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Speaker 2: You fight me way we changed the game, no fear,

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Speaker 2: no change me. Freak away.

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Speaker 3: You must divide.

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Speaker 2: Were filed to drive Watch Up with Jane, where upon

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Speaker 2: ras Hey rise up, he he he rise up he heyda.

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Speaker 3: Hi everybody.

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Speaker 4: I am so excited to be joined by Susie, Rant's

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Speaker 4: longtime contributor to Sounder at Heart, Covering Seattle, Raying, Epsy. Susie,

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Speaker 4: so excited to have you. It's been a while since

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Speaker 4: our last radio broadcast that we did together, way back

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Speaker 4: when I'm sure we'll do more of those next season. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: we now have to start talking about next season because

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Speaker 4: the Rain did fall to nil to Orlando, the defending

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Speaker 4: NWSL champions at Orlando. Susie, let's go through your thoughts

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Speaker 4: on that to nil loss.

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Speaker 5: First, Yeah, I mean, well, one word I guess we

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Speaker 5: can start with, which is mart not to talk about

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Speaker 5: the other team too much. But she continues to be

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Speaker 5: such a threat, and she showed why she is one

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Speaker 5: of the greatest of all time in that match and

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Speaker 5: definitely got the better of the Rain despite that, though

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Speaker 5: there were so many promising things that that the Rain

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Speaker 5: did that certainly put them so close to equalizing or

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Speaker 5: even multiple goals. But that is where as Laura Harvey

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Speaker 5: likes to say, goals change games. And that was the

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Speaker 5: one stat that the Rain couldn't dominate and they couldn't

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say yes, the Rain went down one

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Speaker 4: nil and about the twentieth minute, twenty first minute off

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Speaker 4: of that Haley McCutcheon goal, which was a very well

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Speaker 4: end of their half and just building it up in transition.

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Speaker 4: Was pretty incredible to watch. And Fete mclarenan was actually there,

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Speaker 4: so she was in position. We didn't do anything wrong.

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Speaker 4: It was just sort of quality on their side. But

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Speaker 4: a lot of positives to take away from the Rain season.

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Speaker 4: Last year finishing second to last, this season finishing in fifth.

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Speaker 4: What can you say about the growth of this team

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Speaker 5: Well, it's yeah, last year twenty three points, this year

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Speaker 5: thirty nine points in the regular season, and like you said,

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Speaker 5: that jump in where they finished on the table and

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Speaker 5: there were not as not a lot of expectations of

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Speaker 5: this Rains squad heading into the season after what they

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Speaker 5: went through last year. They brought in a lot of

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Speaker 5: young players, but not a lot of like proven talent.

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Speaker 5: So I think the theme that I I come back

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Speaker 5: And to see the team play really consistently throughout the

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Speaker 5: year was something that was really nice to see. There

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Speaker 5: weren't really high highs and there weren't really low lows

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Speaker 5: throughout the season, so lots to build on for next

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Speaker 4: Mattie Dellen the perfect encapsulation of that, being able to

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Speaker 4: on the wing, really really exciting from her and Rookie

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one thing that was really exciting to see is

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Speaker 5: she finished with four goals and for assists. So not

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Speaker 5: only can she create her own shot and using her speed,

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Speaker 4: It does feel like there are going to be less

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Speaker 3: All tons of questions.

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Speaker 4: they were. Just from a leadership perspective. Let's take a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, someone who has been with the Rain since the

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Speaker 5: She is the reason that players want to come to Seattle.

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Speaker 5: That she's created a culture where every player feels embraced, accepted,

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Speaker 5: and she's done that all on top of being a

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Speaker 5: that without being consistently good, consistently really good to take

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Speaker 5: So it's not just you want to just be able

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Speaker 5: she's been kind, welcoming and a really consistent player throughout

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Speaker 4: Susie, any closing thoughts as we unfortunately close off twenty

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Speaker 5: I think that there's lots to improve in the off

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Speaker 5: exciting to see the growth in one year, and from

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Speaker 5: the NWSL teams that I've seen have a lot of

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Speaker 5: think we saw a lot of exciting components come together

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely a lot of positives to build on. I

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Speaker 4: a lot of ways, with a lot of really new faces.

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Speaker 4: But they proved that they can get real results this

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us, Susie, appreciate it. Laura Shatt and

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Speaker 4: Kiley Dunning here for Rain Weekly with Laura Shott as

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Speaker 6: Let's stick with the special piece.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, special guests will go special.

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Speaker 4: He just got done with his well not done, but

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Speaker 4: now we get to you know, not be grown ups

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Speaker 4: and have some fun for twenty minutes. Unfortunately, Rain season

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Speaker 1: Well, I think I would speak for all of us

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Speaker 1: that you know, we were sad and it was a bummer,

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Speaker 1: disappointing not to go on well fought match, hard to

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just a.

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Speaker 1: Bummer for the Rain. Congrats to Orlando. I mean, a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of good plays in that game,

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, all around, good season, looking forward to twenty

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Speaker 6: None of us are unfortunately it's very sad, but I

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Speaker 6: everyone wipe it away because obviously everything else is just

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Speaker 6: So you fly back because everyone has families, people have kids,

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Speaker 3: But then we can't forget what an incredible player she's

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah, stepping out of this rain family

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna pull something out, Kellen. Your favorite movie as

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Speaker 3: She's Hercules like she literally is. She is going to

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Speaker 8: Sure, sure, sure, but she's going to have a constellation,

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Speaker 4: I was just listening to the soundtrack on my way

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Speaker 4: It was great, dude, if you rewatch that movie, the

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Speaker 3: Okay, uh, let's talk back to soccer.

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Speaker 7: Back to soccer.

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Speaker 3: This was my This is totally my fault.

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Speaker 4: This was one hundred percent of my fault, Lou Barnes,

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Speaker 4: Hercules calend Rowe you get to be uh Megara?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Why not? Purple looks great on you, so you

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Speaker 4: Lots of rain players are up for end of season awards,

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Speaker 4: which is super exciting. Claudia Dickey Goalkeeper of the Year,

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Speaker 7: Do you think, ooh, Kellen, do you want to go first?

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Speaker 6: You got Laudia, I got Claudia. I think there's a

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Speaker 6: amount of shutouts she had for US, but also the

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Speaker 6: I think almost every week. That's an incredible stat. And

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Speaker 7: That'sry well, Ellen, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Well. I'm going to piggyback off of Killen here and

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Speaker 1: I will say, Claudia Dickey, I lost track at eighty

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Speaker 6: YEAPZ, you lost track, right.

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Speaker 7: This took a time to lose track when you're right

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Speaker 3: Okay, you pulled that up. That was amazing.

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Speaker 1: Claudia Dickey had an outstanding season, and I think for

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Speaker 6: That's right, is it a second game of the season

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Speaker 3: Isn't that her first goal? Her first.

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Speaker 7: Which she hit that? That was my thought.

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Speaker 1: It was like, that's your opening goal. That's how you're

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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome, welcome to the league. That was amazing. Maddy Dolan,

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Speaker 4: No, I completely agree. I think that Jordan bug and

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Speaker 4: And that's a you know, great recognition. I'd actually, I

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Speaker 3: I think she should win.

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Speaker 4: For sure, most saves the season eighty eight, second best

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Speaker 4: She deserves the win. I just I'll be upset if

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Speaker 8: Hey, I got hit in the face with a didn't

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Speaker 3: I think that's the big accomplishment ever, that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like what really stood out for me in

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Speaker 7: Took it like a champ. You didn't miss a beat.

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Speaker 7: That's just teamwork. That's just teamwork.

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Speaker 3: I just got to laugh about it.

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Speaker 4: The metaphors, man, they just keep coming, they just keep coming.

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Speaker 7: end of the season. I want to tip my hat

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Speaker 7: to Mercado coming back.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to come back into that situation start

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Speaker 1: and be so effective, So certainly want to say and

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Speaker 1: shout her out and say that that.

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Speaker 7: Was that was really impressive. I also want to mention

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Speaker 7: a Damis.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I didn't necessarily expect her to be the

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Speaker 1: leading scorer as long as she was into the year,

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Speaker 1: as far as she wasn't And I expected her to

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Speaker 1: be a great attacker, and I expected her to be

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Speaker 1: an impact player. But she really kind of took that

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Speaker 1: role and ran with it and made a lot out

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Speaker 1: of it. So she did very, very well.

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Speaker 3: It was very good. Shouts Kellen was your biggest surprise.

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Speaker 6: I've got so I've got three, but hang on, we

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Speaker 6: hang on with me here the midfield. So I've got

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Speaker 6: sam Mesa, which what she was really Claudia Dicky played

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Speaker 6: every game, in every minute, but sam Mesa was our

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Speaker 6: iron woman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah she was.

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Speaker 6: She was the heart of that defense. She was winning balls.

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Speaker 6: She was like, for me, if we had a comeback

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Speaker 6: player of the Year, it would be Sam. But Sallymenty.

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Speaker 6: Sallymenti was a surprise for me. Kind of came out

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Speaker 6: of nowhere. I didn't know who she was, and then

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Speaker 6: I heard that she was in training. This is the

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Speaker 6: girl you need to watch. And I was like, okay,

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Speaker 6: And then I saw a few games and I'm going, oh,

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Speaker 6: I see it. She slows the game down, like her

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Speaker 6: brain definitely moves faster than her feet because they don't

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Speaker 6: move that fast. I could say that because mine either. Okay,

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Speaker 6: I could say that because mine either. But She's got

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Speaker 6: this like silkiness to or this ease to her that

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Speaker 6: just slows things down. While Sam is more so the

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Speaker 6: go go go. Sally's the calm. And I think that's

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Speaker 6: the perfect thing in the midfield that you can grow upon.

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Speaker 6: And now you had the attacker. When Jess was healthy

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Speaker 6: and playing as that number ten, you had two sitters

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Speaker 6: who were kind of the ones that go around and

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Speaker 6: then just get pass the ball to Jess and let

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Speaker 6: her do her thing. I mean, that was such a

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Speaker 6: good combination. But my number three spot, and this is

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Speaker 6: funny because we just talked about her. I'm surprised how

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Speaker 6: many minutes lou Barnes had at the end of the season.

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Speaker 6: I'm surprised her body could hold up. I'm surprised that

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Speaker 6: she was as good as she was for how long

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Speaker 6: she has played. I know that you think brain obviously

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Speaker 6: works a lot faster than her legs too, but it's

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Speaker 6: incredible how tenacious she still was from someone who kind

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Speaker 6: of lost it at the end there, like she's continuing

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Speaker 6: to do it and playing at such a high level

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Speaker 6: at the age that she is, I mean year, I

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Speaker 6: many years she's done. How many minutes she's put on

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Speaker 6: those legs, and the quality that she had at the

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Speaker 6: end of the season pretty incredible.

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Speaker 4: That's a great shout out, and actually that's a great

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Speaker 4: way to sort of We're never going to end the

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Speaker 4: Lou Barnes discussion, but just to put a cap on

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Speaker 4: her for this episode. You know a lot of times

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Speaker 4: players retire, it's agonizing and you're like.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, guys, it's time to go.

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Speaker 4: It's time, Like, I know how hard it is for you,

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Speaker 4: Like I understand, But she was still insanely effective and

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Speaker 4: an amazing player, and she probably still has something in her.

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Speaker 3: I don't ye, so like, hats off to your hats

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Speaker 3: off to her? All right.

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Speaker 4: Quote of the year mine was Phoebe McLarnon saying that

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Speaker 4: you know she was infuriated by Kansas City. I had

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Speaker 4: to include that just because that was the quote of

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Speaker 4: the year, and I'm obsessed with it, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like I don't know her at all, but to me,

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Speaker 4: I feel like I might say something about her as

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Speaker 4: a person. I loved it so much. I loved it, Phoebe,

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Speaker 4: thank you for giving us that sound bite. I will

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Speaker 4: play it next year too. Don't even worry.

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Speaker 3: It was so good. Get it on a T shirt,

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Speaker 3: Get on a T shirt.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Emria damas. When they were like she's getting an

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Speaker 6: interview after the game, it's like, don't worry, guys, I'm

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Speaker 6: getting my license.

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Speaker 5: That was hilarious.

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Speaker 6: It's like I was like, what eighteen like just getting

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Speaker 6: your license? And I'm like, does so funny? That's so

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Speaker 6: funny to me?

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Speaker 3: It was great. It was great, all right, team MVP. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I'll let you guys take this one.

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Speaker 7: Well that's tough.

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Speaker 6: I got too, So I got too too.

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Speaker 1: Do we want to see if they're the same too?

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Speaker 1: Probably well, I'm gonna circle back to Claudia Dickey. I

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Speaker 1: think she definitely deserves that, and I'm also going to

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Speaker 1: say Jess fishlock especially how she pulled us through that

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Speaker 1: turn in the season as soon as we got back

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Speaker 1: from that break, and she was coming into games, changing games,

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Speaker 1: getting game winners, really leading the team in every way

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Speaker 1: that you possibly can, working back on defense, making runs

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Speaker 1: forwards that were timed so well, so perfectly the leader

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Speaker 1: that she is. I think that those two players are

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Speaker 1: my biggest impact players for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Canon Green more impact of Jess Fishlocke was huge.

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Speaker 6: We saw when she came back. She immediately scored, immediately assisted,

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Speaker 6: she was she was the runner of the sense of goals.

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Speaker 6: Everything went through her. I think Claudia Dicky has to

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Speaker 6: be in that conversation. I think she's both of ours,

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Speaker 6: so she's probably going to be on that number one spot.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to throw in Sam Mesa as well, because

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Speaker 6: when Jess wasn't healthy and available, I think Sam ran

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Speaker 6: that midfield and maybe it was the surprise factor for

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Speaker 6: us and the comeback season and the story of it.

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Speaker 6: But I think Sam Masa needs to be in that

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Speaker 6: conversation of a full season MVP.

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Speaker 4: We had a great season. We're actually going to be

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Speaker 4: back next week. We're still going to be doing these

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Speaker 4: shows as long as the NWSTL season continues on, so

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Speaker 4: we'll have way more to talk about, way more to

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Speaker 4: go through, especially once these awards get handed out.

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Speaker 3: Everything. You know, this season, yes, on the field for

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Speaker 3: the Rain is over.

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Speaker 4: But we will still be here and we will still

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Speaker 4: be chatting everything Rain EPCY huge off season. I know

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Speaker 4: that we may have you know, exceeded expectations this year.

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Speaker 4: I know Kellen would argue that we shouldn't have exceeded expectations.

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Speaker 4: Everyone should have expected that we were this good. But

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty six move more, more ahead, only better things

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Speaker 4: on the horizon. Super exciting for you know, Rain fans.

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Speaker 4: Stay with us on ninety three point three f KGr

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Speaker 4: FM as we continue Rain weekly and more broadcast next season.

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Speaker 3: So stay with us. Thanks for joining