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SEATTLE SOUNDERS DESTROY INTER MIAMI IN LEAGUES CUP FINAL!!!
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We react and take calls following Sunday's Leagues Cup Final between Seattle and Inter Miami at Lumen Field.
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Introduction and Episode Context
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Seattle Sounders' Victory Over Inter-Miami
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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.
00:00:48
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Who are ya? Who are ya? Leo Messi, I had a message for you. And you know what? It's clearly been received. Because who are ya? You can't win League's Cup against motherfucking Paul. Rock, rock, baby. What's up, chat?
00:01:06
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We are about to have probably the greatest postgame live of our lives. There will never be another postgame live like this. Oh, my God, are we?
00:01:18
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What's up, everybody? Welcome into your postgame live for the League's Cup final. Scooting closer to me. Getting closer to me. The Seattle Sounders are motherfucking League's Cup champions because they just beat Lionel Messi and the Crybaby Crash Out, Inter-Miami Barca boys, 3-0 at Field. The squad is celebrating here. Couldn't even get a penalty.
00:01:41
Speaker
I thought he was pesky, bro. They're celebrating right behind us. And... it was a It was so much to talk about with this game, Noah. But, you know, I think the fact that they just beat Inter-Miami's ass on their home field. They beat that ass. To win a trophy.
00:02:00
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that's the ah That's the number one takeaway. But, Noah, you know where I want to want to start tonight? Because, you know, we're going to talk about the game and the goals and that that ending with the brawl and the crash-out crybabies. Correct. Correct.
00:02:14
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But you know why they were crashing out and being crybabies? It's because they just got their ass beat. They got that ass beat. You know why they got their ass beat, Noah? You know why? Why? It's because they were playing a real motherfucking team. Yeah.
00:02:28
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It's because the the Seattle Sounders are a real team. None of that clown shit. None of that Orlando City clown shit. None that. It doesn't matter. And what did I say, Ari?
00:02:39
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What did I say? If you score lots of goals, you can't let the ref, the ref can't do shit. And guess what? The ref couldn't do shit. Obed Vargas is in the soul of Leo Messi.
00:02:51
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In the fucking soul, my friend, you you are you are nothing. You are nothing. You are nothing to Obed Vargas. Do you understand this? He just sucked the soul out of your body. You do not exist anymore, Messi.
00:03:03
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You are no longer the GOAT. You are no longer the GOAT. You are nobody. You're fucking nobody. Christian Roldan and Obed Vargas... Pretty much own Lionel Messi. I think that's that's fair to say definitively. You know, there was a wave in the second half for a bit where we were nervous. Yeah, we were nervous. We were nervous. won't lie. But then Georgie Manungu draws a penalty. Georgie fucking Manungu. Georgie Manungu. Stocks to the goddamn roof. Stocks to the moon. Shout out Jimmy T. Did Jimmy T not say that Georgie Manungu would come in clutch?
00:03:35
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He might have said that. GBT. shut GBT, you're probably... You're at the game right now. yeah. But GBT, bro. Tribe said it. Tribe called it. But no, what was I talking about? Oh, yeah. ah A real team beat a plastic team.
00:03:52
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A fake team. And now... The crash out crybabies after they had to watch the Seattle Sounders. That was so funny. Oh my God. They crashed out, started a brawl, spit on the security guard. Correct.
00:04:06
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Then they had to sit there and take their second place participation as trophy and watch the Seattle Sounders win they're starting the fight. What a bunch of fucking losers. Oh my God. my God. Have you ever seen a group of fucking losers like that? You are 45 years old. why are you getting in a playground fight? You know what? You're 40. I was not. Retire. I was not planning on getting on here and talking any kind of shit about Inter-Miami. That was not my on my agenda for the night. It was for me. but But you go out there and you crash out and you spit on somebody, Luis Suarez, fucking loser. Fucking loser. you know why You know why you spit on somebody like that, fucking loser? Because you're a loser. Because you lost
Inter-Miami's Reaction and Sportsmanship Issues
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three to zero.
00:04:53
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And in famously, you're a fucking racist loser, you fucking loser. God, I hate that guy. Fuck Luis Suarez. Sorry we're swearing so much. But like, if you see them but saw the video of him spitting on Security Gene, who was the coolest guy ever. Coolest dude ever. Why are you spitting on Gene? What are we talking about, man? What are you doing? Honestly, if that if that absolute crash out, cry baby fucking loser isn't banned from League's Cup for the rest of his career, like, I don't know what we're talking about. He's immobile, bro. He doesn't even have knees.
00:05:22
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How are you going to not have knees? How are you going walking like my dad? my god love my dad. How are you going to be walking like my dad? who Score zero goals. Look absolutely Not even close to scoring. Just looking terrible. Oh my God, we got a $100 bomb.
00:05:37
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Oh God. No way. $100 Paul Rothrock bomb. Well, we got to talk about the Paul Rothrock goal now. Okay. Okay. Okay. okay okay okay right let's okay is this Simmer down. Simmer down. You know what Let me let me get my bet.
00:05:48
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Let me get my Bev because I need to simmer down chat. um Paul Rothrock. So ah in the lead up to this game, Brian Schmetzer delivered an iconic quote, which is now in the pantheon of his greatest quotes of all time. He said they might have Lionel Messi, but we have Paul Rothrock. Then he named a bunch of other guys, but the Paul Rothrock to start, it was just, it was so iconic, man.
00:06:12
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And, uh, How poetic was it, Noah? How poetic was it for that game to end on a goal from Paul Rothrock from Capitol Hill Lakeside High School You want to know who else owns Lionel Messi and the Barca boys?
00:06:30
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Paul Rothrock. Paul Rothrock. Paul Rothrock. Get slammed on. You got slammed on by Osaze De Rosario and Paul Rothrock. And Georgie Manungu. And Georgie Manungu. How does it feel? Alex Roldan even. How does it feel? We also, I mean, we did have a lot of Inter-Miami fans yeah in our chats. And Messi fans. Let's be real. There's no real Inter-Miami fans.
00:06:48
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ah messy, messy, inner Miami, Barca boys fans in our chats, in our Tik TOKs. And they were very confident. No way. They were saying that ah they had it in the bag. They were clowning on Schmetz for joking around a little bit yeah at practice. They were saying, Oh, you, you are poking the goat.
00:07:05
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Oh, I'm so scared. I'm so scared. About to be dropped on your head, buddy.
00:07:12
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Where is it at? What happened? Where is it at? What happened? Where is it at? Where's all the confidence? Where's all the bravado for the goats? where Who? who Who? Messi? Who? I've been saying this all week. are we had we had I mean, we probably had a thousand comments saying, who are these guys?
00:07:30
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Who are these guys? Who are these guys? Never heard of this guy. Paul Rothrock, Jackson Reagan, never heard of him. Fine. Fine. You never heard of him? Someone said, don't forget the motherfucking presser. That's true. I don't even know if there's going to be presser, bro. The mix zone is not even close to starting. The players are all still celebrating on the field with their families and stuff. I'll look. I'll look. I'll look. All right. Keep cooking. Okay. Keep cooking. Paul Rothrock, Georgie Manungu, Osaze de motherfucking Rosario with...
00:07:56
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One of the biggest goals in club history, I think, because that really, that really, I think, made a statement of intent in this game. It did.
00:08:07
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Because, ah you know, i don't know if Inter-Miami, the crash-out crybaby losers, thought that they were going to win that game easily. ah But the public at large seemed to.
00:08:20
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Their fan base certainly did. And when Osaze de Rosario scored that goal, That was a message. It was a message to InterMiami, the Barca boys, and the crash out, cry baby, spitting losers.
00:08:36
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That if you if you want this trophy, you're gonna have to take it from Lumen Field. And you know who was not up to that task? Inter Miami and the Barca boys.
00:08:48
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ah Like I said, they had they had a good run of it in the second half. I was a little nervous. I'm not going to lie. ah Segovia or Allende, I don't know, one of those one of those losers.
00:08:59
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they They had a wide, wide-ass open look that he shakes because he's bad. And then Messi also missed one that... low key, usually, usually that's a goal.
00:09:13
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But ah after that, basically the few minutes before the Georgie PK that he drew and Alex rolled on converted, Inter-Miami wasn't even up for it, man.
00:09:25
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And what it is, there you know, ECS's TIFO said before the game, what did it say? It said, success is built, not bought. Yeah, exactly. Minnesota United had one earlier this season when Inter-Miami came to down that said, history over hype, culture over cash. Yeah, exactly.
00:09:41
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Exactly. That's why the crash-out crybaby losers are spitting on people and flying their asses back to Fort Lauderdale with a goddamn participation trophy and not... with another Leagues Cup.
00:09:54
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That is why. That is why. I can't see the chat, guys. I'm sorry. I only have
Analysis of Messi's Performance and Career
00:10:02
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Schmetz's Leagues Cup presser podium up, so I'm just going to keep cooking. I'm not looking at the chat. I can't see any super chats.
00:10:09
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ah But God damn it. What a day. What a day. We got our video guy, Eric, in the house right now. He's filming me talking. That's super sick. We got some great footage out. of We got here at about noon today. We were filming out in Pioneer Square around Occidental.
00:10:27
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We got some good men on the street content. We're going to do a whole vlog based on this game. ah And Eric's the man. Eric's the man. He got all the footage. So we'll keep you guys posted that.
00:10:40
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what What was I talking about? Noah, what should I talk about? Give me a topic. Hold on. Check check Super Chats. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Checking Super Chats.
00:10:53
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I feel like there's so many people at this game right now. 499 messy who? Yeah. Uh, didn't get a goal today. Did he? Didn't get a goal today. Didn't win a trophy. Did he? Uh, the, uh, main late, legacy of inner Miami on this competition this year is a spitting on a security guard.
00:11:11
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Sick, sick behavior guys really, uh, distinguished, not sore losing at all. No. Uh, Messi who? Exactly. Messi who? Never heard of him.
00:11:22
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Never heard of him. Kyle R. with the five. Thank you, Kyle. So many classy defensive plays. I love the one where Reagan blocked a Messi shot and it ricochets off Messi's face, making a gift. Jackson Reagan. That's a good shout. Oh, yeah. Dude, Jackson. Jackson Reagan.
00:11:34
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He owns Messi and Suarez. He owns them all. Luis Suarez. Him and Gaymar put a probably... Probably the best Sounders defensive performance of all time. One of the loudest I heard the crowd got all night was that sequence where Yamar was just absolutely owning like three or four players on their team. Correct. Bullying them off the ball, winning the ball back, hitting it off them.
00:11:54
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ah He was just going crazy. And then the whole crowd just got lit. God, that was so cool. ah What a performance. I mean, really... i don't know if this is the biggest win in club history. We'll talk about that in the coming days and weeks, but this is up there, man. And it's not because put these, the debate on the significance of leagues cup aside. Yeah.
00:12:16
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It's about like the context of this game. ah You mentioned it. You were the one who made the point about this being about more than ah about Seattle versus inter Miami, more than about messy and the Barca boys.
00:12:28
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This was about ideologies. This is about how you do it. Okay. This is about if you do it through laying a foundation, infrastructure, developing your young players, giving your young players a chance, and actually making, like I said, a real team and trying to buy your way to it by buying Lionel Messi, which, you know, that strategy in itself, that can work.
00:12:54
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It won them leagues a couple years ago. They haven't won shit since. But when you come across a real team, look what happens. Yeah. that's what happens look what goddamn happens our uh our door was left open but that's okay our door was left open so so we're trying to we're we're gonna be uh i'm gonna go get the door i'll be right go get the door chat chat chat chat chat chat chat let me tell you something okay i grew up here i grew up in this city i am a seattle sounders fan until the day that i will perish
00:13:30
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Never in my life have I been more nervous during a final.
Significance of the Sounders' Win
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And that's to say, Holy fuck, is this not sweet. This is legitimately the greatest feeling ever. I don't care what you say about Leagues Cup.
00:13:45
Speaker
It's about who we were able to play in the final. All of the lead up, all of the chirping from all of these people who literally have zero clue anything about Major League Soccer. just Just nothing. They know nothing. All they know is Messi plays here and there's some team on the West Coast that's green and blue and whatever.
00:14:03
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This is what happens. when you When you have different, i just i don't even I don't even know what to say, Aria. don't even know what to say. This is like, it makes me emotional to watch this team do the same thing that they have been doing day in and day out.
00:14:16
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And it works. It just works. And it's players who fucking care about this shit. They care to grind it out. They care to play. It's not this, oh my God, we're gonna go and mass confront the ref.
00:14:27
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Every single time that we don't get a call at snow. play. Next play. The most unlikely heroes. Georgie Manungu, a guy whose story is even more incredible than his play.
00:14:40
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A man who potentially could have lost an eye, could have never played soccer ever again, just draws the game-securing penalty. I mean, hypes the crowd up. How can you not love this team going up against the absolute evil fucking empire of Leo Messi and the Barca boys? And going to tell it right now.
00:14:59
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You should retire, Messi. You should retire because I'm going to be honest with you. you're you're you You just keep getting embarrassed. You keep getting embarrassed. We get to come down to Miami and whoop that ass again in a week.
00:15:14
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In a week, we get to whoop that ass again. and And let's be very clear about something. That was embarrassing as fuck yeah for Inter-Miami fans. You lost to Osaze de Rosario. it was It's not just that you lost.
00:15:28
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It's not just that you lost. It's first of all that you got your ass beat. And second of all, that you couldn't handle that to the point where you crashed out, started a brawl, and started spitting on people because you're so met you're mentally weak. Yeah.
00:15:44
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You're mentally weak. You're mentally weak, bro. That is what a mentally weak team does is crash out and spit on people. What are we even talking about with spitting on people? Just absolutely insane, dude. i I mean, we got a $20 here from Matt Sexton. Obed receiving the Suarez crash out, just upped his fee to $35 million.
00:16:01
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We have to talk about it. Obed was insane in this match. Insane. Every single player played lights out, and this is why I've said it before and I'll say it again. Never bet against the Sounders in a final. Never bet against the Sounders in final at home.
00:16:14
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And definitely don't bet against Brian Schmetzer in any playoff competition. I mean, dude, what? You have some of the best players who ever played a game in the entire fucking world, entire fucking universe. I don't care how old they are. They've still got it.
00:16:29
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Obed Vargas, Obed Vargas, who's making pennies on the dollar, Paul Rothrock making pennies on the dollar against a guy who literally owns a part of the league. You can say scripted.
00:16:40
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This is a way better script than anything Miami could have come up with. Culture over cash. Yeah, like, do you guys want us to do a segment where we painstakingly break down Seattle's lack of movement in the transfer window? Oh, yeah, let's talk. it You know what? Let's address that.
00:16:54
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Let's address that, too. i want think You guys think they could have won by five goals if no Ohio was on the team? Yeah. You know what we should talk about? Let's talk about these stupid, stupid chirpers. These other, the the what I like to call ah our alter egos if we had ah gotten into an airplane crash and survived somehow. Yeah.
00:17:14
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Oh, I'm sorry. Will Forbes. You're a bot. You don't know anything. You don't know anything, bro. You don't know anything, dude. You suck. You're an idiot. You're so dumb. All you did, all fucking tournament was chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.
00:17:27
Speaker
And then when they're in the final, you're like, oh, no, actually, I predicted this the whole time. You're a bum. You're a bum. You're not a fan of this team. You're not a fan of MLS. You're a loser. Get the fuck out of here. That's a direct call out.
00:17:40
Speaker
I'm done with it. I'm done with it. We're lifting trophies. You're lifting nothing. You're in the basement. Hell yeah. I don't even need to add add anything to that. ah Flip it and ship it. I'm sure he's going to see that and comment and all that. if there's a If there's a serious point to be made off the transfer stuff, it's that if if we get stuff like this, moments like this, games like this, I just don't give a shit about that stuff, man. I'm i'm done with that too.
00:18:09
Speaker
I'm done with that too. I don't... ah I don't care enough to start a rivalry with anyone about it, but i'm I'm not like, I am not indulging that one second longer. No one gives a shit.
00:18:23
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ah Be a fan. Be a fan if you a fan. If you stack trophies like this, give your fans moments like this, games like this, that's what it's, ah this is what it's about, man.
00:18:33
Speaker
This is what it's about. It's not about crashing out over your gm Yeah, exactly. I just- Get out of here with that. I can't. I can't. We're done. You're done with it. We're done. I want every single one of you to write an apology letter to Craig Weibel.
00:18:50
Speaker
Every single one of you. Every single one of you. What are you doing? Looks like he's doing an all right job. looks like Looks like the Sounders are all right. And you know what's funny is like ah the people in question are still never going to admit they're wrong. They're incapable of that. No.
00:19:02
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But you know, doesn't matter. I don't even think we need to give them any more oxygen. No. But we should be we did need to say that. we didn' need to say that It needed to be said. It needed to be said. Should we check on the presser status? what we came there there i and didn't see anything, but... Oh, Brian's here.
Sounders' Strategy and Community Impact
00:19:25
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Well, it is one of my favorites. ah Along with tough times don't last, tough people do. ah You know, I actually started my pregame talk with a quote individuals win games but a collective and intelligence wins championships and according to chat gpt oh that was that was michael jordan one of the greatest individual athlete athletes of all time and uh he's cooking he's cooking it came true tonight because they have
00:20:07
Speaker
unbelievably talented players. I fuck, we were under it in the second half, beginning the second half, they were all over us and they probably should have scored a couple of goals. But our collective, you know, the intelligence, you know, the smarts, you know, keeping our composure.
00:20:27
Speaker
i think that, you know, was the reason why we won the game tonight.
00:20:33
Speaker
Yeah, you talk about the your intelligence and your composure. Congratulations on the win as well. But and don't know, could you have scripted a more perfect sort of way that played out there at the end, all the way from Paul scoring the goal to the complete meltdown on the field, which to me spoke more to the degree with to which you frustrated them.
00:20:58
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, look, the comment I made about Paul Rothrock prior to this game. You know, Christina and I were sitting at dinner and we're having a glass of wine and we're talking about, you know, I was talking about Messi and Suarez and what a good, and she said, you know, stop talking about Miami. Let's talk about our boys.
00:21:22
Speaker
And you know that gave me the impetus when you guys asked me the question in the scrum. I mean, let's talk about our guys, because we have a great team. They might not be the you know the names that are in the world stage, but they're certainly you know talented people, talented players.
00:21:41
Speaker
They put everything into their craft. you know and said when i went down the list of paul and jackson and schneider and you know pedro and christian and alex and staff and everything you know they're they're not household names across the world but as a collective they're very strong and so that again is what kind of you know gave us the advantage again, advantage, I should say, because look again, that was a, that was a back and forth game. that That game could, you know, goals change games that that could have changed the one one or, you know, something like that. But, you know, Alex having the PK, I mean, at some point you guys are going to give me credit for bringing Georgie on the field.
00:22:28
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I mean, it was a great, it was a great, it was a great move by Georgie and we're working with the kid a lot and, uh, you know, two nothing then Paul's signature goal, just hustle and being in the right place at the right time. Couldn't have scripted a better ending for the game.
00:22:47
Speaker
Brian, congratulations on the win and on a really historic moment. You talk about the big names, obviously, but talk about how the team, the fans, the city from before the game through the entire match made this Seattle's moment.
00:23:01
Speaker
We sold the game in three days. And, you know, I remember in 2022, you know, there was a lot of buildup and there was a lot of PR marketing and Garth was, you know, saying it was the ultimate, you know, this, and we had time to sell and we had season ticket fan, you know, all that sort of stuff.
00:23:21
Speaker
The Seattle fans came out on three days and they get it. don't want to do too deep in the weeds, but the dynamic pricing and all that, and we all paid in and I paid extra tickets for my friends and We went to a game and gosh darn it, it was worth it.
00:23:40
Speaker
Everybody that came into the stadium got their money's worth. This occasion, and I knew this already, Seattle has always, always supported their sports teams.
00:23:54
Speaker
I remember back in the Sonic 79, 80, when I was in high school, you know when the Mariners were winning, Seahawks have had great you know Super Bowl wins. You know, Pete Carroll, all that sort of stuff.
00:24:08
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It's a great sports town. And it showed tonight. I mean, there was a lot of people in the building. Some people were saying it was going to be more Miami fans. No, there was not. No. Our fans were the loudest.
00:24:19
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And I'm super proud of that being a kid from Lake City.
00:24:24
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Brian, congratulations on the win and not to move the conversation away from some very good substitutions today and a game plan that seemed to work perfectly. But I asked much around about the the broad day at the end of the game.
00:24:38
Speaker
He said that he was too away from it, but that maybe sometimes actions because of reactions. There's tape of Busquets, you know, he didn't open in the face. Suarez spitting on a staff member. What are your statements on that regard? My statement is, unfortunately, that is going to take some of the attention away from what was a great sounder performance.
00:25:02
Speaker
So I can take that as a compliment that their players were frustrated and frustrations led to some some things that shouldn't happen on the field. But that shouldn't be the story.
00:25:20
Speaker
I'm going to shut that down. i'm going to say that the story is, you know, Andrew Thomas having a good run of games and winning a League's Cup. Pedro winning his trophy. Alex winning his MVP.
00:25:34
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You know, Reed Baker Whiting coming on in tough circumstances. Christian gutting through. That was the mysterious player carrying an injury. And I'm surprised you guys didn't catch that because I never sub.
00:25:46
Speaker
I never sub Christian out of games. And I subbed him out in l L.A. and you guys didn't catch that. And so, you know, he gutted through an injury. And so the story of this game is not what happened after the fact.
00:26:01
Speaker
The story of the game is the Seattle Sounders. Now, what I would say, what I would say to that is afterwards, I had a quiet moment with Messi on the field and i said, lo siento. And, you know, we talked and we tried to push it aside.
00:26:21
Speaker
Javier Mascherano is a great coach. And again, before the game, you know, on the walkout, he was very complimentary of our team. And I appreciated that.
00:26:33
Speaker
David Beckham, to his credit, was waiting for everybody in the tunnel for our players to shake their hands. And that is class through and through. Jorge Mas came up to me before the game, before the warmup started an hour and a half prior to kickoff and said, you guys have a very nice team.
00:26:53
Speaker
You guys are ah consistent. And those are people that have been at the highest levels of our sport, giving our team compliments. And that's the story.
Player Development and Local Talent Focus
00:27:06
Speaker
That's the story.
00:27:09
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Coach Jorge?
00:27:12
Speaker
Coach, you were playing against a team that arguably has five DPs. You were missing two DPs, probably four starters, seven players that were injured. I wanted you to talk a little bit about your motto of next man up and...
00:27:28
Speaker
specifically Alex, because I think he's underrated. He always does a job for the team, plays multiple positions. And what do you think is the ceiling for Osasi? Because I think it's true revelation.
00:27:40
Speaker
Well, there's a lot of questions in there. What I would say about the depth of the squad, again, you know, Look, there's people have different viewpoints of our team depending on wins and losses. I get that. Fans have the ability to say what they feel in that moment.
00:27:57
Speaker
But Craig's done a great job of providing me with super talented players and a team that's connected. OK, and that that connection is what's going to win us games. Osazi is part of that.
00:28:08
Speaker
So Osazi come up through, you know, Henry Browner, scouting him. We're taking a chance on a guy who was playing somewhere in a lower level European league. And he comes here and he plays for Defiance.
00:28:19
Speaker
He gets his opportunity and he's ready for his opportunity. And that's part of the entire organization being structurally sound. and intelligent and making good decisions.
00:28:31
Speaker
Okay. And so that is what I'm also very proud of that we as an organization can build something from, you know, from very humble roots.
00:28:43
Speaker
And it it showed tonight that not just Osaze, but Reed and, you know, you mentioned Alex. I mean, Alex came from Seattle University, my good friend, Pete Fewing.
00:28:55
Speaker
I mean, developed Alex, but where was Alex? What was Alex? Who who scouted him? He was local. And so all of these local players that are making a name for themselves, it's credit to them.
00:29:07
Speaker
And it's credit to the Pacific Northwest because we we have hardy people and we have talented people. up and down throughout our organization.
00:29:25
Speaker
We'll come back you.
00:29:28
Speaker
Hey, Brian. How doing? Good to see you. You too. ah The best player of all time was on the pitch today, and you guys kind of made him look normal. Quite the feat. ah He was frustrated.
00:29:40
Speaker
Didn't do a whole lot offensively. um Probably didn't look normal to you, but how'd you pull that off? Well, again, we talked about a collective because one guy cannot mark Precci. ah criie hu she and for what mv beat ah Okay.
00:29:58
Speaker
ah One guy cannot mark Messi. It's impossible. He's too good. Even at his age, he's got too much experience. Suarez was really good. I know what have happened been at the end of the game. su is Laid Messi in and he didn't, you know, tonight just wasn't his night maybe.
00:30:15
Speaker
I mean, that happens in sports. I mean, you never know the outcome of a game until you play the game. And so tonight it was just our night. It was going to be our night. He's a superstar.
00:30:29
Speaker
And he deserves all of the accolades that I can give him and that people have given him. But tonight our collective was just a little bit better than him. And, you know, I'll give some kudos to, you know, wasn't on Messi's shot, but Jackson Reagan on DePaul's shot in the first half, you you know, guys making blocks, sacrificing, you you know, that whole sequence down in the right corner in the second half when Yaimar was there and Paul and they were fighting and tackling and winning and just they, they we outdueled them.
00:31:03
Speaker
And that's part of the collective and that's what we needed tonight. Thank you. Congratulations. um I think something like 13 of the 22 guys you had on the roster today were either drafted, born in Seattle, or came through the Academy or Defiance.
00:31:19
Speaker
When you're playing a team that came into MLS and has chosen to to attack trophies by signing superstars and and you have this method of constructing your organization that you know you you do sign multimillion-dollar players but also value the Academy, what does that say and and and what does that a victory like this do for your organization?
00:31:38
Speaker
Look, Miami has come in the league and put pressure on everybody. So has LAFC. They win in a different fashion. They've won tournaments. They've won championships. That's a great team, and it's a great franchise.
00:31:49
Speaker
We do it a little bit differently. We had Obafemi Martins. We had Clint Dempsey. We had Gonzalo Pineda and Jimmy Traore, and we've had a bunch of players that have played at the top levels of our sport.
00:32:02
Speaker
It's just cyclical in some sense because, you know, when we signed Albert, when we signed Jesus, they're talented players. Maybe not a big name as Messi or Busquets or Alba, but they're super talented players.
00:32:20
Speaker
And so our academy fills and, you know, the way we selected players from this region of the world just kind of fills in. And, you know, it's not the right way or the wrong way. It's just the way we've done it.
00:32:36
Speaker
And I'm sure in the next couple of years, we might sign another big name player. But right now, I'm very happy with the team I have.
00:32:50
Speaker
Congratulations, Brian. Thank you. It has been shown that the is above the individualities and and so Leo Messi?
00:33:19
Speaker
I'll translate the question, but the answer is via Zoom. The question, um the team certainly demonstrated being above individualities and just individuals.
00:33:32
Speaker
um And how does it feel for you personally to have created such a united and committed group? And also, what does it represent such an important win against Inter Miami and Messi for the subsequent, or for the future the team?
00:33:46
Speaker
Well, I didn't notice this. My vision is failing at age. I used to be a midfielder and try and see the field, but Adrian Hannah, we're sitting right here and he has a lot to do with our success.
00:33:59
Speaker
And so the success that he and I have built has, should not be, should not be discounted because when we came, we were, you know, a USL team and he had vision to get the team into MLS and we had,
00:34:13
Speaker
you know, big owners and in an ownership group and things, but he's the one that does the things behind the scenes and it's credit to him, to you.
00:34:26
Speaker
And so, you know, the organization, top to bottom, the coaches, everybody, they deserve this. The fans deserve this win because it's been 20 some odd years since I've in with the club and then you sprinkle in a couple of years when I was 17, 18, 19, 20.
00:34:49
Speaker
So it might even be 25. I'll have to do the math. But credit to everybody in the organization.
00:35:02
Speaker
We'll take a couple of other in Zoom and then we'll come back to the room.
00:35:09
Speaker
Franco, take it away, please. Thank you. and Brian, congratulations on a well-deserved win for your for your team. I'm going to ask you just two quick ones. You touched on the big misses for Inter Miami there at the start of the second half. I mean, how big were those in addition to, you know, a hell of a performance that you guys put forth, commitment to the cause, nonstop running, all the good things you guys showed today.
00:35:33
Speaker
um And the second one, I know you said you don't want it to be the story, um but the brawl postgame obviously is going to be a big part of what gets talked about nationally, internationally.
00:35:45
Speaker
Luis Suarez with the spitting action. um I mean, obviously, it's not something MLS wants. It's not something you want to see. It's not something Miami probably wants, but it did happen tonight. I mean, but what What more can you say about that? what what How do you explain that? I know tempers flare when there's losses in the finals, but how how do you explain that?
00:36:02
Speaker
Thank you. let me Yeah, thank you for the question. it gives me another opportunity to talk about, you know, soccer is sport. And, you know, goals change games. We obviously scored a tremendous goal in the first half. i thought that goal was really good.
00:36:17
Speaker
Played through the middle, got it out to Alex. You know, I saw Zede finishing the game. But, yeah, they could have tied the game up with a different outcome. or perhaps a different outcome, or maybe a different scoreline. We might have still won a game, but it might have been a different scoreline.
00:36:31
Speaker
But again, I'll let the commissioner, I'll let the people in charge deal with whatever happened at the end of the game. ah don't want to discount the way our team played and kept their composure on the field during those 90 minutes.
00:36:47
Speaker
That, again, to me, is the story.
00:36:52
Speaker
We'll have time for two more here, follow-ups in the room, and then we'll conclude.
00:36:57
Speaker
Brian, I'll make this quick. When you played, you were a gritty midfielder. And just how much can you talk about this team? Because you said, you know, people say you're a nice team, but this team is also gritty, not intimidating, and then just seizes the moment.
00:37:18
Speaker
Well, Osvaldo Alonso was in the stands today. ah He embodies what I appreciate. A guy who had struggles to come from Cuba, defect.
00:37:31
Speaker
You know, there's a photo of Gonzalo Pineda with blood coming out of his eyes and pebbles. There was Clint Dempsey, you know, doing whatever motion in Portland. There's Jimmy Traore, the Champions League winner.
00:37:50
Speaker
and We have had so many players that embody the next man up, the boys in the boat. I keep talking about that book. The movie is not very good, but the book is great. It's about Pacific Northwest grid. Roman Torres, if I was in a street fight, I'd rather but i' i' have Roman Torres next to me.
00:38:09
Speaker
you know, because he's going to make sure he protects me. And he did the same with his teammates. And so Zach Scott, golden scarf today, there's another warrior that embodied what we are as a club.
00:38:24
Speaker
So we've had great players. This was just a great performance by a bunch of guys that were motivated, you know, were able to overcome adversity. We've overcome adversity from injuries and,
00:38:38
Speaker
multiple games and all that credit to that group in there that is a strong group a very strong group
00:38:48
Speaker
time to finish up jeremiah can yeah because they're dancing in there i know i know it's so it better be good it better be good so uh this is maybe an impossible question but i want to ask you anyway you know you've won a lot here you've won You know, this is your fourth trophy since you were the the head coach. This is the Sounders' ninth trophy since you guys came into MLS.
00:39:11
Speaker
Can you sort of articulate where how this one measures up to the previous ones? Because right now, where we are, it feels a lot – it feels big. It feels really big. It is big because of our opponent, you know, the greatest player on the planet.
00:39:25
Speaker
16 was great for many, many reasons. 19 was great final at home. you know Victor Rodriguez, 22 was obviously way, way up there because that's a hard tournament to win. This is a hard tournament to win.
00:39:43
Speaker
And so give me some time to reflect, Jeremiah. I mean, for God's sakes, I will think about this and I'll get back to you 2028. in twenty twenty eight I think that's a good way to wrap this up. I mean...
00:40:03
Speaker
Thanks, everybody. Thank you, congratulations, Brian. Thank you, everybody, for our coverage of League Scope 2025. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Schmetz was, he was dealing. Oh, my God, dude. He was dealing. He was dealing. dime-dishing. He was dime-dishing. Should we hit some of these super chats? 99 on the paint. Hit the supers, yeah. You got it right here. Okay, I got it right here. got right here. I don't even, where do we leave off? I don't even know.
00:40:26
Speaker
I don't even know. Let's hit let's hit the hundo bomb again. hit the ho bomb again thank love We love you for that. That is crazy. Yeah, we do have Paul Rothrock. We do have god ro rock god that iconic quote coming to the frame. Sorry, you're out of frame out of frame out of frame
00:40:42
Speaker
ah Jordan. Thank you for the five sounders better than what Miami bought. Exactly, man. Exactly. Andrew, thank you for the five. Miami crashing out over Leagues Cup means they can never, ever pretend like it didn't matter to them.
00:40:58
Speaker
it's It's true. why do Why do you crash out about losing a tournament that you don't care about? You lost and you cared. yeah That's not very nonchalant. That's tough. That's not nonchalant at all. I would hate to be in that situation. I'd hate to be that. Couldn't be the Sounders.
00:41:11
Speaker
Couldn't be the Sounders. Couldn't. Wouldn't be. Isn't. Isn't. Famously. ah Jake, thanks for the $2. I am new to this city is three zero sounders. A good. Yes, it is very good. it is very a good Alex. Thank you for the five. Thank you guys for all the love. appreciate seriously Oh my God.
00:41:30
Speaker
The young boys did good. Yeah. Let's, let's, ah let's talk about that for a second because ah you know, obviously Georgie Manungu was one of the stars of the show.
00:41:43
Speaker
Paul Rothrock, he's not like a young up-and-comer anymore, but he's still like an internally developed like hometown hero type of guy. So I think he counts in what we're what we're talking about. i don't know. Do they win this tournament without Snyder B?
00:41:57
Speaker
Maybe. but Maybe not. But the fact that he has done what he's done in the last few weeks, I think, speaks to everything that we've been talking about tonight and what Schmetz was talking about at that presser.
00:42:08
Speaker
Georgie. Georgie. Yeah, I said Georgie, but if we can say it again. Yeah, let's talk about Georgie some more because that penalty that he won was the biggest play. Dude, that was fucking textbook, dude. That was the biggest play of the game. Oh, my Incredible. It was the momentum shift that everyone needed because it took away the mentality, I feel like, for the Sounders where they were like, fuck, we could give up a penalty at any point. We could give up a foul, give up a free kick somewhere.
00:42:35
Speaker
And it just... it just it just silenced all that. It felt like it just felt so like, oh no, like and we deserve we' we deserve this. Now that ah now that I've, the Schmetz presser calmed me down a little bit, calmed down a little bit i think we should bring it back up though. Well, but I want to acknowledge that ah like there was a lengthy portion of the game where Seattle was under it. And if it had kept going like that, they would have scored the equalizer. Like I have no doubt in my mind, that chance that Messi missed, he doesn't usually miss that. The one that... freaking Allende or Segovia miss or whatever.
00:43:08
Speaker
That is like a goal a lot of the time. So they were they were in control of the game. They were really good in possession. They were slicing Seattle up a little bit. ah they were They were on top of it. They were about to get the equalizer and Georgie Manugu is the one who changed everything.
00:43:23
Speaker
Changed everything. Changed everything. So like... that should not That should not be slept on at all. That was just a huge play. And really, like ah I mean, I'm ready to call this team's youth development setup the best in the league. like Easily. I know that there's nitpicks about ah it only being sixes and eights and not enough Jordan Morris's or whatever. But like when you just think about the guys they brought up, not necessarily just the homegrowns, but a guy like Georgie, I'm kind of thinking of it as guys that have come up through Tacoma Defiance.
00:43:52
Speaker
like No one's doing it better right now. don't I really don't think so. A 20 for Matt. Thank you, guys. God, no man. The people are incredible. The people are incredible, yeah. Obed receiving a Swaraj crash out just upped his feet at 35. Let's talk about the crash out again.
00:44:09
Speaker
Messi, what are you doing? Messi, message to you again. i know you received my last one. You're on the phone. I know you hear me.
00:44:21
Speaker
You're a bum. You know what's... You're a bum. You're bum. Your team is so stupid. I lay this all at his feet because at the end of the day, this is his team. You're the captain. You're the head coach. You're the general manager. You own the team. You own the league.
00:44:35
Speaker
So I'm sorry. You're going to let your boys get embarrassed? Get that ass waxed? By a bunch of, as your fans put it, nobodies.
00:44:47
Speaker
They did say that. And then after that, spit on some random security sports staff. I mean, absolute loser fucking mentality.
00:44:58
Speaker
Inter-Miami, absolute. I think I've been saying this all season. All season. I feel like Inter-Miami is coming unraveled. They're coming unraveled. I pray that today was the final blow for this bum-ass Inter-Miami team because they've been an embarrassment.
00:45:17
Speaker
They can't win anything. They won a charity Mickey Mouse Leagues Cup where they didn't really have to play anyone. They played, like, one Liga Mechies team, and it wasn't in a knockout game.
00:45:28
Speaker
They played, like, FC Dallas and came from behind to win. Like, come on, that's... Come on. Come on. And they want a shield. Okay. Sure. Cool. Awesome. Unbalanced schedules. You know, you don't play everyone. what So what happened to the crash out? cra But cry babies in the playoffs last year. Oh, wait, they got, oh they got owned by Atlanta United. red bra and Brad Guzan arguably is the only player that owns messy more than Christian rolled on. No, literally boy folks. I mean, am I right? Or am I right?
00:45:55
Speaker
Like, dude. Oh, and we've got, it's so funny, dude, because we've got a bunch of like ah random ah messy fans in here. Like you're a bum. You're a bum brother. Your goat can't score against Andrew Thomas and Paul Rothrock. Your goat got absolutely pocketed by Jackson, Reagan and Yamar.
00:46:13
Speaker
Do you know who those two players are? No. So I'm sorry, bro. you You can't come in here chirping. You're a nobody. Just like your goat. He's a nobody. you know what' and i'm not saying that And I'm not saying we're in Aldo's good either. He would have gotten absolutely destroyed by this team too.
00:46:26
Speaker
You know what's funny is like you you posted that TikTok like as a joke that was like calling them out pregame or whatever. And we got so many comments of people that were like, I'm going to be back here. I'm to be back I'm be back here after the goat takes down your team of nobodies. Are you back here?
00:46:41
Speaker
Spoiler alert. They're not back here. They're not They're not back here. They're not back here. I don't know where they're at. Where they're at. They're silent. They're silent. i am I'm going to go through every single one of those TikTok comments tonight, and I'm going reply 3-0, 3-0. And everyone in chat should do the same thing. You should go on our Instagram. You should go on our TikTok. 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. Chat, what was the scoreline again?
00:47:07
Speaker
I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it was, chat. Let's get some 3-0. Could you remind me? Get some 3-0s in the chat. Could you remind me? Yeah, thank you. 3-0.
00:47:15
Speaker
And, you know, I don't even ah I don't feel bad at all about giving it to those people as hard as we have on this show, because ah you already know for a fact that if the rules were reversed, they would be doing the same thing to us in a hundred thousand times worse. And we louis stuck our we stuck our necks out to I don't we want to make us into a martyr, but. I posted a photo of Stavros Halkius behind Giannis Antetokounmpo.
00:47:40
Speaker
Giannis Antetokounmpo has Paul Rothrock on it, and Leo Messi is Stavros Halkius. we went we We were memeing the shit out of this. We put ourselves in every position to be clowned on, and we would have taken it.
00:47:50
Speaker
We would have taken it. you know if You don't do that if you can't take it when you know what's coming to you if the result doesn't go that's the way you're talking about. CR7, the only CR7 that I recognize is goddamn Christian Roldan because that guy, he owns Messi.
00:48:07
Speaker
I hear it all the time. CR7 is better than Messi. Yeah, you're right. Christian Roldan. Christian Roldan. Jake, thank you for the two. a real motherfucking team. Yeah, exactly. None of that plastic shit. You see what happens when you play a real motherfucking team?
00:48:21
Speaker
That's what happens. That is what happens. That's what happens. don't want to hear it. Oh my God. Ian, thank you for the two. This is so much better than the Apple TV postgame. Oh, we got another hundo bomb. No, we didn't. Scroll down, bro. Swear to God. Scroll down. Scroll down. Scroll down. Bob K with another hundo.
00:48:42
Speaker
Oh, my God. Bob. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. This is honestly excessive at this point. Dude, I mean, we will be spending this at the bar tonight, I believe.
00:48:53
Speaker
but We might have to pop a bottle. says good fucking game, and thank you, Scorchers Host, for doing the show. Oh, my God. Thank you, Bob. We would not be not doing this show. This is the best show that we're ever going to do. Oh, my God. The way that we were both rocking like this in the press box, just like, please hold this game. not going to lie. The whole time it was 1-0, I was not having fun at all. No.
00:49:12
Speaker
i did not want to there. I was sweating. I was sweating. I had to go into the bathroom at halftime and like get a towel and wipe myself off, put on new deodorant. I was like i was sweating new. Yeah. And i was under an AC vent.
00:49:23
Speaker
And especially when they so they kind of started to take over the game a little bit, I was like, oh, man, the Ferreira one that went off the post, your tattoo bet is still... My tattoo bet, bro. Ferreira would have finished that. It's kind of becoming a bit that Ferreira is getting ah like so close to scoring the goal that gets Noah out of the tattoo bet. But this is good opportunity to say, i mean, I think I said it on the last show, but I'll say it again.
00:49:45
Speaker
Thank God they traded for Jesus Ferreira. Thank God, dude. Thank God. How stupid would it have been if they didn't do that? like And they had the opportunity to, and they didn't do it because, because what were the reasons again? Because he played for FC Dallas. that's unamittious yeah Wow. hired of the Really, really glad that anyone who said that dumb shit isn't in control of those decisions. God. Um,
00:50:04
Speaker
decisions god um so I don't need i want to be negative. No, no, no, no. we're we're We are bamming on the haters. This is what this this show is for. should we Should we take some calls while we wait for Jeremiah and all of them? ah Oh, yeah. We can start doing that.
00:50:19
Speaker
Osaze, son of Dwayne. Oh, my God.
00:50:23
Speaker
Osaze, son of Dwayne. Is there more Super Chats? There's more. There's more. um I'll just blast through them. ah Formula Meme, thank you. True MLSers here. Love you guys. Let's effing go. Shout out to MLSers. Appreciate You guys are my guys. Jake, you're our guy.
00:50:38
Speaker
Thank you. Oh, my God. We got a 10 from DJ. DJ, thank you. Thanks for calling in the other night. you the man. Sounders are the best team in NLS history. Not wrong. Debate your grandma. I might actually get another tattoo in honor of our boys. This is a good one to get for. This is a good one to get it for. Yes.
00:50:54
Speaker
First MLS team with five trophies. Adorado with the five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Who else? Who else? Hanauer Weibullt, redeemed by the kids.
00:51:05
Speaker
I don't know about redeemed, but I would i would say validated. I'd say validated more than redeemed. Easily, easily. Schmetzer, third string star, thank for the five. Schmetzer can't retire until he wins us a U.S. Open Cup in the Shield to seal it off. I mean, Schmetzer, how goated is Schmetzer? Yeah, let's talk about that. He is legitimately the greatest coach to ever coach in MLS. Is it debated? No. Is it debated?
00:51:29
Speaker
No. is he debated You can, as DJ said, you can debate your grandma about it. You're not going to debate me about it. Let's roll it back. Let's roll it back a little bit. Not even just as he the greatest coach. Was this the greatest international tournament run of all time? 7-0 against the CONCACAF Champion Cup champions.
00:51:48
Speaker
7-0. Absolutely destroyed at every step of the way. Beat that ass on every single Liga Emekis team. And then ran the tournament.
00:52:00
Speaker
There was never really a game that was like, oh, they shouldn't have won that. Yeah, no, I mean, anytime you win in PKs, people might say that, but like that was a team that was playing the most like bunkered in tactics I've ever seen. Yeah, it was rat ball. yeah, it was rat ball. So if you have to get by a team playing rat ball with PKs, that's just how you have to do it, man. You have to have a goalkeeper who's good enough to withstand that moment. And they have Andrew Thomas. Start CCC right fucking now. Start it right now. Put us in the tournament. Play right now. The Sounders are winning the whole goddamn thing.
00:52:37
Speaker
Oh, my God. We got more supers to get through. We got more supers. We're going to hit Bob K again because he dropped a hundo. Thank you, Bob K. Bob Bob K. Love you, Bob K. We love you, Bob K. Two people dropping a hundos, man. I mean, that's humble. That's just incredible, dude.
00:52:51
Speaker
Carlos with a 1999. That's another big one. Thank you. bank. Joe BWP had faith and was rewarded. du right Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you, Joe. Yes. BWP. The only national pundit. He knew. new Kaelin Kyle chirping.
00:53:08
Speaker
ah My least favorite mustache. Your nemesis. The whole world. He's literally, he's evil me. I'm pretty sure he's evil. He's your Wario. He's my Wario, bro. and You know what's sad? I didn't name him when I was talking about this. I intentionally left the pundits nameless.
00:53:23
Speaker
But ah Sasha Kleschen, right after the Seattle game, he actually had it right. He had it right. He was like, man, I think that ah Seattle might actually have the edge here. He came to the same conclusion that Maurice Adu did. And then the next time I was watching season pass, they were like, Sasha, who do you think is the favorite? And he's like, well, one team has Messi.
00:53:41
Speaker
That was, and to be fair, to be fair, a lot of people think like that. A lot of people said that. How did it work out though? Exactly. We got Jordan in the queue.
00:53:52
Speaker
Wait, I got more supers. I got okay more supers. Sorry, Jordan. Give us a second. Build the Brian statue squared. Build the goddamn Brian statue, dude. Strive. Thank you for the five rhymes. So appreciate that. ah thanks Listen to you after every game. And I couldn't wait for this live. Yeah. I mean, you guys already knew this was going to, this live was going to go crazy. Yes, dude. A hundred likes. Like it, like it, like it. We got 340 people. like, like, like, like already have a hundred. I don't know what we're doing, dude. We're spamming that like button.
00:54:17
Speaker
It's free. Uh, chat already knows dude. Chat's already doing our job for us. This is incredible.
00:54:24
Speaker
We, during that presser, we were just kind of taking in the celebration on the field and it's just like, it's kind of like, it's like all cleared out now. Yeah. I love the, the empty stadium after the the ship win.
00:54:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Nothing quite literally using a giant hair dryer to blow all the confetti off the field. My, uh, my favorite part of the on field celebration was when like right after the, uh, crash out cry babies got pulled away from the brawl that they instigated where they spit on a security staffer.
00:54:52
Speaker
Uh, and then Georgie and Paul Rothrock peeled off of where the brawl was happening and just started pumping up the crowd, yeah just going crazy. yeah And like, there's just no better feeling than that because,
00:55:06
Speaker
The reason the brawl happened is because you frustrated your opponent so much that they got their ass beat by three goals, first of all. But, like, you did that to them, and now you get to rub it in their face. And it was made even better by the fact that the League's Cup does it, where you get your second-place participation trophy in the ceremony. So good. So what did the crash-out crybaby losers have to do before they flew their 48-year-old?
00:55:34
Speaker
Oh, my God, another! Another hundred ball. Crash out red card boys Barca boys. Keep cooking. Keep cooking. Keep cooking. The last thing that the crash out red card crybabies had to do before they got their 43-year-old asses on their plane back to Fort Lauderdale was they had to stand on that field and watch the team that they just crashed out and brawled and spit on.
00:56:02
Speaker
except the trophy that they were trying to win. Messi walked across that stage in the loudest boo ringing out across Lumenfield, his head just down. And as he's walking off the podium, they're walking by with the trophy just right in front of him.
00:56:19
Speaker
Cinema! Cinema! Cinema! It was funny because my first reaction after like the brawl calmed down was like, dude, get these guys the fuck off this field. Send them back to the goddamn swamp that they came from. Get these sorry-ass losers off this field right now, especially sorry-ass loser crybaby crash out Luis Suarez. What the fuck is he still doing on this field? But then I realized the reason they were still on the field was that they had to...
00:56:48
Speaker
do a second place participation. And then we were like, keep them on the field. Keep them on the field. Oh my God. like I'm going to laugh my ass off at them for the rest of my life. I don't care. Like that...
00:57:00
Speaker
That's all I need. but Like, imagine, imagine, imagine, just imagine you're the greatest player of all time. You've won everything. Champions League. You have 46 trophies. World Cup. You are undoubtedly the greatest purple player in the world.
00:57:12
Speaker
And what gets you to fucking crash out? League's Cup against the Seattle Sounders in Major League Soccer? It's over. You're cooked. You're cooked. You're cooked.
00:57:23
Speaker
I have a lot more... You're cooked. I have a lot more venom for Suarez right now than I do Messi. I feel like Messi... Fucking racist. What you said is like true in a sense that he's like their team leader and and everything and their captain and stuff.
00:57:37
Speaker
But like... I don't think he can control Suarez from spitting on a dude. That's true. That's like in his blood, dude. Luis Suarez, man, 46 years old. The fact that he is still, this is he's been doing this shit his whole career.
00:57:52
Speaker
The fact that he is still doing that stuff, man, like, I mean, I just don't even know what to say about it, man. It's crazy. Pink goddamn phony club, bro. Pink phony club. we've been We've been keeping Jordan in the queue here. Yeah, let's get we get him in here. Let's get Jordan in here.
00:58:08
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Jordan, are you ready? Sorry, we we we we beasted you here. Jordan! the down
00:58:18
Speaker
What's up, man? Oh, my gosh, man. i i can't even believe it. i was hoping I was so nervous for so long. like My hands were set, sweating, just sitting there, just watching the game, freaking out.
00:58:31
Speaker
That's what we were doing in the in the press Hold on, wait. I'm go to remove you and add you again. Just give me a second.
00:58:37
Speaker
There we go. Okay, I fixed it. I fixed it. Okay. Yeah, no, I legit was like home in front my computer, like not even sitting in the chair anymore. Just like freaking out constantly.
00:58:50
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ah by you were sweating. You were sweating. 100%. Yeah. And then, you know, I see that ceiling fan going ahead you, dude. I got the ceiling fan going next to me. It is so hot.
00:59:00
Speaker
Yeah, that is bad. But, you know, the last time the Seattle Sounders held a home game in a cup final, and one three nothing. I mean, you know, it just it just feels right. it's just right.
00:59:14
Speaker
Just feels right. I've got the piece of confetti from the from that final still hung up on my whiteboard behind me. so I was like, ah, just it's just perfect. And then Paul Rothrock.
00:59:27
Speaker
It had to be Paul. It had to be. talk talk Talk me through. Okay, so you're watching the game. Your eyes are on. you're You're biting your nails a little bit. You're like, okay, we did just get the penalty, but, like, feels a little better. Like, okay. But...
00:59:40
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Talk me through that play, how you're feeling, how you reacted.
00:59:45
Speaker
I was already – once Georgia got the penalty, I was already on cloud nine. I was like, this is it. Just finish it. Goal goes in. Okay. I'm like, that's it. I'm already celebrating.
00:59:56
Speaker
It's all great. And then there's Paul Rothrock. Threw on goal. And I want you to well, I watched the postgame show specifically just to watch the trophy lift.
01:00:07
Speaker
And to hear them go, oh that finish was Messi-esque. Messi didn't finish. Messi didn't finish. He watched Messi miss. Famously. No, no. That was Paul Rothrock X. don't Don't even, don't talk about nothing. Thank you. There we go. Thank you. It's Messi-esque.
01:00:21
Speaker
I watched Messi put it in, it landed in my backyard and I live in finished landing in row Z. What are we talking about? I have the ball. It landed in my backyard. I was wondering. i thought I thought like someone just blew like something over the fence. I'm like, no, this is it. This is the ball.
01:00:36
Speaker
I found it. Here it is. Messi has finished. Messi has finished. Don't talk about my club, bro. don't You sit back there. yeah you Not even Not even worthy, bro.
01:00:48
Speaker
You sit there in your studio. ah It's inner Miami. Not home? all in Did you... you Have you not watched any of this? you just went, ah, Messi.
01:01:00
Speaker
Okay, Messi's passing the ball to a striker who's on AARP. Right? Oh, my then that's why That's why, like, hello, he he choked out a 20-year-old kid.
01:01:12
Speaker
Yeah, dude, he had Cody Baker in a goddamn headlock. that was't different That was the the center That was the center back that Paul Rothbard got on. My favorite other favorite part of the brawl was John Bell, dude.
01:01:25
Speaker
ah sleep general is the lit dude j v Oh, Bell lit. DJ Bell. He's sticking up for his teammates. yeah yeah look got You got the crashing out crybaby spitter boys out there. You got to defend yourself.
01:01:38
Speaker
100%. Just yeah just because you can't score you know it's whatever bro it's you know it just proves we should have known this was going to happen because PSG could only score two on us and they put four on them in the first half it's a good point you and then you expect them to come to Seattle Messi and his bad knees playing on artificial turf which he complains about anyways on short rest yep yeah like yeah he couldn't go to the all-star game because he was too tired now you want him to play from Wednesday to Sunday
01:02:10
Speaker
There was never any way, man. There was never any way. They honestly played a lot better than I thought they would. I was too cowardly to predict it. Now I wish that I had. But Noah, you can vouch for this. I did say it.
01:02:22
Speaker
I was pretty confident Seattle was going to beat their ass. yeah we did say we did feel i just i i wish now that i had just come out and been as uh brave as you were to come out swinging i i didn't want to get on the show you can't be cowardly you just can't do it it's it's just not worth it because guess what if someone wants to trip me oh no they lost a fucking messy what am i gonna get clowned by a bunch of like 13 year olds on tiktok Oh, oh Oh, You got to face the garage Twitter fans, bro. You can't afford a ticket to this game.
01:02:54
Speaker
You're in my comments section. But guess what, buddy? I'm going right back in your comments section. I'm replying to every goddamn message with 3-0. And this is this is the reply that I've seen. This is the reply that I've seen. And I need to hear your response this. I'm going to ask this to everyone. All right.
01:03:08
Speaker
They say, yeah, Paul Rothrock owns Messi, sure. But does he own a World Cup? Well, if he owns Messi, yeah, obviously. he every in fact In fact, Paul Rothrock should go to Messi's house give me this Ballon d'Or. This is now mine, right?
01:03:23
Speaker
This is mine now. this is This is because you couldn't do anything to me. I got the goal. And that celebration, man, that one, that is a seven-year-old kid in his backyard storing the goal.
01:03:37
Speaker
And all of that emotion, man, I love that. But, and then I want to point out, Andy T, Andy T had a great game and goal. Yes, he did. Obviously, obviously, you know, their biggest things, they're like, oh, look at the two misses.
01:03:51
Speaker
Okay, but he he kept everything out, won every cross. They had nothing off of set pieces, set everything down. And Georgie winning that penalty, I was like, pass the ball, pass the ball. And then he just sends that defender for a hot dog, man.
01:04:06
Speaker
Oh, my God. And he was so pumped after he won that. That was – and we were – while the presser was going, we were watching a little bit of Georgie's Instagram Live. And the locker room, we can confirm to you all. It was lit. It was lit. It was lit. Deserved, man. I mean, yeah everyone wrote us out.
01:04:25
Speaker
Everyone – just because of one guy. Like, that's the thing. Because, yes, it's messy. And they're like, oh look all the Barca boys. Suarez – but hasn't been good in a while.
01:04:37
Speaker
but okay he's got jelllo news Busquets is slower than Molasses. And Jordi Alba is crossing the ball into who? who You keep crossing the ball and they're like, he's getting in good positions. He's playing wide, crossing the ball.
01:04:49
Speaker
Andrew Thomas is playing practice. He's playing to the of Suarez, bro. He's playing to the ghost of Suarez. So much of the analysis leading up to this game was like, well, they have Messi, so they're probably going win. Okay. how did How did that work out?
01:05:01
Speaker
Didn't work out. how it work out it's it's just it's It's the GOAT status. They just put extra tax on it. You look at like, oh, Ronaldo, Al Nassar, they're going to win everything. Dudes won nothing out there. Messi comes here. They make a tournament for him. He wins it once. Hasn't won anything since.
01:05:16
Speaker
Like... can't can't beat Brad Guzan in the playoffs, why did they think they were going beat the Sounders? Absolutely. I don't know. It's a good question. Jordan, we've got shit ton of people in the queue. Give us your final F Messi or whatever you want to say. Say it directly to the camera like Messi was listening on the phone right now. Go.
01:05:34
Speaker
ah Next time, control your old puppy dog. Keep him away from my star boy. Get him out of here. Thank you, Jordan. Next up, Kenny was in the queue before you bad sequels, but he had to pop out to fix his camera. So going to bring him in because he was ah there.
01:05:47
Speaker
Ready to go. Kenny. My guys. How are you feeling? How are you feeling? I'm feeling amazing, dude.
01:05:58
Speaker
I'm feeling fantastic. You know who I feel like? Who? I feel like Noah from the Bible. The way I just strangled the goat. The way I just sacrificed the goat. The
Leagues Cup Victory and Celebrations
01:06:09
Speaker
goat. Sacrificed the goat.
01:06:11
Speaker
Sacrificed the goat for what is the greatest trophy in the history of all trophies. Everyone was saying it. You were saying it. Cash grab. That's not true. How we feeling about Leagues Cup now?
01:06:23
Speaker
ah feel like I feel like we just completed completed the trifect the um but cabinet. The cabinet is my guys. We got the last Infinity Stone.
01:06:36
Speaker
We Thanos in this motherfucking league. Yeah. yeah damns We got all the stones. Anyways, I was checking on FopMob on the drive home. ah Zero shots on target for Miami. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Paul Rothrock owns you.
01:07:00
Speaker
$200 super chat from Hunch Punch. Oh, my God. Not going to be outdone. Get the fuck out of Miami. Get the fuck out of Messi. Yet another trophy in the case.
01:07:12
Speaker
Shout out. Oh, my God. Hunch Punch. Hunch, we love you. Hunch Punch. Hunch Punch. Hey, hey, Hunch Punch. Let me throw it back for the boy. Let me throw it back for the boy.
01:07:22
Speaker
Yo, he's throwing it back for the boy. How? Oh my God. 200. 200. It's late night. It's late night lobbing scorchers. Hunch punch. We're looking for 200. People call Messi the goat. Hunch punch is the goat lobbing scorchers calling. Oh, literally. Hunch punch literally holds it down every single goddamn episode. Kenny, you're also goaded. You're also goaded.
01:07:45
Speaker
Hunch punch. punch we yeah We're going to come back to this hunch punch, dude. I'll take the second place. I'll take second place behind him. Hunch, we're going to come back to this. when you're you're in the Are you in the queue, Hunch? i don't know if you're in the queue, but get in the queue. We got to talk to you. um Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Keep going, Kenny. Post-game.
01:08:02
Speaker
Post-game stuff was crazy. We were trying to beat traffic, so I barely even saw all the fight. But I saw Suarez spitting on the staffer. I think he was part of security what he was spitting on.
01:08:14
Speaker
Yes. Gene, man. Everyone loves Gene. He's chill. He's so chill. so chill I don't know. Someone said he was stepping on, stamping on his foot as well.
01:08:26
Speaker
So I don't, I don't understand. like like He like shoved them and shit too. I mean, he just, yeah he got his ass beat three zero by Paul Rothrock and Georgie Manu. So to be fair, it is pretty tough being Luis Suarez tonight. Pretty embarrassing. I thought this was an easy leak. I thought this was a retirement leak, Kenny.
01:08:41
Speaker
Well, What are they retiring from? Because it sure ain't... What's going on? Maybe they should just retire? Should Messi just retire after this, Kenny? I feel like I could beat Messi with an average second Bundesliga team.
01:08:57
Speaker
Manwell Veth? No, we love Manwell Veth. We love Manwell. We love Manny. We love Manny. He's cool, bro. He posted about that. And his Vancouver ways.
01:09:08
Speaker
Yeah. I asked this before. I'm going to ask it again. Yeah, Paul Rothrock owns Messi, but does Paul Rothrock own a World Cup? So we're just goalposts moving, right?
01:09:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that's what that is. We're just goalposts moving. We're the only team in North America to collect all infinity stones, man. Immortality. Immortality.
01:09:32
Speaker
And Messi's soul. Did I not say Obed Vargas was going to collect Messi's soul like a fucking infinity stone? You did say that. And he did. Yeah. He was nowhere. Messi did nothing in this game. That's the soul stone. He had the one shot.
01:09:42
Speaker
He had one shot. And he missed really bad. And he skied it. really bad. Dude, he skied it, dude. It was honestly remarkable. i don't know if I've ever seen him miss that bad. Yeah. We were in his goddamn brain. Dude, yeah I mean, i mean i just, dude. Oh, you guys, you guys, you know what I can't wait for? dominate gri turf discourse. Oh my God, the turf discourse, dude.
01:10:02
Speaker
We're unlocking these for them, dude. You already know. Open the umbrella. Abre tu sombrilla. Abre tu sombrilla, no? All right, dude. Kenny, give us your final message to Messi. Like you were talking to him on the phone. What would you say?
01:10:19
Speaker
Messi, you should have traded in your shirt before the game and played for us.
01:10:26
Speaker
I got one more thing. new one more Newhoo, I'm pissed at you. Where were you in the post game? Where were you flying in with two foot with that Gabriel Peck energy? yes you you let me know incredible somebody during the brawl and ah He also was super lit and then did a solo did a solo trope troph trophy lift with ecs yeah with acs it was freaking awesome it was so sick god I love new who guys.
01:10:53
Speaker
I love new who's forgiven. He's back in new who's forgiven. He's back in good graces. We love him forever. He's out the dog house. Exactly. Exactly. kenny Moose out of the dog house. Everyone's out.
01:11:04
Speaker
We're resetting. Congrats champs. Y'all are champions. You're a champion too. Appreciate you. can Let's go Kenny. All right. Next up bad sequels. You ready to go?
01:11:15
Speaker
Thumbs up. All right. What up? are we feeling? Oh, my God. Elated. Elated. on My heart is still racing, and to be honest. I don't even know where to start.
01:11:29
Speaker
Goddamn, that game was awesome, to be honest. Yeah. It was so good. I've been... I've been working actually on my, while i was waiting in the lobby, I was working on my inner Miami impression, if you guys want to see it.
01:11:40
Speaker
i would love to see it. Yes. All right, ready? oh choking, choking. Oh, choking. Oh, because all I do is choke finals. And they choke our players and our staff, man.
01:11:52
Speaker
Oh. All we do is choke, choke, choke, no matter what. Honestly, I really like them crashing out like that made it even better, man. They literally made it better than it would have been already.
01:12:03
Speaker
Embarrassing. It was embarrassing. Embarrassing. Yeah, that was the easiest way to describe it. Yeah. But can we talk about, you know, the dogs on offense? Rothrock, Dorji Dog, Obed Dog, Andrew Thomas, Dog. Dog. Dog.
01:12:20
Speaker
It's a team of dogs. Yeah. Yeah. One team has that dog in it. The other team decidedly does not.
01:12:28
Speaker
Sorry, Chad. I'm pulling something up. Ari, ask the next question. Keep cooking. what ah What were you thinking when ah Georgie drew the PK? Honestly, I was just like...
01:12:40
Speaker
I was somewhat nervous, but also elated at the same time. You know, I thought it was a good play by Georgie. At first I wanted him to pass it, but him drawing the PK was just like 10 out of 10.
01:12:51
Speaker
um saw Christian holding the ball for like most of the PK. We got Ben on TikTok Live because we were so hot. Let's go. Everyone drop a everyone drop a a W in the chat for For what?
01:13:03
Speaker
I don't know. You just get banned from TikTok. I bet she was a bunch of Messi fans reporting us. That's so funny. ah you can't Hold that L. Hold that L. I will take that TikTok ban all day for for that win and that L that your goat just got handed.
01:13:18
Speaker
W. W's in the chat. Oh, my God. Incredible. Your ban fuels us. Your ban fuels us. It feels good. if If they're so mad, man, they should have won the game.
01:13:31
Speaker
They should have. I mean, like I've never seen a team also, like, go and just, like, bitch at the refs as much as Miami. There's, like, every foul, yeah three, four Miami players. Yeah. I was literally sitting in in the press box just like, well, you guys shut up. Hold hold on Shut up. Hold on.
01:13:48
Speaker
Hold on. Another 200 bomb? League's Cup? Only $$$$$ I see her for L.S. Mark Odinger. Chat, everyone drop What?
01:14:01
Speaker
What are we doing? Maybe this is a cash grab tournament. This is a cash grab tournament for us, Chat. What are we doing? Thank you, guys. What are we doing? I'm getting emotional from all these super chats. We love you guys. Oh, God.
01:14:14
Speaker
You're single-handedly going to pay for our our next codification. We love you guys. There we go. i mean Like, ah if I could get sappy for a moment. Please, please. You know, we grind this show all year. We've been grinding it for like two years. This is the first year we've been doing all the YouTube stuff.
01:14:29
Speaker
And there's a lot of random nights where there's not a lot of people watching. I'm doing Under the Lights with 27 people tuning in and stuff. And we just do it because we love it, man. like that we this is We wouldn't rather be doing anything else. We wouldn't rather be covering...
01:14:42
Speaker
any other team we'd be doing it for for nothing yeah and so like the fact that we've got this community where you guys like support us like this yeah it's unreal man and uh like the reason we do all that stuff is because of just the chase the possibility of stuff like this so the fact that we get to experience it and uh experience it with all you guys man it's the best like i fucking love you guys it's so dude it's like and then Every time you guys like come up to us and say what's up on what it's are on the street or just like at the bar or before a game, it means the world. We literally were so happy to do this with 25 listeners.
01:15:18
Speaker
We literally were like, we saw 25 and we were like...
01:15:22
Speaker
if the If it doesn't get bigger than this, where this is awesome. I specifically remember seeing like 42. Yeah. and being tough wine And being like, we're cooking. We're doing something. And like, we literally... I wouldn't i wouldn't ah rather be doing it one with anyone else. Like, you are such a great friend and such a... Like, I don't know. Yeah. Sappy emotionalness. It's like, this is... Sorry, we're getting emotional on your Call Bad sequels.
01:15:45
Speaker
Dude, you're... No, I'm honored to a part of it. Thank you. Ever, dude. Like, this is... I mean, it's just, it's incredible. Like, we we love every single person in this community, and there's so much kindness and love, and ah the fucking Sounders fucking rock, dude.
01:16:00
Speaker
This team a team. What a goddamn team. What a great community. Bad sequels. cook Cook a little bit more. yeah How are you feeling? Let's go. Let's go. oh And we got another one, though. but brad sels i'm so sorry, bro. Bad sequels, dude. Andrew Brair...
01:16:16
Speaker
I can't speak breast. I think he already dropped us. Hang with the big dogs, but I sent the 50 when we qualified. Why not a hundred when we went? Andrew. Yeah. i gotta to and 200. I got a twerk. I didn't even twerk for the other 200. I didn't even twerk for the two. Get up here. Get up here.
01:16:33
Speaker
Give us a twerk, Ari. I'm not doing that. You're not giving us twerk? I'm not doing that. You're not giving us twerk? Hey, shall we twerking? I support you guys, dude. I'll drop another twerk in the hundo.
01:16:46
Speaker
Oh, my God. Let's go. No wonder we got banned, bro. No wonder we got banned. I can't believe Jake. We have not said anything bannable. Get the fuck out of here. You know what was bannable was spitting on a security guard. You fucking crash out crybaby losers in our comments getting his ban. Okay, we have so many people in chat. I know we totally abused your your section. Sorry, bad sequels. I'll take it. No, thanks for letting me be a part of Give us your final thoughts. Give us your final thoughts. Runway is yours.
01:17:13
Speaker
Yo, last two points. Honestly, Osaze, kind of legend status. Other point, Brian pulling out some early subs. that That's good trust. I wasn't sure about that when he did it, but it clicked.
01:17:26
Speaker
That's some confidence. So, you know, go Sounders. Fuck Miami. Let's go. Thank you, guys. Yo, we love you, Bad Sequels. Thanks for calling in. All right. Next up, GBT.
01:17:39
Speaker
You ready? Yeah, get Tribe on here. Yeah! catch anybody You're muted, but your photos, we we reposted one on the story. We were in the press box. like this We fucking love this guy so much. Oh my God. like yeah Iconic.
01:17:54
Speaker
Fucking iconic. How was the match? How are you feeling? Oh, Ronaldo! Just absolutely. just you You know what? I'm just going to give you the floor. I don't even need to prompt you. I know you're ready for this. Just cook. Tribe cook.
01:18:08
Speaker
Just cook. Well, what Kenny said, i disagree. I don't want Messi to play for us. He's absolute shit. He got pocked by Amar, and anyone who gets pocked by Amar is automatically not good enough for this squad.
01:18:21
Speaker
He's slow as fuck. He can't shoot. He can't dribble. He can't do anything. And he's not even the best Argentine player on the fucking field. not even He's not even as good as Rodrigo De Paul.
01:18:32
Speaker
buts let's Let's get that clear. So he's number three. So um i just I just want to fucking... I don't know what to say. i was crying during the second goal. And then the third one just was absolutely emotional for everyone in ECS. And it was, there was beer flying. I can't remember shit. It's just,
01:18:53
Speaker
i it's just an absolutely amazing moment. And I want every fucking person to remember where you were during this because this is historical. This is an amazing moment. And we are the team that silenced Messi and David Beckham.
01:19:07
Speaker
Yes. I saw David Beckham walking across the field like this with with Jorge Mas. Like, yeah, you know, I'm sexy and whatnot. I'm sexy and whatnot.
01:19:18
Speaker
Yeah, we're not taking that shit. David, listen to me. I'm fucking hotter, buddy. I'm fucking hotter. I'm a Seattle 10. You're a Seattle eight. Okay. And we whooped that ass.
01:19:30
Speaker
and he Once again, though, Georgie Manungu won the penalty. all yeah Okay, I brought this up. I know you weren't in here, but literally at the top of the at the show, I said, you know who cooked this?
01:19:40
Speaker
You know who fucking cooked this? Because you said that you Georgie was going to win this. you manifest you You manifested this. You you fucking cooked. You said you got emotional on that second goal. Walk us through everything. Just everything. Just play it back for us.
01:19:53
Speaker
We saw Georgie get cleat to the ankle very, very much. ah And the ref just called it. I wasn't worried. I wasn't worried at all.
01:20:04
Speaker
Roldan has a great history with penalties. We saw in the penalty shootout, I was already starting to shed tears when the penalty was called because Every single final we play here, we get three goals.
01:20:17
Speaker
Three against Toronto, three against Pumas, now three against Miami. It's just meant to be. So it was already emotional as soon as a penalty was called.
01:20:28
Speaker
Once Roldan stepped up, I actually recorded it and I posted the video of of the penalty. My phone fell out of my hands because people were throwing beer and I don't mind that. That's chill.
01:20:39
Speaker
I have a crack on my phone now, but that's all right. um You won't forget it. You won't forget to stay. No. can't ever get rid of that phone now. Absolutely not. The phone stays. I'm not getting it repaired. it It's just unless I have to, which you never know. Some of the beer might have gotten in the inner circuitry. So, I mean.
01:20:58
Speaker
You never know. but oh We got J.O. We got Tim. All right. I'm going to relinquish my spot for a bit. We're going to take a pause on calls after you, ah a Tribe, and then we'll get back to calls. I don't know if I'm going to be back. i'm gonna gonna do Dude, I'm rolling this stream until we fucking get kicked to the curb. I'll be back a little bit later. I love you guys. yeah i mean I can't emphasize enough. Thank you guys for all the love tonight. I'm kind of floored right now.
01:21:27
Speaker
but Hell yeah. Get slammed into Miami. j Take the floor. Tribe, give us your final. If you were Messi on the phone, what would you say right now? I don't think he answered any calls tonight.
01:21:40
Speaker
I don't think we' we're going to hear from him in in a while. And i think Luis Suarez, I mean, i haven't seen him do anything like that for 12 years. So. That was an absolute special moment to to watch.
01:21:53
Speaker
Anyways, thank you guys for having me on. absolutely love you guys so fucking much. And let's fucking go Sounders. Let's fucking go Sounders. We love you tribe. Cheers, brother. If you're in the queue, if you're in line, Chad, can you you, can hear me on this.
01:22:06
Speaker
ah If you're in line, Stay in line. Okay. And we missed a 50 bomb. Okay. We got to go back to the 50 bomb, 50 goddamn bomb. Let's go. Boys just dropped in before I drink too much. Celebrating Michael, please drink responsibly and, and, and call, call an Uber and also bias drinks, which you just did.
01:22:24
Speaker
So enjoy your beverages. We love you. Thank you so much, Michael. You're the goat. ah Okay. You guys were just at the pressers. Sorry. I'm going to have squeeze in Should I do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. on my left okay got you yeah This is You guys don't understand how small this is. um So you went to the pressers.
01:22:42
Speaker
yeah Yeah. You asked them. Brian got emotional. Oh, he sure did. Should we start there? Brian Schmetzer fucking loves this club. He loves it. However much you think you love the Seattle Sounders. You can never love it as much. Not nearly as much as Brian Schmetzer. And frankly, Adrian Hanauer. I love this club. This is true. like people think People think a lot of things, but the truth is that those two guys have put more blood, sweat, and tears into this club than anybody else.
01:23:07
Speaker
Schmitz did get into that in his presser. that like He spent 20 years with this club in some capacity. He actually undershot that by a few years. But the...
01:23:18
Speaker
fucking this This really is the the club that he and Adrian Hanauer have built. and i yeah this i So this is 15 cup finals between them in the 24 years they've been together.
01:23:36
Speaker
And that, I think, is 14... fourteen ah No, it's 12 cups. 12 cups. 12 titles.
01:23:47
Speaker
Oh, my God. It's a lot of titles. A lot of titles. That's average that's one every other year. Count them up. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Ari came in hot just now.
01:23:59
Speaker
He forgot his backpack. Oh, okay. He's going to try and try and dip. We're not leaving. So have we seen the actual footage Suarez spitting on Gene? didn't watch it. I just watched it again. I mean, it's on Twitter. T-U-N-I-G. Yeah, I'll send it to you. Just text it to me. I'll pull it up. We'll watch it on screen. It's actually way, way worse than I expected it to be.
01:24:23
Speaker
Like, way worse. He full-blown, first of all, the optics of ah Suarez... shouting down a 60-year-old man is bad, but then clearly just spits at his face.
01:24:43
Speaker
Yeah. You know what's even more cowardly? I don't want to be over the top here. He should be fucking banned from MLS. This is bullshit. That is fucking bullshit. Yeah. and And, you know, someone brought it up in chat was this is the headline on ESPN right now.
01:24:58
Speaker
They're not even talking about the fucking Sounders. How disrespectful. That's to be expected. yeah ESPN is just... ah That's why you subscribe to SounderHeart. SounderHeart.com. Right, exactly. but the i mean The reality is that this is this is like ah a blood cells, if it bleeds, it leads type stuff. Sure.
01:25:17
Speaker
and This is absolutely that. And this is among the you most disrespectful things i have ever seen a soccer player do on the pitch.
01:25:30
Speaker
Yeah. It's also, I mean, worse it's honestly worse than spitting at a player. Yeah, i I have to agree. i I mean, it's also not like Luis Suarez hasn't lost a big game before. He plays...
01:25:42
Speaker
for Uruguay on the international stage. Look at this. Look at this. The visuals of this could not possibly be worse. He lost the League's Cup. You know, I think it... League's Cup... Turns out it was good and it was fun, but it's like a you know, for money.
01:25:59
Speaker
I mean, all football is for money. oh Oh my God. He really did. He spit on us. He lost leagues cup and he spit on a team staffer. I literally said this. I said, i said, you played in champions leagues.
01:26:13
Speaker
You played, you played in the biggest competitions in the world. You've been a guy at the crash world cup. You're crashing out over leagues cup. If honestly, if he's not suspended for the rest of the season, I don't know what we're doing. Yeah. i don't know what, what the fuck we're doing. If he's not suspended for the rest of the season. And that says like,
01:26:29
Speaker
I have no dog in this fight. yeah we I mean, whatever. i guess the Sounders do play them. But this is... This is unbelievable. I don't see how this does not like is the not the last straw for him.
01:26:40
Speaker
Yeah. Don Garber is lucky that his press conference was before this game. Exactly. um I mean, seriously. Brian, I get it. He shouldn't have to talk about this. The players shouldn't have to talk about it.
01:26:51
Speaker
But this is a legitimately notable thing. I don't want to focus as too much on it. But it's it it's ah to see the visuals of it like that, where it's like,
01:27:02
Speaker
oh, you know, look, I think this is what happened. But then to get the video of it, it's like, no, this is undeniably what happened. Yeah. the The Sounders shouldn't have to talk about it. Nobody involved with the club should. But Miami should. the league should have to, and they should talk nice to the Sounders about it when they Right, exactly.
01:27:18
Speaker
i mean, that's a soul. yeah yes it is my like not even not even being like i'm irm actually that's assault kind of guy but like an unaffiliated with you're not playing in the game anymore there's no like cover of oh well you're playing in the game things get heated which is true he should be on the edge of downtown in king county lockup you're having a terrible time. He should have a nice place to be.
01:27:41
Speaker
Well, I mean, you know where he was in lockup the entire night was in the pocket of Jackson Reagan and Jamar. Why don't we talk about that lockup? Call them the goddamn King County Jail. The Supermax.
01:27:55
Speaker
ah I mean, that defense was I don't even know if I could say anything more than like, was that not the perfect performance? It was it ah was about as close to perfect as you can possibly ask. The Sounders locked up Messi. Messi did not have really a clean look all game. No.
01:28:15
Speaker
I mean, had the one where Suarez played him in, and he fucking didn't even get close to putting on goal. He sent that shit to one of our viewers' backyards. That's right. You're right. You're right. He did.
01:28:26
Speaker
There was that one play. I think... Andy Thomas talked about it in his mixed zone appearance, but fucking everybody in the squad put their body on the line. It was not just like, oh, they played great defense. like No, everyone sacrificed. obed one Obed's early tackle on Messi in the box sort of set in the tone of like, you use every ounce and inch of your body to make sure that No inter Miami player ends up on the on the score line.
01:28:55
Speaker
yeah I'm going to say something that's maybe a little crazy. okay I may be caught up in the moment. This is a safe space. This is a safe space. It's totally not recorded to broadcast to five to 300 people. I've been in the building for the 2016 MLS Cup. I've been in the building for the 2019 MLS Cup. I've been in the building for the 2022 Champions League.
01:29:15
Speaker
I don't know that the energy and the, like, there was something truly special about what happened out here today. And I'm not saying it's a bigger achievement, but it felt bigger.
01:29:28
Speaker
It felt bigger in its own way because of who it was against. And that's undeniable. Because of the there was some mix in the crowd, but the energy in this stadium was off the charts. And the fact that it ended the way that it did, this is the most... me There are more memorable moments from this game, I think, than any of those other...
01:29:49
Speaker
matches This was the most entertaining match, I think, of all those. it was it was amazing. It was a truly amazing experience. And it was a great reminder. i've been talking about this all week. But it's a great reminder of what a special thing this whole Seattle soccer experience is.
01:30:08
Speaker
Because there's nowhere else that this happens. Not like this. Not like this. No. We're the only city in the world. Period. what the city um Yeah, okay. In MLS. Among MLS markets. I'm sorry. What what what team is you know pulling out 60... What was it was the final? 69,000. There was a record. 69,000 people. And in a crowd where...
01:30:34
Speaker
i'm sorry like it was It was maybe 30% messy Inter-Miami fan. that That means that there is a majority of Sounders fans in this building. And even so, people with those pink jerseys on, we talked to them on the concourse.
01:30:47
Speaker
I talked to probably 20 different people. They're all Sounders fans. They're like, oh, I just didn't want to miss a chance to see the GOAT. Right. They're like, I'm going to be really happy if the Sounders win. And a lot of them predicted the Sounders would win. yeah i So this is... i said this i I sent this message out, and i actually think it might be true.
01:31:03
Speaker
There were a lot of pink jerseys here, but there were not a lot of Miami No, they don't exist. i I think even the like the phantom of Miami fandom that was present in the building. Yeah. Like you couldn't hear or feel opposition, but no one that there were people in messy and Miami jerseys because
01:31:28
Speaker
80% of the Messi jerseys were Argentina or Barca or PSG or some weird three-way combo jerseys. Or the casual Ronaldo jerseys, which was fire. But i like I think that amped the Seattle crowd up.
01:31:41
Speaker
That having an opponent to yell at and to put in their place to boo. Messi would be on the ball in the entire stadium just roaring with boos.
01:31:52
Speaker
no Is that No, no. It rocked. The hero energy was incredible. Yeah, and that like the who, when the at the like there is always, every time you come to a game here when they announced the opposing team, the ECS, especially chance who at every player that gets and the volume at Suarez at Busquets at Alba at messy was unlike anything I've ever heard during that segment.
01:32:19
Speaker
Can we talk about the heat check that Brian Schmetzer made? Yes. Because And I've been saying this to chat. I told them all to go into the comments section.
01:32:31
Speaker
Every single one of them, anyone who chirped, Brian Schmetzer, just reply 3-0. Just reply 3-0. That's all you have to do. 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. Chat, what was that number again? 3-0. Because to fucking heat check Lionel Messi and Suarez and Busquets...
01:32:47
Speaker
That was in, in, in, in Starry. Yeah. Okay. Well, he sucks, but it was, it was a, it, it, the balls it takes. And I honestly, so I asked Paul Rothrock about this. I said, would you, would you tell us about the mix zone? Yeah. So I asked Paul Rothrock, you know, what'd you make of Brian kind of putting it on you like that?
01:33:07
Speaker
And he just kind of smiled and he's like, I love it. Like, I i want this pressure. I want to do, I want, this is why we do this. This is, we don't come out here and perform in front of 69,000 people so we can hide.
01:33:18
Speaker
He didn't say that, but that's essentially what he said. yeah And he he basically said he embraced it. He loved it. And he's like very glad. He said, I'm glad I made Brian look really smart at the end.
01:33:29
Speaker
and And then he was talking about the Jersey thing. And he's like, I don't know if anyone actually did it. like And I told him they sold out. and he's like, oh, That's pretty cool. Yeah. And that's like, and I think, i mean, Paul Rothrock is such a wonderful avatar for this team.
01:33:45
Speaker
And it's not because he scores a million goals. And I think in some way it was kind of perfect that he had this golden chance to put the game away and he didn't. And then he gets another chance. Yeah. And he does a much, much more difficult finish.
01:33:58
Speaker
Correct. And it's perfect. It's like this in is celebration. Is that not the most pure... and he's like someone Someone said in a call and said, that's a that's an eight-year-old kid in his backyard.
01:34:11
Speaker
That's your dreaming of playing for your hometown club. I mean, in his mixed zone, he talked about how he hadn't been present for any of the previous cup finals yeah for the Sounders. And i I do think that it was...
01:34:27
Speaker
an eight year old in his backyard. Yeah. that's Truly living his dream, scoring the icing on the cake goal in the 89th minute to ice Leo Messi in front of your home fans. Like that's, that's not a real thing that happens.
01:34:45
Speaker
Your coach before the game says they got Leo Messi and we got Paul Rothrock and you outscored Leo Messi one zero. I mean, what the fuck just did I just see?
01:34:57
Speaker
And in, in, I just, what the fuck did I just see? What happened? What happened? What happened? ah Let's hit some of these super chats. I got to hit them because we've been fucking fracking donations like this is the goddamn Salvation Army.
01:35:09
Speaker
Is that right? Is that what they the bells? Yeah, take donations. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of their whole thing. Paul horse can't say that word on YouTube. Probably can't is the greatest product of the Seattle area ever. We're going just pull that one off the screen. Thank you for the night. so that word drew You can't say about all the F bombs. we dropped Yeah, I could probably say it, but I just, out of respect for Mr. That's cool.
01:35:31
Speaker
Mr. Horse... sure Yeah, sure. Mr. Horse. Mr. Horse will just... ah Love to hear your thoughts. Have we entered a new era of the Sounders? This team decisively ran the gauntlet with locals, second and third stringers. It feels like a different... like i Again, kind of said this game feels different, and I think I missed part of the reason, is that all those other games were like normal and MLS teams.
01:35:56
Speaker
They were teams that had stars. They had... nico ladero and they had raul reedias and they had roman torres and you know and these are all guys this is how this is how ml teams are built they were better they were built better but they were that's still the still the same blueprint this would have these this is not ml teams do not win things by building their raw they had eight players they developed on the starting lineup today and then the reserve who'd they bring off the bench georgie Kim Kihee was the only non-player.
01:36:29
Speaker
Yeah, he... Pauly subbed off in the 90th minute. Oh, that's right. ah Based on Danny Leyva, who has been up and down. Kalani, Rienzi.
01:36:43
Speaker
georgie And Kim, was that it? I think so. i think yeah So three of the four subs were all players they developed. this is not how This is not normal.
01:36:54
Speaker
This is not, this is I would say unprecedented in modern MLS. I assume there was a previous era of MLS where you could win with draft picks or something like that. But this was not that at all.
01:37:07
Speaker
uh this i i think clearly like it all was building up to this and so there's not like a single moment that changed at all and you know ah people were not as excited as maybe they could have been and for understandable reasons about bringing in jesus frera and paul areola in the off season
01:37:34
Speaker
Pedro kind of lost some shine because of how much time he missed due to injury last year. But you're starting to see like, Ferreira and De La Vega look like the guys that the Sounders hoped they were getting, not just who they may have thought or, you know, speculated that they were.
01:37:54
Speaker
These are the guys that they hoped they would be. And you add all of that internally developed depth the For all that the Club World Cup and this tournament are fraught for various reasons, the Club World Cup served as, I think, a paradigm shift for what is this new era of the Seattle Sounders. They tested themselves against genuinely the best clubs in the world yeah and found that, yeah, they lost, but not because they weren't good enough to get a result. Like, they...
01:38:26
Speaker
could stack up and play in a way that was respectable against those teams. And they have just carried that confidence on and beat a team that featured several of the best players in the world tonight.
01:38:39
Speaker
Yeah. And let's even look close. Think about who they started also in those club role comp games, John Bell, and Georgie, Reed Baker Whiting. Reed Baker Whiting. ah This was not necessarily their A-team.
01:38:51
Speaker
And in some ways, Reed is a great sort of ah example of this. is Here's a player who has not really lived up to a lot of people's expectations.
01:39:05
Speaker
I don't necessarily, I think somewhat unfairly. I see him play and i I see like he don't, he did not put a foot wrong today. Dude, he stepped to this moment in the most perfect way.
01:39:15
Speaker
Yeah. Like if open and I, I know we, we, it's a bit to talk about how much Obed's worth. 35 million. But I don't see... Like, if you don't watch this and you don't see a guy who's ready to move to Europe and just start bossing teams, I don't know what to tell you. Like, he... The fact that he got it... Like, that he got under Sergio Busquets' skin so much that he threw a punch on him... Yeah. It's, like, perfect.
01:39:41
Speaker
That was... I don't know. This is, this feels, this feels really special. if And I really hope, I hope, mean, I, I'm glad that so many people were here.
01:39:52
Speaker
i hope people got to enjoy it. And you know, it was funny, Paul also, he's like, i know you guys wanted us to sign someone this summer, but we signed Osaze and we signed Snyder and, you know, and, and it's like, I love that he like get, he knows the narrative.
01:40:08
Speaker
He's reading. He's listening. He's hearing it from his parents. And like again, this is not supposed to be happening in 2025 MLS. like This was like an old-timey baseball. This is like 1913 baseball stuff where it's like the guy from the factory is like the star player. Paul Rothrock legitimately...
01:40:30
Speaker
was playing at Toronto for... I mean, you should go read Tim's incredible article. yeah It is genuinely a masterpiece of showing just, like, what this team is about and how unorthodox this win is. Like, it illustrates it even more now. Like, I think this is honestly... You should pin this one to the site for people to reread. Yeah, we should. yeah um It's like... And the photos are really great. Whoever took those. Whoever shot those.
01:40:52
Speaker
The photos whip. Yeah. It's like... A guy who all he wants to do is play soccer. Yeah. Willing to do it for whatever and being like, this is where I want to play it.
01:41:07
Speaker
That did come up also. Incredible. The fact that he's had a contract, someone did ask him about it. And he just sort of like, he was clearly uncomfortable. Yeah. And he was just like, well, I hope this kind takes care of itself in the next few days, maybe.
01:41:18
Speaker
You know, it's funny that this game being against Miami, who have appropriately been referred to as Messi and the Barca boys. Yes. Uh, the roster constructions of these two teams is very like old school. And by old school at this point, I recognize is only like the twenty yeah but like that era, Barca versus Real Madrid, where Miami are full of Galacticos and the Sounders are the product of their Academy yeah and the young players they brought into their development system.
01:41:55
Speaker
And they, play beautiful football that is focused on the strength of the collective and everyone working together to the same goal. It's obviously not tiki-taka, thank God, but they've, I mean.
01:42:10
Speaker
you know, that's ah another thing I love though, is that the Sounders have in this post club World Cup era, They have won by dominating teams with the ball.
01:42:21
Speaker
they've But they were also very capable. They suffered. They were winning. And i I kept trying to, I maybe didn't articulate the question as well as I could have. But like I think the main difference tonight was the Sounders came into this game ready to suffer, ready to fight, ready to block shots, ready to chase down loose balls.
01:42:40
Speaker
And, but and Miami thought they were going to come here and pass the ball around and score a couple goals and get on a plane and go home. And that just wasn't going to happen. Diego Simeone would be proud.
01:42:52
Speaker
diego Exactly. I mean, i do think this is like a Diego Simeone-worthy performance. The suffering is necessary. i think he would have been proud of this. All right. we're We're keeping pushing on the Super Chats here. ah We've got Kyle.
01:43:05
Speaker
Kyle says, Sounders are the biggest club in North America. Changed my mind. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. No need to change your mind. Derek Richard with the $2 Schmetzer should be favorite for coach of the year. I've been, yes. That's been my, I've been saying yes. And you're actually going vote for him this year. I'm really going to vote for The nonsense is that league's cup doesn't count towards coach of the year because it's technically only supposed to be MLS, yeah but but he should be coach of the year. Just like met this, like, uh, didn't, what did Messi do?
01:43:33
Speaker
Messi won the shield when he won. Oh, okay. norman And then don't let the FO sell our boards for anything less than 10 million. Well, you got sign them to a contract first before can sell them. Yeah. So yeah ah this is going to make it really complicated. I fear like this winning this.
01:43:51
Speaker
I mean, I think it complicates things. Yeah. Yeah. So that'll be a good ah column. that but i I do think there probably are some outbound moves in the off season that alleviate some of that difficult. Correct.
01:44:04
Speaker
Correct. Who were y'all's men of the matches? That's good. That is tough. I mean, I guess Alex Roldan has to probably has to get to assist in goal. Absolutely. Yeah. I've been saying, I've been saying, is that too easy? Give us, here's what always do. We, we go with the, he's the obvious one at first and then we go for our deep cuts.
01:44:28
Speaker
i I'll go, you go. I haven't looked through anybody's stats. I still have, you know, my player spotlight for the recap still has to be written. ah But I think... Obed probably has a good shout i was um i think this suited some of the things that have been such a strength for him, um not necessarily like being in every tackle or winning every duel, but the way he's able to like funnel play to advantageous spots for the Sounders, plus the way he like capitalized on space. He has the shot that nearly turns into a deflection off of
01:45:09
Speaker
Rothrock for a goal. Like, I think he... And I mean, mentioned it earlier, but that big tackle on Messi that really sets the tone for the game. That was like the Javier Arriaga tackle on Vela in 2019 Western Conference Finals. But it's Messi and Obed, two the two greatest players play almost a penalty. There was no difference.
01:45:28
Speaker
It was like a lato leg legitimately such a clean tackle. And nobody else had Sergio Busquets so mad that he punched him. Correct. right I'm going deep cut Jackson Reagan. Yeah, that was another good call.
01:45:41
Speaker
The amount of times he bailed the Sounders out in defense, he's just a big, thick body, a big Michigan man. And on the opening weekend of college football, nonetheless, as our big, beautiful Michigan boy. Do think he watched the Wolverines?
01:45:53
Speaker
Absolutely. he got He got locked in with the Wolves. You think so? Go blue. Shout out, Mark. Go blue. Is he big Jim Harbaugh guy? either Maybe. The pants? Or is that the other one? I don't remember.
01:46:06
Speaker
ah the He loves cheeseburgers. Dude, his his vision, his passing vision. Yeah. How is this dude in MLS? I don't know. and it's you How is he not on the U.S.? Mauricio Pochettino, get on the phone right now.
01:46:23
Speaker
Also, poke like so there's a there is going to be a big moment coming up in a couple weeks, in a few weeks. The U-20 World Cup is coming up.
01:46:34
Speaker
And I'm pretty sure Reed and Obed are both going to get called in. And they're both going have to decide whether or not they want to be a part of this team as the season ends. Because they're going miss like potentially like five weeks, five games.
01:46:47
Speaker
and i think as a big And I don't and don't envy them. But I also think, especially with Reed, it might be an easier choice to just be like, look, ah this isn't for me.
01:46:57
Speaker
But Obed, I think, is caught in this weird middle ground where he's still trying to make his... He's trying to prove himself to the Mexican Federation. But a performance like this...
01:47:08
Speaker
You're wasting his time at the World Cup. Yeah. yeah yeah Stop wasting the kid's time. Tell him you're in the senior national team. You don't need to come to the stupid U20 World Cup. Stay with your senior national – your club. You're going to get more meaningful minutes there. more meaningful minutes there.
01:47:23
Speaker
We're not going jerk you around. Don't worry. We're going to call you in. You're going to probably be playing here in 2026. So, like, I don't – and I don't – I really – I am worried that – I mean, not worried.
01:47:35
Speaker
I just, I don't envy his decision-making because I think it's a, it's a tough spot to put him in. um but Obed was, i think the low key man of the matches. Maybe that would be a good, uh,
01:47:49
Speaker
That good segment. The low-key man of the match instead of the man of the match. yeah You heard it here first it's on Lobbing Scorchers. We're trademarking it. trademarking cant you Did I give it away? No, you didn't. That's okay.
01:48:00
Speaker
It's okay. We can cross-promote We can put it back in the bottle. No, we can cross-promote it. It's okay. We'll share it. um Having a community to join in on on nights like this makes it all worth it.
01:48:11
Speaker
Could the lead-up and finish to this game be any better? Brian putting Miami on notice with Pauly. with the poly talk and him cashing in it's just so wild i agree tom thank you for the 20 bomb and we love that you're here ah matthew says uh now that we got another cwc to showcase homegrown talent and bring in more talent uh ps players pre-negotiated well it's not in there not yet when they win concat champions cup next year they will be um dj thank you for the and matthew thank you think for the 20 bomb appreciate it 1999 bomb whatever you know same thing
01:48:43
Speaker
well yeah What is this 99 cent thing? I don't know. It's fucking YouTube, dude. Who knows? $19.99. It's called anchoring and it makes you think you're spending less. yeah Exactly. just round twenty ah Does Brian have the keys to the city? If not, can we make this happen? well you know Famously, we don't like the mayor.
01:49:01
Speaker
We're pro Katie Wilson. but oh height There was no city... Shouldn't the very, very unpopular mayor have maybe seized this moment and been like,
01:49:12
Speaker
Did you know that Messi was playing in the downtown stadium? There's 60,000. I don't think Mayor Harrell knew. I bet you Katie Wilson was here. Probably. You know where Mayor Harrell wasn't?
01:49:24
Speaker
Not here. Well, he lives in he lives in Bellevue. so I know. Anyway, politics, am i my right? Politics, am I right? Jeremiah, woke. Hashtag, everyone drop hashtag woke in the chat.
01:49:36
Speaker
I do, I, the, we don't need to go back up to it, but the Paul Rothrock of it all, I think, for great effect and to good value, the, we have Paul Rothrock thing has been fantastic, but I think it's worth remembering that the quote was not just, we have Paul Rothrock. It was, we have Paul Rothrock. And then he listed like Jackson Regan. He also went off because Pedro,
01:50:05
Speaker
Osase de Rosario. Like everybody that he did absolutely cooked in this game. yeah And it is, i think it is good to get excited and celebrate Paul Rothrock, but the message from everyone in the club from before the game and after has been that it was the collective and the like strength of everyone together. But every collective needs an ah talisman. talisman.
01:50:32
Speaker
And I think yeah Paul is a very good talisman for this group. And I think it's fitting that he's not the leading goal scorer. He's not in the leading assist playmaker. He's just like guy who makes shit happen, you know? And I think that's perfect.
01:50:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. One more super chat here. guys have been killing it. ah Old money won over new money. Obed to Atletico Madrid PDLV for Argentina. Call up Sounders snap trophies.
01:50:58
Speaker
Sounders snap and trophies tally up. I don't know what all of that means, but fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. I don't want to keep you guys too long. If you want to stay, you can. If you're ready to go, you can. can save for a couple more minutes. I feel bad leaving you alone.
01:51:13
Speaker
No, I mean, i um I'll rip some of these calls. We're good. I can hang for another few minutes, and then I'll go finish up the recap. Give us some topics here. Some more topics here. so more topics here um
01:51:28
Speaker
ah w w w x dog know you know guys let me i want to hear another oh i didn't want to hear about the the the mix zone if you have more oh yeah i mean paul was the star the mix zone osaze had a couple good little uh osaze was fired up man he was he was really fired up he was he was uh you know he was talking his dad was intent was here ah that rocks and It was, you know, it was good times. I'm trying to think.
01:51:57
Speaker
We talked to Andrew. Andrew was... Oh, sorry. I missed two Super Chats. I'm going to do them quick. They're quick. Time to start Rothrock Ballon d'Or agenda. Are we in for it? I think so. yeah And Derek... Thank you, A-Soul. Appreciate you. too $2. And Derek Richards, $2.
01:52:12
Speaker
Big players make big-time plays. True. ah so fact Oh, so, oh, so we, I think, I think we maybe didn't finish this thought about Paul's contract situation yeah is they asked him about it and he's like, I hope it takes care of itself in a couple days, but all seriousness, if I'm his agent and like, my understanding is the sounders and, in and, and,
01:52:31
Speaker
Paul Rothrock were a big distance. Oh, like they were not close. yeah That was your understanding. and That was my understanding, but they were not particularly close. so Like this was shaping up kind of like the Jackson Reagan situation last year where his agent came in with a kind of laugh will be big number. And the sounders were like, that's not going to happen.
01:52:49
Speaker
Yeah. And that played out for a long time. And that's sort of how this was looking. But in all seriousness, if I'm his agent, I'm calling the sounders up tomorrow and being like, I don't know what games you guys are playing here.
01:53:00
Speaker
Put that prize money to work, baby. it's time to pay my boy. pay the piper. Because you just but made him the poster child for this whole thing. Yeah. You cannot. like there is You just compared him to Messi.
01:53:12
Speaker
You just compared him to Messi. You just did a trade in your Messi jersey for Paul Rothrock. You didn't say. You can't not re-sign him. You can't not re-sign him. Exactly. you And it's like, just pay him.
01:53:23
Speaker
And like, yeah, there's maybe there's a ah ah number that makes a little bit more sense. But like, that's the Sounders problem. Yeah. I mean, in how how incredible for Paul Rothrock, dude earned every fucking penny.
01:53:36
Speaker
Yeah. Every penny. One of the Mixon questions that got asked was something I hadn't noticed during the live match, but apparently Andy T ran the full length of the pitch to celebrate with everybody after Paulie's goal. And he was absolutely jazzed at the fact that like three nowil you have to you have to get there this is the best part of that was that he they asked him about that and they're like why did you do that and he said well we were watching the film of pedro's goal i guess yeah and he's like and everyone was over there and it seemed so awesome and i i wasn't and you know because i had to stay back there and i had to be had to be responsible and i said fuck it yeah
01:54:24
Speaker
I'm getting in on that action. And the Paul Rothrock goal. Was it the Paul Rothrock goal? Yeah, exactly. need to watch that film. He's like, he's like we're up 3-0. I don't care. Yeah. That's so good, dude. I love Andrew. I mean, what a fucking guy. thats i guess this brings up the question.
01:54:39
Speaker
Should he be starting the rest of the season? It's a very good... I mean, it's a i ah that is more than any other... problem to come out of this that's the that's the biggest problem i think that's the real thing where if you're brian how do you and i guess you you can kind of do it because andrew seems to be ah chill dude right he's a good guy but i don't know how long of a leash you can give this like
01:55:11
Speaker
He is playing so... Like, he's not perfect, but he's playing so well right now. And I would think at the very least, Steph is looking at this going like, it's his job next year.
01:55:22
Speaker
i like I think it would be great if they can bring Steph back at a lower number and have him be like a one more year as a you know as a backup. But I would think Steve has to sort of understand, like the Hahnemann role, exactly. But I think Steph has to sort of understand, like, the torch has been passed. Whether or not it literally happens...
01:55:40
Speaker
next game i don't know but this he could not have he could barely have played better like i don't know what else you can ask for him i mean you can look at the run going into leagues cup where the team was like absolutely on fire scoring goals but they were giving up a bunch of goals and you could kind of see like you know andrew thomas is like doing a good job but it's not like he's winning them games and then in this tournament, he allowed two goals in six six games.
01:56:11
Speaker
Like it's unreal. And both of the, it wasn't like he got lit up Twice in one game. It was... What was the one? The one goal was a banger from Tijuana, and then the other one was Santos Lagoon. What was the other goal?
01:56:22
Speaker
don't remember. It was sort of a ah sloppy, scrappy little thing that was like... at the end of the game. was or yeah It wasn't really on him, like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he could have done something about it, but his defense should have prevented that goal in the first place. Yeah. Like, I...
01:56:37
Speaker
I said in a recap recently that there wasn't really a goalkeeper controversy, but we were about as close as we'd ever been to one. And I, I think the question of whether Andrew Thomas should be starting.
01:56:49
Speaker
no there's a real period is a better question every single day. Yep. Well, this is what I'm going to leave you two off with. If you had Lionel Messi on the phone right now, he's just sitting there. Make a little ultra in hand.
01:57:04
Speaker
ah Moss by Messi, also in his other hand. And he's got the receiver like you know wedged up here. is he wearing What's he wearing? whoa this getting This is getting freaky. No shirt.
01:57:15
Speaker
I like how you thought it was getting freaky. He tarps off. He's got his socks on still? Socks on. okay i think socks on and his Miami shorts. yeah He's wearing the hotel bathrobe, correct but it's open. What are you saying to him?
01:57:31
Speaker
ah what are you saying to him It was a good effort. You know, I appreciate you you trying. So you then you have three beers. What are you saying? Messi, what happened? Sucks to suck. Que paso? Que paso, Messi?
01:57:47
Speaker
And then he says, Niccolo Voltra? Mr. Messi. Don't cry for me. You know, all seriousness, how boring is it to be like, what if we signed Messi and all his buddies and we, and we win shadow yeah over and over again. They kind of suck.
01:58:03
Speaker
They kind of suck. This is so much more like, I would love, would, I would and would love a, big name signing that's fun, but this is hard to be. Like, if you could tell me, if you could tell me the Sounders can win just as much without the big names as they could yeah with the big names, I think I might prefer it this way.
01:58:22
Speaker
I, a hundred times out of a hundred, would take this over signing Leo Messi and a bunch of his friends and watching them shit the bed and then fight a bunch of kids. yeah The crash out at the end is cinema dude they're gonna they're going to this is a game that i will tell my kids about i mean i probably won't ever have kids but if i have kids if i'm fortunate enough to this is this is i'm gonna tell this to jeremiah's kids yeah i'm gonna be like noah has a story yeah i' i've never i've never seen global superstars my kid was here um my kids was here cinema that's that's it and that's you know what that's a core memory thank you paul rothrock yeah exactly
01:59:01
Speaker
Thank you, Parothrock. She's going to make me watch. She's to make me. She's to like maybe can let her watch games now. Oh, no. Someone will have to sit in your season tickets now. No, exactly. You won't have to return them. Exactly. ah Well, do you two want to shill at all?
01:59:17
Speaker
shill, like, sounder read, subscribe to Sound Art Art. I don't know, your own personal channel. So I don't know. I mean, that's kind of my, sure. Like, i don't know. ah If you're not a Sound Art Art reader and you're like, ah, those guys are too shill, but the Lobby Scorchard guys keep it real, I'm not going to, you know,
01:59:35
Speaker
Keep giving your money. Yeah. Sounderheart.com slash LS. We get a cut of it all. But also find Jesus and subscribe to Sounder at Heart. prefer really at Preferably at a paid tier. It's well worth your money. Yeah. yeah exactly You can join the Discord too. That's a thing. Yeah. The Discord. I got to tell you, shout out to the Sounder Heart Discord users because I've been getting a lot of plaudits and credit from literally Agent Hanauer today said, I owe you one for the Paul Rothrock thing.
02:00:02
Speaker
And that's actually not my idea. Adrian, come on the pod, brother. It's actually not mine. It was actually a Discord user who I wish I knew I could tell you who it was. but I think you owe that Discord user a Paul Rothrock jersey you if you can find that. That's a great point.
02:00:16
Speaker
So if you are the guy, I if you i mean, we we the receipts are there, so I guess we I could find out. Lick, it'll find it Yeah, we owe that guy a Paul Rothrock jersey. In fact, you know what we got to do?
02:00:27
Speaker
We'll get a signed Paul Rothrock jersey for him. yeah I'm going to get the Sounders to give you a signed Paul Rothrock jersey. Yeah, easy. easy that's what That's what the Discord community... That's what that's why it's worth joining the Discord community. You can legitimately talk to Adrian Hanauer by proxy if you join the Discord community. Loggingscorters.com slash chamber wheelel LS. Subscribe at the advocate tier? No, the supporter tiers Supporter tier.
02:00:51
Speaker
Anyway. you can If you want to be the advocate here, you can. You'll also get into the Discord that way. Yeah. Anyone. But you don't have to. Or just, you know, keep keeping on. Just keep throwing him money. Throwing three of throw money our way. Yeah, we'll take not against that. That's tight, too. I'm happy to share. Yeah, we'll take it.
02:01:07
Speaker
Yeah. But, ah yeah, thanks so much for coming on. going to rip some call-ins, but, mean, feel free to come back in at any time. I'll just be here until they legitimately arrest me.
02:01:18
Speaker
Good job, Noah. I'm never leaving. I'm never leaving. Go Sounders. Go Sounders. Go Durs. Okay, call-ins are open again. the link is pinned. Everyone say bye. how many people are waiting for?
02:01:31
Speaker
Just a couple. Just a couple. Just a couple. Just a couple. See you around. Derek, I think you've fallen asleep on your computer there, but are you awake? You ready to go? ah right, Derek. How we doing?
02:01:44
Speaker
How we doing? Can you hear me? Wait, I think you might be muted. I can't hear you. Uh-oh. Oh, no, mic problems. I can't hear you. ah yeah And tell – dude, this is does this angle look good? Hold on. How about now?
02:02:02
Speaker
Oh, you're coming in a little hot. hot and material It's okay. It's okay. i can I can fix it. I can fix my mic, too. I got you. I got you. Wait. Let me – I can turn my game down.
02:02:13
Speaker
There you go. Okay. You're going turn it down? ah can turn my game down, yeah. Perfect. I was going to turn it down on here, but you can. How about now? Better? ah Talk one more time.
02:02:26
Speaker
Is it better now? Yeah, that's good. That's better. All right. good Derek, how we doing? Absolute nil. two Man. I'm sitting on the table.
02:02:39
Speaker
We are. um my God. Just cook. You've been sitting in here for like an hour. So you get the floor. Oh, shit. First off, you know I don't got a lot of elite analysis, but I can tell you about how much fun I had.
02:02:55
Speaker
yeah Which was a lot of fun. and And you know what? There's there's nothing better than watching some homegrown Seattle. you know I grew up here my whole life, renting Seattle, 40 years old.
02:03:09
Speaker
forty years old You know, I'll tell you one thing. ah if if if you This area takes a lot of pride in how fucking good we are at soccer.
02:03:21
Speaker
Yes. We don't give a fuck about no L.A., Chicago, nothing. No, Seattle area, Puget Sound region holds it down per capita, best of the best.
02:03:34
Speaker
And tonight, our boys, local boys, came out and they fucked Miami up. Yeah, they did. They scored three goals. And what do we got? Alex Roldan, right? Seattle U, right? yeah Right down the street from my apartment. You know, we're all Capitol First Hill people. Right down the street, right? We got Paul Rothrock.
02:03:59
Speaker
He's Capitol Hill. bless it And then what's the Osase De Rosario? Listen, we adopt him. He's in Seattle now. You know what? This De Rosario family, welcome to Seattle.
02:04:13
Speaker
I'm about to get that jersey. Let's go. I'll tell you what, man. Big time finals at home is what it's all about. And it doesn't matter how you create your roster, but it is way more fun when it's the local kids. But if you're giving me...
02:04:29
Speaker
65 plus thousand people winning big time games at home. That is what I'm a sports fan for. It's those moments. absolutelyly beennd to some and I've been to the NFC championship games and win the Seahawks. I went to the Super Bowl that we won.
02:04:45
Speaker
man sounders are bringing those moments and you know you know how we're we're agree about trophies it had been nearly three calendar years or whatever since we hosted a big time final at home we were like is there a crisis in this club and i ah so i'll be honest i was one of the people you know promoting those kind of narratives is there something wrong nah there's not something wrong man we are still dominating this league you already know seattle sanders all the way and i just got a lot of love first off reed baker writing oh yeah everybody coming into this game is like i was the same i was like man we really need new who these guys can ball out that you know we need that good one-on-one defense who reed baker whiting held it down oh yeah
02:05:31
Speaker
yeah across the Across the back, do the back line. just I mean, we held them to zero. They put Miami in hell. I mean, the the the double pivot, the defense as a whole, everyone, everyone was putting them in a metaphorical headlock so much so that that that ah the their defense literally put Miami.
02:05:51
Speaker
our team in a physical headlock because they crashed out so much. I mean, like that's, that was incredible. And I want you to speak a little bit more because towards this crowd, this energy, this idea of like Seattle absolutely gets behind the soccer team because there was a lot of, yeah, there was some pink in the stadium today, but it was so loud. It was so loud. The thunderous boos against Leo Messi.
02:06:14
Speaker
I mean, that that is that is That's peak. That's peak. Every other club in the entire league has sold out stadiums because of Messi.
02:06:25
Speaker
The Seattle Sounders are selling out finals because of Paul Rothrock. And it's just an added bonus that Messi gets to get his ass whooped by them. Listen, there's... You can't deny the fact that like every big time, every Bessie fan in the Pacific Northwest came out here, but y'all spoke to it earlier. Like there were a lot of people wearing messy jerseys that are Sounders fans.
02:06:48
Speaker
And they're like, this is my chance to see it. And I i guarantee you when those goals went in for the Sounders, they were clapping, they were chanting. Right. Yeah. and And I think there and there might have been some neutrals that might live around here like this is my chance to see Messi. Let's go. And they got to see Seattle put on a dominant for Adrian Howard. It's got to be like cloud nine. Like, yeah, as happy as I am, he's got to be like, there's there's thousands of people that want to come back to a Sounders game tonight.
02:07:16
Speaker
and i hope and you know what i hope i hope they see that that's 68 000 or whatever they they announced and like the energy is here i hope they saw club world cup too like yeah despite all the debacle fifa did with the ticketing but you know what when the when the games play there 50 000 plus man that the passion is still here it didn't go anywhere yeah it's still here and there's still that passion to be tapped into and I hope that this was a good wake-up call or a reminder for the front office that hey man we're we have some passionate fans here and all you got to do is you know and they're putting the product on the field so don't get me wrong so I had like every every year when it comes down to like my see I'm student ticket holder since 2009
02:08:01
Speaker
What I'm looking for score some goals while they're doing that. Right. They're putting three goals up almost every goddamn home game at this point. Like, it's just I'm more surprised if they score two.
02:08:12
Speaker
yeahre like Whoa, yeah they um they only scored two today. They're putting three, four, five, sevens. You kidding me? That's crazy. They're winning their home games, which is what I want. I'm partying. right there. And they're playing for trophies, winning trophies, and they're playing exciting soccer. You know, this is the most pumped I've been to renew my season tickets.
02:08:34
Speaker
And there's one more thing on my checklist. Yeah. Let's hear And that is beating Portland at home. You beat Portland at home. It's already a successful season for me.
02:08:46
Speaker
Yeah. Right. You win a trophy. You qualify for a Champions Cup. You're right, we get to go to the round of 16. So we don't have to play the two early games in February. So we get a little more time, right?
02:08:58
Speaker
yeah We're gonna win that fucker, by the way, next year. I know it's a little too early to predict, but ah you can't... first I'm beat Portland's ass secondly let's let's talk about these call-ups from Tacoma Defiance and and how crazy this is uh KKR Kalanikosa Rienze Azazay De Rosario Snyder Brunel you put you pumping people that these these cats are coming out here and within their first six eight weeks of playing they look like they are top level MLS players
02:09:31
Speaker
Like that's kind three. That's Goldman-Jenner. You can produce one player like that a year. you're You're Philadelphia. You're Dallas. You're like the the heralded teams. You put three out there a year. You're a dynasty that won't be stopped.
02:09:47
Speaker
Like ah like i know it did who are we? Jordan Morris out. Albert Roos knockout. Ryan can't out. Paul Areola out. Jao Paulo out.
02:09:58
Speaker
Musovski. Musovski out, who's about to be a 20-goal scorer this year. And we whooped Miami's ass. We whooped him. We whooped him with the D squad. It wasn't even close. Every time Messi's on the ball, you're like, damn, some magic could happen. He's the best player of all time. It's it's okay. It's cup final. you can be a little worried.
02:10:19
Speaker
We whooped their ass. Well, derick Derek, give us give us give us if Messi was on the phone with you right now, ring him up. This time he's got a shirt on, though. He's got tops on now.
02:10:32
Speaker
ah What are you saying to him? What are you saying to the guy?
02:10:39
Speaker
Hey, it was fun watching you. that That World Cup final you won was one of the greatest games I've ever seen in my life. But welcome to Seattle where the players play.
02:10:50
Speaker
Ooh, Derek. We got a couple other callers. I hope you don't mind. Really appreciate it you, brother. We'll see you soon. All right I'm going the super chat, and then we'll get Caleb Mack'd.
02:11:03
Speaker
LLL AFC taking the L at home to San Diego, which sets us up well going forward. Keeps us within punching chance of that number two spot, which is so true. Shout out to our LAFC fans, though. We still love you.
02:11:17
Speaker
ah We still love you, but LAFC. Is this a good angle, Chad? Chad, is this good? Is this good? Okay, Caleb, are you ready? I'm bringing you on. Are you ready?
02:11:29
Speaker
I'm adding you in. Caleb. Caleb! Caleb!
02:11:35
Speaker
Oh, can you hear me? We can hear you You sound, you sound delectable. Thank you. Um, yes. Well, I don't know if you can see, ah behind me on the screen. Um, I'm gonna, uh, can you still hear me?
02:11:53
Speaker
Wait, does it say, it says, uh, behind the shield. says behind the shield. Yes. Yes. If you can, if you can see that, um, in this, in this image, there is a ah a ah ah pair of drumsticks yes um that are, if you can see, that are behind the shield.
02:12:15
Speaker
and And those drumsticks are in the possession of Pedro De La Vega. And that is, ah ah um those ah my that my signature is right up there, up behind the D. um and And it's like that little scribble right there. It's ah it's it's my signature.
02:12:41
Speaker
And to look at that and to know that my drumsticks has helped Pedro De La Vega um ah beat the shit out of Messi. And, um you know, it's surreal moment.
02:12:59
Speaker
And I am very grateful for that, like for the Sounders and grateful to be a fan ever since the start of this Sounders campaign in 2009.
02:13:14
Speaker
And watching
Player Discussions and Comparisons to Messi
02:13:15
Speaker
every trophy from it's been and it's been nothing but an amazing journey and a successful. ah Just just like, you know, gratitude, just absolute gratitude.
02:13:32
Speaker
And that's the yeah. I mean, you undoubtedly are one of our favorite callers, Caleb. And I was, I mean, to say, i mean, you you' you know you're playing a role in the De La Vega resurgence.
02:13:47
Speaker
um I got to know how you have felt throughout this tournament, seeing him just absolutely ascend. And then just, you know, how you're feeling about everything.
02:14:02
Speaker
Just in general.
02:14:06
Speaker
I know. I know. and no nodoors um I would say that it was for him going out off in this tournament the way he did um it was absolutely just like, hey, this is what you want in Argentine number 10.
02:14:27
Speaker
I know everybody talks about Messi, saying that's the the so-called Argentine standard. I'm like, nah, we're sounders. We can do that better in the aggregate. We can do it way better in the aggregate.
02:14:40
Speaker
And it's called Pedro De La Vega. And he's, again, just like... and Knowing that Craig, i know Craig said this in a post-game conf, kind in the post and ah and like and in one of his ah um interviews.
02:15:00
Speaker
He was just like, he said that, you know, he studied Pedro De La Vega. He is extensively studied him. And i know, again, with what Craig has done with like studying in Argentine,
02:15:15
Speaker
and i'm bringing and bringing him to MLS because he has done that with another former club, which I'm not going to be naming right now. Yeah. The club's formerly known as.
02:15:26
Speaker
We don't like them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we don't. But other than that, like like i said, i nothing but the great... like you know we needed something that that the fans needed this for for clarity like you know like like i said they needed a number 10 to help like bring especially with the hurt that happened with uh with uh with nico ladero but at the same time it's you know like like we were able to do something like this and especially with having pedro de la vega um it was beautiful it was beautiful watching pedro de la vega walk on that platform all by himself and watching messi having to watch him and that that was a step that that's that's going to stick with me to the rest of my life knowing that like wow i gave
02:16:20
Speaker
that person, you know, drumsticks. And I gave him two pairs of drumsticks. and And I gave Obed sticks. I gave John Bell sticks. I gave Paul Rothrock sticks.
02:16:33
Speaker
I've given um ah Christian Roldan, Alex Roldan sticks. power I've given Albert. Yeah, I've given albert um ah yeah yeah yeah i've given albert drumsticks special drumsticks with that um i've given stephan fry drumsticks jacob castro andrew thomas um i i've i've really supplied a whole bunch of uh sticks for the whole bunch of fur for a lot of the teams and i' like for them to just having this successful moment is very is is very much gratitude and i know you have so many others to get to so that's that yeah i'll let you yeah
02:17:19
Speaker
No, no, I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. i can't We got to get you on. We got to get you at some point to like record a little ah little riff for us so that we can like play it in our intro or something because you're goaded and we appreciate it. Caleb, I got to ask you.
02:17:37
Speaker
I got to ask This is my final question. I've been asking everyone. If you had Missy on the phone right now, right, what would you say to him?
02:17:48
Speaker
oh well since you put it that way and um be like uh okay hold up hold on one second i gotta to you know grab a grab everyone hold in chat hold in chat everyone hold hold hold the line
02:18:11
Speaker
of um we are we holding we're holding chat we're holding we're holding Yes. Hey. Okay.
02:18:21
Speaker
We're right here. Let's go. I'm just.
02:18:34
Speaker
Nico.
02:18:37
Speaker
Get three. Um, and to mr messi if you can tell uh uh your uh assistant coach javier morales that um he put it wide and that nico put it in that um you know uh that ah yeah please tell me respectfully respectfully um uh And then also tell, they you know, tell your like, yeah, now you have to see a um ah drumsticks by the power of Vic Firth with I encourage everybody get your Vic Firth drumsticks. Any lobbying signatures, like, you know, like, we'll try to get something that.
02:19:24
Speaker
But, um but yes, the power of Vic Firth and drumsticks ah destroy you. And with De La Vega is the the real Argentine number 10 and you're not. So yeah, be mad.
02:19:39
Speaker
hea And Nico Ladero is better. Yes, we're hanging up that phone. We're moving on to another collar, but we really appreciate you, Caleb. Thank you, sir. See you soon. got All right.
02:19:50
Speaker
Next up, we got Ty. We got Ty, Ty. I see you have no camera. um If you want to turn that bad boy back on. If not, I can't really tell if you're ready. So, Jack, I see you.
02:20:01
Speaker
I'm to pop you on. You good to go? All right, Jack, how we doing? Oh, I'm good. Are you, can you hear me okay? I can hear you sound great. Oh, awesome. You sound great.
02:20:12
Speaker
but Are you in a rest area right now? I'm at a ferry. I'm going home. Oh! Fell in the sweet sea air. It's a good night to be a sounder.
02:20:23
Speaker
It's so good. It's great. So you were at the match? Oh yeah, I was at the match. I saw... I was going to ask because I did see the brawl, but I didn't really see like what happened. I was way up by the Miami band that, you know, they were laying down good beats, but yeah. yeah da da da da but a but that kind of thing Yeah. I had a great view of, I could tell Suarez spit from the 300 level. Oh my God. Yeah.
02:20:55
Speaker
Bad. He like really hocked it back. Yeah, he went Hawk Tua and he doesn't have a podcast, bro. He's going to do a crypto rug pull though, I'm sure of it. Yeah. Uh...
02:21:08
Speaker
But yeah, I was going to like, did other things happen? Like I heard, heard saw in chat that Busquets took a swing at Obed. Did that actually happen? There was definitely some swings taken. I don't know who exactly swung at Obed.
02:21:21
Speaker
um But I know that also ah Cody Baker was in a headlock by Falcone. Falcone had him in a headlock. Falcone was my crash out prediction of the game.
02:21:33
Speaker
So I feel like that kind of came true. I mean, I think Suarez takes the cake with spitting, but like straight up, Cody Baker was like trying to tap out. He was like, oh, I mean, like it was crazy. Like out of nowhere too.
02:21:45
Speaker
And Cody Baker's the pit bull, bro. We don't mess with Cody Baker. we You don't mess with the pit bull, bro. He didn't even play Like what? Why are you after that guy? Damn. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. People are saying Collar is correct correct ah that he did he did throw a punch. So that's what Chad's saying. I'm not saying it, but Chad's saying it. So I believe it.
02:22:07
Speaker
All right. How does it... I mean, other than that, like how are you feel like, how do you feel? I mean, is this... Do you think... How many finals have you been to? Maybe you haven't been to another final. Hey, no. I was at the Champions League final. ah Well, so I went with my dad tonight. and Yeah. And I was wearing my scarf that I got at the very first MLS game.
02:22:29
Speaker
I think it was, like, March 7th, I want to say. Also 3-0 victory over the Red Bulls. But... but ah Yeah, I was looking at that 2005 and that 2007, you know, USL title. I've been there since then.
02:22:45
Speaker
um Wearing a jersey I bought at the, I think the 2005 one was at Starfire. That 2007, I think, was at Quest. But I've been to a few championships. This one felt great. I would put it on par with the the CCL.
02:23:00
Speaker
Yeah. cause where do you where do you What's your rating? What's your tier rating? for It could be 1A, 1B, I think is is is fair.
02:23:10
Speaker
I would put it as that. I think because CCL, you know, ccl winning CCL ones, I love it. that That got us into two Club World Cups. Yeah. It got us a bunch of money, bunch of hype.
02:23:22
Speaker
felt great. We were the first. just what We're riding high on right now. Yeah. I'm yeah. And this one we're riding high on it. We're going to forever be the team a team to beat Messi. The whole league was rooting for the Sounders, and they pulled through.
02:23:37
Speaker
And that feels great. We've had support. We came through. We looked classy doing it, you know? ah And... And made them crash out.
02:23:49
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Feels great. Oh, I wanted... Okay. If I have one take, I... We all are here. We love Seattle soccer. We love Seattle Sounders soccer. We have talked a lot about the local kids. You know, Brian is absolutely the GOAT. I got my first pair of cleats at Schmetzer Sport Haas and they were so nice. I loved this.
02:24:09
Speaker
He's been doing me a solid since then. And, and it's, this game felt like a, It was great, you know, community built, kind not the biggest city, but it's a community built, vibrant team that's there showing up for one another. It's not just the expensive purchases.
02:24:33
Speaker
It's not just the brand names. It's not just the coconut drink after you get your training done. It's. people are here in the rough weather and they're here because they love it and they're grinding and like, I don't know, the tournament leagues cup feels a little icky. You know, there was all that, the red, white and blue, like smoke coming up. you I said it was a botched gender reveal. Like what were they doing with that?
02:24:56
Speaker
Yeah. Like what was that? And they also put way more pink smoke out. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, i mean, you know, yeah just saying, you know, think about that for the narrative.
02:25:09
Speaker
Yeah. But, I mean, it feels great. I can't wait to go down and watch. I'm not going to be there, but, you know, for the Sounders to go down and feel great when they play Miami.
02:25:22
Speaker
Yeah. ah I would say, yeah, the season feels like like a success, but it also feels like, where where do we stop? We're just revving up. Yeah. And everyone had such a good game. it was great. It was nervy.
02:25:35
Speaker
We had a little luck. They did not need to miss those chances, but it feels good. Like we absolutely earned that. And that's just, you know, no better feeling. Absolutely. all right. I'm going to give you.
02:25:48
Speaker
Yeah. plus yeah I'm sure you've heard this question. As I've asked everyone, you have messy on the phone. This time he's shirtless again. He's shirtless again. No pants, but does have socks on.
02:26:00
Speaker
Okay. what What are you saying to him? One probably put, put your pants back on, but you know. What, what kind of socks you got? What brand are those? so They're like, they're his soccer socks. They're high. They're like all the way up to his, ah past his knees.
02:26:13
Speaker
Yeah. Giving a visual here. No shoes on though. Yeah. I would say, you know, you played pretty well. I've seen you play better and you just got to bring your A game against our guys. Sorry.
02:26:28
Speaker
It's not simply. It's Osaze. It's our guy. It's our guy Osaze. Paul Rothrock. Give him your Jersey. yeah I do want to know who he swapped with. He probably didn't swap with anyone.
02:26:41
Speaker
i don't That didn't seem like a swapping. know No. No. I wouldn't want to swap my jersey after I beat the brakes off of Messi. I want to keep that. Yeah. I'd want to keep that jersey. That's a good jersey to keep. That's a really good jersey to keep.
02:26:55
Speaker
Yeah. Well, Jack, thank you for calling in. Please get home safe. Thank you. Tell him to honk the ferry. but yeah Thank you for doing this. Well-deserved. Super chats. Love the Sounders community.
02:27:08
Speaker
Dude, we love you too. Please get home safe and we'll talk soon. Thanks, Jack. Okay, Hunch, hunch ah I'm going to bring you on. Ari said he's going to come. He's going to come. i told him, I said, Hunch dropped a 200 bomb.
02:27:21
Speaker
He dropped 200 bomb. You got to come. And so what he's going to come. ah But before I pop you on, I'm going to just read these other super chats that we did get while we were chatting ah because I just think that I want him to come on here when you come on so that it's a whole, you you know what I mean.
02:27:37
Speaker
ah This one is from P. Sut. Thanks for the pregame pizza and chat. Everyone should come to the next pregame party. Thanks for coming. It was super fun. If you guys missed it, we were just hanging around.
02:27:49
Speaker
It was super fun. We love fast fashion. If you're ever looking for a place to go for the game, that's always a good place. Good beer, cheap beer, good pizza, all that kind of stuff. um Turd Ferguson, sun going to eat you scrubs up.
02:28:01
Speaker
Koi S for life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, guess what? Hunman's son doesn't have a goddamn leagues cup trophy. Put that shit, put that shit on, put that shit on. Come on.
02:28:13
Speaker
Uh, what do we do after Schmetz retires? Who's the next man up? I don't know. Andy Rose, Precky. You got a lot of options. I mean, I don't even want to think about that but that. That man can die coaching a Sounders game. I don't care. He can be
Future Coaching and Team Prospects
02:28:26
Speaker
the coach forever. And I think he might be okay with that.
02:28:29
Speaker
Um, um, ah Does the second place shame trophy go in the regular trophy case or somewhere more discreet? That one you might put like, you might put that shit like, I don't even know, dude. You might put that shit like, I don't even know. You but you put that shit in the trash can. Like, I don't even want to think about that.
02:28:49
Speaker
ah Liam Kennedy, best night of my life. Lovings versus Pedro, Rothrock, Rothrock, Obed. Thank you, Liam, for becoming a member eight months. Edie, thank you for the 199. Dude, I'm like losing my voice. I can't talk. Edie, what if Seattle and Miami both make the MLS finals? Dude, can you imagine?
02:29:05
Speaker
How fire would a rematch of this be an MLS Cup for the Sanders to whoop that ass just one more time? All right, Hunch, um I'm bringing you on. Ari should be here. i don't know where he is. Welcome. we'll We'll have to cook until Ari gets here. He said five minutes, but this is Ari time.
02:29:21
Speaker
yeah how we got well First of all, you're you're crazy, bro. yeah I know. I know. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's why i'm I apologize. You're the GOAT. No, yeah it's not about me.
02:29:35
Speaker
is that at me it's It's about everybody else. Everybody else who's here. It's about what you guys are doing. it's so It's about the overall, you know, there's a special moment I want to celebrate. I want to make sure that we guys, you know, we continue overall.
02:29:49
Speaker
And just that, like, the vibes are here. Like, that's it's about. Dude, chat better give you W hunch in the chat. No. but my tweet My voice is almost gone.
02:30:02
Speaker
it's It's such a joy to like to chat with you after every post game and to celebrate. So I guess let's start. How are you feeling right now? I mean, I'm cloud nine. i'm cloud nine.
02:30:13
Speaker
Oh, 100%. So let me run into a couple things. i I said, hey, you know PSG beat Sounders and they beat Miami for nothing we should win by two.
02:30:25
Speaker
yeah Well, that was that was at least right, if not better. Exactly.
02:30:32
Speaker
I yelled at so many people after that game. but sir And I don't. I don't. I'm not that guy. But if you want to wear not the Miami shirt, but the Messi shirt, I'm like, I'm going let you know.
02:30:43
Speaker
I'm going to let you know. I'm going to let you know. but I couldn't get on trains. I was waiting for trains. I was letting people on the trains who I couldn't get on know. I'm like, how many goals did Miami score?
02:30:55
Speaker
Oh, was it zero? How many goals did Messi get? Oh, zero? Zero. Like, dude, my voice is gone. And we followed it up. We followed it up with dicks. And I'm literally standing right now at Cary Park looking at and i'll i will I will put it on Blue Sky here. It's like I'm taking a photo because I don't want fuck up any of the, you know, the streaming and everything else. I don't who knows what apps going to do what.
02:31:16
Speaker
But I'll take a photo here in a second to be like, this is where I'm standing right now as we're talking about this with folks from out of town. We're here doing an event, but just like it could be more Seattle, man.
02:31:27
Speaker
Dude, it's it's incredible. I mean, like, the whole city was literally just so stoked for this game. I was i was a little scared. I won't lie. Like, i was a little scared. I thought maybe this is going to be a messy sellout. I don't know. It was just raining boos when he was taking corner kicks. That's cinema, dude.
02:31:44
Speaker
Yep, yep. That's incredible. That's incredible. and I think you've been a Georgie purveyor, right? You've been a pro Georgie guy. So I'm pro Jesus. yeah I am pro Pedro De La Vega, completely ignoring last year. Like, dude, he did the year.
02:31:59
Speaker
You know, everything. Continent change. Life change. as ah As a young kid, he's got to figure it out. ah I've been i'm a huge on Georgie. I think Georgie, so we haven't talked about it a lot, but literally the most too dynamic, although Pedro is now challenging for that,
02:32:16
Speaker
dynamic players on the team right now are Rothfuck and Jordi. Like, yeah they... they peace i'm not I'm not a ah gearhead. I'm not somebody who's into mechanics and engines, but I know you can turbo charge and juice an engine.
02:32:32
Speaker
Yeah, you tune it. you put the Yeah, well, no, to a to and to another level. Yeah. And when those guys are on, they just don't do it unto themselves. like You just don't like, oh, they're not just like bolting on the side. They're just not down there like making things happen within the zone of which they operate.
02:32:48
Speaker
They do that, but and then t the team responds. Hold up, Punch. One second. One second. I'm going to remove you and add you back. Just give me a second. Yep. Okay, you're back. I had to do the wide shot. I'm back. We got Ari in here. Ari, all do you know what this this mad lad did?
02:33:03
Speaker
What did you do? No, no, no, no. The community did that. The community did that. this is The community dropped the 200 balls. We love you, man. You're one of our favorite callers, biggest supporters.
02:33:19
Speaker
Yeah, happy to do it. Talk to me, man. Talk to me, man. What were you calling me? Can I piss? Yeah, got it. I love you, Hunter. I pee every time we're talking, dude. I swear to God.
02:33:31
Speaker
Fair enough. I don't know if Vargas got his vendetta, but I don't think he didn't, if we're going to put it that way. Like, dude was a... ah He's a $35 million midfielder is what he looked like to me.
02:33:46
Speaker
Yeah, clearly. I think my favorite part of this game, which I thought it might be beforehand, but what I but i really... I'm watching Christian and obed go up against Messi and excel. Wasn't that just phenomenal? Like, they were they were hanging with him. They were owning him.
02:34:03
Speaker
Like, it was crazy. Well, yeah, that... And, I mean, Pedro, like, you know... got his money's worth and the or the club got their money's worth from Pedro as far as that goes, even in terms of outlet options or just overall drawing attention.
02:34:17
Speaker
And then, I mean, Osase, God, dude's a beast. And I'm telling you with an off season and the training and the and the coaching, ah oh my God, I can't wait for next year. I can't, I really can't.
02:34:30
Speaker
I know. It's like, it's kind of crazy to think about their situation at the nine right now. They got three guys that are all just like Jordan's been balling every time he's played. We all know what Moose is doing.
02:34:41
Speaker
Osanze, like, I don't even know what to say about him at this point. five Was it four or five goals in the tourney? Scores that game tonight? Doesn't he have three goals overall? Is that not true? No, no.
02:34:57
Speaker
The first one was in Atlanta. Then he hit one in the Cruz Azul game. Then he hit the one in the Iwana game. Then he hit the one in the in the l LA game. and then do j Yeah, that's five.
02:35:12
Speaker
Five. yeah Yeah, and that LA game. Yeah. That was it. Five goals in his last like seven, eight games or whatever it's been.
02:35:23
Speaker
But that that that that fourth goal in LA was a a Pure example of you implemented will. like yeah You just weren't going to deny him.
02:35:35
Speaker
Yeah. And that's all we've been lacking, say, up to the beginning of the season. And not that they didn't have at the start of season, but they didn't enable it. And then the Club World Cup.
02:35:48
Speaker
And if you go back and listen to the to Brian's press conference post last weekend, He even references, and I think this is true, and I've said it a while, but this is the first time it was actually clarified.
02:36:00
Speaker
He even references that the coaching staff raised their level going into Club World Cup. The training staff, the preparations, what they said to the team, what they expected from those people, what they expected from the team.
02:36:12
Speaker
And then they saw the results they got from the team, and they said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not you know take our foot off the gas. Let's use what we've developed today. because we're getting more. yeah And they rode that out, like going into the regular season. and it's like, I don't think they thought they had a ceiling as high as they did going into Club World Cup as they did coming Club They would probably be lying. but you know what's interesting about that is, ah so I was just writing my little post-game story, and I was going through the like audio from Paul Rothrock's
02:36:49
Speaker
interview and uh i'll just i'll just read you guys the quote i'll read you guys the quote i got it right here he said this game is very much a validation of the sounders culture and who we are and we've got more homegrown kids and college players than anybody else and that's a credit to snitch that's a credit to the front office credit to the staff we have uh but then uh I thought everybody played great tonight.
02:37:13
Speaker
This club is a special club. I know the fans wanted some summer signings, but we signed Osaze and Snyder Burnell, and Osaze scored against Miami to tonight. Another Tacoma Defiance player, Georgie, comes on, draws the PK. I'm from Tacoma Defiance.
02:37:26
Speaker
This is a group of good human beings, and you work hard and believe in each other and play for each other, and I'm really proud that our method went out tonight. That's a special, special, special game for Sounders. Yeah.
02:37:36
Speaker
I mean, I think, like, I love the word validation there. Like, uh... and show I just think it shows if you like believe in your process, believe in what you're doing, and you commit to it, that's the type of stuff that can happen, man. That's the type of stuff that can happen.
02:37:53
Speaker
More importantly, if you've invested in people who are worth investing in, yeah you can raise you can raise not only their floor, but their ceiling. And they might surprise you in terms of what that is.
02:38:06
Speaker
And I think in some cases, collectively, the ceiling of all of the employees working in conjunction chemistry wise or otherwise has surprised them to the point where they're like we should keep pressing because we can get more and they can do more and they are more and that's what's exactly happening definite exactly hu exactly yeah uh i don't know what you already talked about but what what else do you want to cook on man i was just telling you saw noah but My voice is about because been yelling at so many people, especially after the game. I was yelling at people on trains I wasn't even went on. And I got zero calls.
02:38:42
Speaker
And I'm probably going to lose my voice tomorrow. And then we followed up i musiced with Dix. And I'm literally standing at Cary Park right now. So if you're getting any background, it's just the people here. And I'm literally looking over the skyline ah of Seattle. So it's just a collective like Seattle night, man. like really i I'm happy to do it for the community. I'm happy to do it because I think this is important. I'll call it a lighting rod.
02:39:05
Speaker
for For, you know, just the support for the people, for the fans, for the team. And it's, you know, how many how many times this is the third championship at home that, like, we've won a trophy. Like, that's, we may never see that again. It's entirely possible. We could win MLS Cups or Champions League Cups or even League Cups, and it won't be here.
02:39:25
Speaker
So I have no misgivings. Like, it's special. And it deserves to special. yeah Did you end up writing your thing? I did. Okay, so yeah you're good. Okay, we're literally never leaving the stadium.
02:39:38
Speaker
We're going to do every caller. If you are in the queue, stay in the queue. We will take you all. I will say this, all right, I said before the game, I was like, hey, BSC beat us to nothing.
02:39:50
Speaker
They beat Miami for nothing. We should win at least by two. Hell yeah? Yeah. I'm still kind of regretting that I was such a coward about. Dude, does the heat check not look so good right now? You heat checked it. I need a goddamn cigarette, man.
02:40:11
Speaker
You put it out there. You put it out there. That's what you have to do sometimes. I would love that they did this championship not on... not announced four days notice on the Sunday of a last holiday weekend in summer.
02:40:26
Speaker
I mean, we still crammed it with like 60, 65, but they got lucky. Let's be honest. Leagues Cup got incredibly lucky that it was us at home. Yeah. yeah Yeah, I agree. they brought God, what was so funny, dude, I don't know if you saw this stuff, but like I saw literal articles that saw the League's Cup record crowd stat, and they were like, oh the Messi effect.
02:40:49
Speaker
Yeah, I can see that. The Messi effect. See, they wouldn't have showed up. And it's like, these guys have no idea. They no clue. They have no clue. They have no clue what Seattle's about, bro. they they I mean, you know, to be fair, time zone difference, I get it. But like...
02:41:05
Speaker
it's It's hard. It's hard when you have MLS season pass and there's no blackouts and you just have never watched a single Western Conference game I get it. But like, you know. I like it. Let them keep sleeping because yeah every time every time they do this, it just makes it even like better because everyone's like, whoa, what?
02:41:21
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. In all fairness, other than Miami, clearly Portland is saltiest out of this, right? Gotta be. Gotta be. I don't even think about them, so I'm not even sure. I felt like I legit forgot that they're a team.
02:41:35
Speaker
but need but like i don't I don't even think it... I think the... the whole league is looking at Seattle right now. yeah, finally, finally.
02:41:46
Speaker
Yeah. And that's, that's like, that was what was cool about like the lead up to this whole game and the occasion and everything was that there was just, especially with messy involved, man, there's just so many more eyeballs. I mean, we got, we're dealing with, we're dealing with people in our comments sections and stuff that I didn't even know was like a thing that like,
02:42:06
Speaker
we would be on their radar but that's what this type of game does and uh for them to go out there and whip their ass like that it doesn't get better well you're talking about the national pundits and like it was rather right phillips and like one other person who picked us bwp the oracle dude he it was so funny watching him like realize dax was cooking a little bit with it too dax cooks dax cooks um
02:42:33
Speaker
Hutch, anything else you want get to? We got a bunch of people in the queue still. so ah like, you're a VIP, bro. You are a VIP, bro. You paid for the VIP section. You're a VIP. Anything you want to cook on?
02:42:46
Speaker
No, no. I'm good, dude. I'm here to make the community and contribute to that. It looks like may happen. My voice is no important to anybody else's and and vice versa. Like, I'm happy to hear people who disagree with me, and im um I'm happy for people to, like, voice their own. So whatever it takes to make it happen,
02:43:03
Speaker
I'm glad we're here. I'm glad you guys are here. Thank you so much. and And one more yeah one more for the trumpy case more. One more before you go. This is what i've been asking everyone. You got Messi on the phone. This time he's wearing a shirt, no pants, socks, and cleats.
02:43:18
Speaker
Just no pants for some reason. and what do you think He's on the phone. What are you saying to him? come
02:43:27
Speaker
Retirement home? Well, yeah, he doesn't know where his pants are. so anyway Exactly. Hunch, thank you so much. We love you. We love you, dude. Celebrate.
02:43:37
Speaker
Be safe. Get home safe. We'll see you soon. Caleb, I see you in there. I see you in the queue. Caleb. Are you ready to hop in? All right. We're putting you in. yeah we do ah hello dude i'm doing great i'm like i'm in a whole nother country but i'm like so happy right now let's go leave the country i'm in singapore i'm in singapore oh she's like all the way in asia just like traveling or for no i i live here oh hell yeah hell yeah yeah but i am so stoked yeah wow
02:44:11
Speaker
Hell yeah. i've been watching I've been watching since like 2016. haven't been to like a Sounders game yet, but I'm going to the l LA game. So I'm so pumped. And the Miami game.
02:44:22
Speaker
So, dude. Oh, hell yeah. And you get to do it like cloud nine-ing on this insane championship. pinches yeah Dude, we killed them. We killed them.
02:44:33
Speaker
killed them but You're dead. Get them out of here. Send them Lauderdale, man. yeah Get them out of my city. Like, Messi is getting bullied by a 20-year-old.
02:44:46
Speaker
Yes. I'll never forget the extent to which he got bullied by a 20-year-old. That'll be ingrained in my mind. Exactly. Like, Baker Whiting. Like, KKR. Oh, my gosh.
02:44:57
Speaker
Dude. It's cinema. sad they What was your favorite moment from this match? I mean, there's so many good ones, but like, was there a moment where you were like, oh, I'm never going to forget this.
02:45:09
Speaker
I love the Rothrock ghoul. Yeah. Rothrock is, he's so iconic. He's just, yeah there's, he's so, like, the grit that he has, like, he just, he takes every opportunity. He doesn't even care if he can't make it.
02:45:22
Speaker
He'll just go anyway. Like, it's insane. Like, that guy, like, oh wow. He's, that was definitely my favorite moment. And to follow up the like missing the one opportunity that he had with an even harder opportunity. rid Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A little like redemption.
02:45:39
Speaker
Like for that. Like, oh, man. Yeah. I was I was bummed. was bummed that that didn't go in because that would have been like so sick. him putting up but then the one he did score I would I would say it was even sicker yeah like how the technique on that like dude yeah the uh I think the moment that's that's going to be ingrained in my mind was like when he when he was celebrating it and he jumped in the air and there was everyone yeah and he I swear dude he's he paused like like time stop yeah time stop time stop while he was like this So there was that one. And then my under the radar one was the one we were talking about. The Yamar one. Yeah. That sequence where Yamar owned like four of their players in one go. Yeah.
02:46:17
Speaker
Right on the side here. And then that's what I love about a, ah like a fan base that actually like knows the game is they choose as loud for that as like any moment of the game. yeah yeah Yeah. but It was, ah and it was just like this. Thank you. Yamar. Like you are putting it in right now.
02:46:34
Speaker
And that was so sick. Anyway, Caleb, keep cooking. What do you, what you, what do you, I think like I just love this like this play that we have like it's so it's so like dynamic and like fluid like this is like the best sounders like like in a while like I just I love them they're they're so great like like De La Vega will like come over to a side that he's not really playing on he'll go help out and then Rothbach will come switch over Vargas will run around Like, you'll have Reagan coming into, like, the final third, giving, me like, some killer pass, which is, like, this is awesome.
02:47:07
Speaker
It's incredible. Like, what in the world? on that On that point, can we just talk about the press again? Yeah. Like, oh, my God. Unreal. The way they get after these teams and force them into these giveaways. going to steal this level of water. they ah Oh, that is such a good call.
02:47:22
Speaker
He's stealing us hydration right now from the other booth. Oh, yeah. like When you're watching a team that has a press that's that effective, it's so fun and so satisfying to watch because you just never feel like the other team has their footing then.
02:47:36
Speaker
And like, yeah, the portion of this game where Inter Miami did. But like, for the most part over this, this League's Cup run and just since Club World Cup, like none of these teams that they're playing look like they can mess with them with that press. No.
02:47:50
Speaker
Yeah, it's insane. Like the amount of the amount of like turnovers they had to just intercepting those passes. It was it was really good. Like this game. Yeah, that's been, like I think, one of the best attributes. This whole run of form since Club World Cup, the the press and like the the turnovers they're forcing, I mean, it it's just ah it's lights out. What did what did you think? my ah the georgia like Georgie Pique, I'm down to talk about it again. What did you think he won that and when Alex was going to the spot?
02:48:21
Speaker
I was... I was happy when Manungu came on. an awesome player. He's turned out really great. like he's he's turned out really great like But i was i was like I was like on my, I was like sitting down and then once he fell and like the ref called a pen, I was like smacking like my, was like oh my gosh, it's going be a pen. Like going to score. It's like going to be ah like another one.
02:48:45
Speaker
I saw Christian like doing some tactics play with like Miami. They're like tricking them, like acting like he's going to take it. Fooled them, gave it to Alex. And then he just buries it.
02:48:57
Speaker
Like, that was good. i've been I've been personally wanting, like, an Alex goal this year. Yeah, is nes it he it. He keeps on taking those long shots from outside. I just want another screamer from from him. I know we can put one back. Yeah, yeah. I'm still hoping. I'm still hoping.
02:49:12
Speaker
I think ah the when the ref pointed to the spot after Georgie drew the PK, that was like the moment it became real. that yeah when i' like oh That was when I i like, I took a breath. like this is I mean, I was like, no, he still has to make it. What if he misses it? But I was like, he's not going miss it. I don't care who takes it. They're not missing. and No.
02:49:30
Speaker
Yeah. And it it came off of like just a lot of pressure from Miami. It was like looking like it was looking a little scary. It was. just like one It was a calming factor.
02:49:41
Speaker
Well, Caleb, I know that long distance calls cost a lot, but Messi's calling up. He's dialing from the Seattle area code. I'll take that call. I'll take that call. He's fully clothed this time. So, you know, no need to worry.
02:49:54
Speaker
What are you saying to him? You got bullied, man. You gotta got to prep your game for September because we're going to own you again like we owned you before. And if you meet us in MLS Cup,
02:50:06
Speaker
going get owned again. You're going to get You're going to get owned again. Oh, my God. They're going to be MLS Cup rematch. They're going to be seeing this stadium in their nightmares. You think those old men want to come back here? Hell no. We've got to push for that number two spot.
02:50:21
Speaker
We've got to push that number two spot. That's real. really hope that that comes our way and MLS Cup finals in Seattle. If we get against Miami, amazing match.
02:50:33
Speaker
exactly well caleb thank you so much for calling in i don't know what time it is there but if you're staying up hell yeah if not that's awesome that you uh yeah our show from out there and thank you for calling in man that's yeah you guys are great ah love it we love you too thank you so much all right next up dan dan a kiss dan the man we are you ready all right i saw you unmuted i'm adding you on What up? How we doing? Can you hear okay?
02:50:59
Speaker
You sound great. We got you, man. Excellent. How are you feeling, Leaks Cup champs? Oh, my dudes, my dudes, my dudes. i got in, you know, a couple late. ah So if stuff has been talked about, I apologize. But you're good for me...
02:51:13
Speaker
it's about the vibes and you know they kept talking about uh what are these guys gonna do against the experience of Messi and Biscuit and you know Suarez and Alba and but all they have talked about throughout the entire thing was they got to be careful because they're gonna be the masters of the dark arts because they played in Barca and that's what they do in Spain and I was like you know what these guys got this. They played with so much composure.
02:51:38
Speaker
I was so proud of them. And honestly, my favorite thing in the whole world was the fact that they did not back down from them. At one point in time, I noticed in the broadcast, Messi and DePaul, they kind of went and started jawing at De La Vega.
02:51:52
Speaker
And Messi did the whole, you know, hand over his mouth so he could probably talk some shit like, you're not going to ever make the national team or something like that. And De La Vega didn't even sweat it. He was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, whatever. We're totally winning right now. So, Messi was chirping Obed at one point. Pick on someone your own size. Oh, wait.
02:52:11
Speaker
ah you How about pick your own age? 38-year-old man coming at a kid two decades younger than your old ass? My Spanish isn't good, but like scoreboard in Spanish is exactly what I'm saying.
02:52:24
Speaker
uh and then it works too the the second bit was at the end in that scuffle at the end uh when suarez got right up in obed's face and like totally trying to like you know boss him around and be like do you know who the fuck i am or whatever and yeah just pointed and laughed at him yeah like you know you're a psychopath dude we just beat you get out what are you doing Dude, what was that? That was crazy, dude. We were going insane in the press.
02:52:53
Speaker
We were being very unprofessional in the press box when that fight was happening. I maintained my press box professionalism during the De La Vega Galazzo, which none of you did. This one, I was very loudly yelling and swearing about how much I hate Luis Suarez. The Interviante podcast next to us did not like that.
02:53:09
Speaker
As you should. i said I said to my buddy ah that... you know He should have been banned from the game when he bit that guy when he was at Liverpool.
02:53:20
Speaker
Not alone, he bit a couple people, if I remember right. He likes to bite people. and you said a whole bunch of racist stuff. The dude is absolutely trash. And I'm telling you right now, Dempsey got banned for three or four games for ripping up a shitty-ass referee's ah playbook or a book.
02:53:37
Speaker
If Suarez doesn't get banned for the rest of the season for spitting on yeah yeah Gene Ramirez... Yes. He suspended the rest of the MLS season and playoffs. If they don't do that, then I don't know what we're talking about. And if you think that's woke and soft, like, I don't know what ah you're watching, but that was every, if you're defending that or or saying that that should not be punished severely, which those takes are already flying out there. You're, you're a clown.
02:54:03
Speaker
Like you're a clown. Low key though, like he don't want none of Jean Jean would have messed him up if he actually if he if far as note knew who that was. He wouldn't have done that shit No. not well you know what You know why all this happened?
02:54:16
Speaker
They didn't have their composure because Messi didn't have his babysitter. Someone told me something so funny in the press box, which is, I don't want to, there's this second hand so it's not like officially unverified. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.
02:54:30
Speaker
But ah breaking apari being apparently Gene said that the reason he leaned away like that was because he was genuinely scared that Suarez was going bite him. Ha ha ha!
02:54:42
Speaker
That, I mean... which fair what game yeah a Fair, dude. he got he He probably would have. He probably would have if he spit instead, which was you know basically like... that That screenshot that's been going around with Obed pointing at Suarez at the end, I like... I need Chad to link that to me. i'm like kind of out of the loop on all the content because we've just going... We've just been ripping this. I'm like...
02:55:06
Speaker
Yeah, oh man I'll tell you what this I'm not a Leaf League's Cup person. I haven't been but I'll tell you what it's the most important cup in the history of Sounders. ah Like there could not be a bigger cup we could have ever won because a yeah, you know, it's whatever but it solidifies us right like the whole fact that we cannot win another trophy.
02:55:27
Speaker
in North America, unless we go down and like Merck on, uh, Liga M X for a while, I guess. And when that, when the class are in aperture down there, like what else can we possibly do? We are the greatest team in the history of MLS.
02:55:41
Speaker
Yeah, to me, and like, there is all that. That is all true. But to me, it's also, stops being about just Leagues Cup at a certain point. And it's like, what this game against this team and how it went symbolizes. Like, how you how do you build your team? What's your team about? What's your organization about? Like,
02:55:59
Speaker
How do you develop your your players? How do you impart your identity? All that stuff. It's like, are you actually about it? Do you do you put in the work? Like, yeah one of the reasons Seattle won this game is because they've been grinding this shit for a long time, man. They've been playing in these tournaments, playing in these big games for a long time. That's how you lay the foundation together.
02:56:19
Speaker
to put in a performance like this and hopefully people start to recognize that now it's not by buy by uh buying leonel messi that got proven tonight so that's what this is also about in my opinion yeah absolutely Well, I have one question for you.
02:56:36
Speaker
Sure. Leo Messi, he's on the phone. He's calling you. And he he hes he's got like 16 Michelob Ultras open. There's like one sip out of each of them.
02:56:47
Speaker
One tear is rolling down his cheek, but he's calling you. What do you have to say to him? First of all, I'm going to tell him that the keg with Michelob Ultra is empty. And does he want to have something else? ah But then i'm going to say, you know, don't let i start tolo pattaonees where are your pants, bro? That's about all I know in Spanish. So there we go.
02:57:08
Speaker
Well, I love it. Dan, thank you so much. Thank you for calling. and you do what you do guys We're going to keep her pushing. Josh, Josh, are you there? I see someone in the back. Okay. He's raising his hands in the background. Okay. I'm i'm bringing him in.
02:57:22
Speaker
I'm bringing him in. Yo, Josh with three exclamation marks. So it's Josh. Today is Josh with three exclamation marks. Let me walk out of here. cause that was ruin Good. Super good.
02:57:36
Speaker
Trying to shake off the end of the game. was trying to put it in a negative light, but yeah super good. Now reflecting how bad ass that was. No joke. What was your favorite moment from the match?
02:57:50
Speaker
trying to break it down. and love the Rothrock goal. Like you guys said, it kind of slowed down time. I kind of felt like he was about to take off his shirt. He's like, nah, kept it on, give a kiss to the crest.
02:58:02
Speaker
And then just celebrating in the corner was super dope. And then, yeah I think that was it. Oh, we've totally glossed over something to this point. No one got a red card. No one got a red card. That's what, yeah that was it.
02:58:15
Speaker
suck
02:58:19
Speaker
Thank you to the Seattle Sanders 2025 for winning what is basically League's Cup. All 11 All 11 men. All 11 men. yeah Yeah, that too. And then when Messi was chirping at De La Vega, I was like, you know what? Fuck this. Like, I'm a big boy now. He's like, dude, you're old. Get out of my face, old man. I'm better than you now. Didn't get even a yellow, Chad's pointing out. Not even a single yellow.
02:58:44
Speaker
Whoa. Wow. Okay. All right Now we're cooking. Whoa. com Composed destruction. Everyone was composed. um And I just, the kids, they looked old. They looked way more mature than whatever freaking Miami team had. Everyone was raggy and bitchy. And yeah, they were super mature. They composed themselves, which I was kind of nervous.
02:59:06
Speaker
And then, um yeah, that was, that was, that was a highlight for me how mature the team looked. yeah It's such a good point. Like outside of just ah all the ah young guys being out there, like ah Obed and Georgie, um just the way, like the game management and like how they stepped up and made their plays on defense when they needed to very mature performance. Yeah.
02:59:31
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah. I have to know. have to know.
02:59:37
Speaker
if I just, i don't know. did Have you, ah where would you rank this in the pantheon of Sounders championships? Like I asked some other people to tier tearer rank it. I'm riding high on it. Like I feel like this is the sickest championship ever.
02:59:51
Speaker
ah CCC was incredible. And maybe it's just because that was like a little bit ago, but beating Messi and the Barca boys with the whole MLS, like cheering you on. Is that not like, I don't know. Where do you put it?
03:00:04
Speaker
I'd be so close. I was at CC. um I wasn't at this match. I think this one just carries a little more weight just because everyone was looking the whole messy and the whole, I fell in for the hype for the, but not Bob.
03:00:21
Speaker
and I always root for the underdog, and i kind of felt weirdly like an underdog in this game. Yeah. which like and The odds said we weren't, but I think we're an underdog, but really shouldn't have been if we're being real about it.
03:00:34
Speaker
That's honestly what's the most likely outcome for any team coming in here and thinking they're going to beat Seattle in a final. I'm sorry. And all the condescending, like, oh, well, you have to do it against Messi now. Yeah, okay. Literally, literally just did it. Next. Who's next? Literally just did it against Messi, so I don't know. What more do you want?
03:00:53
Speaker
Exactly. Do you guys think we're going ride high on this to the MLS, or are we going to – I know when we won CONCACAF, we kind of fizzled out. Different situation, though. This team, it doesn't matter who's playing right now. It just doesn't. They put any XI out there, and they all play the same way at the same level. I've never seen anything like it. It's wild. It's wild.
03:01:13
Speaker
I think – I don't know what's going to happen. I don't want to put anything on – I think – are undeniably this has been a successful season winning this trip. I'm on that page. Even if they lose in the playoffs, I I'm not going to let it diminish my cloud nine of this.
03:01:28
Speaker
Like the debate we were talking about of like best, best trophy, best championship or whatever. i don't know about that. This is the sickest individual win in club history in terms of like opponent beaten and like spectacle of the occasion. Uh,
03:01:44
Speaker
like Like I said, I don't i don't know about the like trophy debate, but I do know that there's never been a game like this like where they've been against a team like this and pulled out a result in a performance like that.
03:01:58
Speaker
Yeah. Agreed. Josh, I'm going ask you the question I've been asking everyone. Ring, ring. You're picking up your phone. Leo Messi is holding one of those, ah what's that?
03:02:11
Speaker
what's Like the Disney phones. You know when they pull up the Disney phones? Yep. With the little Mickey Mouse thing? Because he's Mickey Mouse guy. Yeah, the shoe. The old school. The Mickey shoe.
03:02:22
Speaker
Yeah, Mickey shoe. Yeah. And he's he says, hello, this is Mr. Messi. I need a Mickey Leopoldra. What do you have to say? Messi, what happened with your liderazgo? Where was the leadership? he I know he didn't do much.
03:02:35
Speaker
There was absolutely no leadership on that team, and I know they have coach, but he is the leader of the team, and he was nowhere. You're one of their boys from Barcelona. That coach is not doing anything. You crash out like that when you're, like you said, when you're undisciplined and you have no leadership. Honestly, I blame him more than...
03:02:58
Speaker
Oh, yeah, definite I definitely blame him. There was no leadership whatsoever. And you could tell it worked in our favor. But that was I'd be I hopped on a few Miami chats and ah people are defending them, like especially Suarez. I still can't understand how people are defending Suarez.
03:03:14
Speaker
But um yeah, no one mentioned Messi's lack of leadership. Like he didn't. He was just walking around, which is cool. But when they were chirping, like he just not just no leadership on on his part.
03:03:26
Speaker
I would be so mortifyingly embarrassed to be a fan of that club tonight. Dude, think about how we reacted to Nuhu throwing a ball at a fan. Could you imagine? It's insane.
03:03:40
Speaker
like, and a lot of them are going to be like defending this and rationalizing it and talking about how Suarez got provoked or whatever, man. Like, I don't know. That's just, there's no provoking that. Like I could have.
03:03:53
Speaker
No embarrassing. that And if they had any shame at all, they would feel that The team should do something. If I was, well, they're not going to anything, but the team, if the league doesn't do anything, the team should cut them or suspend them at least symbolically for a game. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. Joke show, clown show, the game is so gone if fact does if that goes unpunished. like yeah they't well Yeah, they don't do it. we The game is actually gone if that is not dealt with very...
03:04:23
Speaker
I fully buy into the narrative that they have let inner Miami get away with too much. And that like, this is inevitably what it leads to. This is inevitably what it leads to. When you, you cook when you give a mouse a cookie, they end up spitting on Jean.
03:04:38
Speaker
You can't give them cookie. Exactly. And I've been saying that. Well, Josh, thank you so much for calling in. We have like so many people. I just want to keep. Yeah, I'll get out here. You guys are doing great work. Go Sounders. Thank you. See you, Josh. All right. DJ, I see Nico in here. Nico, are you good to hang out for a minute while we take some more calls?
03:04:57
Speaker
Okay, good. Okay. Okay. DJ, tossing you in now. Our friend. DJ, welcome back. How are we doing?
03:05:08
Speaker
Y'all, I don't even know what to say. i truly don't even know what to say. um It's been a long time coming, right? It's been a couple of years since we've won a trophy.
03:05:19
Speaker
But our boys showed out, and not just showed out against any team, showed out against Messi and the Barca boys. i I truly don't even know what to say. I do have a couple of things i want to talk about, though.
03:05:35
Speaker
um The first thing, I think we really need to talk about our our young boys again. I think I mentioned this in the last game. They're performing like.
03:05:50
Speaker
Oh, mike Mike cut out. Hold on, hold on, hold on. o Can you talk? How about now? There you go. There we go. There we go. All right. Took out the AirPods.
03:06:01
Speaker
Yeah. Kalani, Georgie, Paul, all of our young guys are performing at an elite level. I said this last time, but truly, and I also did a super chat about like, we should not be selling our players or anything under 10 mil.
03:06:15
Speaker
They have shown that they are worth that much, probably more. And again, the fact that we were able to do this without Georgie, without Albert, without Ryan Kent, all of these you know players that you would assume but we would need to play in order to win against Messi. And it just felt so easy.
03:06:33
Speaker
I knew the game was over. after that PK, right? I just I knew was going in, right? um And I just really want to shout out Paul Rothrock, Mr. Seattle. I know people say that Brian's Mr. Seattle, but Paul really did put the team on his back.
03:06:50
Speaker
um This is a team sport. it Everyone played, but Paul really showed out, really showed out today. And again, I'm just so happy. I'm never going to let. So I came with ah my cousin and my my cousin-in-law, and he's a big, messy fan.
03:07:06
Speaker
And I told him, you better hope they don't lose, because if they lose, you will never hear the end of it. And I know I'm just going to milk this for the rest of the year. um I do have a question for you guys, though.
03:07:17
Speaker
Yeah, eventually we'll have to sell some players right in order to continue to expand and grow. What does that look like? do you guys have any insight into how we'd be able to free up some space? So we know Obed potentially might leave right or, or you know, move to Europe.
03:07:33
Speaker
But outside of that, like, how are we going to keep this momentum going? and continue to grow and expand? Does that mean we're just going to continue to ah you know pull our guys from Tacoma Defiance, or are we going to you know find some players? I think the front office is looking at this team right now saying like, we don't need to buy any more players, right?
03:07:54
Speaker
We can perform at the level that we're playing at right now by just, you know, building up our academy guys, building up the MLS Next guys as well. What what ah what do you guys think about that?
03:08:06
Speaker
Well, let me say before you do that, I think – that they did a really good job of going out and acquiring people in the offseason. clear this we We were talking about it in the press box. How absolutely lucky are we that Jesus Ferreira is on this team? oh yeah I mean, that's a crazy acquisition.
03:08:24
Speaker
The Needler, his pass. The Needler! yeah yeah i didnt Yeah. I wanted that goal for him. that's the yeah you and both He has been putting in so much work for this team. He deserves to have it rewarded with ah with a goal that will get you out of the tattoo. He'll get that. It's fine.
03:08:43
Speaker
But, like, yeah, no, I mean, we are very lucky. yeah Very lucky that that trade got done. But, yeah, I mean, I think oh oh you you sell Obed. Maybe Danny Musavsky isn't here next year.
03:08:55
Speaker
okay ah I don't know. You're going to have to negotiate with people to try and keep this team together because you've got to figure out who's – like RBW, what's he doing?
03:09:06
Speaker
He's going to a contract. Paul Rothrock going to need a contract. You're going to have to talk to to Ryan Kent. like there There is going to be some departures. There will be some signings as well. There always are.
03:09:18
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, yeah. And now, like, I've been saying, you know, like, and we've done all this transfer window discourse. I've been saying, like, if you go out and you you win games and you win trophies, I do not care.
03:09:32
Speaker
And that's where I'm at right now. Yeah. Like, like if they're going to say, well, like, why do we need to rush the transfer window or break the bank like some of these teams when we're performing on the field?
03:09:44
Speaker
And they need to actually perform on the field. And that's what they're doing right now. The game is made. Who am I to question the method if it works this well, man? I don't know. But, like, to get back to your question, like, i mean, I think Obed's a big one.
03:09:58
Speaker
And he, you know, he has said that his personal, like, ambition is to try playing in Europe. So I think they should give him that opportunity. But I think it's a lot about, like, kind of picking your spots when you do that and then maybe see when you – like, maybe you can turn Snyder brunell into the next obid but he uh also has the next christian rolled on and wants to be a sounders lifer you can bring up homegrown guys who might want to be more inclined to do that so i think it's like selling players off like obid for big for a big huge bags when you can then also creating a culture where some of the players you bring up are going to be inclined to stay so it's like yeah doing both things i think you can fair enough and especially for snyder right
03:10:45
Speaker
ah Let me actually rephrase. A lot of our young guys that we've brought on, right, they scored immediately. I remember for Kalani, that's how i it was for Snyder. Same exact thing.
03:10:56
Speaker
So, again, i'm I'm just really happy for our young folks. They're definitely going to be the future of this team. um I have one more question. I want to switch gears and talk about this defense, right? So last season, our defense was top notch, right?
03:11:11
Speaker
um Probably the best in the league. We're now seeing a different version of the Sounders defense just dominating jamming everyone up and even our quote unquote backups right our subs are going out there and just dominating every single team.
03:11:27
Speaker
ah You guys may not have heard this i'm in section 134 i'm always screaming pressure people around me are saying pressure as well. We saw a pressing team today and I think that it's been frustrating, especially last year where we're dropping so far back and we're allowing so much space for, know, teams to shoot from just outside the box.
03:11:49
Speaker
That's what I was worried about today, but it just seemed like we were at the right place at the right time to block every single shot. um Do you see any major changes between last year's defense and today's defense or even just tonight's defense?
03:12:04
Speaker
the The press that you're talking about, this is the best I've ever seen a Sounders team do that, kind of by far. Like, Schmitz has always ah has said that he wants to coach his teams to to press and put pressure on the ah on the other teams.
03:12:20
Speaker
But, like, I've never seen a Sounders team do it to this effect where – Like, doesn't it feel like every time there's there's just sequences of these games where every time the other team is trying to knock the ball around, Seattle's players are swarming them, knocking it off of them, and then bullying them and taking it for themselves. Yeah. Like, it's so it's just so effective right now. Yeah.
03:12:46
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, shout out to Christian. He had a couple of those in the second half. ah Yeah, the second half as well. He's like, you know, the Jedi master of it. They didn't let Messi have an inch, and truly, that was such a difference maker. I mean, there's there has not been, and I've seen a lot of people say this, there has not been a team that has played Miami like this all season.
03:13:06
Speaker
And it truly came down to the second Messi touched the ball, he was getting... swallowed up by two incredibly thick, big defenders. And they just anything.
03:13:17
Speaker
and just He just he couldn't do anything. He couldn't make it happen. Couldn't make it happen. He had one chance. He put it into the 27th row. Yeah. But they had some shots on target, I don't think. Wow.
03:13:30
Speaker
Or maybe one. Maybe one. Any team in this thing, I think. like I mean, the fact that I can't even remember it kind of shows you how that game works. Exactly. Well, DJ, I don't know if you have more to say, but we do a ton people in the queue, and we have been doing this for the of the time. that's I had. Just wanted to say hi to you both, and yeah, you know, go down there. give you my final question.
03:13:49
Speaker
You got Messi on the phone. He's crying and sobbing. They just chartered two flights full of his family members to this game for to watch him lose. What are you saying to him? don't
03:14:01
Speaker
That's a great question. ah Better luck next year? Maybe you got to buy some more Barca players, you know, Barca guys for your for your team, and maybe you might score one goal, but you're never winning against the Sunners ever again.
03:14:15
Speaker
Exactly. Yamin Yvaldo, Inter-Miami. I was going to say, yeah they got to bring him in, and otherwise they're never going to get another trophy. Exactly. ah But ah the if I can just say one last thing, I think Seattle winning tonight really did put and MLS on the map.
03:14:32
Speaker
We've always been on the map, but I think us winning in this way against the best player, arguably the best player in the world, um just shows, again, that that we can compete at this level.
03:14:43
Speaker
And I think more people will start watching you know MLS moving forward, and that just makes me happy. 69,000 people. Come on, guys. 69,000 people. Yeah. Come on. What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Those season tickets are going to be super expensive next season, but it will be worth it.
03:15:01
Speaker
But, yeah, that's all I got, guys. Have a great week. Thank you, DJ. I'm so glad you called in. We'll see you soon, man. All right. Robert slash Bobby. We got him. We're adding you and you ready?
03:15:13
Speaker
What's up? Bobby. Hey, guys. How's it going? How are you doing, man? Talk to us. 3-0, Inter-Miami, get them out of here. First of all, the in the stadium, absolutely electric. Oh, yeah. Super.
03:15:29
Speaker
To answer your question regarding you know the the tier, the championships, I was there for 19. nineteen I was up in the like nosebleeds of the 300. um i was up in probably 127 for the game against Pumas.
03:15:46
Speaker
and As far as in the stadium, this probably takes a takes the cake, um just the vibe of it all. um It was pretty amazing, especially the the level of schadenfreude as you get to see all the little Miami players as they wander off towards the locker room and everything after the game was just like... part The second place ceremony, I was dying. I was almost crying laughing during the second place ceremony. so I think that was the greatest moment of my life, the second place ceremony. Ari was legitimately fuming in the press box about the about the like the the spat and the spit.
03:16:26
Speaker
And then you just you like you were basically about to give a standing O. Because you're like, get him off the field. Get him off the field. And then Ari's like... Wait, they they got to stay.
03:16:39
Speaker
And you were dying, bro. I i don't think I've ever seen you this animated in the press box ever. i've never a I've never been that animated. in the I was like legitimately pissed that they were still on the field. yeah I was like, what are these bum-ass 46-year-old men still doing on this field after crashing out, starting an insane brawl, and then spitting on a team staffer?
03:17:00
Speaker
like i I was embarrassed. realize It was so bad. I cried laughing. It was like there's nothing There's nothing that will ever diminish my high from that.
03:17:12
Speaker
Yeah, I think that as far as, like, the level of embarrassment for them was just so off the charts. Because, like, what what do you even say to that? Like, how do you how do you try to, like, write that off? How do you excuse your actions? You've got to imagine that, like, these guys are going home, well...
03:17:33
Speaker
you know, they're probably flying home tonight and getting in super early or whatever. And it's just like, how did they feel when they like laid down to sleep at nine? Just like Suarez is like, I just spit at like a 50 year old security dude. nice yeah I spit at a 70 year old man who had nothing to do with the game.
03:17:51
Speaker
Yeah, literally, who is not doing anything. like you know i' so I hadn't even thought, that's going to be a fun little flight for them. I hope they... yeah That's a long-ass flight. Okay, here's what I've been saying. This is the unraveling of Inter-Miami and Messi.
03:18:05
Speaker
What if there's like a Bernadeschi Insigne type like vaping incident, but it's inter-Miami players getting in a fight on the charter back home? It's possible. I think they might have. I'm manifesting that.
Financial Considerations and Player Contracts
03:18:16
Speaker
bet like a team that's that crash outable, I bet they were crashing out in the locker room afterwards. like Oh my God. It'd be a fly on the wall. oh my God. Mascherano, do we think he gets fired?
03:18:27
Speaker
Nah. Nah. I don't think he gets fired. Not like in the near term, but if they don't win MLS Cup this year, then maybe. And then very thanks if they bomb out of the playoffs again, Messi's going to finally be like, I don't want to play for this bum ass club anymore.
03:18:42
Speaker
And then he's either going to retire or go to somewhere else. And then what are they going to do? They're going to do nothing because they have no infrastructure, no foundation. All they got is back of money to buy Barcelona players.
03:18:54
Speaker
That's all they got. And that is what is proven. Well, they're not going to be able to get any Barcelona players because Messi is not going to be there to say, hey, come play with me. And they're to like, why would we go play for Beckham? We would have wanted to play for Messi, but there's no reason to play there anymore.
03:19:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's real. Agreed. Well, lobby to hope for it keep cooking, keep cooking, cook keep cooking. cook keep cooking ah Speaking to keeping the team together, or pushing the team forward and into the future.
03:19:22
Speaker
I'm pretty sure whenever we inevitably sell Obed for 10, 12, 14 million, whatever the number being. Yeah, whatever it is. Exactly. ah Don't we get at least a million in Gam like for up to three years, depending on how much we sell him for?
03:19:40
Speaker
like Yeah, there's like a, yeah. nice I don't know if that's exactly it, but you're, yeah, it's something like that. So realistically, if we if we sell him and let's say we get a ah million GAM next year, that pays, you know that allows us to keep Kent in addition to you know bringing Areola back.
03:20:00
Speaker
And that essentially is able to cover you know let's say that gives us 300 300 000 left to pay at least part of the way for rock rock he's probably earned himself somewhere in the realm of what four five six hundred thousand dollars yeah asked at least a couple hundred grand there he's did jeremiah ocean he like alluded to it being like super far apart let heading into this game, the negotiations between Roth Rock's camp and, you know, and the Sounders and everything.
03:20:39
Speaker
Do we know what numbers those allegedly are? I mean, are we talking like Sounders offered... $150,000, $200,000 and they came asking for $600,000, $700,000.
03:20:51
Speaker
six seven hundred thousands what That's exactly kind of the the range I would feel like that seems right. i and it's we We probably won't know officially for a long time, for a little at least until the contract gets done, but If Jeremiah is saying that it's they're far apart, i would and he even said it seems like a similar situation to the Jackson-Reagan thing, I think you can you can kind of read between the lines there.
03:21:16
Speaker
I haven't even seen all this footy. Sorry, i'm i'm what we we posted a reel that our... our video at our video oh producer. yeah Oh my God, chat. We got it. Yeah, you got to go check out our Instagram if you haven't. We reposted it. We're about to drop the sickest fucking vlog of all time. made it. It's going to go crazy. I mean, you guys going How sick the vlog was going to be was going to be dependent on how the game went. And the game went incredibly. This was the perfect content game.
03:21:45
Speaker
And to close out this content, I'm sorry, Bobby, we've got like a billion people here. but I'm going to ask you again. ring ring banana phone you got Lionel Messi on the other hand he's doing a handstand for some reason and he has and Busquets is holding his legs up because he can't like fully do it but he is on the phone with you and what are you gonna say to him i You presumably think you're on a keg doing a keg stand if holding your legs up.
03:22:16
Speaker
He's doing a keg stand with Michelob Ultra. There you go. There you go. Missy, Michelob Ultra. um Listen, man, it wasn't good enough, but if you want to come get the level of coaching that would be able to take you from here to here,
03:22:35
Speaker
I mean, I'm sure so Schmetzer would take you on a TAM contract. so Yeah, Messi-TAM. Maybe TAM as like a backup. I mean, he's he's giving TAM numbers. He's not giving Rusnak numbers. He's giving TAM numbers. Oh, way, way lower than the Rusnak numbers. Yeah, yeah. I would say like, yeah, borderline TAM. Sure, yeah, maybe, maybe.
03:22:57
Speaker
he's know he's on hate's friend He can compete for minutes with Rusnak and Jesus Ferreira, I guess. Yeah. Only other thing I'll say is we haven't seen a crash out like that since the original crash out Chris.
03:23:09
Speaker
You know, that's... Dude, this is Crash Out Chris FC. Literally dude, Crash Out Chris. That's OG. That's a good poll.
03:23:22
Speaker
Dude, Crouchdown Chris. ah I hope Crouchdown Chris is doing well tonight. ah Chris, we love you. Yeah. Bobby, thank you so much for calling Thanks, Bobby. Celebrate. Drink the water.
03:23:33
Speaker
You're home safe. so We'll
Match Highlights and Fan Atmosphere
03:23:35
Speaker
see you soon, man. Thank you so much. Next up, we got Vinny. Vinny, do you have your camera? Oh, no, I'm good. Oh, I got something for you, Ari. Hold on. Hold on. Vinny, I'm just going to add Vinny to the stage, all right? All right. Vinny, you here?
03:23:47
Speaker
Vinny? Yeah, can you hear Yeah, we can hear you. I i don't see i don't see video, but... Yeah, it broke. My camera broke. Oh, you're good. You're vibing. What's up, man? how are you feeling? What's up? I'm good. Get him out of here.
03:24:00
Speaker
Amazing. Amazing. Yeah. yeah Like, the game was, I was there, it was absolutely outstanding to see us play.
03:24:13
Speaker
Most likely the best person in the world, and then just to destroy them 3-0. Oh, yeah. It was incredible. It was so satisfying. was so good. like And to be surrounded by all the fans, like, I'm pretty sure 70,000 insane.
03:24:29
Speaker
Yeah, it was, yeah, it was what 69? so was that It was the league's cup record. If they count yeah they counted all the security and all the people working and all the PB and all that. it was it was probably it was It was the wildest atmosphere I've been at since the 22. Easy. Yeah. Easy. Yeah. It was up there with that.
03:24:49
Speaker
Yeah. because they would It had like an even different level. People were rowdy, bro. It was just like everyone was hype. Everyone was hype to see us see the sound is playing in Miami. Okay.
03:25:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. Okay. Wait, Jeremiah. Jeremiah is going to come in here real quick, Vinny. I'm going to, do you mind? He wants to answer some Paul Rothrock related questions. This is going to be breaking news. do you mind if we pop you off and pop you back on real quick?
03:25:17
Speaker
Oh yeah. you Okay. Okay. Okay. Jeremiah's popping on. I'm going to, going to add Nico too, just because, um, all right. We're all, we just pulled up. Okay.
03:25:29
Speaker
We pulled up the triple box. Tell us about this Paul Rothrock contract. Well, I'm not going to get into super details, but ah he's not, the centers are not offering him 150 200. It's not that bad.
03:25:42
Speaker
Okay. They're like, they're offering less or more. What are you we talking about? No, come on. lasting two hundred nine and m three hours yeah fire say Say what you said again. I think I'm missing something. They're not offering him 150. It's more than that.
03:25:58
Speaker
they're offering they're not making theyre that's why That's why I was confused because I was like, is he saying that that is like way too much? Because I would have thought it would be way more. more double that. it's more like closer to it's more like double that
03:26:13
Speaker
400. And he's worked every minute. Every penny, he's worth it. Yeah, he's worth it. worth yeah And his people are probably asking for more, ah significantly more than 400. He should be Max Tam.
03:26:27
Speaker
No, yeah, that's too much. okay I saw Craig today. He looked really happy. I would not envy Matt Man after this match.
03:26:37
Speaker
Yeah, craig Craig gave me a how you doing with the big grin today. I was surprised. Yeah, me too. That's how good a mood he was in. Before the game. That was before the game. Same here. Before the game.
03:26:48
Speaker
Yeah. Before the game. Wow. Yeah. Well, Nico, we haven't even gotten your takes on like anything yet, have we? No, we haven't. Just happy to be on. I needed to talk to somebody. i didn't get to do any press afterwards, and I needed to get it out. So I knew my boys from Lobby's Courches were probably going to do...
03:27:09
Speaker
something late night i know i know you want to chat i want to just close out with vinny and then we'll bring you back on is that okay i'm sorry to like edge you like this i just like vinny's been waiting no no no hell no you you have me now or i'm gone out of here okay okay okay you no i'm kidding no okay okay go ahead we're gonna bring you back we're just gonna we're gonna close out with vinny and then we'll bring you two back on okay I'll be right back. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. okay vinny Vinny, thank you for waiting for a second. Sorry about that. nico You can blame Nico Moreno, Lobbing Scorchers' takeoff legend. He was trying to cut the line here. He is famous, but not that famous because you're way more famous, Vinny.
03:27:45
Speaker
I am going to cut you a little short, though. I'm sorry. So give us give us your speedrun takes, and then to you the final question, and then we're going to them Really what I was looking forward in that game was to see what the new players could go on against like such a high state game.
03:28:04
Speaker
the like i'm trying to find word here.
03:28:10
Speaker
like Playing in front of probably or playing with one of the best players in the world, it's got to be nerve wracking. Yeah. like Once they get comfortable with other teammates and everything, they just can go out there and just play the game that they want to play.
03:28:25
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Vinny. who Lionel Messi, greatest player in the world. He is calling you from a payphone near ah ah madison Madison Park. it's it's he's He's wondering. he's he's He doesn't know where he is.
03:28:45
Speaker
He's confused. He's elderly. ah What do you have to say to him?
03:28:52
Speaker
I'm pretty sure they're always hiring employees.
03:28:56
Speaker
Get on LinkedIn, buddy. I think that was the answer of the night. get on LinkedIn. Walmart greeter status. Exactly. Vinny, thank you so much. We appreciate you. Sorry to make it so short. but Thank you, Vinny.
03:29:09
Speaker
We've been ripping it. Call in again. Call in again soon. We'll see you soon. All right. Nico Moreno, Jeremiah Ocean. shan Thanks for calling in. Two faces who you love to see.
03:29:20
Speaker
we've been We've been at this for a little bit, so why don't you try? Let's let Nico Yeah, let's let Nico cook. Let's let Nico cook for a sec. First of all, three and a half hours is crazy. I mean, you guys are sickos and i love you for it.
03:29:35
Speaker
Let me just go ahead and applaud it right now. I bill did all the pressers, went to Dave Hot Chicken, had a sandwich, brought it back, poured me a very nice, large portion of Jack and Coke.
03:29:47
Speaker
And you guys are still podcasting. I mean, that's wild. So look different. just well Different. well different we would we We will milk this. yeah like I just watched someone vacuum outside of this.
03:29:58
Speaker
Honestly, man, if Inter-Miami hadn't crashed crashed out that bad at the end of the game, I'd be out of here by now. But they they crashed out to such an extent that I want to rub this in their in their stupid faces for as long as I possibly can.
03:30:15
Speaker
Yeah, so so let me start by saying this. Look, I understand that Brian Smetzer took the high road and not even the high road. I think that he was very ah correct to make sure that the storylines today would not overshadow the accomplishment made by his team, by his players, by what happened afterwards.
03:30:39
Speaker
However... I am always going to ask the question that needs to be asked. I asked it about the game, about the fight, and about the disgraceful and immature and juvenile and disgusting attitudes of all these players. would add like borderline psychotic to that list of adjectives. Like what the...
03:31:06
Speaker
Cyclonic is fine I just I don't know how Sergio Busquets At 37 years old World Cup winner Champions League winner just put winner across any important title feels the need to go right at Ovid Vargas and strike him in the face it is just beyond me.
03:31:26
Speaker
I think that he should be called out. I think that if we don't talk about it, he makes this okay. And he makes it just like nothing ever happened. So that's the reason why I asked cello,
03:31:37
Speaker
grabbing people all of it. I just think that the entirety of that end of that game needed to be highlighted, not because it was more important than the game, but because that sort of behavior is unacceptable. It should not be allowed and it should be called out for what they are.
03:31:51
Speaker
And they are just Pieces of shit. It's that simple for for for for being that way. and So the the the attitude of Luis Suarez and his actions over an elderly man, although he probably would hate me calling him that, by the way, because he's amazing. And and and and but What I mean by is he's a strong willing dude Like he was a former like I don't know Ranger or something like he was a FBI Something crazy like that right Jeremiah He has like some background in law enforcement Yeah he had all this stuff So the dude would hate me to use that That term but that's what he is He's an older guy and the fact that Luis Suarez wouldn't add him And that another staff member Had to step up to protect Gene from this hooligan
03:32:42
Speaker
It's just wild to me. So I'm going to leave it there because the real stories are what Brian's master highlighted. And I got applaud him and me and him go back and forth over a ton of things, but he knows how to win tournaments. He knows how to win big games.
03:32:59
Speaker
I thought the tactics were phenomenal. I'm not even longer questioning some of his substitutions. Pedro came off and I said, let's let Brian cook. Something that I say usually about players, but I said, you know, let's let him cook.
03:33:11
Speaker
And i need all worked to him. i thought that the team was in complete control. I thought that with less possession, they were more dangerous. I thought that the team had fluidity, cohesiveness.
03:33:24
Speaker
I thought that defensively, they were unbelievable. both in their shape as well as in their repress and emergency defense. They took all the avenues away from Lionel Messi. He was frustrated.
03:33:37
Speaker
Rodrigo Dupal was frustrated. They even took the mid-range shot, which was just a resort for them to just get something going. So I just got to applaud everybody. Owen Vargas was targeted the entire game, and he gets punched in the face very likely because he was a rock in Lionel Messi's shoe the whole game.
03:33:57
Speaker
Every time he took the ball, he felt the breathing Just the axe, body spray, whatever Obed Vargas had, was wearing. He could smell it. He could taste it because he was on him the entire day. he He was his shadow.
03:34:13
Speaker
And of course, the the work by both of the center backs, I thought that Yamar was unbelievable. I mean, he just was a gladiator out there, closing down space, beating people on duels, beating people on aerial duels, pressing and pushing, intercepting balls.
03:34:30
Speaker
Anticipating moves. I mean, the the guy was outstanding. Alex Roldan on both ends of the ball, right? Offensively, the service he puts in for the De Rosario goal is phenomenal.
03:34:41
Speaker
His overlaps were fantastic. I just thought that the team in general was... Was great and it's that's Credit to brian's matter because He has embedded this System into This group in A way that i haven't seen before i Haven't seen a a team press as well and Effectively as This sounders team does since i started Covering the team and jeremiah is the Only guy that that i know that could Probably say otherwise ah But they are
03:35:15
Speaker
relentless, they understand the angles, they just know exactly how to press. And then when they get the ball, they're purposeful, they move progressively. I just tip my hat to this team.
03:35:28
Speaker
People call me crazy when I called out a 3-1 win for the Sounders. They said I was a homer. They said that I had no idea about soccer, that how could that be, that if anything, they would win in penalty kicks.
03:35:41
Speaker
All this nonsense, right, from people who probably don't watch the league, but as someone who watches at least five full 90-minute games of MLS,
03:35:52
Speaker
I can tell you that I knew that Seattle could beat this team and that they could expose the deficiencies in that defense, including their midfield that just doesn't have a lot of defensive presence without obviously ah Bright, who's the one and only guy that can do some sort of defending in that midfield. So I'll conclude by saying that Pedro De La Vega continues to be that X factor, continues to be that DP guy that...
03:36:20
Speaker
Changes the game that generates tempo. He had a phenomenal first half, both offensively and defensively. There was one 10 that shined bright tonight, and it was not Lionel Messi. It was not. was Pedro De La Vega.
03:36:36
Speaker
He shined bright. He was the man, and he should feel absolutely proud that we're saying that today. Yeah, I'm not um not questioning the DP status anymore.
03:36:50
Speaker
think that's that debate can officially be ah put to rest. Yeah, I mean, I love everything you said there, Nico. And I think for me, the biggest thing out of all that is the relentless. like that that is Out of all the things I love about this team, that trait I think is both my favorite and the one that sort of is like the common thread in all of the, uh, the success that they're having over this crazy run in this tournament. Like they just do not let up ever. And it's just, it's so fun to watch them take on these teams that, uh, that don't know how to handle it, including this inter Miami team. It's funny too. Like, you know, you saying you got clowned on for the ah three, one,
03:37:37
Speaker
It's funny how everyone who actually has been watching these two teams play all season kind of felt the same level of confidence. I can't name one Sounders fan that I talked to or media member that I talked to that felt anything else about this game other than like, they're probably going to win like straight up.
03:37:56
Speaker
Like that's how I felt the whole time. That's how... I think you guys both felt the whole time. That's how most of the fan base, if not all the fan base felt the whole time. And that's, it's funny, like the things you can learn from watching the games, you know, aye like I would recommend that to more people. That should be the lesson I would take from that is you can inform your opinions a little more before you pop off. If you actually watch the games,
03:38:23
Speaker
Love that. I second that. Yes, Jeremiah, I want to hear you cook too, but I can second and co-sign that, Ari, by far. There's a lot of people that talk as if they knew when they really don't.
03:38:40
Speaker
I don't have much. i already, I will admit, I've already been, this is my second, I tapped in a second time. Oh, shit, look at you. i Yeah, me and Tim did a ah bit But it was it was amazing.
03:38:54
Speaker
I feel like I had one more thought that I wanted to jump on. um you guys were talking about allocation money? Were we? Yeah, you guys... Yeah, somebody asked.
03:39:06
Speaker
Someone asked about how the allocation... So I wanted... That was the main reason I was going to call... was just going to answer that, how that works. So they can collect up to $3 million dollars in allocation money in... trans They can convert $3 million dollars a year from transfers into allocation money.
03:39:22
Speaker
So they could sell Obed for... $10 million dollars and just convert that into $3 million. dollars But then that would be the cap. They couldn't sell anymore that year. They couldn't make any more convert anymore that year.
03:39:34
Speaker
But then the next year, but they could also set it up if they wanted to where they could have that be like a recurring, like they they could spread the payments out over a period where they could collect $3 million dollars a year for, you know, two or three years if they wanted to or something.
03:39:51
Speaker
Or could they could sell Reed or something like that. But it's three, the limit's $3 million dollars of of transfer funds that they can convert. But you can collect more than that in trades and whatnot, but.
03:40:03
Speaker
Jeremiah, what what what did you think of the the breakout in like jerseys? There was a lot of presence of the either Barcelona. There was more Miami jerseys than I thought there would be ah heading into this. I was a little naive, I think, about how popular Messi. Apparently, he's a very popular player.
03:40:26
Speaker
The most common thing that I saw, and there's there was exceptions to this, but the most common thing I saw, I saw a lot of families coming into the game where like the kids were wearing messy jerseys and the parents were wearing Sounders stuff.
03:40:39
Speaker
And so I said this before, but I do think it's true that there were a lot of people, there were more people wearing messy jerseys than there were Miami fans. Like there were not, I think a lot of people oh a hundred percent were wearing messy jerseys were there to you just have a good time or they were there to even root for the Sounders.
03:40:57
Speaker
Uh, I don't think, you know, I will say the Miami supporters, that was a good showing. I don't know how they, I assume Miami flew them out, which they're not. They chartered two flights.
03:41:10
Speaker
Yeah. Awesome. That's great. ah Good for them. I'm glad they did that. I'm sorry that they're going home disappointed. I'm not really sorry for them, but. Sorry that happened or congratulations, whatever works. Right. Exactly. But, um you know, cheers.
03:41:28
Speaker
Cheers. That's right, baby. Cheers, man. I will say that I need to applaud the Seattle fan base because there were absolutely more.
03:41:41
Speaker
They were louder. The atmosphere was unbelievable. i did Spanish radio today. could barely hear myself at times. ah After the Rothrock goal, I mean, it all just broke loose.
03:41:54
Speaker
ah The Georgie PK when, you know, that that happens and he's pumping up the crowd. i mean, The decibels are just going crazy. man I just, you can't help but just love what the team is right now. that that unity The that collectiveness, that Ability to just have heart sometimes heart beats talent sometimes heart beats trajectory and tonight we saw Tradition we saw history. We saw passion community beat an organic Not organic a a made up factory built a plastic checkbook roster that is built to win championships and they ain't won nothing
03:42:46
Speaker
But that one shield and the one Leagues Cup and that's it. And that's with pouring a whole bunch of money. And there's gotta be pride. That's how I started my radio call today in Spanish.
03:42:58
Speaker
It was when hard was gonna overthrow money and where tradition Back to 1974 Was gonna beat Trajectory and and stardom And everything that gets placed For this inner Miami team It's not easy, that's why I love the TIFO I forgot what he said, but it was ah Along those lines, you build success Build not buy Love it, man.
Sounders' Team Strategy and Execution
03:43:26
Speaker
ECS, man. Look, tip my hat. I love it. I mean, everything about today was Seattle-esque and Sounder-esque. And I'm just proud to be part of it, man. I'm proud to be living it and talking about it and covering it because that's what soccer is about. That's what I grew up with was that.
03:43:45
Speaker
And I just want to add something. all And I don't i don't think Nico is saying anything different. But let's also not let's not undersell the talent, too. Like, there was there is some real talent out there. like oh yeah. these aren't These aren't just a bunch of grinders. These are players who I do think... Like, there's...
03:44:03
Speaker
There was a collective will, and that's all that's all true, but it's under the foundation of this thing is is that there's real talent here, and these are guys that have been coached well.
03:44:14
Speaker
This team has been assembled really perfectly. I don't think... Craig Weibel has gotten enough credit, frankly, for really building a very thorough and complete roster that did not have a lot of holes on it.
03:44:28
Speaker
And i Hey, I I'm right there with you. I want to see some signings and stuff, but it's also hard to not see how like, what was a new player going to add to today?
03:44:40
Speaker
He was going to be on the bench today That's it but i mean that that That's a reality and i think that i mean You don't give yourself enough credit Jeremiah Sounder of Heart has had the pom-poms The whole time rooting on What Craig Weibel And the Sounders have done You know I know that I had the Sounders third In my preseason rankings And it wasn't off of top talent It was off of depth And it was off of the talent that they do have And versatility And the fact that they know each other And they have a core group
03:45:13
Speaker
So, you know, that's that's just the way that crumbles, right? You you could have both things And yes, it'd be amazing to, you know, talk about other avenues of of of of Amplifying what the sounders does do But this is what they're about It's that grit, it's grip is dad atmosphere and And it's that ability to just put a great roster together, man. And Brian's matter, man. I mean, he was feeling himself today. You could just, you could just see it in his answers. You could see it.
03:45:45
Speaker
You know, I remember him walking in at after the first half going back into, and and I was on the radio and I was like, look, he was clapping at the fans. He knew he was going to win this game.
03:45:57
Speaker
Like, Brian was so confident. And and that just talks about a team that really believes in himself. that The fact that he's 1-0, not an outrageous scoreline, and you have that much confidence, man. It's about just a winning mentality, and this team has it. And, you know, I asked Pedro today how much this win was going to catapult the team for the second half the season.
03:46:23
Speaker
And he's like, absolutely, man. We we feel like we're just – We have all the answers. we you know They're going to win. They're going to just factor in that cemented relationship. And so sky's the limit right now for the team.
03:46:37
Speaker
Man, how great is it to be a league off? how great How perfect is that? yeah that's go be It's going to be a great week. They're going to play the Galaxy, and then they're going to play Miami. Galaxy again. Galaxy Miami again. like galaxy in miami I forgot about that. I mean, I guess like they're in the middle of like a pretty heated playoff chase. but like i I remember... like ah like the first game after they won CCC, I was like, I don't like this game could go any type way. And I think that's kind of how I feel about this. Like the first like galaxy game or whatever. I really do not care about that.
03:47:17
Speaker
Give them three or four days off, but they should be fine. Like they, they have a, yeah but but we go name but i would like hear anningu I didn't, I didn't notice. i would I don't know if you, we would have noticed in the press box or not, but,
03:47:31
Speaker
Paul Rothrock's goal came literally as they were announcing the attendance in the stadium. So like the PA comes on and they say it ah congratulations you set a new sounders attendance record 69 000 to 314 any scores i didn't catch that that is i didn't i wouldn't have caught it either but that's what my wife was in the state in the stands and she was like yeah they didn't get they were gonna say it in spanish too and they didn't even say it yeah and can we talk about paul rothrack
03:48:08
Speaker
Striker Paul Rothrock, mean, everything that Brian did today just seemed to be just set for success. Wait, are you saying he made good dogs, Nico?
03:48:19
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, i've i've I've been highlighting that, but apparently he only hears the bad stuff.
Miami's Conduct and Match Impact
03:48:25
Speaker
But, I mean, it it definitely was interesting. I mean, and I love the moves, right? I mean, you...
03:48:30
Speaker
Put Danny at the 10. But then they cooked so hard. like yeah that That was honestly, I think, the most he's ever cooked on subs. That was incredible. yeah yeah no Yeah, every step worked almost exactly how he, in his mind, imagined it. I love what you said about his his confidence, Nico, like how he kind of knew that the team was going to win. You don't say something like, they have Leo Messi, but we have Paul Rothrock. If you're not pretty damn sure, if not positive, that your team's going to win the game, but what like what gives you that confidence, that gumption to think that you can like go against a team...
03:49:09
Speaker
like that with all their big names and be pretty damn sure that, that your team is going to win. i mean, that's like, that's why it pays to have like the type of ah foundation and infrastructure that they got at their disposal right now, I guess, because he like, he literally pretty much knew they were going to win. That's crazy.
03:49:28
Speaker
Yeah, and look, Brian, if you're listening, to man, i I literally have been praising you all week, especially in Spanish. I literally said that Brian has been playing mind games with Inter-Miami all week long.
03:49:41
Speaker
I mean, that he's been poking the hell out of the bear from talking about Luis Suarez just being total slow-po, and we just have no respect for his speed, oh my god all the way from the Rothrock and the comments. I'm running him, bro.
03:49:57
Speaker
I mean, he he's been poking the bear, man, and put all the pressure on Inter-Miami. and And he just took it all, man. I mean, he I have not seen him be this witty and just this engaged in just... He was feeling all week. He was feeling it, man.
03:50:14
Speaker
Feeling it and you got to give him credit man You really do because it's not easy A lot of times you take the high road A lot of times you don't want to poke the bear A lot of times you understand that he's Javier Macerano On the other side and he just did it In his own way he wasn't Disrespectful you know he was Complimentary but he was throwing Those little jabs those little things that you know those sort of mind games Man and that's part of it Man it was it was amazing Oh, man.
03:50:42
Speaker
ah Niko, want to do a kickoff at not 8 a.m. m tomorrow i but so I can sleep in? like what's what's your What's your day like? Yeah, either way, man, we could move it down to Tuesday ah just to give it a day. we could do it later on.
03:50:59
Speaker
um so yeah it's up to you, man. What if we rip one like an evening episode? You guys are going to get up and just do it? Dude, I like... You got to just get up and do it. I don't think I can do it. You got to just get up and do it. Are you kidding me? You're going to lose all of the momentum.
03:51:14
Speaker
Okay. got to do it. You got to do it. 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Let's do it. 8 a.m. kickoff. I'll even – maybe I'll show up. I'm in the morning. If we get this panel at 8 a.m., I'm down. Yeah, exactly. Okay, wait. There's a super chat. I saw some folks dub this game the Wicked Cup due the colors of the two teams. If that's the case, the crash-up by Miami feels lore accurate.
03:51:39
Speaker
Galinda was always jealous of fee booth. I don't know. This is Disney shit. Jeremiah, this is your – yeah uh want to point out that when they popped all the smoke i said that does look like wicked and no one got the reference yeah i had nothing on that right no one i said that looks like wicked and everyone was like what are you are you is that like a boston thing yeah we it's wiki man it's weak it's because we got daughters jeremiah being you got it we got daughters i i thought the same thing
03:52:11
Speaker
We're just old. Are we Elphaba in this? Were we Elphaba in the analogy? Can you bring the chat back up? but Yeah, hold on. Sorry.
03:52:22
Speaker
I'm also trying to like post on socials and grind content. This is... Oh, yeah. Yeah. Can you read it? Yeah. yeah that's that's it i think And Galinda's also purple.
03:52:34
Speaker
I mean, pink. So, yeah, that's a solid that's a solid shout. Absolutely. right Worth worth the the super chat. Absolutely. That's on point. Yeah.
03:52:47
Speaker
I'll say a couple of more things there just to bring a little bit of like inside stuff. ever leaving with they can't get us sorry it so They shut off the lights over there, guys. i I'm worried for your safety, guys. there's a lot of but I'm pretty sure they're going to turn off the lights soon i on you guys. Surprise to so surprise to nobody in near biami Players were just looked angry, upset. There was shouting in the locker room. I don't know if something was happening in there.
03:53:15
Speaker
It was. like go The experiment is over. I just, I don't know. just It was bad vibes all around today when people just had heads down.
03:53:29
Speaker
In the mix zone for Miami. ah Yeah, they they they did not. Brought anybody else out other than Ustari And Ustari barely wanted to talk about anything But in the middle of it I mean the PR guy is like This is all you guys are getting That's it, it's one person right And he was just Yeah yeah Nobody was trying to come out crash out And then don't even talk after exactly Sad, embarrassing Yeah and he was just talking about they were angry And they were going to put it into the season And you know all of these things But I
03:54:02
Speaker
i That's what I'm saying but I keep looking back I just people coming out and Segovia came off head down just like angry I mean everybody was upset in the locker room and so I really do think that this is gonna be a big blow to the confidence in a Miami team and I love it I absolutely love it. and and and I've been like not that anti-inter Miami. i've I hate them more than I've ever hated an MLS team now.
03:54:31
Speaker
I want nothing but their but their downfall. Crocodile Tears. Dude, that's the perfect episode title, Crocodile Tears. They absolutely disgraced themselves and their entire team, their entire organization tonight.
03:54:44
Speaker
uh if they had any shame at all they would be mortifyingly embarrassed their entire fan base should be mortifyingly embarrassed that was one of the saddest most pathetic displays i've ever seen not just on a soccer field but in my life in general correct yeah it was bad and the last thing i wanted to share is i want You know, I'm a guy that tries to bring different types of aspect of our insight to to the audience.
03:55:11
Speaker
And I talk a lot about mentality and I talk a lot about those sort of things outside of just soccer skills. And I asked Pedro Del Vega about dealing with Messi.
03:55:26
Speaker
upset at him and and Scalded him and all this stuff which it it could be you might not think he's hard because you know, he's a professional He don't got to do nothing but when it is your idol the guy you've watched your entire life Just just think about the most important person in your life Just holding you and you having to do a job or something against them.
03:55:46
Speaker
It's not easy man in Pedro never lost his intensity ah There was a point Dude, he laughed at Messi. He laughed at him. and Yeah. did bo skis or wire Absolutely. Absolutely. That's why he just gets punches him in the face. It's because yeah they felt disrespected.
03:56:05
Speaker
but but but But that's what I'm talking about. I think that there's a mental component to what these guys... are doing this just, man, it's it's to applaud because it's not easy, man, for ah guy with that trajectory to not intimidate you into just you going less hard the next 50-50 ball. You just, you know, Rodrigo DePaul was pissed off at him. Everybody was mad at Pedro because he was a handful. He had Ian Frey in circles like and and like asking for a sub. I mean, it's not really much of a victory lap, but i did i was I was trying to point out that that was a matchup that Seattle was going to feast on all night long.
03:56:51
Speaker
Absolutely. Everyone was talking about Messi. Everyone was talking about the Barca boys. No one talked about the fact that Inter Miami's big plan to stop Pedro De La Vega was to roll out Ian Frey.
03:57:03
Speaker
A converted center back coming off three torn ACLs. What did they think? How did they think it was going to happen? How do you think that's going to go? How do you think that that is going to end for you? Exactly like that. what That's how that ends for you.
03:57:15
Speaker
Anyway, sorry, I got you. So that's it. I just want to bring a little bit of that insight that I just i find extremely interesting. I've got to crap to the notes. I'll try to bring some of them out tomorrow. yeah At regular time kickoff, apparently. I'll get up. I'll pull my alarm. I'll get my ass up. I'll get my ass up.
03:57:34
Speaker
I feel like the fans deserve it, man. Fans enjoy this. Love this. You know put her in a frame put in a memory frame and just have it forever because it is that important I talked to a bunch of people today who love love and scorchers who loves under a heart who loved Jeremiah sha who loved Noah who love Ari I talked to a crap ton of people That made fun of by my wife is like wow ah people know you was like yeah, honey, I you know, you want to enjoy the content, right? it was It was amazing. It was phenomenal. So I want to applaud you three for providing great content, for giving these people what they want, and and for continuing to grow this game and grow this community, man. I feel like today, you know, it might not be for us, but it is for the people, those fans that are there all the time, and they deserve this. And I just hope they all enjoy it.
03:58:23
Speaker
Absolutely. Couldn't have said it any better. All right. Should we disband panel and get through these last couple calls? We got to rock out these calls. These calls have been waiting. All right. Disassemble. We're going to rip them. I'll see you tomorrow morning.
03:58:37
Speaker
I'll see you in like five hours. Jeremiah, you look good, Jeremiah.
03:58:43
Speaker
Take the whole shirt off. Take the whole shirt off. Take it off! This is going off the rails. I'm removing it before it goes off the rails. All right, Tyler, Tyler. you Tyler, you've been in here for like 20 hours. You deserve it. You're like the – I'm bringing you on if you're ready. This is like the goaded trifecta to close it out. Tyler. Tyler. Welcome in. It was – Awesome meeting you in in person at Fast Fashion.
03:59:09
Speaker
Yeah, thanks it was great. Yeah, and thanks for saying hi. 3-0 over Inter-Miami, Leo Messi and the Barca boys. Get him out of here. Get him back to Fort Lauderdale. How are you feeling?
03:59:21
Speaker
I'm feeling better than Bob, I would say. Has anyone done that one yet? I'm feeling a lot better than Javi Mascherano. That's for nature. Better than Javi. Lost my voice completely, which is what you want to see at the end of those games. I wanted to share, i got yelled at ah for booing Messi.
03:59:37
Speaker
by a fan who told me that I needed to respect what Messi had done for the game. And he asked me if I knew how many goals Messi had scored and then informed me that Messi makes more each day than I make in my entire year.
03:59:53
Speaker
So that's the quality of fan base that we're dealing with, by the way. like got um That's got to be, of all the cringe things from that
Sounders' Victory as Community Catalyst
04:00:00
Speaker
whole little world tonight, that is up there.
04:00:04
Speaker
i was I was like literally speechless. i was I was like, that's where you're going with this? I mean, it's fine if you're like, okay, let's not like boo players, you know, whatever, which I do not agree with. You're an opposing player. or You come into our stadium. We're going to boo you. Bragging about someone else's money is crazy.
04:00:21
Speaker
That's not even your money. What are we – okay, anyway. Actually, don't you know how much a Leo Messi makes? Actually – brother, you work in construction. What are you talking about? Like, let's just chill out.
04:00:35
Speaker
It was wild. ah The other thing I wanted to ask is, does Miami make jerseys other than messy jerseys? Because I didn't see any other I thought it was really great that the pregame announcer literally said, i don't know if you guys caught this, but he was like, all right, make some noise if you're a Miami fan.
04:00:54
Speaker
And there was like a little bit of cheering or whatever. And then he literally said, make some noise if you're a Messi fan. And there was like a little bit more cheering and then Sounders fan. And then everyone went crazy. We all knew that that was the case, but nice to have it confirmed.
04:01:07
Speaker
It was so cringe, man. I can't even like, there's, there's time, you know, I try to like with other fan bases, I want to be like rap real for a second here with you guys.
04:01:18
Speaker
You know, it's fun to like make fun of the Timbers fans. It's fun to make fun of this club of professional wrestling, wrestling, enthusiast fans and all that stuff. But I do respect ultimately, you know, fans of clubs there, they're putting, you know, their heart and soul and something. And I respect that commitment to, you ah you know, to a club. I just like, I don't, I don't get this Miami thing, man. It doesn't, it makes no sense to me. I have literally never seen, I've seen like one Kermashi Jersey, like in my, in my life basically. And otherwise it's just been messy Jersey. So I don't get it.
04:01:53
Speaker
I don't, I mean, the fans that were traveled made a bunch of noise. Jeremiah mentioned that. I think they did a really nice job ah being in the stadium and all that stuff. But overall it's just like,
04:02:04
Speaker
ah this is Does this club even exist? I feel like this is like a club you make in FIFA and you like put it in your in your league. You're like, oh this is a club I'm going to make fun of. It's not a real club.
04:02:15
Speaker
Yeah, it's not a real club. Their fantasy as fake has been proven. Yeah. Anyway, you guys are maniacs. Thanks for staying up. I'm not going to take – you got more people in the queue. I don't want to like – Hog line or whatever. We're hour four. we're gonna You guys are happy sentiment absolute monsters. We're getting them all in. We're getting them all in. All right, Tyler. Thank you. We love you. Thank you you guys so much. Bye. Danny.
04:02:39
Speaker
You've also been waiting for like a billion years. Danny. Another person who was hanging out with us. IRL. Long time goaded caller. Danny, talk to us, man. 3-0 over Inter-Miami and the Barca Boys.
04:02:52
Speaker
League's Cup champions. Get those old men back to Fort Lauderdale where they can spit on a old guys over there. How are you feeling? You guys can hear me, right? yeah Absolutely. Yeah, the voice is a little deep. you know got but yeah Mine's a little bit gone, too.
04:03:07
Speaker
so It was a full house, baby. It was, yes. ah There's something about being in the lower deck with the boom-boom clap resonating from above.
04:03:18
Speaker
It hits you as something different with a full house, the boom-boom clap. So I'm just going to throw it that out there. That was amazing. I love the full house boom-boom clap. It's a little mixed up you know as League Cup. It's a little weird with the thing, but it was it was something great.
04:03:33
Speaker
I just got, you know, that's, that's my first take. All right. Yeah. No, the atmosphere was, i think, I mean, it was the best since 22 Like, yeah, that was so. like and that was so style so
04:03:46
Speaker
Like Paul Rothrock? I mean, like, who's Messy again? What's that? Who's Messy? literally don't know he is. He didn't win the 2025 Leagues Cup. That's what I can tell you. didn't score as many goals as Osaze, De Rosario, Alex Roldan, or Paul Rothrock in the Leagues Cup final. I can also tell you that. oh I have a couple quick takes because maybe there's more people in the queue.
04:04:08
Speaker
But, like, first of all, like, Paul Rothrock, awesome. Like, so, Chris and Roldan, the way he stood over the ball for the penalty for his brother to take it. So, he took the flat.
04:04:18
Speaker
um know if you guys saw, like, that little detail, that little nugget. yeah Like, he was just standing there, standing over the ball. Good shout, yeah. And then his brother just stepped up, ice in his veins, you know, just cold as ice and just nailed it. And that was like, oh, man.
04:04:34
Speaker
So that's once you go up to zero, we we knew it was kind of in the bag. Right. Yeah. So that I mean, this is. This is three for three. three Three finals at Lumen, three trophies.
04:04:48
Speaker
is this Is there a harder place to play in the entire U.S.? Fuck it, the entire world. not ah Not in like a scenario like this. not Definitely not. Yeah, you can't. like yeah Every time missing on the ball, like wait like, I felt like he wasn't even on the field.
04:05:05
Speaker
Like, I feel like he was playing off field. Like, there was, when he got the ball, it was taken immediately off him, or we didn't we didn't give him the time and space to do his moves or anything. He was just, like, I think there was a few touches. Maybe there was a one really in behind, but he skied it, you know, like,
04:05:21
Speaker
I think, right? And I mean, but that was he had one chance. yeah yeah He looked ah average at best. He was boring me, to be quite honest with you. i was falling asleep at times. I was yawning watching him play.
04:05:33
Speaker
and it like that was so like once again the stadium the atmosphere it was fun it was electric it was just the sounders b brian spencer and company doing just the best that like that was the best representation the sounders could have had there was no we had like one dp he was playing his heart out but same with everyone else it was just pure smencer ball versus like old money kind of thing you know and it was ah dude it was chef kiss beautiful to watch and it was like i thought we were playing some really fun really good soccer too like that's they like they had some plays it was yeah you know they had like they they had like 20 25 minutes where they They looked like they were on top of it. They had some good possession and they had the messy chance that he bammed into the 27th row and they had freaking Allende or Segovia.
04:06:33
Speaker
Can't remember which one it was. Don't care. Not worth my time. But they, they, they had that dude missed like ah that needs to be a goal. Obviously. i don't know.
04:06:44
Speaker
I don't know what they're paying that guy, but they should get him off the team because that was terrible. But nice to meet you guys. Sorry, like you guys were getting, you know, people, other people were talking to We exchanged glances.
04:06:57
Speaker
Yeah. I think I said one up briefly. We are going to have another get together at some point too. yeah So you, you will, we will make sure that like end of season party kind of vibe. sure Yeah. so yeah some with that And we'll get pizzas like for the class.
04:07:11
Speaker
Have good night. ah Man, like, let's let's bask in this. I'm glad we get the week, right? Yeah, it's going to be a great week of basking. I can't wait. We love you, Danny. Thanks for thanks for calling in, man. We'll talk to you on the next one.
04:07:25
Speaker
Cheers, man. All Parker. Oh, we need Parker in here. We need Parker. Give me Parker in here right now. Parker! There is.
04:07:36
Speaker
Parker. What is up man? 3-0 over Inter-Miami in the retirement home. Barca boys, they're on a plane back to Fort Lauderdale, probably crashing out and fighting with each other. For sure. Instead of the team staff on the field. How are you feeling?
04:07:50
Speaker
I'm feeling good. i'm I'm honestly tired, but I'm feeling good. I can't believe all everything that happened. um I think it's so funny how every piece of media that I've seen, other than my curated algorithm,
04:08:07
Speaker
was like messy, messy, messy. Like even Apple TV, like when I clicked on it to watch the game, no, I didn't make it in person. I'm sorry. It's okay. Sorry to myself and my future children for not sharing this moment of Seattle Saunders history.
04:08:21
Speaker
But the Apple TV thing was like, um messy takes on a chance at another trophy. Yeah, dude. Like I was chiding about like...
04:08:35
Speaker
All of the coverage. That's what it was, man. All of the coverage. That's what makes this win even better, though. They made it even better by doing that. Like, it's just, ah I mean, and I think we already talked about the, like, messy help Seattle break club record articles that were out there. It's like, dude.
04:08:52
Speaker
Imagine. guys just got no clue. Y'all got no clue. Imagine getting paid 100%, a stupid amount of money to come to a league to sandbag. Oh, my God. Literally.
04:09:03
Speaker
Literally. It's going to be the easiest thing ever. going to the time of my life and just spend five or ten years in my life. Just literally chilling in South Florida with his boys and your boys are a dude who's going to be convicted of assault on a 70-year-old man. like They're doing Florida guy activities.
04:09:22
Speaker
They're doing Florida man activities. I guess, you know, um wait, someone needs to Photoshop chat. There's 200 of you. Someone Photoshop this sending me on blue sky or Twitter, uh, Florida man arrested after spitting on 70 year old man. It's a photo of Suarez spitting. Okay. Need that chat.
04:09:40
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, Messi got bait and switched. Hey, come to MLS. It'll be easy. Sun, sunset your years. And, uh, You'll get paid ah ah butt ton of money and ah you're just going to steamroll everybody.
04:09:54
Speaker
Bro didn't do his research. He should have looked up on the field before he came out here.
Sounders' Legacy and Future Prospects
04:10:00
Speaker
I wonder if he's the one player on Miami who knew that it was going to be tough coming here.
04:10:04
Speaker
I wonder. I think he's like a respect my opponent type of guy, but I don't know. I don't know. I'm just, ah I'm so soured on that whole team that even Messi, a player that i I liked historically and been a fan of, I'm kind of like, i don't even um don't even fuck with you right now, buddy.
04:10:23
Speaker
It's embarrassing. It is. and And the whole point about leadership there is is very valid. um Okay, so two key parts here with passing the torch. So going to move you guys over onto this screen. So it looks like i'm looking at you with the camera. There we go. That's better. All good. I'm also like looking at my phone and posting. So you're like, I'm being a bad host too.
04:10:43
Speaker
No, you're chilling. You're the best host. Don't even, don't even. So um if we look at Seattle history and kind of the culture, even with the Mariners, you've got Ken Griffey, Ichiro.
04:10:56
Speaker
I was heartbroken when Ichiro left, but like they still have respect for the team. And they came back. If you look at Sounders who have left, you've got ah Kim Keehee, Brad Smith, Nico Ladero who left who wanted to come back, isn't coming back. Freddie Montero.
04:11:11
Speaker
Everybody who, not everybody, but I think broadly speaking, most players who graduate, in air quotes, to go on to bigger and better things, they they have hold a sweet place in their heart for the Seattle Sounders.
04:11:28
Speaker
And so it's not like we're sending off these players to never see them again. I look at it more as like an opportunity where we're building mentors for the future generation.
04:11:40
Speaker
Ovid Vargas in 10 years is going to come back and mentor our next 15-year-old. He's going to be back on the field.
04:11:50
Speaker
I think you're right about that because like, that's the benefit of like, uh, having a club that players feel like that deep a connection to is they do like, they do want to come back.
04:12:00
Speaker
I've always thought that that was, would probably be Obed's most likely arc.
04:12:07
Speaker
hundred percent. Absolutely. Our current, if you look at our current, um, like the, the older guys on the team, I look at it, like I don't think there's a better time for them to pass the torch. I think of like Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda, when he like turns into flowers and right yeah no like disappears or whatever.
04:12:29
Speaker
i think it's a really good time because you have people who are bought into the club and um they know that it's in good hands. So like you know your Fry's, your J.P.' 's, whoever it is,
04:12:43
Speaker
I think we we also free up a ton of roster money by them just feeling confident and passing the torch.
04:12:54
Speaker
So yeah, yeah as my go those are Those are all great points. Did you have a favorite moment from the ah from the game?
04:13:04
Speaker
I mean, the Georgie a snapback was hilarious. The way he drew that penalty, And then hyped up the crowd. Oh, my God. That so was so sick.
04:13:15
Speaker
That was so sick. Yeah. It was clinical. he He had that guy eating out of his hand. Dude, he was he was so good. Well, Parker, i and and I forgot to do it for the last caller, but Laila Messi, he's calling you. he needs a refill of his Michelob Ultra gift.
04:13:33
Speaker
and whatever else he's selling, probably some like crypto or something. ah what are you going to say? what are You're picking up the phone. He's calling you. What are you saying to him? I'm going to look, man, um you need to have a serious talk with your team because it's embarrassing.
04:13:49
Speaker
Like genuinely genuinely, you need to talk to those guys and figure out what is going on with that because that was unhinged. Yeah, that was crazy. And we're not talking about how they played on the field. We're talking about post-match.
04:14:04
Speaker
How they crashed out. Correct. Yeah. Entirely. yeah Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm telling him. i you know like If you have any respect for this sport, you are the GOAT. like for sure.
04:14:16
Speaker
But I don't know if I can respect how you're handling your teammates. Like you have, you should have yeah patience for yourself. If he did anything else other than get up in front of the team in that post-game locker room and say, guys, what the fuck was that? You just embarrassed.
04:14:32
Speaker
all of us in our entire organization, like in front of everybody and everyone was watching this game and you disgraced and embarrassed us, like that is unacceptable. If he did anything else other than that, then he's not being a true captain and true leader.
04:14:47
Speaker
Exactly. Well, Parker, we love you. We got to go. There's a goal. Did you like my MLS 360 impression? Oh, we got to go. All right, Pat.
04:14:58
Speaker
Pat, are you ready? Get Pat in here. Get Pat in here. Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat. How are we doing? We're doing so well, lads. ah It's so good. So good. you I'm going to tell you, i'm going to tell you, no 8 a.m. call, okay? there's There's no way. There's no way I'm going to be up for that.
04:15:18
Speaker
I would not expect that. You can always watch them later. Yeah, watch just just drop a like when you can and you're good. yeah If you're being here for four hours, which we've been streaming for four hours, hit the like. hit the like You've been in here for all of it. I left for minute.
04:15:34
Speaker
Guys, I think ah i think the edit you guys did on that ah Brian Schmetzer quote was so good. It's perfect. The only thing I would say is now that Paul Rothrock scored, you guys got to do the laser eyes edit, you know?
04:15:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yes. like ah But credit to you guys because because that's what killed it. Well, thank you. yeah we We sent Schmetz viral and it paid off.
04:16:03
Speaker
Every once in a while, Schmetz hits for us. you know he's he's He had some heaters in the post-match. I do want to clip out him getting emotional cause because he did he he just he I love him so much, man. How can you not love Schmetz?
04:16:18
Speaker
You know, it's like there's Schmetz talk and there's like the language that he uses. You know, like if he if he's crediting the players, it means they had a bad game. If he's like, there's something they could have done better.
04:16:29
Speaker
They had the best game in the world. But there was none of that this game. He just loved it. He was having such a good time. And you know what? So was I.
04:16:40
Speaker
Exactly. You're using his final form. ah What lets... ah Brain not functioning. ah What do... Tier list. Where does this final sit with you right now?
04:16:52
Speaker
Well, you know, I'm i'm ah the the most common form of Seattleite, which is a transplant. So I played soccer as a kid in Australia. come over here. haven't watched a lot of soccer. are we doing? What are we doing?
04:17:06
Speaker
Oh, I'll find that. That's, that's for Western Australia. and there dere You know what? I feel sorry for Perth. I'm just going to say it. But they if, if AFL is what they need, that's what they need.
04:17:21
Speaker
But I come over here and just last year, I went to a game and I was like, Oh, I love this as a kid. I love this so much. And so we got season tickets this year, and my wife and,
04:17:35
Speaker
we were having a blast and we were like, we're going to go to every single game. And so we didn't opt out or any of that. We just went every single game. We met you guys at the Tacoma Defiance Open Cup game. yeah it was It was an absolute blast.
04:17:50
Speaker
And we were like, we're going to everything we possibly can. And the the sort of the reward of being like, hey, here's the finals. I was ready to cope if Messi came in and scored a hat trick.
04:18:05
Speaker
whatever. I was ready to cope because it was such a good leader. The memes, the energy, we went to a we went to a bar, we got in a little late because of the traffic and we just went to a bar. It just like everyone in there was wearing green.
04:18:20
Speaker
It was so good. It was so good. So, you know, for me, this is obviously top tier. i I know that for some other people, there's gonna be a whole bunch of different stuff, but the experience, the fact that I'm kind of new to this team, it was so, it was so good.
04:18:37
Speaker
And I think that's the beauty of it. Like there are going to be a lot of people who came to this match to watch Messi and watched an electric game and watch the Sounders put the beat down on them and come back or at least want to watch the Sounders again. Like this is the perfect performance to grow the game, to grow this team. I mean, more than what reward for you too. You deserve it because you've gritted out all these matches. Yeah.
04:19:02
Speaker
it It was like pulling teeth last year, right? it was like, oh, oh another 1-0, we might be able to convert into a draw if we only let one goal through. Oh my god, the dog days, man. days of me and Noah getting on on our show for 210 downloads being like, why can't this team score everything? We're not talking about the founders unless they score two goals. Yeah.
04:19:28
Speaker
i'm not beating with the founders unless they score multiple goals in the game how far yeah i mean and and being a pedro apologist you're like you could you could see it you could see he was like this close to being excellent you're like dude he's this close he's this close yeah but then you had to be like but he's not there yet and then this year it's like no he's there he's there he's so good he's cooking everyone His effort is 100.
04:19:56
Speaker
It's like, that was the thing. it' was like last year, you knew he like, his injury, whatever. But anytime a team member scored, even someone who was like fighting for his position, he's like...
04:20:08
Speaker
this is the greatest moment of my life. I'm going to go over there and celebrate with him and make it about him. And it was just like, what a great team player. ah And for that to be rewarded, was, yeah, just such a good feeling.
04:20:21
Speaker
And it's like, yeah, surely this will happen next season when I renew my season ticket memberships. Hey, they love a cup. Quote Paul Rothrock. We love a cup.
04:20:31
Speaker
We love a cup. Well, ah Pat, Messi's on the phone. He's calling you. He actually tried to call into the show, but we said, sorry, sir, you you can't. you You're not allowed here. What are you saying to him?
04:20:43
Speaker
I'm saying, why don't you just retire in Miami? Let someone else run that team because you're not up to it.
04:20:56
Speaker
I mean, no lies no lie detected. Thank you so much for calling in, Pat. Thank you, Pat. appreciate Appreciate you. Thanks for waiting it out and grinding it out. Four hours and 20 minutes. I'll you at 10 a.m. See you at 10 a.m.
04:21:08
Speaker
This is our last one. No one else calling us. Bring us home. We're bringing it home with Nat. ready? another lobbing scorcher's favorite let's go you called it you said this atmosphere was going to be electric and you were so right you called you were so yes how are we feeling that talk to us i mean it felt like it felt like an mls cup it felt like yes it felt like i wish that they Like ah my background, I wish that they had given everyone the green and blue again so we could have held that up. Yeah.
04:21:43
Speaker
I mean, short notice, to be fair. You know, only a couple days' notice. I loved the TIFO um for ECS. That was great. The only thing that would have made that better is if they had a second line that said Ronaldo better than Messi, greater than Messi. That would have been epic.
04:22:05
Speaker
Or even Rothrock better than Messi. Yeah, yeah, exactly. you got yeah what You got to dis insert Rothrock into all the memes. Yes. I mean, I'm so happy for Rothrock.
04:22:17
Speaker
um Just like that goal. I'm going to remember that for... I remember when he first like got some minutes last season.
04:22:28
Speaker
um like We were like, oh, this guy's fun. This is huge. He scored a game winner against the Houston Dynamo. He came on in that Houston game. And that game was awesome. That game was awesome.
04:22:41
Speaker
And like, I've loved him ever since then. And it's, he's been so good this entire league's cup. He played very well in the club world cup. Um, when he wasn't good and it was sucks that he was out,
04:22:55
Speaker
We could have used him in that Atlanta game. But yeah, he's been so good. So happy for him. um But yeah, this game was incredible. I'm so happy with with what happened.
04:23:07
Speaker
ah I can't believe that we're playing them so soon. and know like i I know. Like, um it will be interesting to see what comes out of the whole fiasco at the end.
04:23:21
Speaker
but like, it's so soon. Like, I mean, I can tell you who is not going to be playing in that game is Luis crash out spit at opposing team staff Suarez.
04:23:34
Speaker
He will be yeah suspended for at least that long. But like, they got to be real about this, man. They can't do their like Noah was talking about the enabling everything Inter-Miami does and treating them with kid gloves. Like, you can't do that shit, man.
04:23:49
Speaker
No, you can't. Well, I mean, like ah Hector Herrera last year when he spit at um the ref, like he got more than one game for that. They came pretty heavy.
04:24:03
Speaker
This is worse than that. he got He got bossed so bad he left the league. He was like, yeah, I'm good. But he spat in the first direction, not in the face.
04:24:14
Speaker
yeah So I think that is a little different. Yeah, no, I think that the punishment is for this should be worse than that. So the fact that they did that for Hector Herrera, like I feel like it it's it could be real bad. so But anyway, it's going to be crazy. I really hope we beat them again. I mean, like.
04:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, that would be so good in their house now. Yeah. That's key. like Honestly, if they won that. I would not care that much. It doesn't matter. It's totally fine. It's a consolation game for them. But how funny would it be if they just beat their ass again in their house? It's a lose-lose situation for them in that game. Because if they beat that, it's like, so what?
04:24:52
Speaker
And if we beat them, it's like, haha, we did it to you. You suck. Yeah, you suck. You're bad. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Well, now... I'm going to ask you a final question. I'm i'm cooked, dude. I'm so sorry. yeah You're a caller, but I'm going to... We don't want you to locked in the stadium, even though that would be kind of awesome, because... it would be funny. We would make content out it. wake up and do kickoff just from here. Yeah, so we could sleep in this booth. Yeah, just sleep on the field.
04:25:19
Speaker
Go sleep in the spot that... Rothrock struck the ball for his goal. Just go sleep there. Just right there. Messi's calling.
04:25:30
Speaker
It's the final call of the night. He's about to go to bed. What are you saying to him? um Yeah. ah
04:25:42
Speaker
so Viva Ronaldo.
04:25:46
Speaker
And with that, Nat, thank you so much for closing it out. You are so great. We'll give you more time next time, I promise. Thank you so much. Love you it. We love you too, Nat. Thank you. We did Chat!
04:26:01
Speaker
Oh my God. All right. What are we at? Four and a half. That's definitely... the longest stream in Lobbing Scorchers history, but it had to be done.
04:26:13
Speaker
God damn it, what a game. ah What a performance.
04:26:18
Speaker
Beating Inter-Miami and the Barca Boys so bad that they crash out and have to leave the stadium in their after their second-place ceremony in a cloud of shame, embarrassment, embarrassment and pending suspensions.
04:26:32
Speaker
ah What an amazing display by the Seattle Sounders. What an absolutely pathetic, embarrassing display by Inter-Miami at the end of the game. And it doesn't get much better than this, folks. This is as...
04:26:47
Speaker
gonna win as like you're ever gonna see yeah you this is the mo these moments this is why we do it this is why we do it right here this we are chasing this is stuff like this so when it's actually attained that must be recognized that must be appreciated and that must be streamed for four and a half hours post game even as our mental faculties deteriorate by the end of it uh Thank you guys all so much for tuning in and all the love and support the Super Chats today. We're going crazy. Yeah, you guys are amazing. Yeah, I don't even know what to say about that. We just... We love you guys. We love this community that we've created.
04:27:26
Speaker
And... To to share... The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle. Sorry. My speech was still going. No, honestly, that that was pretty much it. Just to get to share moments like this with all you guys, like, it doesn't get better than this.
04:27:43
Speaker
So, hell yeah. We love you. We appreciate you. mean, know I'm going to like the videos you all in like five hours. so Watch kickoff, even if it's later. And we're fucking League's Cup champions, bitch.