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Chuck & Buck 7-6 Hour 4: Brad Evans, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Nine o'clock hour here on this Monday morning. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us, Ashley Ryans here, my name is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell. And yes, tonight five o'clock US versus Belgium,
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  Speaker 1: Balligan's going to play. So much to discuss with our
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  Speaker 1: next guest, Brad Evans now joins the Sounders legend here
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  Speaker 1: and been part of our World Cup coverage team right
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  Speaker 1: here on Ihardsports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been looking forward to this conversation all weekend long. Brad,
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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: You know all the words to Country Roads?
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  Speaker 3: Yet I need to bring the lyrics in front of
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  Speaker 3: me on my phone.
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  Speaker 2: I think when it comes time, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know like the chorus, but I need well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: need a little help.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's a good anthem for this team
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  Speaker 1: in the World Cup?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's something for everyone to kind of get together and
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  Speaker 3: be involved with and hopefully something to remember and it
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  Speaker 3: becomes a tradition down the road. US soccer is not
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  Speaker 3: really known for traditions in that sense, and Germany has
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  Speaker 3: had it quite a while when they score a goal,
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  Speaker 3: there's a certain song they play in the Stateium. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of other teams have certain traditions, but the US
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  Speaker 3: is kind of just figuring out the next you know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty to thirty to fifty years, and it starts with
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  Speaker 3: something like this that everyone can rally around.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. It's great, good, very good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we got a lot to break down. We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to discuss. So but I do want to
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  Speaker 1: bring this up because I just discussed it in our
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  Speaker 1: last segment and I said I was going to bring
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  Speaker 1: it up to you, so I might as well get
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  Speaker 1: it out of the way and then we can talk
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  Speaker 1: about Belgium, US Balligan, all of that stuff here in
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  Speaker 1: a moment. But I don't, as you know, I'm no
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  Speaker 1: expert in this sport. But I hear I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 1: watching this match last night and to me, the best
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  Speaker 1: player that I have seen is Jude Bellingham in this
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  Speaker 1: entire tournament. And yet obviously the goal scorers are the
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  Speaker 1: biggest names in the sports, and the Hollands and the
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  Speaker 1: and bop Bays. So how crazy am I to say,
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  Speaker 1: you guys got it wrong, all you soccer people got
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  Speaker 1: it wrong. That guy that plays from end to end.
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  Speaker 1: That Jude Bellingham guy, that's the best soccer player on
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  Speaker 1: the tournament right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you are not wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, goal scorers are always going to get the credit
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  Speaker 3: for sure, but you know, that's the nature of the sport.
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  Speaker 3: And oftentimes you'll, you know, unless a goalkeeper has an
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  Speaker 3: amazing tournament, you know about every single game, even then
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  Speaker 3: the top goal scorer is probably going to get the
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  Speaker 3: Player of the tournament. That's just how you know soccer works.
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  Speaker 3: I think what you saw last night was probably, in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, was the best game of the tournament overall.
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  Speaker 3: It was complete and it was chaos. It had everything,
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  Speaker 3: and Jude Bellingham stepped up. He was my player to
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  Speaker 3: watch before the game when we were doing radio in
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  Speaker 3: the studio there last night, and his two goals back
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  Speaker 3: to back, bang bang, and then like you said, up
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  Speaker 3: and back down the field playing down a man for
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  Speaker 3: you know, what felt like an hour but was really
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  Speaker 3: forty minutes, thirty five minutes. That energy and that pace
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  Speaker 3: and that willingness to just work. He was unbelievable last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I actually said it on the broadcast too that
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  Speaker 3: he reminds me and there's never been a player like him,
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  Speaker 3: but Zennidine Zidan who was tall like Jude Bellingham. He
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  Speaker 3: was one of my favorite players idols growing up. Played
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  Speaker 3: for France and Real Madrid actually, and Jude Bellingham plays
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  Speaker 3: at Real Madrid. He's the same size, he's tall, he's lanky,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't look like he should be able to do
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  Speaker 3: the things he does, but his engine is unbelievable and
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  Speaker 3: last night he showed why he.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of this tournament.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if England makes the final, he'll be in
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  Speaker 3: the conversation for player of the tournament, regardless if he
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  Speaker 3: scores you know, another four or five goals that if
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  Speaker 3: you do that performance and lead your team to a
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  Speaker 3: final and potentially win it, England does have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: He will be in the mix for player of the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't that same player in the previous games. Last
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  Speaker 3: night he completely dominated.
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  Speaker 1: Goalkeeper was amazing too last night for England. Unreal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know before that a lot of questions
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  Speaker 3: and the English press were asked about him and I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen a game where Pickford played like that. His saves, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he kept him in it, right, and some
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  Speaker 3: world class saves last night in as Techa, the holy
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  Speaker 3: grail of Mexican soccer and one of the most well
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  Speaker 3: known stadiums throughout the world. Eighty thousand fans, seventy nine
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  Speaker 3: thousand Mexicans in the stadium. And then you know, England
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  Speaker 3: comes out with a victory and they put a masterclass
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  Speaker 3: on how to play at as Teca, and especially with
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  Speaker 3: a man down, to come out with a three to
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  Speaker 3: two victory was beyond impressive.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, one more before we dive into us
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  Speaker 1: Belgium here and all the things that need to be
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  Speaker 1: discussed there. At noon today you got Portugal Spain. Put
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  Speaker 1: in perspective what this rivalries like in the soccer world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's massive.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anytime two neighboring countries battle it out, it's
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  Speaker 3: always going to have its own feel, and especially it
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  Speaker 3: being two similar styles of play. Obviously got the Portuguese
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  Speaker 3: way and then you have the Spanish way of playing
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: This is a toss up for me.
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  Speaker 3: You have Ronaldo, one of the best players to ever
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  Speaker 3: do it, arguably the best on the Portugal side. Now
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  Speaker 3: his role has kind of shifted into more of a
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  Speaker 3: number nine poacher, free kick specialist.
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  Speaker 2: And then on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: You've got, you know, an eighteen year old in La
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  Speaker 3: Migna Mal who could potentially outscore out class Messi and
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  Speaker 3: Ronaldo when we look back in twenty years. This could
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  Speaker 3: be the moment where he breaks out in this tournament
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  Speaker 3: at eighteen. His stats are incredible. He's far out pacing
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  Speaker 3: Messi at this point in his career at Barcelona and
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  Speaker 3: it is something to watch. Both midfields talked about before
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  Speaker 3: the tournament probably being the best overall midfields in this world,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where the game is going to be won.
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  Speaker 3: Is in this midfield whoever makes the least amount of
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  Speaker 3: mistakes and is able to break the pressure of either team.
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  Speaker 3: I really don't have a sense who should win this
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  Speaker 3: game because I think they're both really strong teams. If
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  Speaker 3: I had to pick one, it would probably be Spain,
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  Speaker 3: just because I think it's an aging Portugal side. But
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  Speaker 3: in saying that, we would have a conversation next week.
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  Speaker 3: And Ronaldo scores a hat trick, that's just the way
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  Speaker 3: the life of a striker. You look at Earl Holland
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  Speaker 3: last night for Norway. He ends up with I think
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  Speaker 3: maybe fifteen touches in the game, but scores two goals.
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  Speaker 3: He basically averages a goal now every fifteen touches of
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  Speaker 3: the ball in a game, which is absurd. And he
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  Speaker 3: just sits up top much like Ronaldo does, waits for
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  Speaker 3: his chance, and he's an absolute goal scoring machine. So
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  Speaker 3: it is a toss up for me. But that would
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  Speaker 3: be the US's next match. If they advanced against Belgium tonight,
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  Speaker 3: would be the winner of Portugal Spain.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get into it. Brad Evans with
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  Speaker 1: a soccer legend of the Sounders and with US here
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  Speaker 1: once per week throughout the World Cup on our coverage.
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  Speaker 1: And so here's the news that Baligan gets a red card.
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  Speaker 1: He's supposed to be out for this game, and then yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: out of the blue, it is announced that he is
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  Speaker 1: going to be allowed to play. Belgium is furious over this.
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  Speaker 1: They have appealed. Who knows what might happen between now
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  Speaker 1: and five o'clock. Maybe they'll get their way back. I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea, but it looks like that flow Balligan
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  Speaker 1: is going to play for the US tonight. That's the background.
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  Speaker 1: What are brad evans thoughts this morning about this entire
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  Speaker 1: controversial scenario.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough one for me.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you before the game, if you go and
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  Speaker 3: look at the rules and how VAR is supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be used, the referee didn't use it in the correct
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  Speaker 3: way if he had given a yellow card in the moment,
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  Speaker 3: and then the referee said, hey, you need to go
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  Speaker 3: look at this, and then he made the decision to say,
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  Speaker 3: actually that was more greekous than I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a red card. But the fact that no foul
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  Speaker 2: was called in.
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  Speaker 3: The run of play, and then the referees said there
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  Speaker 3: might be a red card challenge here. It's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different, and it doesn't matter about intent. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter if you tried to hurt someone or not. It
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  Speaker 3: is the law of the game. It's up to the
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  Speaker 3: referees interpretation. So each referee is going to have a
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  Speaker 3: different interpretation of that action. And it was deemed to
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  Speaker 3: be a red card after VAR. Now was it supposed
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  Speaker 3: to go to VR technically by rules and then given
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  Speaker 3: a red card?
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  Speaker 2: No, So I think that gave a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an avenue and a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of squeakiness for the US Soccer Federation to I don't
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  Speaker 3: think they appealed it necessarily, but somewhere along the line
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  Speaker 3: they put in a request to have it postponed then overturn.
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  Speaker 3: He's on a probationary period for the next year. If
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  Speaker 3: he commits another red card challenge after this, he would
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  Speaker 3: have to serve obviously that red card suspension. But the
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  Speaker 3: similar thing happened to Christiano Ronaldo leading up to this tournament.
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  Speaker 3: He was supposed to serve a three match ban, but
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  Speaker 3: it got postponed as well leading into this tournament, and
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  Speaker 3: he was able to play the first three games. So
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  Speaker 3: it's happened before ish. And this is where var gets
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  Speaker 3: very confusing, because if we just didn't have it, there
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have been a foul on the field anyway. As
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  Speaker 3: Bulligan plays in the game, USA win Ladi Da. But
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  Speaker 3: now you start to kind of bend the rules a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Article twenty seven. We're either going to talk
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  Speaker 3: that we hate it or love it after this game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if Bulligan's corns a hat trick, we love
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  Speaker 3: Article twenty seven saying that this can be kind of
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  Speaker 3: under review ish and postponed a lot of nuance here.
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  Speaker 3: But if I was Belgium, I would say I don't
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  Speaker 3: want him playing. It ruins the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 3: But if I'm on the US side. I'm stoked to
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  Speaker 3: have my starting striker, right, so it should just be excit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what is the in your estimation? And this
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  Speaker 1: is all opinion, but what is the right approach then
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  Speaker 1: to take? Because I'm with you, I'm hearing all this outcry,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure if that is people trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect the integrity of the game or people trying to
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  Speaker 1: be anti American with this.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's protecting the game at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day. But also the underlying message about protecting
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  Speaker 3: the game is that they don't want this to snowball
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  Speaker 3: into something that happens on a regular basis and then
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden we see red card challenges being
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  Speaker 3: postponed or overturned later down the line.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't want to ruin the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I do understand that.
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  Speaker 3: But when you look at the challenge, he's not making
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  Speaker 3: a play on the Bosnian's leg. He's not looking at
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  Speaker 3: it to make a play. He's actually making a play
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  Speaker 3: on the ball, and they're tussling. It's a fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 3: Both guys are battling, and the guy's leg just kind
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  Speaker 3: of happens to be there last night. When you look
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  Speaker 3: at the England challenge, player slides in on a Mexican player,
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  Speaker 3: his studs are up, he's sliding his feet go over
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  Speaker 3: the ball and into the Mexican attackers left leg. That's
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  Speaker 3: a red card challenge every day of the week and
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  Speaker 3: no one can plain on the field this one is
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  Speaker 3: a little bit different. That's the thing about these challenges
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  Speaker 3: is where does it lie? But everyone's got it out
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  Speaker 3: for the US. Let's just leave it at that. And
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  Speaker 3: it happened to Ronaldo, and no one's talking about when
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  Speaker 3: Ronaldo got his mostponents anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Let's move on. Boligan's gonna play.
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  Speaker 3: Belgium is still an amazing team, and they're not thinking
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  Speaker 3: that Baligan is a difference maker really for the US.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Belgium's scared of the US. They're looking
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  Speaker 3: at the US as we just beat them five to one,
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  Speaker 3: five to two a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: We know what we need to do.
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  Speaker 3: The US hasn't beaten a European opponent leading up to
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  Speaker 3: that Bosnia game for ten matches. And yes they beat
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  Speaker 3: a Bosnian side, but they were a lesser side than
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  Speaker 3: the opponents that they had played in the past. Belgium
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  Speaker 3: has every inkling to feel like they can get a
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  Speaker 3: victory tonight.
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  Speaker 1: There's part of me, as I've said on the air
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  Speaker 1: a few times here today, it's like, well, let's just
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  Speaker 1: not even play him. I don't even want to hear
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  Speaker 1: the excuses. I think we can. I can, we can
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  Speaker 1: beat them without Balligan, So I say let's not let's
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  Speaker 1: not not even play. Just a part of me says,
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  Speaker 1: let's not even play them because I don't want the asterisk.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear people complaining this has been
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  Speaker 1: too good of a tournament for US soccer. This has
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  Speaker 1: been too good of a tournament for US the host.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be involved in any controversy. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just sit him and let's beat him without him. But
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  Speaker 1: I get the impression that you don't feel that way
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think you still start him. Look, he is
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  Speaker 3: the best striker out of that crop, and he's gotten you.
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  Speaker 2: To this point.
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  Speaker 3: I think the US is saying, look, we don't think
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  Speaker 3: it was a red card on the field. We don't
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  Speaker 3: think it was a red card afterwards, So this is
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  Speaker 3: just this for us. That's how they're viewing it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: now there's a flip side to that. Baligan gets a
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  Speaker 3: red card. His whole mindset, mindset had shifted. So is
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  Speaker 3: he mentally prepared and ready to go for this game
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  Speaker 3: if knowing that he had the red card and then
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  Speaker 3: getting overturned.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's reading online.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure his social media is blowing up with supporters
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  Speaker 3: of Belgium trying to get into his head. Is that
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  Speaker 3: the best thing for the US? To your point, maybe not?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you're right. Maybe he comes off the bench. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: the US doesn't want the hooplah around it. And they
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  Speaker 3: had been training for four or five days leading up
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  Speaker 3: to this with a specific striker. Now what does that
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  Speaker 3: do to the dynamic of the team saying hey, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to start tonight, you better step up, get your
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  Speaker 3: mind right to Peppy or Hodgi Wright, whoever it may
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  Speaker 3: be tonight, and then at the eleventh hour you say,
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  Speaker 3: actually we're going to start Florian because his bread card
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  Speaker 3: got overturned. Maybe you see that tonight. Maybe Boschettino really
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  Speaker 3: believes in his group and says, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go out and play exactly how he trained leading up
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  Speaker 3: to this game, because that's what we're used to, that's
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  Speaker 3: what we've all been mentally prepared for.
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  Speaker 2: You could possibly see that.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be a nice compromise for me, Like, he doesn't start,
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  Speaker 1: and if we don't need him and we win eleven
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, then great justice serve. Yeah exactly. But if
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  Speaker 1: you do need him, well emergency break glass and put
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  Speaker 1: him in the match and see if we can't pull
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  Speaker 1: it off. So maybe that maybe that is the way
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  Speaker 1: to go about it. All right, all of that aside,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stripped down. Let's assume he's going to play.
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  Speaker 1: What's this match going to come down to here tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna it's gonna We've seen it already so far.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna come down to finishing your chances. That's the
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  Speaker 3: bottom line in these knockout rounds and the level that's
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  Speaker 3: being played right now, in the effort that's being put
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  Speaker 3: into these games. Every game is obviously a World Cup final. Now,
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  Speaker 3: that's how every team is viewing this. You win or
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  Speaker 3: you go home. That's the bottom line. So you leave
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  Speaker 3: it all out there. For the US, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be finishing your chances. You saw it last night. Mexico
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  Speaker 3: has a header for in the fifteenth minute. That is
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Rau Jiman is one of the best setters
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  Speaker 3: of the ball and Jordan Pickford makes an amazing say
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  Speaker 3: now if that ball goes in, does it change the
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  Speaker 3: game completely? Probably Mexico goes up won nothing. They can
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  Speaker 3: just keep the ball for the rest of the game
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  Speaker 3: and absorb some pressure Brazil Ver's Norway p k miss
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  Speaker 3: in the first half for Brazil, second half, Endrick is
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  Speaker 3: in on a breakaway, doesn't score and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden early halland two goals late in the game,
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  Speaker 3: bang bang, and Brazil finds himself out of the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: One that could have arguably won the tournament. So it's
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  Speaker 3: about finishing your chances and when you get that one moment,
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  Speaker 3: you have to put the ball in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the net because it might not ever come again. So
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  Speaker 3: for the US controlling the pace of the midfield, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at the front four, it's debatable who's
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  Speaker 3: going to start up top for them, But if it's Lukaku,
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  Speaker 3: he is an absolute beast of a player. Played against
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  Speaker 3: him when he was on Chelsea against the Sounders, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, and I've never seen anyone who make
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  Speaker 3: our center backs look with little kids.
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  Speaker 2: He's an absolute beast.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have de Bruyna, who I have said
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: this before, the best passer in this tournament still with
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: the ball, I think he's incredible. He can pick out
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: anyone anywhere on the field. Then you've got Doku on
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: the left who Manchester City is lightning fast, rapid. It's
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: going to be a really, really tough game for the US,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: and we've seen the US play against teams that have
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: bunker in and been able to break them down. Now
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: when it stretches out, I still think that the US
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: has the capability and the ability to play a bit
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: more free flow today. Use the crowd, use the counter attack,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: get Christian Pulisic involved in space, and of course your
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: genio dest on the other side. But it really is
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: it's going to be about finishing, finishing your chances.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: All right. So what's your day look like today? How's
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: it all going to unfold for Brad.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Evans, Yeah, it's I'm going to the game. This will
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: be my first World Cup game that I'm going to today.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: So we're going to the game. We're crazy excited. On
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: the barge at the twelve o'clock game for Spain versus Portugal.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: A couple of radio hits, but fundraiser for Ray Foundation
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: before the game at a rooftop at Railspur and I
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: just hope to have fun today. And haven't been ever
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: a fan at a US and national team game. I've
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: always either been playing or on the bench, so this
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: will be my first time watching this team as a fan,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: and to have the World Cup here in my backyard.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: We'll jump on the light rail, take it into town
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: and kind of make a day out of it. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: it's absolutely beautiful. There's really no excuse for today not
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: being what is probably the biggest day in US soccer history.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: We can look at all the pivotal points.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety four was a turning point to kind of
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: jumpstart Major League soccer. Two thousand and two, that group
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: turned serious heads could have made it to a semi final,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and if there was var back then, it probably would have.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: And then you look at twenty fourteen, a good run
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: where they did play Belgium to Howard made fifteen or
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: sixteen saves, a World Cup record and ended up losing
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: that one with an opportunity from Chris Wandolowski to get
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: them to advance. So we're right there in these moments.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I think this team is better than all of those
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: teams in terms of the technical ability, the teams and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: competitions they play on a regular basis throughout the year
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: with their club teams. It's far out ways and it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: far better than the teams of the past. They just
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: have to rise to the occasion because at this point
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you can throw physicality out out the window. It's mental
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: at this point.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. We'll have a great time. I know at
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: some point you're going to get that phantom you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: twitch of you know, wanting to actually be out there
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: playing for sure.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: But let's go get all up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have a great time with it, and we look
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: forward to chatting with you again down the line.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: All right, guys, how fun.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Brad Avatts joining us right here on Chuck
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and Buck in the Morning. All right, coming up next,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: ABC's of the MS. I didn't think we'd forget Sports
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ R F them for
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you made me want to do that. I inspiration always
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: do it from no one inspirational. Good morning, It's Chuck
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and Ashley with you. It is time for the ABC's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: of the m's our Daily Mariners segment. We allow the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: alphabet to be our guide through a daily Mariner segment
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: here and yeah, we do go by the alphabet VIC.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah what not, not really really made it up. We
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: just skip around from letter to letter all willy nilly like.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Exactly not enough just to grab letters. We got to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: go in order. Yeah, so L is where we left
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: off LS four lasses. There aren't a lot of times
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: where you come in on your workday as a sports
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: talk show host and you've got two stories about two
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: different lasses.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: It's very accurate.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: From the same sport. But we have Las Montes who
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: is then called up to Tacoma. And you know what
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: old Justin Hollander told us back in spring training. Las
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Montes hits forty home runs this year, you can bet
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: that some of them will be in a Mariner uniform. Well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Las Montes is having one hell of a season, so
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: this is their attempt to like bump him up.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: He is at.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Eighteen right now? Is that where he's at? No? No, No?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Twenty five?
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: What good thing that got him up here?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Now twenty five? He's at twenty five home runs in
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: seventy nine games. So this is you know, all right,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: prove it against those fringe, like those crafty thirty two
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: year olds at the Triple A level that are going
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to try to junk ball you to death because they're
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: just trying to get you out. And if you can
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: keep this going, then last Montes might be up. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: mean there was some talk over the weekend about maybe
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Mariners aren't going to be all that aggressive. Well,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: when you think about it, who's out, Like Donvan's gonna
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: be coming back soon. Dom Canzone has to be kept
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in the lineup. Luke Rayley is certainly at least part
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of a platoon. Road Blaze has played better even if
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: we get Red or ref Snyder. I mean we still
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got to make room for Donovan and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: if Montes is gonna be possibly a piece to this,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: then maybe there is no trade. I still think there
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: will be because it still because Montes hits left handed too.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Everybody hits left handed. I still think we're gonna need
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: somebody that hits lefties between now and the trading deadline
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to add. But Justin Hollander again told me if he
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: hits forty homers this year, you can I can guarantee
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you some of them will be in a Mariner uniform. Well,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: he's at twenty five and we're not even at the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: All Star break.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: So that means he's on pace toyt well more than
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: forty yeah million, yes, a million. Yeah, that'd be nice.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: That's just math.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: We'll let you hit forty in the miners and then
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a minut for us.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I think we'd win if you did that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I think we would too. That would be a lot
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of it bats.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: He's just one through nine in our order.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That means everybody's hitting. Yeah, that's the case. So, yes,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Las Montes closer than ever to getting to the Mariners.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And wouldn't that be something. The other lass is Las Dias.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So did you see this story? Seven major League baseball
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: umpires And let me just cut right to the chase
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: for you. The seven worst Major League baseball umpires have
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: filed for retirement at the end of this year. Now
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is that just coincidence?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: We all retired for you know, we all filed for
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: retirement at the same time. Or has Major League Baseball
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: forced the issue with them? Just kind of a forced retirement.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You can either fight us or you can take this
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: nice little parachute get out of our sport, because thanks
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to ABS, we now know you're the worst seven umpires.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's not just the fans thinking it. We now have
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the data. They now have the data. Everybody knows you're
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: not good enough.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then now it's more embarrassing because everyone sees
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: it on a game by game basis with proof and DIA's.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend I think missed like all ten or
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: eleven oh pitches behind the place. And it seems like
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a really nice guy. I mean, he seems like everybody
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: likes lesd Us, but he is terrible and he has
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: been for years. C. B. Buckner was also on that list.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: That made me smile.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So this ABS, I said, that's the beginning of the year.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to find out they're a lot
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: better the umpires than what we realized, which they've proven.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're better at the strike zone than hitters.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Hitters are catchers pretty close, right, but the umpires are
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: better at knowing the strike zone than hitters are, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: hitters know all right, Well, that's been proven. The other
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: thing that I said that would be highlighted by ABS
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: is that we finally will reveal the ones that are
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: truly terrible, and that's the people on this list of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: seven people. So another great thing from ABS. It does
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: look like Baseball's going to use it now that these
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: umpires are being truly put on blast to all the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: fans everywhere and to managers and two players, Hey, we
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: got to get rid of these guys. They're just not
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: good enough for the big leagues. Players get cut all
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the time for not being good enough. Managers and coaches
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: get released all the time for not being good enough.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Umpires should face the same fate. So I think this
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: is great news. Don't want to dance on anybody's grave,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to make anybody unemployed, but they've been stealing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: money from baseball long enough, not being good at what
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they do. So we're going to get seven the seven
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: worst guys out of here, and by next year, hopefully
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: we won't have seven great guys, but hopefully we have
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: seven better guys replacing them.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it was necessary. I'm the same.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: I don't like to call for people's jobs, but when
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: you are so inept at your job, and it's been
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: not one year that they've been bad or two years
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: that they've been bad. It is a history of being terrible,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: and it's about time that Major League Baseball did something
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: about it because it's embarrassing for their product.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Do I think so too? And now everybody knows. Now
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's not just speculation. Now, it's not just we think C. B.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Buckner's really bad. We now know.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, everybody everybody knows maybe knows now.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I think he does. YEA. Honestly, I think that that's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: part of it. I think that's all. I mean. They
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: had to agree to this, and I think that's part
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of it. I think they were embarrassed. I think they
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: are embarrassed. I think they're actively, ongoingly embarrassed that they
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: keep getting their calls overturned. And maybe it did sober them.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe they did realize maybe I'm not very good at this. Yeah,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I don't like this. I don't like getting overturned ten
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: times a game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't like that either.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, M is for minimum. Well, we have a first
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: place team, but once again it's happened far too often
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in Mariner's history. We got the minimum number of All
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Stars named to the roster.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Randy A.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Rose Arena the only one named to the roster for
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the Mariners. I don't think it's that big of a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: slap in the face. Maybe Ashley disagrees. I think Cole
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Young should have been in there over Travis Bazana of Cleveland,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: but the players voted Bazana in. I think that there's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a really strong argument for Emerson or Logan, Gilbert, certainly
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: over Michael Waka. I think there are strong arguments for
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: other guys. Might even have stronger arguments than Emerson and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Logan have in Major League Baseball. So I think Gilbert
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: has closed the first half pitching like an All Star. Emerson,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I think has been the most consistent. I would have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: loved for him to get into the All Star Game,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and I think Cole Young has had a better year
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: than Travis Bazana. So do I think we should have
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: more than one guy, Yes, But I don't think it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: some big giant insult that we don't. We have had
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: an underachieving roster once again for the first half of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the season. Yep, and quite frankly, Randy was to me
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the only surefire thing that we were going to get.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: I don't think it was something is something we should
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: be outraged by at all. I think, Yeah, it would
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: have been nice to see Emerson Hancock make it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not devastated that he didn't.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially with the issues that this that we've had
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: already with our pitching staff and how to manage it
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: throwing an All Star break in there with one of
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: them pitching, I don't want to know how that goes.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm glad. I'm good, and congrats to Randy.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: If we get both of them, can we piggyback?
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, let's do that. I'll allow that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Is there going to be injuries, So I think we'll
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: end up with another guy probably on the roster, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: my guess is it's Logan. That's good, that would be
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: my guess. But I think we'll end up with another
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: guy on this team because you usually have to end
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: up replacing five or six guys off of this roster.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: So I think that we'll end up with another representative.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But that would be funny. We have one slot. We
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: can't decide between Logan and Emerson. Do you mind piggybacking
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: them in one inning?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: And then you have to change your mind right before
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: the game and just pick one.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Finally, n is for next? What is next? From this? Organization.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You know, they have their fair share of critics that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: call themselves fans. There's no doubt about it. Here in Seattle.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are people here that can't stand Jerry,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: can't stand justin. Don't think they do a single thing right. Obviously,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I have disagreed and strongly disagree, and I think the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: proof is that we've had a winning product here. If
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: not a championship product, we've certainly had a winning product.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: And one of the reasons, and one of the things
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: they are indisputably good at drafting. And it is coming up.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It's this Saturday and sun the twenty twenty seven or
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: excuse me, twenty twenty six MLB draft. They changed it
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: used to be in mid June, used to be before
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the College World Series, and then you got to see
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you know, the yeah, the people that were yeah, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the broadcasters say this guy just got drafted by the Royals.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: We don't have that anymore because they wanted to put
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it during All Star weekend, so it starts All Star
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: weekend now. So this Saturday and Sunday will be the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: MLB draft. Obviously, the Mariners aren't choosing as high as
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: they did the previous year where we lucked into getting
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Kate Anderson because of the lottery, So it's gonna be
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a late first round selection for them. But I'll say
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: this in Scott Hunter, we must trust because man has
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he picked some gems here over the last few years.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: They are really and nobody's supposed to be this consistently
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: good at drafting major League Baseball players. That's why there's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a thousand rounds. Yeah, because you're just not supposed to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: be You're not just you're just not gonna nail your
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: first round pick all the time. Well they don't nail
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: every one of them, but they nail a lot more
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: than I think just about anybody else does. So yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to see what Scott and Jerry
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: do next.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I am too, I am too.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I think this is one thing that we should all
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: be able to agree that they do very well.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: And we always get Scott on sometimes before, sometimes after,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and last year both yeah, we got them before and after.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: So we'll try to grab Scott Hunter at some point
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: this week. All right, Coming up next, we close out
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: our show with one last Thing on a Monday. Sports
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, All right final segments,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: one last thing to close us out. Of course, big
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: big day, big doings here in Seattle today as the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: US men's team, we'll get ready to face Bell Jim
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: on the pitch at Lumen Field. Yeah, no Seattle Stadium,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: but yes, right here in Seattle. And it's gonna be
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a big, big day, big big evening. And how are
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you going to take it in? Have you decided?
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to a friend's house where I've watched
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: the other games, okay, and watch there. And five Iron
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: is not allowed to come with because he has not been.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: There for the other two games.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so he will have to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Watch it home.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Does he want to jump on the bandwagon?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Is that what's going on?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: You've been watching? He's just been watching at home.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: And so the last game, the first game he was
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: working because it was early.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: The last game, he had just.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Finished work, and he was like, Oh, I don't think
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go kind of last minute.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I'll just watch it home. And now they've done obviously
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: they won. Okay, so now he's not allowed.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Who gets the kid?
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: She can come with? Oh, she's been with me for
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: the for the games.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: So we'll see. I mean, if he wants to go,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: if he changes his mind, he's allowed.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But ah, I think you got a good thing going here.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I would agree, just keep it. He probably thinks he
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: has a good thing going on the couch.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You just keep it, keep it the way
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it is, Yeah, the way it is? All right? Well,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: what is your one last thing here?
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, Brandon Ayuk is even ruining his relationship with Jayden Daniels.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Have you seen this?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Sounds like it's ruined.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ruined.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: They're unfollowing each other on social media, which means relationship
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: over once you've un followed each other on social media.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: But he posted a video and basically said, you're on
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: my team. Now you have to follow my rules. You're
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: gonna have to stop running behind your mama. And I
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: might believe what you're talking about. First of all, he's not.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: On your team. You're not even on his team.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: You're all by yourself and he's he was basically your
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: biggest chance to get there, and you just.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: There's something wrong. There's obviously something wrong. Brandon Ayuk's just
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not thinking clearly.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: No.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Uh, and yeah, and I actually think I kind of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: danced around this last week. To me, it kind of
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: feels like there's like a single white female thing going here,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Like he's got like a crush on Jade and Daniels
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: maybe and like wants to be around him, wants to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: be you know, yeah, and blames his mom for not
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: allowing it to happen. That's what it kind of feels like,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Like he wants to copy him. He likes to, yeah,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: be a part of his aura.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know, there's something going on, but he is
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: so just yeah, obsessed with Daniels. And now he's gone
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: too far and Daniels is like, he's out, we are done.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what Bridget Fonda would have done. Now you're
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the j Jennifer Jason Lee. I'm afraid in this scenario there, Brandon, is.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: There Bunny involved in that one? Or is that that's
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: fatal attraction?
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Different?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: That's a different, different movie, but probably even creepier.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Frankly, Yeah, I know it sounds like him single white female,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: but that's kind of what it feels like, Like there's
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: an unnatural desire to be around Jayden Daniels, and then
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Jaden's like, dude, what's going on go play for the
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: forty nine ers.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: We're not attached at the hip. Yeah, and then he
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: blamed his mom. That's what it feels like.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird, very weird.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very weird.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Situation.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Started wearing his clothes, started dressing, link him, cut his
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: hair on the wagon, all that stuff, all that stuff,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: all right, for my one last thing, will shout out
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: because I told you Friday, I just kind of did
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a Woodenville day. It was a pack day. I packed
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a lot into that day and it was fun. It
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Part of it was is I was trying to figure
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: out what I'm going to do. Like I my like
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: drink of choice lately has been like Woodinville bourbon. That's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: been like my drink of choice. And so here I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: got that Woodenville Whiskey Company, which is right there on
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that drag.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And I've never stopped in there, never once, right by
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Tavern. I actually I thought it was like a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: restaurant in a hangout, but it's just a tasty right
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: attached to the whiskey maker. And so I stopped in there.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I made a point. I drove there for that sole
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: reason was to be in there, and then did a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: tasting and ended up buying something and taking it home
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: nice and so. While I was there, though, one of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the workers like, recognize me, okay, and that's happened before.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I mean sports talk radio listener. Some people can pick
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: up on the voice. But anyway, he couldn't have been nicer,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and he couldn't have been more polite, even in his
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: way that he told me that he recognized me was
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: like so professional and classy and everything else. Okay, but
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the reason I'm pointing it out, well, how did you
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: recognize me? Was it the voice? And he goes, you're
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: on YouTube?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: No, nowhere on YouTube?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I don't even think about that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Never even dawned on me that we would get more
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: recognized because we were on YouTube. But yeah, that was
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: like wearing like pajamas practically in there, so dressed up,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: not exactly represent the station, like hey, hey, hey, everybody,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: do you know who I am?
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Look at my KJRPJ.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was kind of like trying to like operate
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: below the radar. I guess I did, though mention, No,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: that's not entirely true, because I did mention at one
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: point to maybe even overheard this now that I'm thinking
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: back on it, like, do you guys do any advertising,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Like would you do any advertising for radio? Because I
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: do believe in the product, and so maybe maybe that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: did happen before. I don't know. Anyway, got recognized at
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the Woodenville Whiskey Company. Keep doing your thing, and thank
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you for listening. And we do.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Appreciate making that good whiskey, and keep.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Keep making it and I'll keep drinking it. Yep. All right,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: that'll do it for us today. Thank you very much
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: for joining us, so we appreciate it. We will be
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: back again tomorrow at six am. Enjoy the day, enjoy
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the evening, however you're taking it in. It should be
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Should be a great, great banner
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: day for Seattle. Another one, because Seattle, you have been
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: knocking it out of the park throughout this entire World
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Cup experience. And this should be the ultimate marriage here tonight.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: This should be Kelsey and Swift here tonight.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Go a thousand people, thousands of their closest friends.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, Greg Bell Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM,