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Speaker 1: Coming to you live from our Elliot Avenue studios of

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. This is Sounders

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Speaker 1: Weekly with your host Jackson felt Good Evening.

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Speaker 2: Everybody, Welcome into Sounders Weekly. Jackson Feltz here, good to

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Speaker 2: be with you on this Tuesday night. Thanks for saying

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Speaker 2: up late with us here after Mike Benton's Cracking Weekly show.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we're doing it all on Tuesday this week

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Speaker 2: because the Crack and are playing tomorrow. Next week, we

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Speaker 2: are bleeve back to a Wednesday Sounders Weekly show at

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Speaker 2: eight pm. So we of course flipped up in days,

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Speaker 2: and you know, pretty much you can just look at

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Speaker 2: your calendar and if the Cracking are playing on Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do a show on Tuesday. And if the

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Speaker 2: Cracking are playing on Tuesday, we're gonna do a show

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. It's kind of as simple as that. So

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Speaker 2: here we are again. We're gonna have a fun show

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Speaker 2: here coming up tonight. Hassani Dotson, the Sounders new midfielder,

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Speaker 2: the Federal Way Native. He and I had a wonderful conversation.

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Speaker 2: You're you're gonna hear four minutes of that conversation. But

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Speaker 2: what I can say is that Hassani and I spent

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Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes talking. Awesome, awesome dude. Very happy to

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Speaker 2: have him on the Sounders. Not only because he's from

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Speaker 2: Federal Way, which is sort of where I live, but

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Speaker 2: it's also because genuinely, I think it's a midfielder that

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Speaker 2: the Sounders needed. He's a really good tackler. He can

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Speaker 2: get stuck in a little bit better than Obed Vargas

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Speaker 2: I think, who of course has departed to Athletico Madrid.

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Speaker 2: And Hassani playing that style of soccer, it demands that

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Speaker 2: Christian Roldan play a little differently, get up the field more,

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Speaker 2: be more offensive, and what do you know, it produced

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Speaker 2: a goal for Christian Roldan, not in that typical sense

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Speaker 2: of getting up the field. It was a set piece

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Speaker 2: header goal off a corner kick. But still I think Hasani,

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Speaker 2: the influence of him, changes the way Christian Roldan plays.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see that overall, come over the course

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Speaker 2: of a season and see kind of what Christian Roldan does.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Chris On scored. Unfortunately, Real Salt Lakes scored more.

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Speaker 2: They beat the Sounders by a score of two to one.

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Speaker 2: This last weekend, which honestly, you know, I think we

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Speaker 2: all look at it and it doesn't come as a

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Speaker 2: surprise because the Sounders have not won at Salt Lake.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say some means they play in Sandy Utah, America.

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Speaker 2: First field is in the town of Sandy Utah, but

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Speaker 2: it's real Salt Lake, and the Sounders haven't won there

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Speaker 2: in MLS play since May of twenty eleven. Yes, playoffs, yes,

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Speaker 2: Open Cup, but in terms of MLS regular season play,

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Speaker 2: it's now been fifteen years since we've beaten them in

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Speaker 2: their house and they beat us again. And really thought

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Speaker 2: the Sounders had a chance to go down there and

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Speaker 2: win this last weekend because of just the way RSL

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Speaker 2: is built. They're a very injured team. Diego Luna by

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Speaker 2: far their best player, he was out with an injury. Thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: this is the time the Sounders are gonna break the streak.

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Speaker 2: But you know it's just that is a house of horrors,

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Speaker 2: that stadium there in Sandy Utah. So it's a Sounder

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Speaker 2: lost there at Salt Lake. And here we move forward

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Speaker 2: to Saint Louis. You're gonna hear Hasani Dotson give his

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Speaker 2: take on what happened there in Salt Lake. Coming up

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Speaker 2: in our conversation, we will also be talking to Ari Lillianwall,

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Speaker 2: writer and editor for mlsccer dot com and host of

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Speaker 2: the podcast Lobbing Scorchers. He will join us to talk

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Speaker 2: about the Sounders and to talk about what's going on

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Speaker 2: in the rest of Major League Soccer and preview Saint

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Speaker 2: Louis coming up this weekend. I'll give you broadcast details

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Speaker 2: on that in just a moment, and then later on tonight.

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Speaker 2: Dax McCarty longtime MLS midfielder. He is now a Apple

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Speaker 2: TV broadcaster. He does a bunch of studio stuff. He

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Speaker 2: commentates a bunch of games. So Dax McCarty will be

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Speaker 2: joining us probably about forty minutes from right now, to

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Speaker 2: talk about his perspective on the Sounders. I want to

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Speaker 2: get his perspective from the Nash side of a couple

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Speaker 2: of specific guys. And there's one topic that we're gonna

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Speaker 2: hit with both of our guests, Ari and Dax later

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Speaker 2: on tonight and listen. I get it, if you're a

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Speaker 2: tell you what Sunday Night, a couple of nights ago

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Speaker 2: in Major League Soccer. The game of the week was

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Speaker 2: Orlando City against Miami. The reason why it was the

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Speaker 2: I mean, frankly, they have the greatest player of all time, Messi,

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Speaker 2: Herman Bertserame is their new striker from Lega Mchi's He's tremendous.

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Speaker 2: As we saw loomin Field a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: They have a tremendous team. And so what made it

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Speaker 2: bam time four on him, four goals and get a

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Speaker 2: four to two win. But that's not the reason why

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Speaker 2: it's getting comments, and that's why not the reason why

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Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about it with both of our

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Speaker 2: guests tonight. At the end of the game, mister goat himself.

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Speaker 2: Lionel Messi goes over to the Orlando coach after Miami's

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Speaker 2: comeback four to two win and says to the Orlando

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Speaker 2: coach and gestures, do you want my autograph? Just drop

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Speaker 2: the mike. You know what? Right there, from Messi to

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Speaker 2: Orlando's coach, that was something else. So I mean, that

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Speaker 2: was a fun game. And then for Messi to go

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Speaker 2: on with both of our guests tonight. Soccer has been

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Speaker 2: far of the season. But again for the Sounders, it

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Speaker 2: is a loss at RSL frustrating because you know, you

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Speaker 2: look at it and it was Dave Rosario gets his

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Speaker 2: that Colorado game. So suddenly we have to ask the questions, now,

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Speaker 2: does mean that Osase should keep starting or does Danny

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Speaker 2: Mazowski now get the inside track to take that spot

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Speaker 2: back because A Jordan Morris is still injured. B we

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Speaker 2: in that second half and I thought Danny did pretty

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Speaker 2: darn good. He put himself in good positions. He nearly

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Speaker 2: interesting question and one I'm certainly thinking that the coaching

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Speaker 2: themselves right now is who should start it forward. Also,

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Speaker 2: the guy that you're gonna be hearing from in a

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis I don't think is deeply strong team. I

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Speaker 2: of continue to give them the confidence, to give them

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Speaker 2: it's it's the place the Sounders always lose. RSL and

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Speaker 2: I just chalk it up to that, and I want

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Speaker 2: to continue to see what Osase and Hassani have really quickly.

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Speaker 2: Broadcast details for Saint Louis. The game is going to

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Speaker 2: listen in Spanish language on l Ray thirteen sixty for

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Speaker 2: our side here on KJR. It will not be on

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Speaker 2: terrestrial radio on nine fifty or ninety three point three.

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Speaker 2: We are going to be having the broadcast on the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Soccer Radio stream channel on iHeartRadio. We've changed the name.

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Speaker 2: It's no longer I believe we called it the Sounder

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Speaker 2: Radio stream Channel on iHeartRadio and the free iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: So download the iHeartRadio app, find iHeartRadio on your computer

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Speaker 2: the link. That's where we will be broadcasting the game

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Speaker 2: this coming Saturday, five o'clock Providence, Swedish pre match show

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Speaker 2: five point thirty kickoff for Sounders and Saint Louis. So

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Speaker 2: that's broadcast details for that game. We will see if

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Speaker 2: Hasani Dotson continues to start in the midfield, but as

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Speaker 2: for last week against Real As Salt Lake. Here's my

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Speaker 2: conversation earlier today out at their Long Acres training facility

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know the comment or famous phrase,

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Speaker 3: you know, goals change games, and I think with a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure you'd be close to getting that equal

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Speaker 2: playing at Living Field for so long. Is that weird

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Speaker 2: Well, what's it like playing now in your your hometown,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels great. Obviously, grew up playing all in

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think for me, the club's really ambitious.

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Speaker 3: there's more of that, you know, I want to win

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Speaker 4: I'm good Jackson. The last part of that intro and

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Speaker 4: hard lead to win on the road. So I think

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Speaker 4: the way I would put it is that if you

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Speaker 4: get the road point in this situation, that's an acceptable result.

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Speaker 4: But like, based on the competition here, it's also a

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Speaker 4: game where you have the opportunity to get three points.

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Speaker 4: And I felt that same way about the RSL game

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Speaker 4: and they ended up losing. So I would take the

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Speaker 4: point in this situation. But I think they should be

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Speaker 4: able to make or run at winning this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I like that. All right, Ari, let's talk

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Speaker 2: about a team that we haven't touched on yet in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. In our few visits, I always have

443
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Speaker 2: an eye to what's going on just south of us,

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Speaker 2: because you know, of course, we always want the Sounders

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Speaker 2: to raise as many trophies as they can win in

446
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Speaker 2: each given year. If the Sounders do not win trophies

447
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Speaker 2: in a given year, the number one thing I'm looking

448
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Speaker 2: for is for the Portland Timbers to not raise a trophy.

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Speaker 2: Look at twenty twenty one, for example, So happy thank

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Speaker 2: you again to New York City FC. Portland Timbers have

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Speaker 2: opened the year with a win over Columbus and a

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Speaker 2: two nothing loss in Colorado this last week. Give me

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Speaker 2: a little barometer of how I we should be feeling

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Speaker 2: about the Porland Timbers in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: I would say I feel the same way about the

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Speaker 4: Timbers going into this year as I usually do, which

457
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Speaker 4: is it's not a team that ever seems to fully

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Speaker 4: bottom out and be a Wooden Spoon contender or anything

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Speaker 4: like that. But it's also a team that, especially in

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Speaker 4: the last few years, has had trouble getting over the

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Speaker 4: humpt into genuine contender status, and I feel like they're

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Speaker 4: in a bit of a similar situation to that this year.

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Speaker 4: They're a team that's always going to be able to

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Speaker 4: score some goals, They're going to be a really good

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Speaker 4: counter attacking team. But did they do enough over the

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Speaker 4: offseason to put themselves to a different level than they

467
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Speaker 4: were at last year? From the outside, it doesn't really

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Speaker 4: seem like it. So maybe Phil Nevil's got something up

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Speaker 4: his sleeve. But I think you saw in the Colorado game.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they did not put up a particularly competitive

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Speaker 4: showing against the Colorado team that we saw coming to Seattle,

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Speaker 4: and Seattle handled them pretty easily. So I mean, I

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Speaker 4: think with the Timbers, they're probably they're gonna make the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: and they'll be probably, you know, between fifth and eighth

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Speaker 4: in the West, and that seems to be where they're

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Speaker 4: kind of residing in the last couple of years. And

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Speaker 4: I don't see all that much of a reason to

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Speaker 4: expect anything different. They could They could prove me wrong

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Speaker 4: on that, but so far it seems like it's pretty

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Speaker 4: much par for the usual course for them.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you one hundred dollars. How much of

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Speaker 2: that one hundred dollars are you putting down on Phil

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Speaker 2: Nevial keeping his job at the end of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: or how much are you putting down to Phil nevill no

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Speaker 2: longer being the Timbers coach at the end of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like that's fifty to fifty. You

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Speaker 4: would think he'd be on the on the hot seat

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Speaker 4: given that, you know, they made the playoffs the last

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Speaker 4: couple of years but then gotten blown out immediately each time.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't seem particularly popular with the fan base down there,

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Speaker 4: so to me, it seems like this should be kind

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Speaker 4: of a make or break here for him. But they

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Speaker 4: also do seem to add some sort of loyalty there,

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Speaker 4: so I could see a situation where they get eliminated

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Speaker 4: from the playoffs early again and they just keep running

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Speaker 4: it back with him. That seems to me their approach

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Speaker 4: right now.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just love not being a dysfunctional mess like

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Speaker 2: the Pearland Timbers, and I think more than a few

501
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: clubs can say that in Seattle one of them, because

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Speaker 2: that is a mess of an organization for sure. Ari

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Speaker 2: Lean was our guest again. He's a writer and editor

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Speaker 2: MLS soccer dot com. He hosts the podcast Lobbing Scorches.

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Speaker 2: He is a Fantasy Football League champion. Ari, let's continue

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Speaker 2: talking MLS. We have Dax McCarty coming up in a

507
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Speaker 2: few minutes and I'm gonna ask him about this as well.

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Speaker 2: The Miami game on Sunday against Orlando. Now, you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously we're talking now on Wednesday, and I always confirm

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Speaker 2: these visits with you as I'm watching the Sunday night

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Speaker 2: MLS games. So the Sunday afternoon MLS game, that's what

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Speaker 2: we always confirm. So I texted you on Sunday when

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Speaker 2: Orlando and Miami was in the thirty fifth minute and

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Speaker 2: Orlando was leading to nothing in that game, and I'm

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Speaker 2: watching and I'm saying, my god, Miami's gonna are zero

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Speaker 2: in two. What a topic this is going to be

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Speaker 2: in a few days. So I texted you to confirm,

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Speaker 2: and then Jinx Jackson strikes again. Miami scores four boom boom,

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Speaker 2: boom boom, and Miami wins four to two. So I guess,

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Speaker 2: once again we've learned that my jinx works in MLS.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that's kind of the thing

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Speaker 4: with Inner Miami. They're not out of a game even

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Speaker 4: when they're down multiple goals. You know, I've found myself

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Speaker 4: thinking in the first half that Orlando got these too early,

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Speaker 4: because if you only have a two zero lead in

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Speaker 4: the second half, they can just hang three or four

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Speaker 4: and you at any given time. And that's exactly what happened.

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Speaker 4: So it was unfortunate because I think everyone outside of

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Speaker 4: Miami is rooting for their downfall, and you know, they

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Speaker 4: got handled pretty easily by LAFC in their first game

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Speaker 4: of the season, and then they go down two zero

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Speaker 4: in a rivalry game at Orlando, and you do start thinking, like,

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Speaker 4: all right, me, is this kind of figs that this

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Speaker 4: team might not be what we thought it all was.

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Speaker 4: And then Messi goes supernova and they score four unanswered

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Speaker 4: goals and they kind of look like they're back to

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Speaker 4: being inter Miami again, which is you know, that's the

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Speaker 4: outcome I pretty much expected. I think their roster is

539
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Speaker 4: it was it's just too loaded for what happened against LAFC.

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Speaker 4: I think to be any sign of their of their downfall.

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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be up there challenging for the

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Speaker 4: shield and the points record and all that, like we

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Speaker 4: all expected.

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Speaker 2: What did you make of the end of the game?

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Speaker 2: Messi goes to the Orlando coach and gestures, do you

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Speaker 2: want my autograph? What did you take from that wild

547
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Speaker 2: wild ending there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? No, that was pretty funny. I thought that was

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Speaker 4: you know, Messi was feeling himself a little bit and

550
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Speaker 4: he gave them that little autograph gesture. And you know,

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Speaker 4: he is the literal greatest player of all time. So

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Speaker 4: when you are the literal greatest player of all time,

553
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: you can you can do stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: You certainly can. You certainly can. What a wild situation.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ari, good to talk to you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Have a good rest of your week, and uh, I

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Speaker 2: won't be seeing here for a while with this massive,

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Speaker 2: massive road trip. Bar Are you headed out to Spokane

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Speaker 2: for the CONCACAFF game in a couple of weeks?

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Speaker 4: I am indeed all right.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the.

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Speaker 2: Eighth teenth over there at Spokane Stadium with one Spokane stadium.

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Speaker 2: We're Spokane one Stadium there. That's where the CONKERCAF games

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Speaker 2: being played. Coming up in a couple weeks from tonight actually,

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Speaker 2: so that will be exciting. So we'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: next week, Ari, but until then, have a good rest

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Speaker 2: of week, my friend.

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Speaker 4: You got it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you Axley, good stuff there, Ari, Lillianwall awesome to

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Speaker 2: have him on the show each and every week. Make

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Speaker 2: sure to check out his podcast, Lobbing Scorcheres wherever you

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Speaker 2: get your podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app. One note here

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Speaker 2: a break, we'll come back and we will talk to

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Speaker 2: Dax McCarty, long time MLS midfielder. Also he is now

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Speaker 2: a broadcaster for Apple TV. We will talk to Dax

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Speaker 2: McCarty about the Seattle Sounders and everything going on in

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Speaker 2: the league next on Sounders Weekly Sports Radio ninety three

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Speaker 2: point three kjr F.

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Speaker 1: Right now back to Sounders Weekly on your home for

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Speaker 1: Sounders fc cel's Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Sounders Weekly. Jackson Felts, good to have you

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Speaker 2: with us here tonight on Sounders Weekly. Thanks all of

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Speaker 2: our guests so far tonight, but I've been looking forward

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Speaker 2: to this moment all evening here on Sounder's Weekly. Joining

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Speaker 2: us right now. He is a broadcaster from Apple TV

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Speaker 2: again season pass that's gone. If you have and subscribe

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Speaker 2: to Apple TV, you can watch every single MLS match

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Speaker 2: this season. And the man who has done a lot

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Speaker 2: of commentating on this league after playing in this league

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Speaker 2: for so many years, Dax McCarty, joins us right here

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Speaker 2: on Sounders Weekly. Dax, great to have you back on

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Speaker 2: the show man.

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Speaker 4: How are you doing?

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Speaker 5: Great man, Jackson. That was quite the intro. I really

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Speaker 5: appreciate it. I hope I can live up to that man.

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Speaker 5: That was That was delightful. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I loved when we got a chance to talk last year, Jaxon,

602
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 2: and I just love picking your brain and the insight

603
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Speaker 2: both from the player aspect and the analyst aspect, you know,

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Speaker 2: because this is Sounders. But there's so many things I

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Speaker 2: want to talk to you about. But because this is

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Speaker 2: Sounders Weekly, let's just start with the Seattle Sounders start

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Speaker 2: the season with a two nothing went over Colorado. We

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Speaker 2: lose two to one at Salt Lake this last weekend.

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Speaker 2: Where are you in terms of just how our Sounders

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Speaker 2: are gearing up here going into twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're fine. I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 5: to be worried about or alarmed about. I thought it

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Speaker 5: was a really professional performance from the Sounders week one

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Speaker 5: against the tricky Colorado Rapids team, you know, and a

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Speaker 5: Colorado Rapids team that really played right into the hands

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Speaker 5: of Seattle and what they did so well. It's obviously

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Speaker 5: frustrating to lose Jordan Morris to another injuries so early

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Speaker 5: in the season. That's a blow, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 5: Jordan Morris is one of my favorite players to watch

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Speaker 5: in the league when he's fit in when he's healthy,

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Speaker 5: and to see the season he had last year be

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Speaker 5: derailed from injuries. To see, you know, ten minutes into

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Speaker 5: the first game of the year be derailed by an injury,

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Speaker 5: I just I really feel for him and I really

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Speaker 5: hope that once he recovers from this injury, that he

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Speaker 5: can get a good run of games going, because I

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Speaker 5: think he just adds so much value to that Sounders

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Speaker 5: team with his pace and his direct his direct play

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Speaker 5: and his ability to finish off goal scoring chances. But

630
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Speaker 5: look to have a guy like Paul Rothrock who can

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Speaker 5: come in and deputize this great So it was a

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Speaker 5: really good professional win against the Rapids and then look

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Speaker 5: back to reality against real salt Lake. And by the way, Jackson,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you knew this, but I'm sure

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Speaker 5: you did. Salt Lake City is a little bit of

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Speaker 5: a house of horror for the Sounders.

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Speaker 4: We interviewed.

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Speaker 5: We interviewed Christian Roldan on MLS Countdown before the show, which,

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Speaker 5: by the way, if you haven't seen that interview, it's

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Speaker 5: a tremendous interview. Christian Rolldan was brilliant, but he said

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Speaker 5: to me that he's never won in Salt Lake City,

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Speaker 5: and I just found that that floored me completely hard

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Speaker 5: to believe. But again, I guess it shouldn't be that

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Speaker 5: surprising because the Sounders obviously didn't play as well as

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Speaker 5: they did in Week one. I thought Salt Lake was

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Speaker 5: very good, and I thought the Sounders were surprisingly loose defensively.

647
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 5: I think even when the Sounders attack isn't clicking and

648
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 5: firing on all cylinders, they can always rely on that

649
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 5: really confident, stingy back line, and I just felt like

650
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 5: there were way too many opportunities for Real Salt Lake

651
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 5: to kind of slice them open, whether it was over

652
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 5: the top in transition using the speed of Djulavogi or Gozo,

653
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 5: or whether it was kind of playing through midfield. I

654
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 5: felt like there was this surprisingly disjointed defensive performance from

655
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 5: the Sounders, and look, they deserve to lose, but I

656
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 5: have no doubt with Brian Schmitzer at the Helm that

657
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 5: they're going to bounce back.

658
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that when we all think they will as well,

659
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: that that plays. I mean, I think it's the now

660
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 2: record in MLS play is thirteen and three since twenty eleven,

661
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: and it's just one of those stats. I just don't know.

662
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 2: It's so weird, but the yeah, you put it well,

663
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: the House of Horrors and I'm just glad that this

664
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: is out of the way and hopefully we don't have

665
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: to see that field again for the rest of the

666
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: year until we see in twenty twenty seven. Dax McCartney's

667
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: our guest, a long time MLS midfielder turned Apple TV

668
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 2: broadcaster from Major League Soccer. You know, Jax. You mentioned

669
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: Paul Rothrock there, and I'm always loved asking this question

670
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: for the national media and the national narrative.

671
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: Where are you at with Paul Rothrock?

672
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 2: And where do you think the Apple TV analysts and

673
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: the national media in general, is that we obviously have

674
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: romanticized him here in Seattle. How do you what's your

675
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: perspective on the kid from Capitol Hill.

676
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 5: I think he's brilliant. I really think he's a fantastic player.

677
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 5: And it's not because there's any one thing in particular

678
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 5: that really stands out about him that he does like

679
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,239
Speaker 5: at a truly elite, excellent level. And I mean that

680
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 5: in the best way possible. I think he does a

681
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 5: lot of things really well, but nothing at an elite level.

682
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 5: And so if you have a player like that. I

683
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 5: compared him on MLS three sixty. We did have a

684
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 5: little chat about him. I compared him to he's got

685
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 5: a little bit of Mike McGee and him, And what

686
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 5: I mean by that is he's extremely versatile. He can

687
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 5: play anywhere in the front four, and he's got an

688
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 5: elite mentality, So you can put it. You can bring

689
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 5: him in off the bench, you can start him. You

690
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 5: know you're gonna get a great performance out of him.

691
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,399
Speaker 5: Even if he's not playing well. You know you're still

692
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 5: going to get energy. You know you're still going to

693
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 5: be able to rely on him tactically. I love how

694
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 5: Brian Schmetzer is able to use him tactically, whether he

695
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 5: plays on the right or the left. He's so effective

696
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 5: in so many different areas of the game. He's almost

697
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 5: like a jack of all trades, master of non type

698
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 5: of attacker. But then he also adds quality in the

699
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 5: final third. I just love his decision making. He usually

700
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 5: makes the right decision. And I thought it was actually

701
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 5: really really unfortunate that the Sounders had a goal called

702
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 5: back against Salt Lake because it was again Paul Rothrock

703
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 5: making a great play down the line, a great ball

704
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 5: into the box for I believe it was Danny Mussovski

705
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 5: who actually scored, and then it was called offside because

706
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 5: Paul Rothrock. I think they said he was you know,

707
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 5: maybe a big toe was offside, And it's just it's

708
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 5: a player that is so reliable and so players like

709
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 5: that for me, guys that aren't superstars, guys that are

710
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 5: maybe underrated and unlike a little bit under unheralded in

711
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 5: the league. I appreciate them probably more than other analysts

712
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 5: because that was me. That was me. Yeah, we played.

713
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 5: We played different positions, of course, and we have different

714
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 5: we had. You know, I had different qualities as a

715
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 5: player than Paul. But I appreciate the fact that he's

716
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 5: he's a hometown kid and he just he's he's he's

717
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 5: electric at anytime he's on the field. I feel like

718
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 5: you root for him to be successful because he does

719
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 5: all the right things and he says all the right things. Uh.

720
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 5: I'm a huge fan of his. I think that he's

721
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 5: a really valuable player for that Sounders team, and I

722
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 5: thought it was a really shrewd piece of business to

723
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 5: make sure that you secure him and bring him back

724
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 5: as a free agent.

725
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 2: Well, so surprising to get him back and knowing that

726
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 2: he had higher offers elsewhere across the pond, and just thinking,

727
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 2: oh God, are we going to lose Paul Rothrock to,

728
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: you know, to somebody else, And the fact that he

729
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: takes the smaller offer and returns home. It's surprising, but

730
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant and we're just so thankful to have him back.

731
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 5: For a way to be in a club legend.

732
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing, right, I mean, you know,

733
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, sending out social media posts two

734
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,439
Speaker 2: years ago when he's scoring goals in the Open Cup

735
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: for US, and you know, he scores what three goals

736
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 2: in three games in his first three and rave Green

737
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 2: and it's like, this guy, he's going to be a

738
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 2: cult hero. No, he's not going to be a cult hero.

739
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 2: He's going to be a legend. And if he keeps

740
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: doing what he's doing, all right, Dax, I want to

741
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 2: talk to you so many other things about MLS. Let's

742
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: start with very quickly, what we saw on Sunday between

743
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 2: Orlando and Miami. A two nothing game turns into a

744
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: four to two game in the blink of an eye

745
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: and MESSI he asks the Orlando coach if he wants

746
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 2: his autographs. That's the headline in all of MLS this week.

747
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: What's your perspective on that crazy, crazy scene?

748
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 5: Man, it was a great game. Yeah, I was actually

749
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 5: so I moved back to Orlando. I live just north

750
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 5: of Orlando in a place called winter Park's where I

751
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 5: was born. And raised. And I got to call the

752
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 5: Orlando City game against Red Bull New York Week one,

753
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 5: and I thought Orlando was abysmal. They played one of

754
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 5: their worst halves of soccer in that first half that

755
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 5: I think I've ever seen an Oscar Breha coach team play.

756
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 5: And it was quite clear how much better they were

757
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 5: in the first half against Center Miami. I thought they

758
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 5: were really compact, very effective in transition. I thought they

759
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 5: got much better performances out of their superstars, obviously with

760
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 5: goals from Ojeda and Pasalych but up two nil at halftime.

761
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 5: I was sitting on my couch because I didn't go

762
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 5: to the game, but I was watching, and I just

763
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 5: had this feeling, so don't poke the bear, don't you know.

764
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 5: You could tell Messi was getting a little fired up,

765
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 5: and you could tell he was a little frustrated with uh.

766
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 5: I think the interplay between Inner Miami the their attacking,

767
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 5: their attacking cohesion was a little bit off, and you

768
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 5: could tell he was a little frustrated with the ref.

769
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 5: And I'm telling you right now, if you just if

770
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 5: you poke the bear and you get players like that

771
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 5: of that caliber angry, something awakens inside of them where

772
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 5: they just turn it on and you could just see

773
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 5: that whole second half Inner Miami with a tactical change

774
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 5: from jave Erma Sharano uh taking a full back off

775
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 5: the field and Noah Allen putting an attacker on in

776
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 5: Mateo Silvetti. It changed the entire complexion of the half

777
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 5: of the game. And when you when you allow Messi

778
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 5: to find gaps in spaces in midfields to be able

779
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 5: to either play balls in between the lines, find other attackers,

780
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,240
Speaker 5: or to do what he does, which is create magic

781
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 5: and score goals that not many other players in this

782
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 5: league can score. H you know, it's it's a recipe

783
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 5: for a long night for Orlando City. And so I

784
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 5: thought Inner Miami was brilliant. That those are the champions

785
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 5: that I remember from last year, a team that's just

786
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 5: so good in possession, but also a team that can

787
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 5: punish you, and they can punish you anytime that you

788
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 5: give them time and space, they will. And Orlando City

789
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 5: ran out of gas at the end of the game.

790
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 5: They just didn't quite have enough. And look, Orlando City,

791
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 5: they're they're playing a bunch of young players. Nolan Miller

792
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 5: is a rookie who they're really high on who made

793
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 5: some mistakes in the game. I thought Colin Gusky was

794
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 5: brilliant before he got sent off, and I actually thought

795
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 5: his sending off was quite harsh because it was hard

796
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 5: for me to understand why he got a yellow yellow

797
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 5: card in the first half in the first place, and

798
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 5: so you could see him gesticulating to the fourth official

799
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 5: when he got sent off. Hey, I shouldn't have even

800
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 5: got a first first yellow card. So look, I think

801
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 5: some things to be frustrated about with Orlando City, but

802
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 5: a good building block for them to be able to

803
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 5: use that first half. I think Oscar Pereja, especially if

804
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 5: they can get this Antoine Gravesman deal over the line,

805
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 5: which is reported they're close. I think Orlando City is

806
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 5: going to rebound and still have a say in this

807
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference. But man, what Central Florida showing out. That

808
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 5: was brilliant. The atmosphere was amazing.

809
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: That was a fun watch for sure. Dax McCarty with

810
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 2: US Jax one more here for you. When I heard

811
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 2: you were coming on, I was excited to be able

812
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 2: to ask you this question. And I'm not sure how

813
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 2: many people in Seattle care, but I care as a

814
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: fan of this league. You spent so many years with

815
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 2: New York Red Bulls, Michael Bradley now in charge of

816
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: that program, your perspective on Michael taking over, and just

817
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 2: kind of overall the state of New York Red Bulls

818
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 2: now under the United States men's national team legend.

819
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, you would have gotten some terrible Vegas odds if

820
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 5: you would have placed a bet on Michael Bradley becoming

821
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 5: a head coach when his career was over. That was

822
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 5: the worst kept secret in soccer circles all throughout the US.

823
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 5: Michael Bradley was born to be a coach. There's no

824
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 5: other way to put it. And it's not a surprise

825
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 5: to me that he has been successful early because of

826
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 5: the way he works and because of how his brain

827
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 5: thinks about the game. He's an extremely intelligent He was

828
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 5: an extremely intelligent player playing right in the middle of

829
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 5: the field, playing as a defensive midfielder, and so it

830
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 5: doesn't surprise me at all that that he's going to

831
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 5: be an extremely intelligent coach. I guess what has surprised

832
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 5: me a little bit is how much he has relied

833
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 5: on young players and how much he has trusted in

834
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 5: those those young players. And I'm not talking about young

835
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 5: players as in like oh, twenty twenty one, I'm talking

836
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 5: about teenagers, guys that don't even guys that can't even

837
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 5: go into the grocery store and buy cigarettes, not that

838
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 5: they would, but we're talking about two seventeen year olds

839
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 5: in a sixteen year old that look like right now,

840
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 5: if you stop the league right now, you probably have

841
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 5: two best eleven players in Julian Hall and Audrey Mametti.

842
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 5: And so Mahmedi has looked like one of the best

843
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 5: midfielders in the league and Julian all's three goals because

844
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 5: he's finding all the spaces that strikers need to find

845
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 5: and he the ball is finding him in the box.

846
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 5: So but it's not just that, it's how Red Bull

847
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 5: have looked. I had the pleasure of calling their game

848
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 5: Week one in Orlando, like I said, and they completely dominated,

849
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 5: should have been winning five, six to zero in the

850
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 5: first half, and it was not the Red Bull We've

851
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 5: become accustomed to seeing the last couple of years. Yes,

852
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 5: they're still high energy, they still press high up the field,

853
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 5: they still make life miserable for the opponent, but the

854
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 5: way that they use the ball, the way that they

855
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: are in possession is really really fun to watch. They

856
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 5: are doing things that I never thought I would see

857
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 5: out of a Red Bull team. I mean there are

858
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 5: moments where Justin Shay, who's the center back, is in

859
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 5: the opponent's box playing almost like Steven Morrera with the

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Speaker 5: Columbus Crew, getting off crosses, counter pressing high up the field.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're just doing a lot of really fun

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Speaker 5: things and looks as someone who played on the New

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Speaker 5: York Red Bulls for a long time, they want to

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Speaker 5: be called Red Bull New York. Now, by the way,

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Speaker 5: I don't know well they do. That is their new moniker,

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Speaker 5: red Bull New York. But as someone that played on

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Speaker 5: Red Bull New York for a very long time, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's exciting to see their trajectory and where they're heading

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Speaker 5: because it seems to me like they're not just playing

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Speaker 5: this high energy, high octane, press at all costs soccer.

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Speaker 5: They're also playing really aesthetically pleasing soccer with the ball

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Speaker 5: at their feet, where they manipulate different things in possession

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Speaker 5: and the way they create chances. And they're doing it

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Speaker 5: with young American players, which is something that you know,

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Speaker 5: not all teams can do because not all teams have

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Speaker 5: as great of an academy as the Red Bulls do.

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Speaker 5: But yes, it's a long winded way of saying I've

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Speaker 5: been incredibly impressed with Michael Bradley so far, the way

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Speaker 5: that he has this team playing and the way that

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Speaker 5: he has this team set up. I don't believe that

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Speaker 5: they've had too big of a challenge with Orlando City

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Speaker 5: and with New England revolutions so far in the season.

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Speaker 5: They're going to, you know, face much better teams than that.

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Speaker 5: But it's a perfect start for Michael Bradley, It's a

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Speaker 5: perfect start for the kids, and I'm really curious to

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Speaker 5: see how much better they can get.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so. Dak's awesome stuff. Man, Really appreciate you

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Speaker 2: given all the time, a great insight and look forward

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Speaker 2: to seeing you hearing you on Apple TV.

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Speaker 5: Dude, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me man, always

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Speaker 5: a pleasure, Jackson, take care.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff there from Dax McCarty again broadcaster on Apple

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Speaker 2: TV and phenomenal analyst there in, former midfielder in this

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Speaker 2: league as well. That will do it for Sounders Weekly tonight,

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Speaker 2: and now we look ahead to the Sounders match in

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis this Saturday. We previewed it earlier on with

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Speaker 2: Ari Lillianwall. Once again, we will say that you can

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Speaker 2: watch this match on the Apple TV app, also listening

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Speaker 2: Spanish language on l Ray thirteen sixty. In terms of

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Speaker 2: our broadcast here for KJR, we're not going to have

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Speaker 2: it on ninety three point three or on nine point fifty.

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Speaker 2: You're going to have to go to iHeartRadio or the

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Speaker 2: free iHeartRadio app and look up Seattle Soccer Radio. It's

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Speaker 2: a stream channel on iHeartRadio. So whether you have the

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Speaker 2: app downloaded it's free on your phone, or you go

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Speaker 2: to the website iHeartRadio or the app on your television.

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Speaker 2: Wherever you have the iHeartRadio app, you go to it

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Speaker 2: and you look up Seattle Soccer Radio. We made this

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Speaker 2: change this year because our podcast page is Seattle Soccer Shows,

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Speaker 2: and meanwhile, the stream channel for some of these games

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Speaker 2: is Seattle Soccer Radio. So just look up Seattle Soccer

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Speaker 2: Radio iHeartRadio and that will get you the game this

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Speaker 2: coming Saturday, and that will have a Providence Swedish premat

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Speaker 2: show of five o'clock and a kickoff of five point

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Speaker 2: thirty this coming Saturday evening and Saturday's match is presented

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Speaker 2: by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers. So we will talk

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Speaker 2: to you on the iHeartRadio app. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 2: on the Seattle Soccer Radio stream channel five o'clock on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Have a good rest of your week, everybody, and Fox

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