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Speaker 1: Weekly with your host Jackson Felts.
Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, Welcome into Sounders Weekly, Jackson Feltz Here
Speaker 2: it's gonna be with you on what finally feels like
Speaker 2: the end of summer. Fall is here. As I look
Speaker 2: outside and see cloudy, rainy skies, it feels like fall finally,
Speaker 2: which means we are getting close to playoff time for
Speaker 2: your Sounders and listen before anything else, I do think
Speaker 2: we are squarely in playoff positioning. It's just now a
Speaker 2: matter of how high of a seed the Sounders can get,
Speaker 2: and boy, the efforts to get a top four seed
Speaker 2: got it quite a hit on last Wednesday night one
Speaker 2: week ago when they hosted the San Jose eight earthquakes
Speaker 2: at lumin Field. We'll get into that match, but if
Speaker 2: you don't know, I mentioned top four seed, listen. Nine
Speaker 2: teams make the playoffs. There's a play in game between
Speaker 2: the eight seed and the nine seed. Sounders are well
Speaker 2: above that right now. I don't think they're going to
Speaker 2: be in that playing game, but there's a playing game
Speaker 2: between the eight seed and the nine seed and then
Speaker 2: it's one versus eight or nine, two, seven, three, six, four, five,
Speaker 2: and it's a three game first round playoff series. They
Speaker 2: instituted this change last year the Sounders got past Dallas
Speaker 2: in three games. It's back again this year. To listen,
Speaker 2: I mean, players were pretty frustrated by the change. I
Speaker 2: still personally don't like it. I love single elimination. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's the you know, American football fan and me, but
Speaker 2: I love one game to decide at all, at the
Speaker 2: very least home and away because that does have soccer
Speaker 2: you know, undertones and connections. It's probably the wrong word,
Speaker 2: but listen, that is part of soccer. Home and away,
Speaker 2: two legs to decide it. And we, of course MLS
Speaker 2: did that for a long time before going to single elimination.
Speaker 2: And now it is this three game series in the
Speaker 2: opening round and that is followed by single elimination following that.
Speaker 2: So it's a very weird setup, but it's the setup
Speaker 2: we got. And a top four seed is so important
Speaker 2: because if you are a top four seed, then you
Speaker 2: get to host two of those three games in that
Speaker 2: opening round. So hopefully the Sounders don't end up as
Speaker 2: say a five seed, and two of the three have
Speaker 2: to be I don't know at Colorado or RSSEL or
Speaker 2: Seattle's opponent this coming weekend, Houston. Really quick on that
Speaker 2: Houston Dina match. We're gonna be talking about it a
Speaker 2: lot tonight. Our guests are gonna be including Stephen Frye
Speaker 2: as well as Ari Lillianwall And in just a few
Speaker 2: minutes you're gonna hear from Alex Schroldan your Sounders right back.
Speaker 2: They're all gonna be talking about the game coming up
Speaker 2: against the Houston Dynamo, who are really fighting right with
Speaker 2: the Sounders for a top four seed. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is a true six point game where if Houston wins,
Speaker 2: it's three for them and that is effectively three away
Speaker 2: from the set in this West Race, and if it's
Speaker 2: three for the Sounders, it's taken three away from Houston.
Speaker 2: So this is a true six pointer here this coming weekend,
Speaker 2: you will be able to listen to that match right here.
Speaker 2: We're putting it on the FM this coming Saturday night.
Speaker 2: It'll be a seven o'clock Providence, Swedish pre match show
Speaker 2: seven thirty kickoff right here ninety three point three KJR
Speaker 2: FM for Sounders and Houston Dynamo. You know, also watch
Speaker 2: the match five MLS season pass on the Apple TVP
Speaker 2: and listen in Spanish language on l Ray thirteen sixty.
Speaker 2: This is a big one against Houston, and I'm eager
Speaker 2: to talk to Ari Lillienwall about exactly what Houston's all about,
Speaker 2: how they've made this charge, and what the Sounders need
Speaker 2: to worry about. We get some good thoughts from Alex
Speaker 2: Scholdon and Stephan Fry on him as well, because Houston's
Speaker 2: a team that I know a little bit about. Kearski
Speaker 2: is a tremendous player. They might be missing one of
Speaker 2: their better offensive players, so how that factors into the
Speaker 2: game planning for Stephen Fry is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: So we will talk extensively about Houston coming up as
Speaker 2: the night goes on. Listen, we should spend a couple
Speaker 2: minutes here talking about San Jose in that game one
Speaker 2: week ago, and I do want to move on from it.
Speaker 2: You're all gonna hear a nice breakdown, I think from
Speaker 2: Alex Roldn on what happened on the last goal for
Speaker 2: the Earthquakes, because as I mentioned off the top, it
Speaker 2: is two points dropped for the Sounders. They got out
Speaker 2: to the lead in that game, and they really for
Speaker 2: a lot of the second half. I was watching in
Speaker 2: the press box alongside some good friends, including mos Vito
Speaker 2: Mardeire of cascadiasports dot net, and we're all kind of
Speaker 2: talking how this doesn't feel like a two to one
Speaker 2: game right now, And the Sounders were leading two to
Speaker 2: one while in control run a play was going their way.
Speaker 2: Everything kind of felt like, gosh, it feels like the
Speaker 2: Sounders are leading three to one right now, or it
Speaker 2: feels like they're playing against the team that's just effectively
Speaker 2: given up and isn't even interested in trying to make
Speaker 2: it a two. And the Sounders had so many chances
Speaker 2: to put it away. And that's that's really the frustrating
Speaker 2: bart is in that San Jose game, you get so
Speaker 2: many moments where it does feel like there's three one finally,
Speaker 2: and that just never ended up coming. And there's a
Speaker 2: variety of reasons, one different one for every single chance.
Speaker 2: But the end of the day, it does come down
Speaker 2: to the I think the lethal aspect of this offense,
Speaker 2: needing to shut the door, needing to just hammer a
Speaker 2: team when they're down. I mean San Jose, They're gonna
Speaker 2: get the wooden spoon this year. They are the worst
Speaker 2: team in Major League Soccer by far sixty five going
Speaker 2: into this game. This is a wild stat going into
Speaker 2: that game, sixty five goals given up. That's more than
Speaker 2: double that that the Sounders had given up of thirty two,
Speaker 2: so they this is a terrible defensive team. I said
Speaker 2: in the pregame show, I thought this could have been
Speaker 2: the game for Pedro d Levega to have his coming
Speaker 2: out party. He did get his first career MLS assist,
Speaker 2: by the way, so that's great. That weird ricochet that
Speaker 2: kind of comes off of his shoulder or hip that
Speaker 2: redirects to Jordan Morris for his first of his two goals.
Speaker 2: So that was great for Pedro. But still I thought
Speaker 2: this was going to be the breakout game. I thought
Speaker 2: this was be gonna be a game where the Sounders
Speaker 2: could get four goals and could make this an absolute
Speaker 2: blowout against the worst team in Major League Soccer, and
Speaker 2: that just didn't happen. I need to see more of
Speaker 2: that lethal aspect of this team down the stretch in
Speaker 2: these final four games, because certainly they're gonna be in
Speaker 2: games I think you know, whether it's in these next
Speaker 2: foard to round out the regular season or in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a moment where they may be leading
Speaker 2: by a goal and you got to put a game away,
Speaker 2: And that was frustrating that they didn't. But honestly, the
Speaker 2: biggest frustration comes with just kind of, you know, the
Speaker 2: brains turn off for a moment. San Jose's on the
Speaker 2: break and they just completely flip it with the Boba
Speaker 2: C's cross and the goal there at the end eighty
Speaker 2: ninth I want to say, or eighty eighth minute to
Speaker 2: make it to too Alex Roldan in a few minutes,
Speaker 2: so we'll talk about it. But I mean, really, the
Speaker 2: weird part about that goal is the fact that it
Speaker 2: is the role Don Brothers who you're looking at here.
Speaker 2: It's Christian who loses a Bobasee on the cross where
Speaker 2: he just runs right by him and Christian loses his man,
Speaker 2: and then the guy who scores the goal, I'm blanking
Speaker 2: on his name at the moment, but whatever, he just
Speaker 2: runs by Alex rolled on and roll Don loses him.
Speaker 2: So it's it's a frustrating situation where it's the role
Speaker 2: Don brothers who essentially you don't give up that goal
Speaker 2: because you know, I think very much so the game
Speaker 2: probably lulled him into a little bit of a sleep
Speaker 2: where listen, if we're in the press box feeling like god,
Speaker 2: it feels like san Jose doesn't even want this, and
Speaker 2: it feels like this is just cruising to an easy, slow,
Speaker 2: boring Yon two to one win. The players might have
Speaker 2: felt that as well. And you know, clearly you just
Speaker 2: get caught sleeping. San Jose steps up, then make a
Speaker 2: good play and Bata being about a boom, it's in
Speaker 2: the back of the net ands two too. And unfortunately,
Speaker 2: you know, Brian Schmenzer we talked about this in the
Speaker 2: postgame show a week ago. He had made all these
Speaker 2: substitutions where then you're entering ated time of the second
Speaker 2: half and you don't have an Albert Rusnak on the field,
Speaker 2: you don't have some midfield horses that can go win
Speaker 2: you the game in the what five minutes or so
Speaker 2: of added time. So that was, you know, there's frustrating
Speaker 2: elements of not putting the game away, of giving up
Speaker 2: that goal when the brain shut off, and then not
Speaker 2: having your horses to be able to get the winner
Speaker 2: there in the final few minutes. So yeah, there's levels
Speaker 2: to it, right, there's levels to the frustration. But ultimately
Speaker 2: it is two points dropped. It should have been three points.
Speaker 2: It should have been a win. It turns into a
Speaker 2: draw and now the Sounders quest for a top four
Speaker 2: seed has become quite a bit harder. So that will
Speaker 2: now come and continue against Houston this coming Saturday. Once again,
Speaker 2: we'll have the pre match show seven o'clock kickoff at
Speaker 2: seven thirty on Saturday. Right here, ninety three point three
Speaker 2: KJR FM. Let's quickly hear from Alc Schuldan before. There
Speaker 2: is some very good news around Sounderland that came down
Speaker 2: this morning. Let's quickly get all the San Jose thoughts
Speaker 2: out of the way and then we'll move on and
Speaker 2: give you the good news. So I had the chance,
Speaker 2: was it Monday out at training? The team was actually
Speaker 2: off today. They're practicing on Monday and Tuesday and then
Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday before the Saturday game, so that training
Speaker 2: on Monday had the chance to catch up with Alex Chroldan.
Speaker 2: We did talk about that play, we did talk about
Speaker 2: the San Jose game, but we did look forward ahead
Speaker 2: to Houston and the final four games of the season.
Speaker 2: Here was a conversation with Alex Roldan after he got
Speaker 2: a weekend off because of course the Sounders did not
Speaker 2: play last weekend. So here's catching up with Alex Troldon
Speaker 2: after a couple of days off.
Speaker 3: At this point of the season, you know, we all
Speaker 3: need somewhat of a break mentally and physically, So a
Speaker 3: few days off and coming back recharge and hopefully with
Speaker 3: this week of training we can prepare for our next
Speaker 3: match out.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the recharge coming after a game like San
Speaker 2: Josean win today, Is that one of the games where
Speaker 2: you feel like you do need a little mental We
Speaker 2: have time to recharge certainly.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, our our goal was to win
Speaker 3: that game, especially you know, with where we are understanding
Speaker 3: and where they are, it's a game that we must win.
Speaker 3: We were in sharp, we uh, we gave up a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities that I think we could have capitalized on,
Speaker 3: and you know, overall, it was just a game that
Speaker 3: we need to move past and and you know, focus
Speaker 3: on the next one because those were three points that
Speaker 3: we certainly needed it.
Speaker 2: We could have had it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: You mentioned not being short why weren't you sharp before
Speaker 2: we move on.
Speaker 1: For a minute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went over the film and I think positionally
Speaker 3: and tactically we were just not in the right spots
Speaker 3: some with some of our players. You know, obviously with
Speaker 3: beppel back and and uh trying to get that that
Speaker 3: cohesiveness with him. He hasn't played much this year and
Speaker 3: so and he's still learning this league. But other players
Speaker 3: as well. We just weren't in our right spots so
Speaker 3: that we can you know, fully capitalize. That's what the
Speaker 3: coaches emphasize and set during the film session. So and
Speaker 3: then when we're not in our positions and when we're
Speaker 3: not in our spots, it's it's difficult to find each
Speaker 3: other and know where we're supposed to be at. So
Speaker 3: moving forward, you know this this next match, we need
Speaker 3: to be a little bit more disciplined. And then I
Speaker 3: think that was a message for that was.
Speaker 2: The out of position. This is something that happened on
Speaker 2: that last play where they scored obviously to make it
Speaker 2: too too.
Speaker 3: It was a combination of things. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: the ball gets gets circled around, we step when we
Speaker 3: don't need to step, and then the ball gets played
Speaker 3: in behind for to have a free look at crossing
Speaker 3: and then you know, my guy as I was looking
Speaker 3: at getting behind, kind of gets by me and I'm
Speaker 3: step Lay. So you know a lot of components to that,
Speaker 3: but I think, you know, we as we look back
Speaker 3: at it, there's definitely things that we could have done
Speaker 3: collectively to avoid that.
Speaker 2: Well, let's move on because we now we can completely
Speaker 2: move on from that game. All right, Houston coming up
Speaker 2: this Saturday. They're a team kind of right around you
Speaker 2: guys in that table right now. So how much of
Speaker 2: an emphasis is is? Alright, this is a true six
Speaker 2: pointer here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they're they're looking really good too. They
Speaker 3: you know, possession based team who have a great attack.
Speaker 3: And so it's gonna be a test for our for
Speaker 3: our back line, our full defensive structure. So, like I said,
Speaker 3: it comes down to us being disciplined, because I think
Speaker 3: when we're disciplined defensively and offensively, you know, there's there's
Speaker 3: very few teams that can really control the game over us.
Speaker 3: And so that's the goal, that's a that's what we
Speaker 3: need to accomplish in this next game. And to to
Speaker 3: make sure that we come out of there with three points, do.
Speaker 2: You allow yourself at all to look at these next
Speaker 2: four in the regular season to see, all right, you know,
Speaker 2: how many points can we get out of this? You
Speaker 2: know going you know, home road road home. Do you
Speaker 2: allow yourself to look ahead at all?
Speaker 5: Past?
Speaker 3: Houston was certainly looking ahead of it at our fixture,
Speaker 3: But that doesn't necessarily mean that we're focused on that.
Speaker 3: We're focused on the next game. I think Houston, who
Speaker 3: is right right next to us on the table and
Speaker 3: especially at home, there are three points that we need
Speaker 3: to have and we taken game by game, and I
Speaker 3: think that they're the next opponent that we need to
Speaker 3: treat with respect because they're a good team and play
Speaker 3: to our best effort to get to three points.
Speaker 2: All right, well, good luck Saturday, go get three points.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's good stuff there from Sounders right back, al stroll
Speaker 2: don really quickly before we move forward, I'll mention that
Speaker 2: Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Providence Swedish, the official
Speaker 2: healthcare partner of Sounders FC. So listen with San Jose's
Speaker 2: now in the rearview mirror. Probably won't other than mentioning
Speaker 2: it with Ari here coming up in a moment, and
Speaker 2: we obviously have to talk about that. I don't want
Speaker 2: to spend too much more time on that tonight, but
Speaker 2: there is very good news in Sounderland that came down
Speaker 2: this morning. In case you haven't heard, this came through
Speaker 2: some breaking news at about nine am this morning that
Speaker 2: the Sounders have signed Jackson Reagan to a new contract.
Speaker 2: It's a three year deal through the twenty twenty seven season,
Speaker 2: has a club option for twenty twenty eight. This is,
Speaker 2: of course, to your center back from here in Seattle,
Speaker 2: who's now had one hundred and six it says appearances
Speaker 2: in Rave Green. He's really, I think turned into an
Speaker 2: absolute Locke defender. I would say the first half of
Speaker 2: this year was a little bit shaky. We saw some
Speaker 2: inconsistent performances, some passing that was certainly not at the
Speaker 2: level we needed it to be from Jackson. But he's really,
Speaker 2: you know, gone back, I think in the last few
Speaker 2: months or so to the twenty twenty three and frankly
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two Jackson Reagan when he came onto the
Speaker 2: scene taking Javier ariaga starting spot, and then he really
Speaker 2: has just kicked into high gear, especially last year and
Speaker 2: said this is my position, and I think he's kind
Speaker 2: of come back to that, and he's obviously been a
Speaker 2: lockdown defender here through this really good run in the
Speaker 2: second half.
Speaker 6: Of the season.
Speaker 2: I should say, really, you know, for the most part
Speaker 2: of these last since late April, and there was there's
Speaker 2: the great statistic that the Sounders are eighteen four and
Speaker 2: five since the end of April against teams not named LAFC.
Speaker 2: And of course you can say, well, what about LAFC,
Speaker 2: But LAFC is just LAFC. But eighteen four and five
Speaker 2: and that run that, you know, the defense has been
Speaker 2: very good in Jackson Reagan has been very very good
Speaker 2: as a part of that. So congratulations to Jackson Reagan.
Speaker 2: A well deserved contract extension.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be making many many more appearances for the
Speaker 2: Sounders tomorrow. He's gonna be meeting with the media tomorrow,
Speaker 2: I should mention as well. I will probably try to
Speaker 2: stream that on my Twitter at Jackson on Radio. So
Speaker 2: follow me on Twitter at Jackson on Radio and I'll
Speaker 2: be streaming that Jackson Reagan press conference as he talks
Speaker 2: about his contract extension. So congrats to Jackson. Now he
Speaker 2: must focus on facing Houston this Saturday. Let's get a
Speaker 2: breakdown of the Houston Dynamo, what they're all about, what
Speaker 2: the Sounders need to worry about. We're gonna shot with
Speaker 2: Ari Lillionwall of MLS Soccer dot Com, and we are
Speaker 2: of course going to talk with Stephan Frye. Nice long
Speaker 2: conversation about nine minutes with Stephan Frye. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: coming up later tonight. It's all here on Sounders Weekly.
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Speaker 1: Ari.
Speaker 2: Lillianwalla joins us right now, as he always does. Ari,
Speaker 2: good to have you back on my friend.
Speaker 5: How are you I'm good, Jackson, How are you doing.
Speaker 6: Good, buddy, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Let's quickly get the vegetables out of the way and
Speaker 2: talk about San Jose. I didn't go down into the
Speaker 2: locker room. I was doing the postgame show. But I
Speaker 2: imagine dropping two points and having San Jose score, you know,
Speaker 2: the worst team in the league score at the death,
Speaker 2: and having a two to two result. I imagine for
Speaker 2: you writing that up, and for the guys in the
Speaker 2: locker room, it was not a pleasant atmosphere one week ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think everyone was pretty frustrated by that result.
Speaker 5: I think there's a big sense that it was a
Speaker 5: missed opportunity as Seattle is kind of fighting for one
Speaker 5: of these top wor spots in the West. Here you
Speaker 5: have this home stand going on right now, and this
Speaker 5: is a San Jose team who they beat Seattle earlier
Speaker 5: this season, but they're on track to Wooden Spoon this year.
Speaker 5: They're at zero point six points per game right now,
Speaker 5: they've lost twenty two games. They have a negative thirty
Speaker 5: two goal differential, and on top of that, in the
Speaker 5: game itself, you were ahead of them and on top
Speaker 5: of them for a lot of the game and really
Speaker 5: had a good performance performance good in us to win,
Speaker 5: but just two pretty unfortunate concessions, and you drop two
Speaker 5: points at a point in this season where you know
Speaker 5: you're jostling for a playoff positioning and you have these
Speaker 5: games at home, so those points matter in the scheme
Speaker 5: of playoffs seating.
Speaker 2: All right, Ario, let's move on from San Jose. I
Speaker 2: think we all do, certainly the players do as well.
Speaker 2: It's the Houston Dynamo coming to town this Saturday. And
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about this race for fourth place
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference because Houston right now is fifth,
Speaker 2: right above Seattle, with forty eight points from Seattle's forty seven,
Speaker 2: and you know we just mentioned those two points could
Speaker 2: have jumped them. So what is this Houston team all
Speaker 2: about I know they could be missing an offensive you know,
Speaker 2: star for them. But you know why is this going
Speaker 2: to be a very difficult match for the Sounders this week? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Because the Dynamo are actually pretty good. You know, when
Speaker 5: they hired Ben Olsen, who was the coach for DC
Speaker 5: United's for a long time, I don't think it was
Speaker 5: lauded as this great hire, but he's done a better
Speaker 5: job I think than people realize down there. And it's
Speaker 5: not just playing Benny ball. You know, those GEC United
Speaker 5: teams were known for playing kind of conservatively and defensively
Speaker 5: and mucking up the game and punching above their weight.
Speaker 5: But if you look at how the Dynamo have done it,
Speaker 5: They've spent big money on a few players and they
Speaker 5: play really good offense. They play great team soccer. If
Speaker 5: you look at some of the best team goals that
Speaker 5: have been scored in MLS over the past two years,
Speaker 5: you see the Dynamo on there a surprising amount. Now
Speaker 5: you mentioned Hector Herrera, I think who you're referring to
Speaker 5: who He's the cornerstone that everything is built around. One
Speaker 5: of the best two way midfielders, one of the best
Speaker 5: passers in MLS. He's injured right now. I believe he's
Speaker 5: working his way back from hamstring injury, so I don't
Speaker 5: think he's expected to play in this game. But they
Speaker 5: have a pretty solid foundation around him as well, and
Speaker 5: they're pretty good defensively. They've only conceded thirty three goals
Speaker 5: this year, and they've been a very good road team.
Speaker 5: They have eight road wins this year, which I think
Speaker 5: is the most in the West. So yeah, no, this
Speaker 5: isn't gonna be an easy game at all. This is
Speaker 5: one of the better teams in the West outside that
Speaker 5: top four that Seattle is coming across in this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Herrero is seventeen assists this year, so missing him
Speaker 2: is the big one. The road thing very much interests me,
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of connecting the dots here. You mentioned
Speaker 2: how mucking things up, and you know, statistically in terms
Speaker 2: of goals scored goals against the right around Seattle in
Speaker 2: both of those categories. Is their road record a product
Speaker 2: of because they like to make road games just really
Speaker 2: miserable for the home team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question. I can't say I've watched
Speaker 5: enough of their road matches this year to know how
Speaker 5: they do it, but I will say like it is
Speaker 5: a departure from the Houston teams of the previous years
Speaker 5: before Ben Wilson got there, where they were known for
Speaker 5: being a very good home team and using the elements
Speaker 5: unforgiving elements of Houston to their advantage to great effect,
Speaker 5: and then not being able to take results on the road.
Speaker 5: And they really like put that on its head this
Speaker 5: year and have become one of the better road teams
Speaker 5: in the league. And I think that's probably because they're
Speaker 5: better on offense than they were in past years and
Speaker 5: they don't have to rely on Benny Ball tactics at all.
Speaker 5: They're just a legitimately good team that can actually do
Speaker 5: it away from home.
Speaker 2: Well, Sounders defense only to step up against them here
Speaker 2: coming up this Saturday. We'll quickly mention as part of
Speaker 2: talking about the Houston Dynamo that our Sharp Vision opponent
Speaker 2: Alec each week here on Sounders Weekly is presented by
Speaker 2: Sharp Vision, Modern LASAC and Lens, the official LASA partner
Speaker 2: of Sounders FC. I will have more on Houston coming
Speaker 2: up later on, but are defending wise, Sounders will have
Speaker 2: a test against that kind of team overall aspect, and
Speaker 2: one of the defenders that they were able to just
Speaker 2: lock in. We talked about it a few minutes ago
Speaker 2: here on the show. Jackson Reagan contract extension three through
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, club option for twenty twenty eight. You know,
Speaker 2: as we look at the Sounders, you know, the view
Speaker 2: from thirty five thousand feet over the course of just
Speaker 2: more than twenty twenty four, but over the course of
Speaker 2: you know, this decade. Really Jackson Reagan's supplanting himself and
Speaker 2: kind of establishing himself as a lockdown defender.
Speaker 6: Certainly a deserved contract.
Speaker 2: We don't know what the number would be, but it's
Speaker 2: a deal that locks in I think one of the
Speaker 2: key players and one less piece for Craig Wible and
Speaker 2: company you have to worry about in what should be
Speaker 2: a busy offseason ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a good move. I think it's
Speaker 5: I think it's one that, like you said, Jackson Reagan
Speaker 5: has kind of emerged as a cornerstone player for this defense.
Speaker 5: He's a local kid, so there's that aspect to it
Speaker 5: as well. And really, what I like what I've seen
Speaker 5: from him this season is he's kind of added the
Speaker 5: attacking aspect to his game. He had a few assists
Speaker 5: last year, and then this year is the first year
Speaker 5: where he's really started to get on the score sheet
Speaker 5: with regularity. I still think he has the potential to
Speaker 5: develop his game and add more of a set piece
Speaker 5: threat to it with like the just the height and
Speaker 5: physical imposing presence that he's got. So really, what a
Speaker 5: great find from flipping an MLS Super draft pick for
Speaker 5: him for his rights from the Chicago Fire to be
Speaker 5: in one of the better up and coming young center
Speaker 5: backs in the league.
Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, Chicago really blew that opportunity because
Speaker 2: they had him, they drafted him, and then for some
Speaker 2: reason or another they just didn't see it working out.
Speaker 6: And Chicago absolutely blew it.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 2: Right, let's we always go around the league with you,
Speaker 2: and one of the things I absolutely love about your
Speaker 2: Lobbing Scorches podcast with Noah is your sections where you
Speaker 2: kind of talk about the winners and losers from around
Speaker 2: the entire league. And I'm definitely using it to get
Speaker 2: more knowledgeable about the other teams in MLS. So for
Speaker 2: this week, when including the weekend where the Sounders didn't
Speaker 2: even play, who are on your winners and losers sheets?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had some notable results this week. You had
Speaker 5: Charlotte taking a big four to Zhero over New England.
Speaker 5: You had the Galaxy winning big again over Vancouver. You
Speaker 5: had Columbus scoring four goals and barely beating Orlando City.
Speaker 5: That was a really good game. I think the Galaxy
Speaker 5: right now, with Dan Jovolich back, are looking pretty good.
Speaker 5: And with LFC, and we all saw Lake Boats dropping
Speaker 5: some points recently, LA Galaxy are very much the front
Speaker 5: runners to take the top seed in the West. So
Speaker 5: you think you got to think it's a big win
Speaker 5: of a week for them. And then meanwhile, LAFC frankly
Speaker 5: have not looked that good. Lad They've been dropping a
Speaker 5: lot of points and they lost three one to SC Dallas,
Speaker 5: and I think that's officially at the point where it's
Speaker 5: a trend at the moment, which that's an interesting storyline
Speaker 5: for the rest of the Western Conference because they've been
Speaker 5: thought of as the likely team to come out of
Speaker 5: the Western Conference for MLS Cup most of the season
Speaker 5: and it's suddenly looking like that might not be as
Speaker 5: sure of a thing as it was for most of
Speaker 5: the year.
Speaker 2: Well, I think LAFC kicks off the Open Cup final
Speaker 2: against Kansas City, and I want to say they kick
Speaker 2: it off in about five minutes from this moment, so
Speaker 2: obviously we'll be paying attention to that as the night
Speaker 2: goes on. But yeah, you look at what they've done recently,
Speaker 2: and LAFC hasn't won since the Open Cup semi final.
Speaker 2: It was a loss against Houston a home, it was
Speaker 2: a draw in Houston, loss at the Galaxy, draw at
Speaker 2: home against Austin, and then loss at Dallas that you
Speaker 2: just mentioned. So I guess the question is, and obviously
Speaker 2: LAFC just brought back their old friend Carlos Vela, But
Speaker 2: is LAFC proving that, you know, they are a beatable
Speaker 2: team or are they still kind of is this just
Speaker 2: kind of do you think this is just a momentary
Speaker 2: thing that they'll eventually capture back you know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: not this weekend where they have to face I think
Speaker 2: Cincinnati on the road, but then then they have Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Vancouver, San Jose to wrap up the season.
Speaker 2: I look at the stretch, this is kind of just
Speaker 2: a momentary blip before rising back up.
Speaker 6: But please tell me that I'm wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean, okay, you know it could be
Speaker 5: a blip, like you're saying, but I'm not really so
Speaker 5: sure about that. They looked exhausted.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 5: They look like their tank is empty. They've had crazy
Speaker 5: fixture congestion this year, and I think you're finally starting
Speaker 5: to see the effects of that. They've had a lot
Speaker 5: of injuries as well, and I really don't you know,
Speaker 5: I think Carlos Dela is a flashy name, but at
Speaker 5: this point, how much of that is more name than game.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think a thirty five year old
Speaker 5: Carlos Vela coming off his couch having not played professional
Speaker 5: soccer all year is going to like suddenly elevate them
Speaker 5: in a way that some people might think it would.
Speaker 5: I'm not. I mean, it's a good depth signing for them,
Speaker 5: but I don't know how much that really moves the
Speaker 5: needle until you can get him a fit, and who
Speaker 5: knows how long that's going to take. So they seemed depleted.
Speaker 5: They seem tired, and I think it could affect their
Speaker 5: ability to make an MLS Cup run. They've just played
Speaker 5: so many games. It's pretty hard to be up for
Speaker 5: it physically when you're kind of as run down as
Speaker 5: they seem, right now now, now that I say that
Speaker 5: it's probably going to turn out to be a blip
Speaker 5: and they're going to turn into a buzzfog in. But
Speaker 5: I think there's more of a question about it than
Speaker 5: they would probably like.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, especially that four two lost Galaxy. I
Speaker 2: didn't watch too much of that game. I think the
Speaker 2: Sounders played the same night, but it certainly was a
Speaker 2: statement that the Galaxy made of you know, you know,
Speaker 2: we're the top dog not only in LA but in
Speaker 2: also this entire Western conference. Maybe it's setting up a
Speaker 2: battle between Miami and the Galaxy for an MLS Cup.
Speaker 2: And I can only imagine what's going through the brain
Speaker 2: of Don Garber, our commissioner, if it's LA Galaxy versus
Speaker 2: Miami final. I mean, the ratings of that game, the
Speaker 2: attendance wherever that might be played, probably Miami. That would
Speaker 2: be an absolute monster of a matchup for an MLS Cup.
Speaker 2: Ariy Lionel was our guest MLSR dot com in the
Speaker 2: podcast Lobbing Scorchers. All right, before I let you go, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is maybe one of the most intriguing, interesting, exciting
Speaker 2: MVP battles we have ever seen. Maybe it's messy, just
Speaker 2: because you know, goals and assists per ninety minutes. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's Portland's of Vander. Maybe it's you know, one of
Speaker 2: the La Galaxy stars or Bolonga with LAFC. There's so
Speaker 2: many candidates of cost in Cincinnati. I think you gave
Speaker 2: Way the early part of the year. Is one of
Speaker 2: the bigger names. Who is on your MVP ballot right
Speaker 2: now at the top.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, it is a really good race for me.
Speaker 5: I probably still have Kucho Hernandez as the front runner.
Speaker 5: I just think with the year that Columbus has had
Speaker 5: and the output that he's had and just how much
Speaker 5: of a Lynchton and how productive he's been for them,
Speaker 5: I think you can't really go wrong with that pick.
Speaker 5: And then I probably have Bowanga as the second favorite.
Speaker 5: I do think you need you need to put Belis
Speaker 5: Suarez in there. Frankly, I mean, if you look at
Speaker 5: the numbers he's been putting up, I think he's a
Speaker 5: pretty good candidate this year. I think, like you said,
Speaker 5: Luco Acosta is in there. And then as far as
Speaker 5: dark horses, you know, I hate to say it, but
Speaker 5: Evander for Portland has been getting some attention in this
Speaker 5: debate recently, and I think it's rightfully so. I mean
Speaker 5: he's at like fourteen goals eighteen assists for one of
Speaker 5: the best offenses in the league, So I think his
Speaker 5: case is pretty fair. But my personal dark corts pick
Speaker 5: who I would throw in there is Ricky Poosh for
Speaker 5: the Galaxy. I think he's fantastic and one of the
Speaker 5: I think he's probably the best pure facilitator in MLS
Speaker 5: right now, and when you look at their attack and
Speaker 5: really the ascendants of their whole team, he's really the
Speaker 5: focal point in the centerpiece of it, and he's very
Speaker 5: fun to watch. So that that's kind of my personal
Speaker 5: little pick there.
Speaker 2: Well, I like that this is why we pay you
Speaker 2: the big bucks. I give you like four or five names,
Speaker 2: and none of them even make the top of your list.
Speaker 2: Of that being Kucho of Columbus, I think it's a
Speaker 2: good shout considering what Columbus has done. It just comes
Speaker 2: back to the numbers, right, and it's sort of as like,
Speaker 2: was it three years ago or so maybe it was.
Speaker 6: Four years ago.
Speaker 2: Hanny Moukdar of Nashville puts up those massive numbers and
Speaker 2: it's sort of like a Vander We're like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: but they're middle of the table team, so we're not
Speaker 2: gonna give it to a you know, a statistic star
Speaker 2: who's just middle of the table. So maybe Evander just
Speaker 2: falls off like Moukdar did because of that, but it'll
Speaker 2: be it's me a really fun race in these final
Speaker 2: four or five games for most teams, we'll certainly talk
Speaker 2: about that MVP race moving forward, Ari, great stuff is
Speaker 2: always my friend, Always good to chat with you. We
Speaker 2: will not talk next week because the Sounders have a
Speaker 2: Wednesday match in Vancouver, but we will talk in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Is we look ahead to what will
Speaker 2: be the final stretch of the season, final game of
Speaker 2: the season, which will be hosting Portland on Decision Today.
Speaker 2: So have a good next couple weeks, my friend. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you later in October.
Speaker 5: That was good, Thanks Jackson.
Speaker 2: It's good stuff there from Ari Lulianwell MLS soccer dot
Speaker 2: com and check out his podcast, Lobbing Scorches wherever you
Speaker 2: get your podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app. We'll take a
Speaker 2: break here in Sounders Weekly. We will come back and
Speaker 2: here from Stephen Frye, a long conversation with the Sounders
Speaker 2: goalkeeper who is now all time number two in MLS
Speaker 2: regular season shutouts. We talk about that and so much more.
Speaker 2: Steph comes up next on Sounders Weekly Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 6: Good to chat.
Speaker 2: There was Ari Leanwhile in the previous segment, he and
Speaker 2: I were actually texting there in the commercial break, and
Speaker 2: he did want to point out that hey man look
Speaker 2: at the stats for Cuco Hernandez, who I didn't even
Speaker 2: have on you know, the four or five guys that
Speaker 2: I listened to Ari and he said he has the
Speaker 2: same goal contributions fifteen and twelve as Bowanga, who has
Speaker 2: seventeen and ten. So you really look at the success
Speaker 2: Columbus has had League's Cup, et cetera, and you look
Speaker 2: at you know, what they've done coming off of a
Speaker 2: MLS Cup championship and Kucho being at the center of everything.
Speaker 2: He had twenty seven goal contributions, same as Bowanga. You know,
Speaker 2: Messi's still gonna be in there for we're obviously talking
Speaker 2: about the MVP discussion here. Uh, but you know, Messi's
Speaker 2: gonna be in there because you know, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are going to go look at his goals per ninety.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them. I just think that he's
Speaker 2: going to be in the conversation. But yeah, Kuco, I
Speaker 2: think it's a good shout for him winning it. As
Speaker 2: long as vander in Portland doesn't win it. As long
Speaker 2: as that doesn't happen, I'm happy. And I still think
Speaker 2: he's gonna be missing out because Portland just hasn't had
Speaker 2: I think the success maybe if you're looking at the
Speaker 2: true most valuable player the definition, where would Portland be
Speaker 2: without a Vander? Maybe? Okay, sure, because their defense is
Speaker 2: absolutely dreadful. But it's sort of like, you know, how
Speaker 2: much does stats matter if you know your team isn't
Speaker 2: getting the points? Where Kucho clearly the team's getting results
Speaker 2: and points and cups, but not really the case for
Speaker 2: a Vander. So I love that discussion. We're going to
Speaker 2: continue talking MLS MVP with Ari in the weeks ahead.
Speaker 2: But yeah, good on him to call me out. He
Speaker 2: should have called me out in the air, but he
Speaker 2: called me out by a text. Hey, man, Cucco's got
Speaker 2: the numbers and he certainly does. Taking a look at that. Anyway,
Speaker 2: moving on here in Sounders Weekly here tonight, I had
Speaker 2: a really nice long chat out at training yesterday with
Speaker 2: your Sounders goalkeeper Stephen Fry, really nice long conversation where
Speaker 2: we talk about, you know, the team's lost to San
Speaker 2: Jose Houston coming up, how you prepare for a team
Speaker 2: that you know likely won't have one of their star
Speaker 2: playmakers there in Hector Herrera that Ari and I also
Speaker 2: talked about.
Speaker 6: But we also talked to you know about him.
Speaker 2: You know, I mentioned last segment getting the second all
Speaker 2: time mark for m and this regular season shutouts, and
Speaker 2: then you all there, many of you know Stephan fry
Speaker 2: He's such a socially conscious person. I also had to
Speaker 2: ask him, you know, about overall his thoughts being an
Speaker 2: election season, and not necessarily this election, specifically this presidential election,
Speaker 2: but just he's feelings on everybody needing to make their
Speaker 2: voice heard, because he has always some great thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: I asked him at four years ago, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk to him about it again here now as
Speaker 2: we are in really the heart of election season, and
Speaker 2: he is some really kind of again they're not one
Speaker 2: way or another way, they're just nice thoughts on making
Speaker 2: voices heard and the job. You know, it is not
Speaker 2: a no job, but the opportunity it is to make
Speaker 2: voices heard in in our society. So really good thoughts
Speaker 2: from Stephan Frye on all of that. We also talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, what might have been the last summer day.
Speaker 2: It was seventy eight and sunny out at Long Acres yesterday,
Speaker 2: far cry from what I'm looking outside right now here
Speaker 2: at our kJ R studios where it's cloudy and rainy,
Speaker 2: so we talked about just the beautiful day of training
Speaker 2: out there at Long Acres before the fall begins. Here
Speaker 2: was the nice long chat here with Sounders goalkeeper Stephan Frye.
Speaker 4: Excited for the last push. You know, we've we've dug
Speaker 4: ourselves out of a hole that we kind of put
Speaker 4: ourselves in the first half, first third of the season,
Speaker 4: if you will, and then then we've been, you know,
Speaker 4: much better. I think there's still much much room to improve,
Speaker 4: but we're finding ourselves in the hunt to position ourselves
Speaker 4: a bit better for your playoffs and then anything can
Speaker 4: go so and weatherwise, yeah, yeah, we're blessed. I think
Speaker 4: we had a really good summer and falls tend to
Speaker 4: be really nice in this area, so looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: Last two days it has been a strangely humid, so
Speaker 4: I'm sweating like crazy. Maybe it's just because I'm too
Speaker 4: old and get too tired, but trainings are sharpened and
Speaker 4: lots of energy expended, expended, and people are pushing hearts.
Speaker 6: That's because you're not the only one sweating, I think.
Speaker 2: I By the way, speaking of the weather, I asked
Speaker 2: for the recommendations out there on your island, and yeah, tremendous,
Speaker 2: tremendous place. I would send every we have to brain
Speaker 2: Bridge that, So thank you for that. By the way,
Speaker 2: you had a good time, wonderful, wonderful place. You mentioned
Speaker 2: a second ago. Things to improve on obviously, I imagine
Speaker 2: you guys would have loved three points against San Jose
Speaker 2: before we move on. Didn't look to Hattie Houston.
Speaker 6: What did you see in that game, especially there at
Speaker 6: the end, Well, we had.
Speaker 4: You know, we're I think we're pushing for the for
Speaker 4: the third goal and could couldn't find it. And then
Speaker 4: I'd also argue we probably it looked like we were
Speaker 4: starting to feel the effects of a quick turnaround a
Speaker 4: little bit there coming out of Kansas. I thought we
Speaker 4: were extremely explosive in transition. We picked their spots really
Speaker 4: really well. Guys for them, for the majority, guys were
Speaker 4: saying that they felt juicy and good during that whole game,
Speaker 4: and not that we did anything wrong in the next game.
Speaker 4: But I think it's just an accumulation and a quick turnaround.
Speaker 4: And then you know, as Santas then to lose just
Speaker 4: because they're at the bottom bottom dwellers in this league,
Speaker 4: every team is capable. We know that there's parody and
Speaker 4: every team has a couple of players who were difference makers,
Speaker 4: you know, and that team is is no different. We
Speaker 4: we knew that they were going to be good, and uh,
Speaker 4: I think we treated them with the utmost respect. We
Speaker 4: just couldn't find the third one we were pushing, and
Speaker 4: then when the third didn't come, then we ran out
Speaker 4: of a bit of a juice and then conceded an
Speaker 4: unfortunate time goal. But it kind of is what it is,
Speaker 4: right and you got to keep moving on and focus
Speaker 4: on yet another good opponent coming into our place, one
Speaker 4: of one of the better sides right now, they're feeling it,
Speaker 4: so it's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you prepare for Houston, obviously the questions about
Speaker 2: if they're going to have one of their better offensive players.
Speaker 2: But as you begin the prep for them coming up
Speaker 2: on Saturday, what does stand out about how you guys
Speaker 2: are going to need to shut them down on the
Speaker 2: defensive end.
Speaker 4: Well, I think they're They're a true possession based team,
Speaker 4: one that that likes to uh penetrate through the middle
Speaker 4: and find scenes, find holes and and calls chaos by
Speaker 4: by by Piercings through those holes, and so we're gonna
Speaker 4: have to be very very tight. I think Schmetz sposus
Speaker 4: that stat that I think they just overtook Columbus in
Speaker 4: terms of possession average per game. So so they definitely
Speaker 4: like to have the ball, and and also to their credit,
Speaker 4: they know what to do when they have the ball.
Speaker 4: They know what to do with it. They're not just
Speaker 4: playing a possession based game. And twenty twenty past this
Speaker 4: is the point. It seems that there's a product at
Speaker 4: the end of that of set possession, and so we're
Speaker 4: gonna be have to be very very careful in terms
Speaker 4: of limiting not not necessarily limiting their possession, because I
Speaker 4: think they'll get it there that's what they're looking for,
Speaker 4: but just making sure it's maybe a bit more meaningless possession.
Speaker 4: It's a struggle for them to have paths like I
Speaker 4: mentioned that that will penetrate and cut through lines of ours.
Speaker 4: And then on the other end, when we do get
Speaker 4: the ball, maybe we have to be more precise and efficient,
Speaker 4: just the way we were against Kansas.
Speaker 2: These next four games and to a home two on
Speaker 2: the road. Obviously Houston's next, But do you allow yourself
Speaker 2: at all to look ahead and say if we can
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 6: You know, this was all here, this result here that
Speaker 6: sets us up this way.
Speaker 4: You know you have a you know, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think the only thing you look ahead is is
Speaker 4: we're playing against good teams or we're playing against teams
Speaker 4: that we want to play against. Right, we're not playing
Speaker 4: as teams that are out of conference and and and
Speaker 4: it doesn't really matter. We're playing against teams for to
Speaker 4: stay high. It's great, that's what you want. It puts
Speaker 4: things in.
Speaker 6: Your own hands.
Speaker 4: And so we have Houston, we have Kansas, sorry of Houston,
Speaker 4: we have Vancouver, we have Colorado, and then obviously we
Speaker 4: got Portland. So those are all if you find yourself
Speaker 4: in a position that we're in currently, you want to
Speaker 4: be involved in those games playing against those opponents. So
Speaker 4: good opportunity. And obviously you can go yes, always, you
Speaker 4: got to take care of the opportunities that you're given.
Speaker 4: But I think we're happy that we get to have
Speaker 4: a say in those games and not just have to
Speaker 4: watch other teams play and hope that things go away.
Speaker 4: We have a major role to play in what we
Speaker 4: end up within.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I know you don't like talking too much about yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you do it anyway. Number two all
Speaker 2: time MLS regular season shutouts. You got that alone.
Speaker 6: Now, still a bit.
Speaker 2: Off of Romando, but having that mark and getting that
Speaker 2: market number two, What does that mean to you to
Speaker 2: to set that mark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm proud of it. I'm proud of it and thankful.
Speaker 4: It's hard work of a lot of people, you know, coaches, friends, family,
Speaker 4: great teammates. I always say, shoutouts are very precious and
Speaker 4: they can be stuffed out in a heartbeats. You gotta
Speaker 4: have good teammates. I take pride in the fact that
Speaker 4: you know the name you mentioned, Nick, Nick Romando a legend,
Speaker 4: you know, but it's one of the legends in this game,
Speaker 4: the one I just passed Gatto, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's a legend when it comes to that position in
Speaker 4: this league. And so I think it means that I've
Speaker 4: been here for a while and I take great pride
Speaker 4: in that because I think as professional athletes, we always
Speaker 4: have injuries. You know, there's things that you can you
Speaker 4: can do everything you want. You wanna have injuries. You're
Speaker 4: gonna have minor ones, you're gonna have big ones. And
Speaker 4: when I had my one big one throughout my career
Speaker 4: in Toronto. You know, I remember the media labeling me
Speaker 4: as injury prone, and I took great offense to that.
Speaker 4: I thought that I always bounced back exceptionally well from concussions.
Speaker 4: Gosh has torn things, you know, stretched out ligaments, fingers.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think ninety percent of the injuries that
Speaker 4: players have, you guys don't even know. And yet I've
Speaker 4: been able to put myself on the field and make
Speaker 4: myself available to the gaffer, so you have a chance
Speaker 4: to play and get into games too. Where then I
Speaker 4: have good teammates around me that allow me to to
Speaker 4: to take credit for a shutout because it's a team
Speaker 4: it's a team stat, but the keeper gets it. So
Speaker 4: but yeah, I take great pride in that, and I
Speaker 4: wouldn't mind getting a couple.
Speaker 2: More steph lasting for you here.
Speaker 6: You're so socially conscious of everything going on in the world.
Speaker 2: We're in full inelection season right now, and I think
Speaker 2: I asked you this four years ago, so ask again.
Speaker 2: The importance is getting people out to vote and the
Speaker 2: importance of making voices heard in what is such an
Speaker 2: important time for our country right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm not going to preach and tell
Speaker 4: you what to do in terms of what's right or not.
Speaker 4: I think it's important that people get educated. I think
Speaker 4: it's very important to will take everything with a grain
Speaker 4: of salt, to try to try to try to check
Speaker 4: where your sources are or where people are getting there
Speaker 4: things from. Why maybe just just going going in with
Speaker 4: thinking that why would there be why would this person
Speaker 4: say this?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Is there a biased and there might not be.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm not trying to be negative or not. We're
Speaker 4: just just in today's day and age we see with
Speaker 4: AI with videos and such, you have to be careful.
Speaker 4: You can't just be like I saw it or I
Speaker 4: heard it and that's the truth, and then we're going
Speaker 4: to go by that. I think, go go and expand
Speaker 4: your horizons. Try to be engaged because as much as
Speaker 4: also you want to say we're not political, there's no
Speaker 4: way of not being involved in what's going on. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is the future, this is your life. You you live,
Speaker 4: you breathe, you, you eat, you, you shop, you, you
Speaker 4: buy things, you sell things, you you have a job.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't just sit here and be like
Speaker 4: doesn't affect me or I don't care. So it's important
Speaker 4: that I think you realize that your opinion matters, your
Speaker 4: your vote matters, your opinion matters, and so therefore, educate yourself,
Speaker 4: make sure that you can stand behind what you represent
Speaker 4: and what you think is important for this country moving forward,
Speaker 4: and then most most of all, go out there and
Speaker 4: the voice your opinion by voting.
Speaker 2: Well said, Steph, good luck on Saturday, we'll getting oother
Speaker 2: three points. Great stuff there from Stephan Fry, Seattle Sanders goalkeeper.
Speaker 2: Love his comments there on making voices heard and making
Speaker 2: an impact and doing the homework on what's real and
Speaker 2: what's fake obviously with the fake news and everything like that.
Speaker 2: And Ai, luckily no AI can do what he does
Speaker 2: in goal and congratulations to him again second all time.
Speaker 2: You know, I love the kind of he did go
Speaker 2: a little bit deeper and maybe it comes with the age,
Speaker 2: but being able to be reflective at his older age
Speaker 2: of just you know, kind of what it means to
Speaker 2: have that mark as the years go by, So big
Speaker 2: congrats to Stephan Fry. It's it's you can definitely see
Speaker 2: what it means to him. So love hearing that from Steph.
Speaker 2: But listen, that will do it for the show tonight.
Speaker 2: As we wrap things up, I want to thank all
Speaker 2: of our guests tonight from Alex Shuldin out at training,
Speaker 2: Stephan Fry out at training, Ari Lullenwall. Great chat there
Speaker 2: about the Sounders and everything.
Speaker 6: Going on in MLS.
Speaker 2: As there are only four or five for other teams
Speaker 2: games left here in this season. The Sounders have Houston
Speaker 2: at home this Saturday, and then of course they go
Speaker 2: on the road to Vancouver one week from tonight and
Speaker 2: then go to Colorado and then finish it off with
Speaker 2: a home game against Portland. It is going to be
Speaker 2: a busy, busy last few games ahead, but we will
Speaker 2: have it for you starting this Saturday right here Sports
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