Speaker 1: Time to bring our buddy Niico Modeno. And you're not
Speaker 1: wearing a hat. What's going on?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: No having man, no hat. Just got a haircut yesterday.
Speaker 3: I was trying to, you know, get the hair right.
Speaker 3: But man, we're just back man. And of course there's
Speaker 3: no other show that can do what you do, John,
Speaker 3: No other show can do what you do. Going from
Speaker 3: Lima all the way out here in the Pacific Northwest
Speaker 3: for some Seattle Sounders and Western Conference information, my guy.
Speaker 3: But happy Thursday. There's this cup number one actually of coffee,
Speaker 3: believe it or not. I just got a nice little
Speaker 3: whole shower, got ready to go, got my coffee on,
Speaker 3: and now I'm ready for some questions by my man John.
Speaker 1: All right, So, first and foremost, how was the surprise
Speaker 1: birthday party last week?
Speaker 3: It was great, man, It was all around exciting. It
Speaker 3: was an emotional day. I for those who don't know,
Speaker 3: I had my oldest when he was when I was eighteen.
Speaker 3: Now he's turning eighteen, so it's kind of a full
Speaker 3: circle thing there. My parents showed up. We had some
Speaker 3: pancakes and eggs and everything he likes. So it was
Speaker 3: it was a good time. It was a good weekend
Speaker 3: overall as well. He's getting kind of a whole couple
Speaker 3: of weeks of celebrating because we're also going to do
Speaker 3: a little something with him during the super Bowl halftime
Speaker 3: or after the halftime, I guess, because after the show,
Speaker 3: I guess. So we're going to do a little song
Speaker 3: for him as well there just so you can celebrate
Speaker 3: with some friends. But yeah, man, overall, it was a
Speaker 3: good It was a good Thursday celebration last week.
Speaker 1: And when when you're surprised by family, you go with
Speaker 1: what the family does when they surprised you first thing.
Speaker 2: In the morning. That is mandatory. That's how this rolls.
Speaker 1: So you got, we got, you got to go in
Speaker 1: that direction, and happy eighteenth across the board.
Speaker 2: From all of us here on this side of the planet.
Speaker 1: I want to, as always get into what's going on
Speaker 1: in the Pacific perspective when it comes to Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: I want to start a little south of you and
Speaker 1: start in Los Angeles, what's going on at LAG because
Speaker 1: last week, and this is the first time we've had
Speaker 1: the chance to.
Speaker 2: Talk about it.
Speaker 1: The new rule, which was a long time common about
Speaker 1: being able to trade and buy inside Major League soccer.
Speaker 1: You're starting to see these kinds of transactions. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Jack McGlenn and Houston and Philly coming
Speaker 1: up in a second. But the Bishop Dejon Yoviolich gets
Speaker 1: sold to Sporting Kansas City for four good piece of
Speaker 1: business by LAG. Then LAG it looks like they're going
Speaker 1: to be adding Christian Ramirez from Columbus. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about Columbus in a second. So SA ram looks like
Speaker 1: he's going from Columbus for a lot less money to LAG.
Speaker 2: As the bish Jovolich goes to Sporting for four.
Speaker 1: LAG is in an interesting spot right now because, Okay,
Speaker 1: you got your Joviolich replacement. I don't know if c
Speaker 1: ram can match those numbers, although they're hoping. I guess
Speaker 1: he can get close. But LAG now is very very
Speaker 1: interesting because Ramirez supposedly coming in, you still don't have
Speaker 1: Ricky Poohe for a substantial amount of time. I am
Speaker 1: intrigued to see how LAG solves this problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a problem mainly because of
Speaker 3: the salary cap, right, I mean, they wanted to do
Speaker 3: right by the player. The player wanted more money to
Speaker 3: deserve more money, and just the way the salary cap
Speaker 3: currently works. There was no way that the LA Galaxy
Speaker 3: We're going to be able to keep Jovlish. So they
Speaker 3: do good business in my opinion, and I think it's
Speaker 3: a win win because Sporting Kansas CD needed a nine
Speaker 3: of this caliber and I am probably higher on Joblish
Speaker 3: than most. I think that he will make Sportikaa City
Speaker 3: his team. He's finally the face of that attack, right.
Speaker 3: He was always the additional piece behind Hivier Hernandez, you know,
Speaker 3: in the mix of being around Pack and Puk and Royce,
Speaker 3: and you know, he was never the guy necessarily, regardless
Speaker 3: of how good he was, and regardless of him being
Speaker 3: the one that puts the final dagger into the Sounders
Speaker 3: and eventually puts his team out in the ML's Final
Speaker 3: and eventually into a championship. So I think the Jovils
Speaker 3: is very capable and I think many are going to
Speaker 3: be surprised of how good he will be with Sporting
Speaker 3: Kansas City. So it goes well for both. Sportikaa City
Speaker 3: gets a guy that they needed in a position of
Speaker 3: need and LA Galaxy because of the demands and because
Speaker 3: what they had to do get rid of somebody and
Speaker 3: later down the week or you know, a little bit
Speaker 3: over a week, we find out about the Christian Ra
Speaker 3: Mirror's situation. Christian Ra Mirrors he's not your every game
Speaker 3: franchise type of striker, but he's a double digit striker
Speaker 3: without a doubt. You know, he's thirty three, his experience,
Speaker 3: he's intelligent, he is poised in front of goal. He's
Speaker 3: good on er old duels. I think that lag are
Speaker 3: doing good business once again by bringing in a guy
Speaker 3: like Superman, and he's a guy that's used to not
Speaker 3: being the guy. He's used to being the guy that
Speaker 3: is also behind somebody else. So he's going to go
Speaker 3: in there and just try to produce. This is probably
Speaker 3: one of the best situations he's been in, with the
Speaker 3: exception of course last year, with Rossi and Kucho next
Speaker 3: to him. So he's gonna get a ton of service,
Speaker 3: he's gonna get a ton of opportunities in front of goal,
Speaker 3: and I think eventually and essentially he will be a
Speaker 3: guy that's going to produce for La Galaxy. Again. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna be the every game guy, and
Speaker 3: I think they will be other players coming into the
Speaker 3: Galaxy team's formation that could eventually rotate that position, but
Speaker 3: I think Christian Ramirez going there was smart for the
Speaker 3: La Galaxy. Columbus is a better if I had Scratcher,
Speaker 3: you know, you talked about him. I'm not really sure
Speaker 3: what's going on down there. For the life of me.
Speaker 3: I can understand that you want to do right by
Speaker 3: players and you want to cash in and a guy
Speaker 3: like Kucho for sixteen mil and you know you're making
Speaker 3: a profit, YadA YadA, yacht. But man, you know, jaboah gone,
Speaker 3: him gone, Hinestrosa gone. I mean, that's a lot of
Speaker 3: main key players for your club that now you're going
Speaker 3: to have to replace. I don't think it's a full
Speaker 3: on rebuild down there, but it's definitely a full on remodel.
Speaker 3: I mean they're taking the kitchen and the two bathrooms
Speaker 3: downstairs and they're trying to fix that whole thing up.
Speaker 3: So definitely substantial. Definitely something that's gonna be not easy
Speaker 3: to do because you don't find Couture Hernandez signings on
Speaker 3: trees and you don't find guys like in Estrosa either
Speaker 3: in those sort of situations. So I think Columbus is
Speaker 3: in for a rough start. Obviously, you have a guy
Speaker 3: like Will fer Nancy, where you know that he's used
Speaker 3: to working with not the most incredible rosters, and he
Speaker 3: still has a soccer module. He's intelligent, he has obviously
Speaker 3: pieces to work with in Rossi and other guys that
Speaker 3: are still part of that Columbus crew team, but a
Speaker 3: lot of question marks all around when he comes to
Speaker 3: top teams in the league, specifically in the Western Conference,
Speaker 3: of course, But there is that sense of MLS in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. It's been crazy. He's been amazing in
Speaker 3: the off season, but that usually mays for some unpredictability,
Speaker 3: at least for the start of the season.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think that Columbus is turning the basement of the
Speaker 1: house into a mother in law suite and it's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how they do this and
Speaker 1: have to do it on the fly, because if you
Speaker 1: were looking at deadlines, you can still do business with
Speaker 1: South America for the next five weeks or so, depending
Speaker 1: on the country and depending on the league, but you
Speaker 1: can't do anything in Europe except for like maybe Turkey
Speaker 1: and things with have a couple of deadlines that are extended.
Speaker 1: So Columbus is going to be in a very very
Speaker 1: interesting place. Philadelphia for me, is also in an interesting place,
Speaker 1: but probably not for the right reason. McGlenn goes to
Speaker 1: Houston and another one of these deals where the league
Speaker 1: is finally letting folks get sold inside the league for money,
Speaker 1: money and not garberbucks two point one initially from Houston
Speaker 1: former Glenn bonuses and metrics can add another one point
Speaker 1: four to the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And then you get fifty.
Speaker 1: Then you get fifty percent of a sell on, but
Speaker 1: you're not getting the full fifty percent because initially sixty
Speaker 1: percent went to you and forty percent went to the
Speaker 1: other two teams in New York City area. Because you
Speaker 1: violated the Dibbs zone in getting McGlenn. You went, you
Speaker 1: went past the uh, you went past the invisible fence
Speaker 1: in your yard, and you've got McGlenn. And so now
Speaker 1: forty percent of any sell on goes to the two
Speaker 1: in New York area clubs. You get fifty percent. So
Speaker 1: you might get a million out of five or a
Speaker 1: million out of ten. It's just it's a really screwy
Speaker 1: situation involving McGlenn.
Speaker 2: But Philly, Philly, Now.
Speaker 1: I want to know what they do with this money
Speaker 1: do they Are they going to just continue to be
Speaker 1: grinders and go, oh, we're just gonna have guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna be tough and we're gonna be, you know,
Speaker 1: grinding things out because that's Philly and that's who we are,
Speaker 1: and we're going to take our young talent.
Speaker 2: We're going to sell them on.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know what you're doing with that
Speaker 1: money that you're bringing in. I know that you're building
Speaker 1: infrastructure and things like that, but are you really doing
Speaker 1: things to benefit the product on the field. So the
Speaker 1: sale for me from m Glenn presents another interesting question
Speaker 1: out of Philly. What are you doing with it? How
Speaker 1: do you replace him? And what are you doing come
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question and is one is difficult
Speaker 3: to answer because if it was hard to predict when
Speaker 3: it was Curtain managing things, now it's even more unpredictable
Speaker 3: because you got a guy like Cornell Dad. How much
Speaker 3: power does who really have at this point? How much
Speaker 3: influence can he you know, half with the use of
Speaker 3: those funds. Is it going to be Philly just keeping
Speaker 3: them money and continue to just inject their academy system?
Speaker 3: And the youth program and get guys here and there
Speaker 3: that are serviceable and you know how much how much
Speaker 3: heat is they're really in that front office to get somewhere.
Speaker 3: Because to me, it feels like the expectations dropped with Philadelphia, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, they were highway curtain on the bench, but
Speaker 3: now with a whole new system, with guys gone, with
Speaker 3: McGlen gone, a guy that's as good as he had been.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was one of my favorite guys to
Speaker 3: see of the young guys now ends up going to Houston.
Speaker 3: So for me, Philadelphia just has a lot of room
Speaker 3: to say, hey, look, we're in a whole new place.
Speaker 3: You know, we are trying to make things happen, and
Speaker 3: we have a whole bunch of outbound guys. We haven't
Speaker 3: really brought in anybody necessarily that can replace those positions,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna go off of being a collective unit
Speaker 3: the same way Cornell did in Saint Louis. So it's
Speaker 3: just very hard for me to say what and where
Speaker 3: that money's gonna go to and how it's gonna be spent.
Speaker 3: But whatever happens from here until the end of the
Speaker 3: transfer window in the winter, right now, will tell you
Speaker 3: what has been said to Cornel and this team. Whether
Speaker 3: we're just gonna take it easy, we're gonna let you
Speaker 3: eas your way in, We're gonna give you three years
Speaker 3: to build us into something that's gonna be okay, or
Speaker 3: we need to win now, because that's the way I
Speaker 3: feel like they should approach this. This famiase doesn't deserve
Speaker 3: to have three years of waiting when you know they
Speaker 3: were Gareth bail Better away from winning the championship a
Speaker 3: couple of years back. So it just seems like you
Speaker 3: are backstepping or you're trending in the wrong direction when
Speaker 3: it comes to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know it's gonna be I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be something red bullsy in because that's where Carnell
Speaker 1: came from. It was kind of red bulls light when
Speaker 1: he was at All Caps. Yeah, and then they freaked
Speaker 1: out when they had a bad start in year two
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh second time through the batting order,
Speaker 1: Oh no, they figured out our picture and so you
Speaker 1: get rid of Carnell and you see what happens in
Speaker 1: the off season. So for Philly, I right now, like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm I'm intrigued to see how this works.
Speaker 1: It Earns Tanner believes in it. So you're bringing a
Speaker 1: guy like Bradley Carnell and it's just gonna be r
Speaker 1: and we're you know, we're gonna be We're gonna personify
Speaker 1: the city and all these kinds of things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you look at that roster, it's just hard
Speaker 3: to see. And then when he goes to Houston, Man,
Speaker 3: they themselves are also switching up a lot of players,
Speaker 3: right Cuku Caraskija now in Mexico after Herera out the door.
Speaker 3: Now you bring McGlenn. You've got a couple of pieces
Speaker 3: down there, Uh that are gonna be interesting to see.
Speaker 3: But man, Houston's also another team that, like I said,
Speaker 3: especially in the West Conference. To me, I guess because
Speaker 3: I'm on this side. When I look at those top
Speaker 3: teams rsl LA, Galaxy, LAFC, Man, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: turnover and there's a lot of switching and moving and going.
Speaker 3: You know, LAFC lost Ilia Los Marie, Joe lost Bogats.
Speaker 3: I mean they lost so much prime talent, so many contributors,
Speaker 3: so many goals, so much defensive responsibility, so much experience.
Speaker 3: It's anybody's game and hopefully we'll talk about the Sounders
Speaker 3: here because they went the other way on you. They
Speaker 3: maybe did a little bit less, but they kept continuity.
Speaker 3: They kept a lot of the guys. They they have
Speaker 3: a better gauge on where this team is going to
Speaker 3: be to start off the season then maybe any of
Speaker 3: the other top teams in the West.
Speaker 1: All right, since you open that door, let's go through
Speaker 1: that door. As you take a sip from your cup
Speaker 1: number one one out of the Rave Green mug. They
Speaker 1: did not take you with them to Spain, which was
Speaker 1: disappointing because I was looking forward to the live shots
Speaker 1: from Marbea with you at like three point thirty in
Speaker 1: the afternoon at a hotel, kind of kicking back and going, yo,
Speaker 1: look at me. See where I am? You mentioned continuity
Speaker 1: and right now, and I mean you add to continuity
Speaker 1: in a different way. You bring back Kim kihe who
Speaker 1: knows what the system is like. So you're bringing infamiliar
Speaker 1: faces in addition to keeping who you have. And you
Speaker 1: made the big deal in the off season. You made
Speaker 1: big deals in the off season. Who am I kidding?
Speaker 1: Where you ad You add to your experience in the midfield,
Speaker 1: You add to your scoring punch and you're adding to
Speaker 1: a nucleus that has been there for a while. I
Speaker 1: mean you have, you know, senior oster spots. It's Ariola Tensio, Bell,
Speaker 1: Leo Chu Ferrera, fry Yamar Gomes Anddraga, Danny Lava, Georgie
Speaker 1: Manongu JP, Jordan Morris, Mussofski, Reagan, both roll Dons, Rus
Speaker 1: Knock Knew who Obed Vargas. Who's getting interest and we
Speaker 1: can talk about that in a second. And then PDV
Speaker 1: you've got four homegrowns as part of your supplementals.
Speaker 2: Then you've got international roster spots attached.
Speaker 1: To Menongo and PDV DP right now Ariola U twenty
Speaker 1: two's Josh Utensio and Leo Chu So you got all
Speaker 1: of the Seattle influence and everybody that's been there for
Speaker 1: a while. You add pieces like Ariola and Hayesus Ferrera.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the why I think it is going to
Speaker 1: be the wild West this year with the changes, with
Speaker 1: the three teams that finished above the Seattle and the
Speaker 1: regular season standing, you have stability a then you add
Speaker 1: firepower and experience in the midfield. How is it integrating
Speaker 1: from what you've been able to discern so far here
Speaker 1: in training camp.
Speaker 3: He's been a smooth transition and adaptation to all new components,
Speaker 3: including a lot of the young that you mentioned already.
Speaker 3: Everything I've heard from mar Vegius Paint and which came
Speaker 3: to an end yesterday after a too to draw with
Speaker 3: hammer By in their second preseason game of the day
Speaker 3: because they had an early game before that. But man,
Speaker 3: it's been good vibes overall. It seems like Paulariola and
Speaker 3: Farrah have you know, being a good fit for the
Speaker 3: squad in general, and to me, that's that's a big deal.
Speaker 3: The competition level is high. When I look at the
Speaker 3: overall adjustments in addition of concepts for this sounder teams,
Speaker 3: there's one prevailing message and is we're gonna be aggressive.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be aggressive in our press. We're gonna play
Speaker 3: with a high line. In every single preseason game that
Speaker 3: they had in Spain, it was a three man back line.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a a three five to two, sometimes is
Speaker 3: a three four three. You know, there's variations of what
Speaker 3: they did in certain parts of certain games, but you
Speaker 3: think that with three men backline, they were going to
Speaker 3: be a little bit more direct and they weren't going
Speaker 3: to be as aggressive, but it's the opposite man. They've
Speaker 3: been a possession based team. They've been very good at
Speaker 3: transition moments and the aggressiveness of the press. Yesterday against Hammerby,
Speaker 3: they get their first goal out of a high press situation.
Speaker 3: The second goal, there's also some influence of it. They
Speaker 3: do get caught at the end of this game by
Speaker 3: the moments when you are committing so many numbers forward
Speaker 3: to press and the press doesn't get there, and a
Speaker 3: couple of passes you're trying to recorrect and you're trying
Speaker 3: to get a foot race to you know, get to
Speaker 3: guys that are behind a whole bunch of other players
Speaker 3: that you were committing forward and they get cut up.
Speaker 3: But overall, man, it's aggressive, and I like that. It's
Speaker 3: aggressive in terms of the offensive as well. We're gonna
Speaker 3: overload one side, we're gonna switch it. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: guys crashing the box. We're gonna have Ferrera and Albert
Speaker 3: playing as two creative midfielders behind Jordan Morris. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of freedom, there's a lot of movement. We're
Speaker 3: gonna get a lot of width out of our wing backs.
Speaker 3: We're gonna trust that Christian Rodan and Ovid bargains is
Speaker 3: a double pivot always in are gonna handle moments of
Speaker 3: transition defense and that they're gonna be able to get forward.
Speaker 3: So overall, man, I'm excited about what this had the
Speaker 3: team can look like with some of these new adjustments
Speaker 3: and the aggressiveness of it. Can it be dangerous? Am
Speaker 3: I a little concerned that you having the best defense
Speaker 3: on the league per se got you to a Western
Speaker 3: Conference final last year? And now if you gamble a
Speaker 3: little too much with that high line pressing as high
Speaker 3: as you are doing it right now, can that result
Speaker 3: in a couple of bad goals and maybe some instability defensively? Maybe?
Speaker 3: But I think that the team can correct it, and
Speaker 3: if they can perfect it, they're going to be a
Speaker 3: difficult team to be. Not to mention that brand Smetzer
Speaker 3: is not afraid of going back to his standard save
Speaker 3: four two three one and working from there. So I
Speaker 3: just like what I've seen so far out of our
Speaker 3: Bedjia a couple of standouts. Pedal beggas been lights out, engage, consistent,
Speaker 3: understands the system. Unfortunately for him, I think this formation
Speaker 3: does make him the odd man out. He wasn't part
Speaker 3: of what I would call the starting lineup yesterday in
Speaker 3: that second game of the of the day in preseason
Speaker 3: in Marveja, but he's looked fantastic. H love what I'm
Speaker 3: seeing out of over the bargain so far. Hey, sus
Speaker 3: Ferreira man, he very versatile, very free, very open. Uh.
Speaker 3: Yesterday he put a couple of balls into Jordan Morris
Speaker 3: that there's pot on there weren't supposed to be. Jordan
Speaker 3: isn't able to finish in those, but I think he
Speaker 3: has been incredible on the defensive end. Kalina is a
Speaker 3: guy that does not have a contract with the Sounders,
Speaker 3: but as a as a wing bat, he's been very
Speaker 3: very good. I have asked Brian about him. He continues
Speaker 3: to praise this kid. I think he is a player
Speaker 3: that could potentially earn an early contract with the Sounders,
Speaker 3: especially knowing that Red Baker Whiten had a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3: Brian Smetser said that he felt that pop the kid
Speaker 3: did the player, So we'll see what happens with that hamstring.
Speaker 3: Something to look at. But because of that, I think
Speaker 3: Kalina can really get himself into a situation where he
Speaker 3: has a contract this season. Jordan Morris's look good as well,
Speaker 3: So overall, man, it's good vibes from the Sounders. There
Speaker 3: was one other bad news yesterday that I don't want
Speaker 3: to overlook here. Albert Russnik did go down in the
Speaker 3: twenty seventh minute. I believe of the first half of
Speaker 3: that game yesterday, you can hear brand Smester telling him
Speaker 3: to go down. I went back looked at the tape.
Speaker 3: He seemed like he might have pulled something. He's trying
Speaker 3: to play through it. He's given the sideline all kinds
Speaker 3: of signs and eventually he just goes down. So hopefully
Speaker 3: that's not incredibly long for a player that's going to
Speaker 3: be important for this team. But to me, man, I
Speaker 3: feel like there is a better There is a better
Speaker 3: outlook into this squad, strategy and the players that there
Speaker 3: was last year, And that alone is very encouraging and
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be I think it puts
Speaker 3: Seattle in a position to be one of the more
Speaker 3: almost written in sharpy, to be on top of the West.
Speaker 3: And I'll say it like that, I mean, quite honestly,
Speaker 3: I think that the Sounders floor is so high that
Speaker 3: there will be in the top six slots in the
Speaker 3: Western Conference very early on.
Speaker 1: Then, in a perfect world, all things being equal, Albert
Speaker 1: ruce knocks not going down taken into consideration, give me
Speaker 1: your starting eleven.
Speaker 3: Woh? I like that. My starting eleven would be in
Speaker 3: a four two three to one me personally, so I
Speaker 3: would go Steph Knew who Reagan yamar Alex Christian rodan
Speaker 3: Ovid bargains the three band on top of the holding
Speaker 3: myths would be on the right, Ferrera No No No
Speaker 3: Horden on the right, Pederal la Vega in the middle,
Speaker 3: Albert Rusnak on the left, Jordan Morris and up top.
Speaker 3: For that's the way I will set it up. That's
Speaker 3: my favorite eleven. I don't think that's what we're gonna see.
Speaker 3: They've been very focused on the three men backline, especially
Speaker 3: when their first game is in Antigua, obviously playing the
Speaker 3: Guatemalan team, So I think that they will go back
Speaker 3: to it and that lineup. The only change there is
Speaker 3: that you pull Pedro de la Vega out of there
Speaker 3: and then you add a center back or a wing
Speaker 3: back per se. So I think that Ariola starts on
Speaker 3: the left and he's the guy that comes in for
Speaker 3: Pedro Leavega and then you just set it up with
Speaker 3: new who Yaymark and Jackson in the three men backline,
Speaker 3: and then everything else just kind of fits almost the
Speaker 3: same with Jordan Morris up top and Chris Albert Russneck
Speaker 3: and his as for working as a double creative midfield.
Speaker 3: There so obviously a team that you can almost be
Speaker 3: sure that you know what the eleven are going to be,
Speaker 3: with one exception depending on what deformation is and the
Speaker 3: approach for Brian Scepter is in a couple of games
Speaker 3: starting the season.
Speaker 1: All right, So what are you anticipating going on in
Speaker 1: the next week before we reconvene with another cup of
Speaker 1: coffee and another Thursday morning. What's what's going to be
Speaker 1: going on in Seattle between the time that the playing
Speaker 1: comes back from mar Begia and you get to go
Speaker 1: back to the Children's in Swedish Playhouse and find out
Speaker 1: what's going on over there.
Speaker 3: I believe I don't have the calendar in front of me,
Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure that Louisville they will face Louisville
Speaker 3: in their last preseous game of the season that's going
Speaker 3: to be in the Founder's facility. Not sure just yet
Speaker 3: if it's going to be open to media, but I
Speaker 3: hope it is. They will be back. We're hoping to
Speaker 3: hear from Brian about injuries to Albert and Red. I
Speaker 3: do expect one signing out of those guys that had
Speaker 3: been very interesting in Spain, the younger guys Burnell, Selas,
Speaker 3: ten Gomes and Kalina. Those are the three that I'm
Speaker 3: looking at to essentially get a spot. Don't look at
Speaker 3: a big signing toil the summer. I think that the
Speaker 3: U twenty two will be used in the summer window
Speaker 3: in my opinion. But that's kind of what I foresee
Speaker 3: adding on here in Seattle before our next Thursday morning
Speaker 3: of course.
Speaker 1: All right, So what else is going on with you
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Speaker 1: two hundred and eight character app.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm an exciting uh I. I told you guys
Speaker 3: that I was gonna be doing a weekly Friday show
Speaker 3: with Jeremiah Shant from Sounder hart h. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: podcasting every single week about the entire week of training,
Speaker 3: the game ahead, any news, anything that kind of builds up,
Speaker 3: and we here in the walls or in the hallways
Speaker 3: of the performance Center, of course, so that's gonna be cool.
Speaker 3: Check that out. And then on Mondays we're gonna be
Speaker 3: doing something with Ari La La wall uh and uh
Speaker 3: Love and Scorchers. So on Monday mornings. I think that's
Speaker 3: what the calendar says right now, is that we're gonna
Speaker 3: go Monday mornings and we're gonna be talking about that entirely.
Speaker 3: Uh obviously focused on the Seattle Sounders, but we're gonna
Speaker 3: also expand on to uh the week that was a
Speaker 3: couple of news items, uh, maybe the teams that are
Speaker 3: more exciting in the US and conference like LAFC LAG
Speaker 3: the Timbers of course, because they are the our tribals
Speaker 3: here down south. So gonna be interesting how that plays out.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of what we have in mind. That's
Speaker 3: setting stones so far for me coming.
Speaker 1: Out, looking forward to it as always, my friend, great
Speaker 1: to see you and glad the birthday went well, and
Speaker 1: I know that the birthday it's going to turn into
Speaker 1: a birthday month. I'm going to tell you right now,
Speaker 1: so just be prepared for all of that. We will
Speaker 1: catch up with you again next week for the last
Speaker 1: half hour of the normal two hours here on SDHAM.
Speaker 2: Thanks as always my friend.
Speaker 1: Love you very much and we'll see you next week.
Speaker 3: Thank you, John. I'll be here, but I really appreciate
Speaker 3: him