuck one in atlanta last year it's like all right well if you're gonna hit that just yeah like if you're gonna bam that why not No, but I mean, outside of that goal, I think we parked the bus super well, depending on, you know, whatever space Vancouver was playing. And if they were in our half, you know, there's absolutely no space for them to play.
01:06:54
Speaker
if they're playing in space, we're holding it really well where they can't find any opportunities, any goal scoring opportunities. It was great. I think we played super well in the back. Hell yeah. Well, Corwin, thanks for hopping on. We're going to keep working through our queue here. Benji, if you want to tap back in at any point, feel free. But ah let's get ah let's get Tribe in here. Let's get Tribe. thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, absolutely. Sounders. Thank you, man. Thank you for the support.
01:07:20
Speaker
sh Tribe. Tribe. You're on stage, Tribe. I was literally about to tap in through my computer. Okay, well, you can do that if you want. it's chill. It'll take too much time. How are you guys doing?
01:07:32
Speaker
We're great, Tribe. How are you doing is the question. 5-1 on aggregate over Vancouver Whitecaps. 2-1 victory in the second leg. Wasn't the most fun or prettiest game of all time. but What did you think?
01:07:45
Speaker
I was scared shitless after the first goal. I really, really was. I was pissed that Albert Russnock missed the first easiest opportunity we've ever seen. He scores that like nine times out of ten when he's with us.
01:08:02
Speaker
When he missed that, I was like, wow. Yeah. He is actually cooking these last two games. I know. it Fucking hell, man. And I will tell you this. The next man up mentality is fucking real.
01:08:15
Speaker
It is absolutely real, man. with with With Antonio Lopez against San Jose and Kingston today, I mean, I'll be honest, this might be the most dangerous situation team because of the support we can ah lean back on with with these youngsters coming up through the Defiance. Not only that, our support actually was incredible throughout the stadium. I heard it um through through the TV. It was absolutely incredible. It sounded like home. It looked like home, and it felt like home through the TV. um But had
01:08:51
Speaker
I'm a little bit concerned with our striker issue after what I've seen. Truthfully, Osaze, love him, great guy. He did not perform at all to the best of his abilities by any stretch of the imagination, and he did not look like the preseason Osaze that we were all drilling over and waiting to get our hands on in the season.
01:09:14
Speaker
Musovski did all right. The goal was great. I love a good goal, but I like to look at the overall play. the overall play sort of will allow you to get a better feel for what you should expect. I think Osaze definitely did um did did not do, sorry, I thought Musovsky definitely did better than Osaze.
01:09:34
Speaker
But overall, I mean, It feels like Osaze and Moose both had a chance to kind of stake their claim to be in the top dog in that role. And neither of have done it. And now it's just it's just the Jordan Morris show, which we know that works. So I'm not i'm not like tripping about that. But it is just funny how there was kind of this whole idea that you know someone else is going to step up and take that role.
01:10:04
Speaker
And now he's just going to slide right back in. Yeah. I mean, dare I say, how long is Jordan Morris really going to be able to play in a match for after all of these injuries? He isn't really a 90-minute player, is he?
01:10:19
Speaker
Well, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. This one didn't seem like it was such a serious injury considering the the length of time he was out. I get why you feel like that because it feels like he can't get back onto the field right now without getting injured again. But I'm not going to go into it this time like manifest. We have seen him play a lot without getting hurt too. I know people forget that. the give him I'm giving it the chance. i'm getting it the chance I'm giving the chance. You have to. yeah i i mean yeah but again i say just put fucking paul rothrock up top and see what happens honestly at this point right now we're good i can see paul at the nine he did score against the barca boys at the nine he's incredible tonight do you have inner miami take i feel like you have all you want to revel in the inner miami crashing out oh boy i am so glad you asked oh my god so let me let me get started with this
01:11:18
Speaker
30 million plus spent in three years for what?
Miami's Performance Analysis and Criticism
01:11:23
Speaker
A Leagues Cup? To get knocked out of MLS Cup in the first round against Atlanta and be embarrassed? And to be great team. What? Brad Guzan, 45-year-old Brad Guzan owns that team.
01:11:39
Speaker
He was 45? No, I think he was 39 or something. Oh, okay. No, but you do that just to get knocked out first round. And then you win an MLS Cup. Great. You're supposed to be the next LA Galaxy of of the early 2000s, aren't you, with that kind of money?
01:11:56
Speaker
It hasn't happened. Then you lose to the Seattle Sounders, who are playing the fucking B team, by the way. All credit to the kids. But they're not supposed to lose that game at all, let alone 3-0. And now you get knocked out by fucking... Who did get knocked out by Nashville?
01:12:15
Speaker
Yeah. Trish and Iquinoza. and MLS life for Christian Espinosa owns them. It is so funny that that happens. Reed Baker Whiting has more wins against Miami than just any women in world. just feel like some of this content sometimes is just tailored to Lobby Scorchers. It happened before we even left Flat Stick Pub for the stadium tonight. We were streaming live and we were watching for the reactions the people over here. And the whole was cheering. No, I heard...
01:12:44
Speaker
Yeah, I was watching the stream. They were going crazy, man. No, it is the funniest thing CONCACAF has ever seen. And it would have been even funnier if l LAFC got knocked out. They had a bit of a scare. That would have made it even better and perfect.
01:13:00
Speaker
but Inter-Miami, man, what the fuck are we doing? How much have you spent? You have Regulon. You have one of the one of the best – well, I won't say now, but in in history, one of the better left-backs to replace Jordi Alba. You have you have the Congo capital, Rui Diaz.
01:13:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, exactly. they you hurt your arm He doesn't have a goal yet. How is that possible? Yeah. He's like Olivier Giroud, man. He's like the most underperforming striker since – I don't know a striker that's that bad, but I guess Freddie Lundberg for the for the Sounders was very underperforming.
01:13:43
Speaker
I know he wasn't a striker, but he's a big sign that should have done better. um you Keep talking. I got you. I love – what Paul Rothrock has done.
01:13:55
Speaker
Paul Rothrock, I know why you guys are always so positive. You are fully the conductors of the fucking Paul Rothrock train. And I am... i am We've been saying it the whole time.
01:14:07
Speaker
i i I think you guys were right, man. he I don't know how he does it. I don't look at him and see like this outrageously. a hundred he He just makes it work somehow, and and no one can know no one knows why. He's just fucking good.
01:14:24
Speaker
It's called heart and effort. It's called vibes. Heart, effort, vibes, aura, the Paul Rothrock story. He is locked into the pod as well, though. He's locked in i've seen I've seen the comments he's made on your show. He loves you guys. The fact he watched the car stream is fucking frying me, dude. The car stream. and The fucking an Ari oligarch rant.
01:14:48
Speaker
car stream at the a&w drive-through like is he got this do they have this popped up on the bus right now they're driving back to seattle hey boys good good stuff tonight good stuff tonight guys pete you better be vlogging this pete vlog this we're gonna be campaigning for this item good job pete uh tribe uh give us one last take i got you and then we'll get uh we got caleb max hunch and then nat max yeah we got a double all right we've got we've got another we got another live in-person call in Oh, let's go. Let's go.
01:15:19
Speaker
All right. Well, last thing I want to say, we have to be one of the favorites now to lift the trophy. LAFC has not been performing very well um against, the quite frankly, all due respect, a very inferior team. They got a big scare. Cincinnati has gotten lucky. They haven't looked good at all, obviously. They're done, dude.
01:15:45
Speaker
um they're they're done du Exactly. We're going to take them out five to zero or some shit. It's going to and by teagris so Yeah. be The only thing I'm really worried about is Club America, and I'm not even that worried about them. Honestly. i They're waiting for their lives against the Philly Union in this round. They're really the worst team in MLS.
01:16:06
Speaker
Easily. But all I want to say is we are probably top two probably second favorite uh underneath lasc to win the title and i'm very very excited and i will see you guys on the regular season pod hell you soon try appreciate you try all right irl irl calling can you give us a give us the intro introduce introduce yourself to the people hi i'm jerry uh ecs member and alliance council it's jerry okay i didn't recognize you with the hat i just got the hat i don't have the beard i'm doing the weird goatee thing right now famous famous uh poster you're famous for posting yes uh and uh 16 fan of the year and 16 fan of the year royalty in our midst
01:16:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, take it. Take that. what did you ah What did you think? One Spokane Stadium, historic event. Sounders take a 2-1 win in leg 2, 5-1 on aggregate. what did you What did you think of the game, but also just the whole scene out here in Spokane?
01:17:11
Speaker
So this is my first time out here. The stadium, honestly, great. It's a jacked up Starfire. Yes. Yes. That's a good way to put it. By it all intents and purposes, ah it was phenomenal.
01:17:25
Speaker
ah that It was a unique atmosphere for ECS because we were on the far end of the stadium in that little bootlegged. bleachers thing and and i'm like you had about five feet in between the front net and back net couldn't wave a flag first for a damn but we we did it yeah it that's that's something good it brought me back to like old school starfire days in the beer garden yeah the end zone where you could just rush up
01:17:55
Speaker
to the Marcus Hanneman Marcus Hanneman yeah it the stadium is great this atmosphere was phenomenal um coming in here this is also my first time at this flat stick yeah used to work on the west side and uh this is bonkers version of it it's crazy walking in pre-game that many people god thoughtss yeah we were trying to do our show and it was like brad evans is over here there's just like kudos yeah kudos to sammy the sounder winner sounder sammy the sounder went around to every single table and said hi to everybody anybody who wanted to do a photo op or whatever uh it was this was a very impressive showing over here on this side
01:18:45
Speaker
Yeah, i'm I'm impressed by everyone. Like the ECS support sounded incredible. Getting the stadium going. I mean, that's always a like you never know what's going to happen when you're at a different stadium. It was inadvertently the brick wall that we had behind us yeah bounced everything off. And we didn't have drum stands. Yeah. So it it was just ricocheting off everything.
01:19:08
Speaker
And on I had people on the other end of the stadium. They're like yeah, that's
Sounders' Fan Experience and Player Development
01:19:13
Speaker
loud. yeah It was loud. um Is the smoke banned from Lumen? Is that correct? And then did you guys bring that out tonight because you could? or what was the i I didn't see anything. I didn't see. Am I the only one who saw the smoke? It was coming from the... It's a no comment. there's i I heard something, but I didn't see anything. Okay, got it, got it, got it.
01:19:37
Speaker
This is a no comment, Ari. I think it was someone outside of the site. Yeah, I think they were out outside of the stadium because, you know, it's all open. Yeah, you know, now that I think about it, I didn't even see that at all. Never mind. Yeah, CONCACAF, you didn't see shit.
01:19:50
Speaker
The CONCACAF, you're not watching this stream. You're not going to worry about the video that we may or may not have taken inside the stadium, even though we're technically not allowed to do that. Don't worry about it. The CONCACAF Oligards, they're not watching. They're not watching. They're not real grinders. What about the what about the game itself? 2-1, absorbing a lot of pressure, but getting the job done. but Okay, this is what I've been asking people. like How are you feeling when they scored the first I was okay with it knowing full well that we were ahead 3-0.
01:20:18
Speaker
yeah yeah a goal is A goal is given. It's going to happen. They started a much better team than they did last week. And so they they they came into it with a purpose. yeah One goal, eh, it was a little bit fluky to me, but it's also, you know, our our team's first time playing on that field.
01:20:43
Speaker
You can chalk it up to that. You can chalk it up to Not calling the foul on Osas. Yeah. yeah A couple of fouls weren't called whatsoever. But again, being... And this is a not-so-often occurrence for ECS being that close where you can literally yell at someone yeah and they can hear every last word. yeah um And that just kind of fed everybody. yeah A lot of people were pretty darn mental today.
01:21:10
Speaker
and it was It was raucous in there. It was like... when that When that yellow card came out for simulation on dive. That was like one of the loudest. Daisy Jackson. i was like, even I was like, oh, like I could feel the energy in that stadium. It was it was incredible. I'll say because we've been giving the refs a hard time for the last couple weeks. I liked this ref.
01:21:33
Speaker
I like the O'Shea nation. He did all right. Oh, he did great. I actively liked him. he He was he's a let him play ref. You know, you get kind of both ends of that, like the let him play or I call everything guys. He was a let him play guy.
01:21:44
Speaker
ah But like I've seen cocky calf reps give that pen so many times. and it yeah knowing Yeah, because A.C. Jackson knows what he's doing there. They're trying to poach one, and he he went for it.
01:21:59
Speaker
And the fact that he not only didn't give him the PK, but also gave him the yellow. Yeah, that was It was like, you're not doing that again because if you do, you're getting sent off. I love that. Thank you. Thank you.
01:22:10
Speaker
Couldn't agree more. that was Yeah, that's my ref take. Jerry, any anything else on the on the game that you wanted to cook on or shout-outs you wanted to give? you know a lot A lot of good performances tonight.
01:22:22
Speaker
Honestly, Peter Kingston did a great job. yeah um Between him and Tino from last week, ah kudos to the entire Tacoma Defiance yeah pipeline. it's I think the majority of players on our first team right now have...
01:22:43
Speaker
come through yeah the Defiance like ten of eighteen at some point. and Which, as long as we've been around it, the you know Defiance isn't that old. no Or S2 for us OGs.
01:22:56
Speaker
What do you guys know about S2 Andy Craven? What do you know? The Donut King. The Donut King. What do you know? You are one of the only people on planet Earth who just immediately gets that. Yeah.
01:23:11
Speaker
I get bits and pieces of memories from those. Yes, exactly. But yeah it's kudos to Wade Weber, his scouting. ah Absolute Seattle legend, as much as Schmetzer is. Yeah. um To see the kids actually, not the kids, but the younger group, ah getting time to play and actually...
01:23:35
Speaker
being able to just go out there and have fun. It seems like everybody's having fun and it's not, we're playing we're playing soccer. They're actually just enjoying themselves. Yeah, i agree. And I want to reiterate, I want to give Schmetz credit for that again. There are a lot of coaches who no matter, peak Pete could be playing for a lot of coaches where there's nothing he could do in training that would get them to give him minutes. They they would never do it. yeah And there's nothing he could do to earn it. But Schmetz has his criteria where if you do what is asked of you and you apply yourself and you earn it, he will play you.
01:24:10
Speaker
He will literally put you in a CONCACAF Champions Cup round of 16 game with the series home mo move on the line against Thomas Mueller. If you if you earn it and not every coach operates like that. So we should appreciate that.
01:24:22
Speaker
And kudos to Cody Baker because Cody Banks, he's having an absolute year and showing up. now that the opportunity is there for him. Yeah. And I i think arguably he's going to have like that breakout year. that's i yeah Someone wrote a Sounder Heart article saying that I think like that he could, it could be like the year of the yearre Cody Baker. Yeah.
01:24:45
Speaker
So let's do it. That's a good shout. Well, Jerry, jerry thank you. Yeah. Thank you for popping on. thank I saw you and I was like, you better hop on the mic. Oh, yeah. Anytime. I'll i'll get ah credit about this later from ECS. But it was telling us to say Jerry doesn't know. i didn't know if that was. Oh, that is ah Hercules Gomez throwback.
01:25:05
Speaker
Oh, when he signed. Yeah, there's he came in. Hercules came in to fuel ah to watch Mexico, USA and then S2 again. Throwback was playing all in the same day. he needed a spot to watch everything. Yeah.
01:25:21
Speaker
came in, I was sitting at the bar with his jersey on two days after he signed. That's so funny. Took a photo behind me, posted it, don't tell anybody. And it became like a new meme for the next month.
01:25:34
Speaker
That is a hilarious story. I'd never heard that. Honestly, Herc knows content. you know He became the best podcaster. He knows his way around social. the all-time content grinder to come out of this club. so yeah well Jerry, thanks again for hopping on. Big shout-out to ECS. Shout-out to Jerry. Good job, ECS. You guys killed it. Hell of a shift. yes Thank you, guys. woo Thank you, Jerry.
01:25:58
Speaker
Appreciate it, man. Thank you, man. We have got Caleb, Hunch, and then Nat and Max in the queue, and then no one after that. We probably can't stay here all that much longer, but if you guys do want to tap in for the late night here, we can probably take a couple more past that. yeah but We're adding Caleb in. Let's get Caleb in. caleb We got the drum set, Caleb. We see the De La Vega kit, and he has got the Pete's shout out.
01:26:21
Speaker
Let's go. Let's go. Sign him. Sign the man. Who else do we got? Tino. Tino. Let's go, Caleb. Mike, go.
01:26:37
Speaker
but And we have way more for so many grand sounders this year. We have the Dodson. Hassani. Okay, okay.
01:26:53
Speaker
We have the Kosari Enzi. Let's go. KKR. They're all my goats. We have the Gomez.
01:27:05
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Okay. Let's go. Deep cut.
01:27:10
Speaker
We have the Sailors. Ryan.
01:27:21
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We have the goal scorer for tonight Moose shout out Moose shout out I'm Nostoski we have our grand
Coaching and Team Resilience
01:27:32
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We haven't
01:27:35
Speaker
talked about we haven't even talked about his shot it looked so good almost scored yeah and we have also a grand legend there was a day Rosario
01:27:52
Speaker
And then we have a center back that will be returning to us very soon.
01:28:01
Speaker
Kim Kihee, there we go. He will be back soon. And then we have, oh, I'm going to say these are, okay, let's see. Okay, yes, we all have these.
01:28:13
Speaker
Our other siding, Mr. Tsukunome from the Lions. Yu Tsukunome, there we go. and We have Yusuke Nome. And then we have our other we have our Canadian goalkeeper, Mr. Anker.
01:28:28
Speaker
Max Anker. He made a a bunch of saves in the PK shootout in the last Defiance game. I was actually sick. he Okay. All right. Max Anker, stock on the up. And then we have also, we got Bs for Jackson Reagan. That's one. We didn't shout out yet, but another monster separate. He had a good, yeah.
01:28:51
Speaker
And we have the the the Hawkins, that like, you know, the the Hawkins pair. And, yeah. and And one more, I think, yeah, one more for the GOAT that i we trust me because all of this is the remaining roster of all of the remaining Sounders that need sticks. And these will be brief given to our beloved Sounders this year.
01:29:17
Speaker
ah We have also our, also our or or what you said earlier about our U22. Snyder B, dude. Sign him. Sign him. Sign him to the U22. Sign him to the Caleb, do you have any takes? Do you have any game takes?
01:29:34
Speaker
um Well, like I said, I'll be quick because I know you guys got to get to more, like, you know, i'd say to everybody else because there's, trust me, there's more people that are important than I am. ah by um But Albert missed something very special. So technically that goes to a point to the to the to the brigade. You know, you have to give the brigade its flowers.
01:29:55
Speaker
Listen, we're we're we'll admit it. the brigade but i' not I can't lie. The brigade's kind of hot right now. The brigade is it's hot right now. I'm not a member. I mean, as then, well, I mean, well, well like, well, I mean, you draw you're taught, well, I guess you guys called me the the vice president of the, of or the, the, of the, of the, of the, of the, so I am calling you out, but.
01:30:13
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah like trust ah Getting we scored on, that's going to happen, but we still say Schmetzer resilience.
01:30:24
Speaker
The Schmetzer resilience still lives on. um And like ah my final take is that I am still waiting for Lobbing Scorchers to unfollow me off of Instagram.
01:30:35
Speaker
I mean, tos to to actually like unblock me off of Instagram. We didn't. That's my third take. I don't know what's that. are you We didn't block you. Caleb, if you're blocked, we'll unblock you. We'll unblock you. Here, look.
01:30:47
Speaker
He will get you on the phone right now. If you got blocked, it was accidental. I would not i would not have block. Did you block him? I didn't block him. We have quite a few people who help manage our Instagram, so you never know. What's your – is it your same username? Styx? S-T-I-C-K-Z-360.
01:31:02
Speaker
ayes sd dks d three sixty 6-3-60. um We're going to look. work I'm going to investigate this, dude. I'm investigating this.
01:31:16
Speaker
sorry this fucking wi-fi is terrible in here anyway in the meantime but but again the cohesion the cohesion and the sounders resilience lives on and especially with this man returning like you know coming back into our midst if you see this great number 10 right here that is the holding of our of our of our of our essence but let us not forget that this is the month of our other former number 10 GOAT birthday month.
01:31:45
Speaker
So let us not forget the grand birthday month of the great Nicolás Lodeiro, the great GOAT, the sounder GOAT that has actually won the CONCACAF Champions League.
01:31:57
Speaker
And, you know, so let's like, like, like shout outs to, shout outs to our, like, you know, Lauren's David Nico. ah But again, Great, great game, great atmosphere. This is what Sounders are about. I really hope we have more tours, like more things for the community, because this is what the community needs, especially in a time with what we need, with with what we're going with this country, with separation, desperation, and, you know, and and despair. Like, you know, these things can literally bring out a change, spark a change, and especially with
01:32:31
Speaker
the democracy that we have in our sports so i will end that god bless america and the seattle sounders like fuck spokane velocity and fuck the west seattle junction i am going to be at the bushes this year in june you will see me this year against the portland bangers come by and do not be scared Come by if you're not scared. because like you know Like my baby, she's going to be here. And trust me, she will make the grandest noise that you will ever hear this year.
01:33:00
Speaker
I promise you that. so Shout out, Caleb. Thank you. Thanks, Caleb. Have a good night, Caleb. Incredible, dude. One of our best callers. Always, always cooks. Always cooks. Let's get Hunch and then Nat and Max, and then we will probably call it a night. Yeah, Hunch, welcome to this. Hunch, you are on the show. Hunch didn't call in on the last one. That was kind of a thing. Yeah, he was cowardly for that. He was cowardly, Hunch.
01:33:26
Speaker
I was in Las Vegas, dudes. Okay, well, that's it. Oh, well, you couldn't handle on the game. Don't gamble. I didn't watch it until... Monday?
01:33:37
Speaker
no we No, we watched it. I don't remember. We watched it at the night in the hotel with beers. So I don't remember. But yeah, sorry, I couldn't call it. that's ah no that that that's that's good way That's a good way to watch it. Hunch, 5-1 on aggregate over the Vancouver Whitecaps. Did you expect that or are you caught off guard by how lopsided that ended up being?
01:34:00
Speaker
So couple metas here. One, love the fact you guys are doing the show. Two, it's midnight on a weekday and y'all are rocking it. Can't tell you how much I love this.
01:34:12
Speaker
I cannot. we're really right so it Well, so valuable. It's so good. for And Caleb pointed out, which can I say after now a year and a half, I'm honored to to follow Caleb. like I've been on two sides of the coin with him. I'm all in to Caleb.
01:34:30
Speaker
I love the dude. I want him here and like, it's just fantastic, but love that you guys are here too. Caleb's crucial to this, this whole podcast. Yeah. frankly Now he brings it, that dude brings it and he bring he's he's not afraid.
01:34:45
Speaker
Never. um Five one did not expect that, but let's let let's flip a coin here for a second. Imagine JMO and Pedro available to this team.
01:34:57
Speaker
I was just thinking when Caleb was showing the De La Vega jersey, I was like, wow not even we haven't even considered the implications of of that. And, you know, Noah is skeptical that he'll ever stay stay healthy. But, like, if he comes back healthy and looks like he did in League's Cup last year,
01:35:17
Speaker
I don't believe it, but yeah, if if that happens, I'm i'm not going to be mad. I'm not going to be mad. That's icing and icing from where I'm sitting at right now. yeah We've got our cake. We've got the icing. If that happens, double down. when you got the pause, do you even need a DP? Apparently not. D&D, man.
01:35:34
Speaker
He spent $200 on a ticket. Noah's about to go buy a Corwin beer, so I'll be running the ship here. But ah what else did you – Well, shout out to the Spokane guy. I don't remember his name. I was just watching the pregame because i was late to that too, so I was watching the pregame stream. Thank you, Wade. Spokane soccer show, everyone. Go toss him a follow. Show him Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, and and I mean we need to bump we need to bump everything we can about him.
01:35:58
Speaker
he's got it down and we need to support them and vice versa. Like, yeah, totally loving that. And great guest. And if we can have him on in the future, especially if things evolve, like they're playing here, they're playing, you know he, he gets engaged with them. let's Let's do it. Like dude's a rock star.
01:36:15
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Uh, I'm to start with something that you're going to love, please. But we need to think about like where you were versus where you are. And I don't think that's come down any point.
01:36:29
Speaker
Stu Hawk. No, not Stu Hawk. Snyder Burdell. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You have been all gas, no brakes on him since last year. And I've been like, hey, let's bring it down. Let's bring it down. I'm going to consent to this. Now you're gassed.
01:36:42
Speaker
yeah No, i am I am happy to shift from first to second gear here. Okay. I'll take that. Yeah. Let's see if we can maintain a cruising speed. But if the velocity is what it is, shout out to Spokane,
01:36:57
Speaker
We can see him easily get to third, fourth, maybe fifth gear. and absolutely, U22 is deserved, especially he can use that. So, like, i he had a hell of a game.
01:37:07
Speaker
what did you ah What did you like about what you saw from Snyder? Oh, but so so it's a key thing that this team lacks in position for position, right? It's player for player. It's ability in possession to take players on and win in dual, not even in duels, to win and maintain possession while advancing the ball without passing.
01:37:26
Speaker
And at times he was taking on two and three players. Not to mention, Should have gotten a yellow for persistent infringement on him. I think that dude suffered six, seven, eight fouls. Yeah, and he's the him drawing that many fouls is no accident. That is a skill. And we were talking about earlier how I credit Nico Ladero, honestly, with how good everyone on this team seems to be at that. But Snyder and Obed, Obed got really good at that.
01:37:53
Speaker
and snyder is apparently now really good at that like it's not that's not a uh random thing that's an actual skill and a component of your game well the thing is that he's not nico would invite pressure and take the foul at the first pressure snyder is out there trying to bully past you and if you insist he ends up getting fouled but he was not The feather, and this is not meant to be a a derogatory term, the featherweight that Nikko was when it came to being fouled.
01:38:25
Speaker
Meaning that like he would try and possess and and and hold up. Now that I'm thinking about it too. Also, there was that high boot against Christian that was a kick to his face against, I think it was Kubas.
01:38:36
Speaker
That was nonsensical. Yeah, like why there wasn't I felt like there could have been a card of the yellow variety on that one. Well, he it was above the shoulder. I know you guys just saw it live. If you watch the replay, dangerous, dangerous play.
01:38:49
Speaker
Anyway, Brunel, I'm in on it. like Let's get him signed up. Punches in him. He was pumping the brakes last year. Now he's in second year. It wasn't a brake pumping. It was let's measure our expectations. You're doing the thing that I do with Georgie. This is this guy's different.
01:39:08
Speaker
I'm telling you. talent what Both his ceiling and his floor continues to rise. And let's yeah let him let let let's let him do that. But yeah, he's right there. The other thing I'll say this, if Paul has a year like last year and like he's trending Rothrock this year.
01:39:25
Speaker
We're going to hear from Europe about him before the season's out. Well, he had calls he had calls from from the championship and he turned them down because he wants to play here. like That's fair. they might They might be, you know, if someone comes in with a huge bag, you know, things can change. Things can change. And if he has a single...
01:39:43
Speaker
Here's what I'll say about that. Like, even if regardless of whether it happens, I'm fully there of like, he is good enough. Like he is fully, fully, fully that quality of player. And they have, and I think that's become kind of reinforced this year because now he's got the stats to actually back up what we think the ability is whereas before it was like the stats are fine they're not incredible but he's just he's scrappy he's a dog he plays with all this energy at now he's scoring a goal game so like yeah now we now we're seeing kind of i think the next evolution yeah is he the leading goal scorer for us right now across all comps he is this season yeah yeah okay yeah and yeah and he has been a sub in half of those matches
01:40:24
Speaker
yeah yeah yeah that's kind of crazy and he's probably in second or third on assists he has i think i think he might only have one assist but did you see the celly he hit though what did he do i don't know if i did he went like this oh yeah he did the night nine that was awesome um ah Fry almost had his second best save of his career. He got his hands on it. He's been going nasty mode. he's kind of's kind of nasty He's kind of making a statement.
01:40:56
Speaker
Yeah. he's like I just think he needs downtime. He just needs recoup time, and and this works for him. This is perfect for him. I think i think you're into something with that. yeah He looks rejuvenated. Yeah.
01:41:08
Speaker
Well, again, he's a little bit older. It just takes time to recover from that. And if he can focus and not not grind like you know in your youth, that's what happens. You just grind. I make it work. And at a high level, I can make it work all the time.
01:41:21
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. Osaze, I think he's gotten too used to being the biggest guy in the field and naturally bodying people. What I saw was people inflicting mass upon him yeah despite him having the ability, and he is absorbing rather than delivering.
01:41:40
Speaker
And he's not used to that. He is so used to being able to dish that out. And these guys, this is the best team in the league. They've got guys who dish who dish that out. And their whole thing was, we're going to dish that on him tonight. And I don't like i think he it threw him off. Yeah.
01:41:57
Speaker
He needs to ah inflict and not absorb. it's It's almost like a linebacker in the NFL kind of situation. You don't wait for the running back to come through the middle and hit you. You want to deliver the hit to him and make him think about you arriving to his position, not the other way around.
01:42:12
Speaker
And they would send like two, three guys at him to mug him, and that was just just tough. But it was first contact even before the ball got there and he would just go down. like it's It's almost like he wasn't expected of that ah you know a defender of equal or or maybe even lesser size to like inflict upon him. And he needs to be the director here. He needs to drive the narrative. He doesn't need to be the recipient.
01:42:37
Speaker
And if if he can establish himself in that way and look for that contact, and you saw this in Bruins second half of his career, he's like, no, no, no no more. I am dictating this. You react to me.
01:42:49
Speaker
That's what Asase needs to establish. and that's it's It's coming with time and use and experience. like I am still big on him. Jesus Ferrer, great game, ran out of gas. You saw when we had legs on the right side. What happened when we had Tacoma guy? Why can't I remember his name?
01:43:07
Speaker
Tacoma guy? You talking about Pete? no No, no, it's not Tacoma. Yeah, Kingston, not Tacoma. Ballard. do you doing tv Shout out, UW. Shout out. Punch, I'm sorry.
01:43:21
Speaker
right where i'm I'm forcing you to rap. but he's Okay, fair. And then we got live caller. And then closer down. yeah tells no All good. Looking forward to it. I give a crap about CCC. that they're not calling out Calling in last time. This is your punishment. Yeah, no more going up.
01:43:38
Speaker
It's once a year, man. Once a year. all right, guys. Well, thanks for having me. um You know, I'm proud for Christian, glad for Moose, who looks still lethal and dangerous.
01:43:50
Speaker
um On to the next round. And, man, I can't wait to get some of this stuff back, but we need to sign a few contracts here, especially with Brunel to the 22. Yes. Get him on the 22. Get him on the 22. Thank you, Hunch. Thank you, Hunch. Yeah, thank you, guys.
01:44:03
Speaker
Bye. IRL call. Hi guys. Introduce yourself. My name is Jaya. Big Sounders fan. Massive. Massive.
01:44:14
Speaker
Former Lobbing Scorchers interviewee. This is true. It's me from Zoom, live and
Coaching Passion and Team Potential
01:44:19
Speaker
in person. Yes. Except also on your computer still. Did you remember? Oh, wow. It's me. Okay, now, God, so many dots are getting connected tonight. I was like, didn't recognize Jerry at first. i'm I'm locked in. I'm locked in. I didn't actually, you weren't there for that, so it's all good. Yeah, but you were not there. You literally were not there. were actually not there, so don't worry.
01:44:37
Speaker
Four. Whatever, whatever, whatever. How was the game? um It was incredible. I loved it. We were right behind the benches, which was insane. We got to see Schmetzer live in action. We saw him punch the roof of the yeah bench. It was awesome. He roof punched? Yeah. well Do you remember like what point in the game that was? Do you remember when that was?
01:45:00
Speaker
You need to get it. Come on. Sit down. You're also... you're all This is Scoot, you can grab that chair, scoot it in. Scoot it in, scoot it in. We don't have a fourth mic, but you you guys can share. share. I won't say much. Yeah. We'll share. Hi, I'm Tula.
01:45:13
Speaker
We have season tickets together. We have now up to the Lobbing Scorchers gender diversity yeah like 10,000%. We're um Eternal Blue Forever Girls. Oh, if you are interested in launching a podcast, let me know.
01:45:28
Speaker
ah We'll get you on the network. We'll get you on the network. Yeah. yeah um So roof punch. Roof punch. What was going on there? I don't actually remember. I feel like nothing serious really was happening. Yeah. He was just heated. was just crashing out. It was near the end. It gets emotional out there. Yeah.
01:45:45
Speaker
ah can I can relate. What was going through your mind when they scored the first goal? That's what I've been asking people because that was when it kind of became like this, oh, they're up 3-0. This is a good time. And then they scored and it's like,
01:45:58
Speaker
Uh oh. Like, but was that going through your head or when Vancouver scored? Yeah. Yeah. I think I actually, I ducked behind her shoulder and couldn't watch, which is a classic when go to games. But yeah, I was terrified.
01:46:15
Speaker
but you were, I think, a little bit more confident than me that we would pull through at first. there's There's just no way they were gonna score four on us. No, no. Exactly, yeah, i wasn't afraid of that. I knew that, but like, I still, i don't know, i'm like a worst case scenario type of guy. It's still scary, but yeah.
01:46:30
Speaker
Ari loves, he's like, dude, you can't you can't say anything or you're going to bro. Okay, so why do you, like this is an aside, but why why do you believe in the jinx? It's not. Because it's like, I'm just going to say shit. It's like, it's up to the players on the field. They don't have they don't know me. I mean, they do know me, but they don't know. they don't For me, it's like if I make a a bold and arrogant prediction and then the opposite result happens, then it's my fault.
01:46:56
Speaker
And I can't live with that. Exactly. so I have like lucky socks that I wear if we really need to win a game. And if I don't wear them. we used to wear matching necklaces to game. Do you have our Wayne friendship bracelet though? Oh, yeah. Wait, I have a few of those. thing Oh, OK. Yeah. i'll get I'll get all that. You need that.
01:47:16
Speaker
Did you get one? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I did. You did. Yeah, I did. If you better put it on. i don't have it on, but I do have oh I'm sorry. We're not. Cool. Exposed live on camera.
01:47:28
Speaker
Yeah. What other? What is Spokane? You guys? spane What were your Spokane thoughts? and Of the city? Sure. All of it. The city and the soccer game. Yes. I loved being that close to the field. i Fans could have been a little more rowdy. Yeah, we were kind of carrying. spook in this verye lights They were a little p polite. yeah What were your best? Were you getting on players or like?
01:47:55
Speaker
We like Tommy Newell, you're trash. We were booing 22 from the white house. A.Z. A.Z. He got the yellow for simulation. we started a booing him every time he touched the ball. And that really that caught on like wildfire. Wow. That was us.
01:48:12
Speaker
We're in the presence of celebrities right now. my Yeah, celebrities. You know, AZ Jackson is a character. I get what he was doing. Like, he was trying to sell. You need three goals. You got to sell it. What if I just threw my body into the box and saw what happened? It was one of the most shameless dives I've ever seen. And when he did it, I was like, they're going to give him that, too. I did think that was so good. We were surprised that he got yellow. That yellow made me so happy. was like, wow. That was the loudest it was all night. What was up with that?
01:48:42
Speaker
Who were your men of the match? um We were talking about this. Yeah. We were debating. We thought that Rothrock and Reagan both did very well. The Reagan shout-out is great. I'm glad you said Reagan because we hadn't talked about him on the shout-outs at all.
01:49:00
Speaker
And, like, once again, every time there's a cross that goes into the box, I'm like, that's not going to work. Good luck, dude. Good luck. Yeah, that's not – you can send that in there as much as you want, but it's not going anywhere but right back out of there. Exactly. Exactly. Correct. i what would ah What about Rothrock?
01:49:20
Speaker
We were saying that they needed to put him in for Well, you were right there. You could just told Brian. Oh, we were telling him. i I think he heard us. I mean, that's probably why he went in the game. I said the exact same thing in the first half when they were, like, under pressure a lot.
01:49:36
Speaker
I was like, this needs Roth Roth. This needs Paul Roth Roth. You just got to put him in, and that's going to solve everything. And then kind of did, but so did Pete. Yes. Yeah, what was your Pete Gibson? I was so proud. I was screaming, go dogs.
01:49:51
Speaker
Throwing up a little of these. shout up Shout out. Shout out Udub. He is kind of the best story ever. Yes. He reminds me of Rothrock. He is kind of like the Rothrock-esque, but even better story. like Because he's he's like a rags to riches story. like he He was kind of beat up in the... He's more doubted. more doubted than Rothrock. But they were like, I think you just need to go to college. And then he goes to college and he's like, not really that big of a deal. And he goes and plays at Ballard and he's really good at Ballard. And then they're like, Sounders oh, well, we'll take a flyer on you. And then...
01:50:28
Speaker
Literally, you know, Pete Kingston with two assists against Thomas Muller and the Vancouver Whitecaps. We've been waiting for it. Pete assists tonight. Two. Thomas Muller assists tonight. yeah Did he get what did he assist on the one? I don't know. Zero. I'm going to give him zero. fuck Zero assists for Thomas Muller. Two assists for Pete.
01:50:46
Speaker
That was crazy. Any final thoughts? Anything? Go Sounders. Go Sounders. um Go Dogs. Shout out Kalani. Also incredible game, I thought. Yeah, yeah. The dogs are trying to bring because, mean, Christian.
01:51:01
Speaker
Christian. Perennial dog. oh Well, yes, the original. The original. the original dog. Me in the crowd, perhaps. you endeded yeah you were but you were barking up a storm at Brian Schmetzer. Yeah. um in Gonzaga territory. That's how it goes. Yeah, deep behind enemy lines for the dogs. Yeah, I know. you Be careful. Be careful there. know.
01:51:24
Speaker
Never know what's going to happen. but I'm scared. Ladies, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Plug the pod. Plug the pod. Eternal Blue Forever Girls. Maybe it'll exist. It's going to start. Once it exists, it's good. Now we have to because we said we're going to. It's going go crazy when it exists. You just hard launched on-loving scorchers to 145 people at 1230 in the morning. Okay, we'll make it happen.
01:51:46
Speaker
Yeah. and Get ready. Get ready. It'll be like this, but with girls. Listen, let us know if you need podcasting equipment. Is that something that people want? Yeah. Come on in. We got you. Well, thanks for having us. Thanks for joining. Thank you tapping in. Thanks for joining. All right. Yeah, you're good. We only got one more. Take this call for All right, I got you. We got Nat and Max on the stage. Nat and Max, I love you. I saw you both.
01:52:12
Speaker
I love you both. It's pitch-ass dark. see him I think I see him. Yeah, we're here. We're driving back. Hell yeah, you're not driving yourself, why are you? I'm not driving. Max is driving. I'm holding the phone.
01:52:27
Speaker
Max. well What's up? It's Max, marketing manager at Ballard FC. And I just got to say real quickly, if there's not a contract waiting for Peter Kingston when he gets home, they should sue Craig Wable for malpractice because that's just ridiculous.
01:52:45
Speaker
Sign Pete. Okay, your marketing manager of Ballard FC, I got to ask you, did you ever, did you, be honest, did you think MLS player when you saw Pete, does it doesn't surprise you at all or is he kind of surpassed what you thought he could do? Because when I look at it, I'm like, if I'm being real, there's no way I saw this from Pete. There's there's just not. There's no way.
01:53:06
Speaker
So, yeah, so I've been working for the team since 2022, since our inaugural game, and Pete has kind of always been, like, our boy. Like, like like but but when we came back into that first season, we knew Pete was going to, like, be crucial for us from game one.
01:53:22
Speaker
And so I always was honestly any kind of confused seeing how much he would star for us and then go back to Seattle U, where he was before he was at UW, and they would waste, in my opinion, waste him at at the six.
01:53:36
Speaker
and I'm like, that's just not not where he should be, not where he should shine. um And then he would go and play on the wings with us and and cook USL2 guys who are going to play. like You got to remember, like that the the Northwest Division has had...
01:53:53
Speaker
uh duncan mcguire it's had uh you know we played against logan farrington in the playoffs multiple times like we've we've been playing against these mls guys staffs korsaniowski who's plays at philadelphia union right now play for about like right and amongst all those guys i always felt like peter was shining above those guys And so like tim to to me, I I always saw the talent that I'm not sure the NCAA coaches were seeing in the same way.
01:54:21
Speaker
um But yeah, like I like I thought it was shocking that it took so long for him to get a defiance contract after the UW season was over. Like I thought they should have snapped him up right away.
01:54:33
Speaker
um Yeah, but I didn't know he was a winger like that. This guy was out there out wide dishing in dimes to to Danny Musavsky. Yeah. And runs in behind. I was like, Pete, I was not familiar with this with this.
01:54:48
Speaker
Yeah, so in 2022 and 2023, he was kind of exclusively a winger for Ballard FC. um And like what he he scored the game winning goal to, you know, for Ballard FC to win the national final.
01:55:01
Speaker
Thrill in to Quilla at Starfire. Like he played in the on the wings for that one. But then he wanted to prove, and I think he's done it, that he's positionally versatile.
01:55:12
Speaker
And so in 2024, he starts playing in midfield for Ballard FC. Then he plays in midfield with UW. And that he's that's kind of where he's been for the Defiance. That's where he was against San Jose over the weekend.
01:55:25
Speaker
And so, yeah, he's just proven that he can play in multiple spots. And that's a very Sounders thing. I mean, look at... rodon but both rolled on's actually um like and and if he can do that he can prove that he belongs there um but yeah like i i was just so happy to see like like truthfully i came out to work for ballot fc from ohio so i'm not even like a huge sounders fan i'm actually a crew fan but like but like coming out here to see like a guy that i've been day one since like first day in seattle like seeing peter just finally
01:56:04
Speaker
make it in 2023 we did like a whole movie about him like trying to go pro um and three years later it's like really coming to fruition and i just think that's amazing It is amazing. he He made it happen. Like to make that happen, you got to have, it's not even as much about talent or ability at that point. It's about like passion and drive and dedication and just like not being denied.
01:56:32
Speaker
That's the only way you can do what Pete's doing right now. So it's kind of like tonight was the first night where I was like, all right, Pete the pete is real. This is real. This is happening. Like, I think this is actually a thing.
01:56:44
Speaker
Even up until tonight, I was like, how long is this dude actually going to be on the team? But now I'm like, he needs to be on the team. He came in the game and he changed the game. Two assists? What are we talking about? like That's impact. That's what we're talking about. Like him skidding the guy on the right, then floating up but up across the back post to have like ah the striker headed down. like i cant I have seen him do that with Stas as the striker or Alex Mejia, former Ballard FC striker. I've seen him do that time after time again. And to see that it like actually translated at a CONCACAF Champions Cup level against one of the better teams in MLS, that's just like ah that's just so beautiful to see. um And, yeah.
01:57:26
Speaker
that's what it's That's what it's all about, honestly. Like, from a Ballard FC perspective, you guys have got to be cloud-nining. Not even just Pete, but, like, ah a lot of the talent that's coming out of the team right now. So it's amazing stuff you all are doing.
01:57:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's get Nat. Nat, get in here. What did you what did you think? How are you feeling after five-point aggregate on the Whitecaps? I mean, come on. Very happy for Peter Kingston. Snyder Brunel, best player on the field today. He was absolutely incredible. um Yeah, Snipernel was so good.
01:58:04
Speaker
We were seated right in front of where Ozaze was fouled right before Vancouver scored. We thought that the goal could have been overturned a foul. Yeah, Ozaze was fouled.
01:58:19
Speaker
because but then yeah a auntte was followed Okay, alright. See, that makes me feel better about the whole thing because I thought so too, but then, mean, couldn't tell. i was way up in the box, so I had no idea if it actually, but I thought that was a foul. I mean, they were, yeah every time he had the ball, they were sending four guys at him to beat the shit out of him. It was like, it was just like watching a guy get jumped. like Yeah. Yeah, Ozzy was getting kicked a lot. It wasn't Ozzy's greatest game today, but he was still but like he's still good. And like listening to what y'all were saying earlier about Mussovski, right now, like we do not like even with Morris coming back, and we and I love Morris, I would offend Morris. We do not need to rush Morris coming back. It is working with De Rosario and Musavsky. Do not rush Morris. We are fine. We are scoring goals. We don't need to rush another DP coming back. We can win with one DP on the field. yeah So we're fine. I mean, we I talked about...
01:59:24
Speaker
like joking that it would be mal malpractice for Craig to not sign Peter. It is insane that the Sounders have flopped on two out of three dc DP signings, and they're still objectively a top three MLS team.
01:59:40
Speaker
Who needs DPs? Who needs DPs? You all can find your DPs and actually have them play. You don't have to do that out here. yeah like right um like like Again, I'll give a quick Columbus perspective on this. The only time Columbus is good is when all three DPs have been home runs. And that's the case for me for nearly every other MLS team. Like you have to hit on all three DPs to be a good team usually. Yeah. The Sounders are one for three, 33 fucking percent. And they are still one of the best and MLS teams. It's it's insane.
02:00:14
Speaker
I think of it as a bit at this point. It's like you should everyone else has to have the hits on all three DPs to be good. But yeah. One, one on the field at any given time, and it just doesn't matter. It's kind it's kind of crazy.
02:00:28
Speaker
Shout out Tacoma Defiance. Shout out Ballard FC. That's probably the biggest reason why they're able to do that. 100%. uned for percent So it's, yeah, and it's crazy. We're having all this success with Tacoma, with the Tacoma Defiance, and then the Tacoma Defiance is, like, not ever at the top. Like, I mean, and it's because we call up all our best players, but the Tacoma Defiance, they haven't actually been, like, at the top of Next Pro for a while now, which is kind of funny. Yeah.
02:00:57
Speaker
Yeah, they're not they're like kind of results-wise not doing too well to start this year. But, like, it's more, if you know, about individual development in ah in Next Pro. And clearly that's hidden. So who am I to question? Yeah. Before we go, shout out Noah. Go Bucs. We are going to destroy the Horned Frogs tomorrow. um Yeah. Shout out Noah.
02:01:23
Speaker
Shout out Noah. Okay, I don't even know what you're what you're shouting him out for. but Go Ohio State in ohio in in March Madness tomorrow. Wait, okay, do the shout out again because I didn't know were talking about. Max, do the shout out again.
02:01:36
Speaker
ah Noah, go Bucs. We're going to destroy the Horned Frogs in March Madness tomorrow. ah the first time The first time I saw Noah was at an Ohio State UW football game, and he was wearing scarlet. I was like, why is the Lopping Scorchers guy wearing scarlet? But, you know, whatever.
02:01:52
Speaker
um So, yeah, go Bucs. Go Bucks. Well, i oh thank you boys for tapping in. Safe travels the rest of your journey home and we'll talk to you next time.
02:02:05
Speaker
Bye. yes Have a good night, y'all. by that that's All right. wrap That is everyone in the queue. We are wrapped. We are cooked. We went two hours, so we're going to call it right there.
02:02:17
Speaker
uh incredible stuff folks incredible stuff we're getting a round of applause five one aggregate why like like look at all this audience out here this is shout out to the fans wow um thank you all for tuning into all the content today it was honest it's been a marathon but it was honestly incredible shout out to flatstick for letting us grind our content here for like six hours out of the day. They're they're fully closed right now. appreciate They are fully closed and we are we are closing it down. yep So shout out to them. Shout out to OneSpokane Stadium. Shout to Ari. He's so cute. Shout out to me.
02:02:52
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ah That's all the shout outs. Okay, bye. Bye, guys.