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7-6: Brad Evans and Niko Moreno · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: No from the Star Reintles Sports tests Jordan ninety three
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  Speaker 2: plane to Florida begin a three game series tomorrow Miami
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  Speaker 2: three games over five hundred game and a half up
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  Speaker 2: over Texas in the American League West. So it's really
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  Speaker 2: on down here in Soto. Already, fans are at Jimmy's
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  Speaker 2: on First, across the street from Womenfield in their team
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  Speaker 2: USA gear US in Belgium for a spot in the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup quarterfinals. To place the Americans had been a
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  Speaker 2: winning one time in modern history. A FIFA disciplinary committee
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  Speaker 2: suspended Floe Baligan's won game suspension he got for the
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  Speaker 2: controversial red card if against Basnia Herzegovina in the round
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  Speaker 2: of thirty two last week. That happened if the President
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  Speaker 2: Trump reportedly called FIFA President Gianni Infantino. FIFA also gave
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  Speaker 2: Belgium the right to submit a formal appeal of its decision.
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  Speaker 2: That appeal was due by five am Pacific this morning,
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  Speaker 2: so there may be more on this. First match today
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  Speaker 2: in the round of sixteen is Spain versus the rabble
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  Speaker 2: Portugal here at noon on the West Coast time. Yesterday
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  Speaker 2: had to work on England Mexico absolute banger. England wins
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  Speaker 2: three two, defending with only ten men for the last
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  Speaker 2: fifty minutes. Harry Kane became the first man ever to
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  Speaker 2: score in a penalty kick and concede a penalty kick
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  Speaker 2: in the same World Cup match. Mexico has now played
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  Speaker 2: ninety matches all time in the Stadio was Teca as
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  Speaker 2: the national team. That was only their third loss ever
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  Speaker 2: in a Teca. England will face Norway Saturday in Miami
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  Speaker 2: in the quarterfinals. That's because Norway eliminatee storied Brazil tou
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  Speaker 2: Nil earlying holl In both goals, he Lionel Messi, Chilling
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  Speaker 2: and Bappi all of seven goals. The leader race for
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup Golden Budda, the top goal scorer Brazil
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  Speaker 2: starting Nymar announced after yesterday's match that he's retiring. The
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks rookies are reported to due to report a training
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  Speaker 2: camp in eleven days on July seventeenth. The veterans report
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  Speaker 2: July twenty fourth, and the first practice at the Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Mason Athletics Center is July twenty fifth. And now on
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  Speaker 2: with the Monday show.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, I think there was something missing from this headline.
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  Speaker 2: Wild Blitfield.
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  Speaker 4: That was crushed Mitch Garber's fourth home run.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of homers, all the Americans, it's didn't the lead,
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  Speaker 1: it's three to nine things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm across the street from Lumenfield. There are already people
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  Speaker 2: walking down Occidental Avenue outside and we'd love to say
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  Speaker 2: stars and stripes. There's a dude, we're stars and stripes
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  Speaker 2: coulottes and say.
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  Speaker 3: Can I have them? I want them?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you would like that stars on one side
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  Speaker 2: and stripes on the other Yeah, they're already down here
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  Speaker 2: seven hours before kickoff of the United States and Belgium.
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  Speaker 2: This has only happened, the opportunity to even do this
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  Speaker 2: has only happened once in the modern World Cup history.
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  Speaker 2: Only once is the United States gone this far with
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  Speaker 2: a chance to win and go to the quarterfinals, which
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  Speaker 2: they've done only in two thousand and two when they
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  Speaker 2: lost to Germany in the quarterfinals round of eight. That's
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  Speaker 2: what they're playing for today. And I mean, Jess, when
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  Speaker 2: this was setting up the whole time, even back day back,
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  Speaker 2: big deal. It's such a big deal, and it's for sports,
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  Speaker 2: not even for a soccer fan. It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: This was setting up way back. And when we saw
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup schedule come out, we saw and we
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  Speaker 2: were talking on the show that if the United States
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  Speaker 2: wins its group, they were bracketed to play in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and if they could get to the round of sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: if they could win the group, and they won a
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  Speaker 2: group in two matches with a match to spare, and
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  Speaker 2: they took They rested nine of their eleven regulars in
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  Speaker 2: the final match against Turkey a down in Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 2: and that was it. They were done down in Los
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  Speaker 2: Angelescuse me, and they were done, And so we knew
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  Speaker 2: after just two matches that the United States that it
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  Speaker 2: could win the first knockout round would beat back here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle. Of course, international acclaim for the atmosphere June
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  Speaker 2: and nineteenth when the US and Australia played here at Lumenfield,
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  Speaker 2: the march on from Peer fifty eight that Jessmon was
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  Speaker 2: down there for.
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  Speaker 3: It was so cool.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing it again. I love today.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, of course they are, because it's amazing. They should
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  Speaker 5: do it every single time.
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  Speaker 2: Tell everybody what that was like, because this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be like three x that today.
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  Speaker 5: Well it will be, yes, absolutely, But what it was like,
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  Speaker 5: especially because of his Australia, USA and Ozzie's are cool
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  Speaker 5: as heck, and so it was a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: an easier crowd to wow.
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  Speaker 3: And have fun with. But it was great.
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  Speaker 5: People were out so early and every beverage you could
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  Speaker 5: imagine was in their hands, whether it be coffee, whether
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  Speaker 5: it be tea, whether it be some sort of adult beverage.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone was having so much fun and I accidentally got
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  Speaker 5: into the march. I was just trying to capture everything
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  Speaker 5: for our station. You know, like how the salmon swept
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  Speaker 5: upstreams sometimes. Yeah, that's what I was doing and trying
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  Speaker 5: to get out of it. We had our cohorts down
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  Speaker 5: here from our other stations here at iHeart, and I
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  Speaker 5: just was trying so hard to not be swept up
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  Speaker 5: in it because I was capturing it for the station,
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  Speaker 5: doing interviews and everything, and all of a sudden I
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  Speaker 5: was a part of the march and I just said,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 3: What, let the flag fly. I'm in. I'm in, And
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  Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved it so much.
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  Speaker 2: So what's happening today as I understand it. I got
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  Speaker 2: a note last night from the Seattle Organizing Committee for
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup, separate from FIFA, is that at Fear
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight the United States fans and what pre match
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  Speaker 2: party goes on. And I believe Men and Blazers are
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  Speaker 2: doing the show again from the.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, they were phenomenal when they were down there.
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  Speaker 2: I think with marsha On, Yes, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he's coming back for that. I'm sure we'll find out
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  Speaker 2: pretty so you'll hear what he has to say if
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  Speaker 2: he's back there. But yes, they're supposed to do that again.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow and or today excuse me, at Peer fifty eight
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  Speaker 2: around one thirty. I believe the match is the march
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  Speaker 2: to the match begins. Why is that because the gates
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  Speaker 2: opened three hours before kickoff kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: As a three.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the stadium gates open three hours before. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to go down to Peer fifty eight and
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  Speaker 2: see all of that, my assumption is you need to
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  Speaker 2: do that before one thirty today, then the march will
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  Speaker 2: be from a half hour from one to thirty to
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  Speaker 2: two o'clock into the stadium. Now it's simultaneously from that
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  Speaker 2: right across the street from me at Victory Hall in
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  Speaker 2: the hat Bag bar and grill that the Mariner Zone
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  Speaker 2: across the street from their park here along First Avenue South,
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  Speaker 2: the Belgian party will be. That's been the Belgians Red
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  Speaker 2: Devil's Prefunk party since the beginning of the tournament. Member.
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  Speaker 2: This is the third match Belgium is played here at Lumenfield.
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  Speaker 2: They have been headquartered since early June in Renton next
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  Speaker 2: to at the Sounder facility at the old Longacre's Place
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  Speaker 2: down in Reton. So this is a well it's not
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  Speaker 2: a whole match obviously, but it's as home as they
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  Speaker 2: can be away from Belgium today. This will be their
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  Speaker 2: third match, and the all three matches they've had a
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  Speaker 2: pre match party at Victory Hall across the street from
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  Speaker 2: T Mobile Park. They're gonna be doing that the same
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  Speaker 2: time about one thirty, leaving that and going in for
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  Speaker 2: the match. So actually two forty five is what I'm
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  Speaker 2: told that the Belgians will leave Victory Hall. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: then my my son's anecdotal experience from watching there is
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  Speaker 2: that as soon as the pre party leaves is when
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  Speaker 2: the American fans can swoop in and.
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  Speaker 5: Watch the Oh yeah, well we are very crafty, aren't we.
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  Speaker 2: So you may see a lineup if you show up
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  Speaker 2: before two forty five, but then they you should be
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  Speaker 2: able to get after that after the Belgians leave, although
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  Speaker 2: some of them will stick around.
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  Speaker 5: I became friends with every foreign person who has visited
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  Speaker 5: for the World Cup, did you I.
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  Speaker 2: Have, and many of them, and I'm in the press
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  Speaker 2: box and in the tribunal and the mix zone afterwards,
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  Speaker 2: so many of them. Of course journalists, all of them
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  Speaker 2: have told me that this the World Cup Finals should
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  Speaker 2: be here because of the location, on the weather, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that it's not just absolutely blistering hot like it
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  Speaker 2: is in the rest of the North America right now.
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  Speaker 2: And the atmosphere, the stadium in downtown this is a
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  Speaker 2: unique setup for the World Cup. Think about Arlington and
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  Speaker 2: the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Philadelphia is even detached from
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  Speaker 2: down Miami is out in Miami Gardens thirty forty minutes
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  Speaker 2: from downtown Miami. That Houston's is way out by Astroworld
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  Speaker 2: and next the old Astrodome thirty five minutes plus from downtown.
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  Speaker 2: This in Vancouver, which I'll talk about during the show.
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  Speaker 2: I was that on Thursday for Switzerland and Algeria. These
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  Speaker 2: are the only two venues that are in the city
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  Speaker 2: core that you could walk to that the party's bars,
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  Speaker 2: restaurants are all basically attached to in short walking distance
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  Speaker 2: to the stadium and mass transit and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and those I've talked to it and actually say that
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  Speaker 2: is what made that. Of course, the atmosphere and the
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  Speaker 2: crowds have made this the prime premiere place to what
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  Speaker 2: now you could argue with Stadio was Teca I mean,
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  Speaker 2: especially last night was absolutely off the hook. Just the
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  Speaker 2: noise is coming through the televis as such, but even
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  Speaker 2: that venue has been beset by weather delays, thunderstorms. This
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  Speaker 2: has been idyllic, and today is going to be the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be There isn't a cloud in the sky
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  Speaker 2: in the Pacific Northwest right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, it's gonna be something else anyway, at it
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  Speaker 2: four nine, four to five. Well, we'll read back your
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  Speaker 2: text at eleven thirty. The two questions I have right
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  Speaker 2: off the top, are you watching this match today? Are
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  Speaker 2: you just saying, ah, soccer, I'm not even catching I'm
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  Speaker 2: not on board for this. If you are, if you're
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  Speaker 2: inclined to watch it, what you think is it fair
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  Speaker 2: that Flawbalagan is able to play now? And it's somewhat unprecedented,
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  Speaker 2: But then you could argue Christiano Ronaldo was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be suspended for the first couple of matches of the
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  Speaker 2: tournament and he wasn't after a red card and qualifying play.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to talk about that story throughout the show.
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  Speaker 2: But your feelings of is that fair that I know
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  Speaker 2: you're an American if you're listening to the show, most
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  Speaker 2: likely you're an American and you probably all for it,
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  Speaker 2: But is it right? And fair to have a red
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  Speaker 2: card and then rescinded. The suspension rescinded. We're gonna talk
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  Speaker 2: with Brad Adams about that at ten twenty. At eleven
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  Speaker 2: o'clock we're gonna talk to Nico Evans. I'm sorry, I said, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know we are courting the hair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brad Evans former, thank you, Jesse. Brad Evans is
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  Speaker 2: the former sounder in the US national team. Member of course,
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  Speaker 2: now a sounders and World Cup analyst. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be joining us at ten twenty Nico Moreno about the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. At eleven o'clock we'll read back your textan
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  Speaker 2: at the coming to Dodge text line at eleven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Then Ian Farness will be on. He's gonna be right here.
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  Speaker 2: He's been avoiding this mayhem until Yeah, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be right in it. At noon for his show twelve
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  Speaker 2: to three. Dick Fane will be down here from three
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  Speaker 2: until about four thirty, and then the national broadcast from
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  Speaker 2: My Heart of the pregame show will be right here
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  Speaker 2: from Jimmy's at starting at four to thirty with the
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  Speaker 2: match at five. All that's coming up today on up next,
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  Speaker 2: Brad Adam, we'll talk to us about the World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: about this match, what he feels about Flowbell, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a feeling he's in favor of it, but how
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  Speaker 2: he feels about the how the whole process went down.
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  Speaker 2: From Red Card on, Brad Evans joins us. Next, I'm
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  Speaker 2: at Jimmy's on First for our Belgian US pregame on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ RFM. Welcome back, Craig Bell,
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  Speaker 2: Jessmond McIntyre with you live from Jimmy's on First, across
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  Speaker 2: the street from Luminfield, where in six and a half
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  Speaker 2: hours or so, the United States and Belgium we're playing
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  Speaker 2: around of sixteen US trying to advance where they able
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  Speaker 2: only on one other time in modern history, the quarterfinals
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  Speaker 2: of the world's biggest and grandest sporting event. And it's
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  Speaker 2: right here in Seattle at five o'clock today, right here
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  Speaker 2: on ninety three point three KJRFM. Also right here on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM, brad Emans Sounders analyst, former
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  Speaker 2: sounder and US team national team member. I know he's
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  Speaker 2: a busy man on all kinds of shows. He joined
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  Speaker 2: us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Good morning, Sorry, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining us.
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  Speaker 6: How about doing everybody?
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  Speaker 2: We are great, sir, all right, I'm sure you were
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  Speaker 2: asked this morning by check. I'm gonna ask you to
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  Speaker 2: get anyway the whole Balgan red card situation. How you
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  Speaker 2: feel this went down, whether this is a just result,
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  Speaker 2: is it fair in soccer parlance, how this all went down,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact he's going to play tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think if you really break it down, obviously
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  Speaker 7: there's actually been four or five players that have had
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  Speaker 7: their red cards either postponed or served at a later date.
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  Speaker 7: So it's not like this is a one off thing
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  Speaker 7: that's never never happened before, the most recent obviously being
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  Speaker 7: Christian on a Ronaldo before the tournament and then not
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  Speaker 7: serving a band. He got to play in all three
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  Speaker 7: games of this World Cup, So you know, it's not
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  Speaker 7: like it's the first time this has happened in soccer history.
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  Speaker 7: It just happens to be the hyper focused nature of it.
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  Speaker 7: Being the US men's national team the day before, and
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  Speaker 7: obviously with the World's Cup being held here in the
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  Speaker 7: United States, it's gonna get all the attention in the world,
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  Speaker 7: and Ronaldo's did too. It got all the attention in
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  Speaker 7: the world. But after the fact, everyone kind of forgets
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  Speaker 7: about it. I'm still a little bit confused by the rules.
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  Speaker 7: I still have really, you know, I've tried to deep
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  Speaker 7: dive article twenty seven and figure out what actually took place,
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  Speaker 7: what can take place after the fact.
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  Speaker 6: Can US soccer appeal?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, there's been a lot of chirping on the political
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  Speaker 7: side that all came into the picture afterwards. So and
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  Speaker 7: to be honest, FIFA hasn't been very clear about how
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  Speaker 7: this process went down, so that leaves a lot of
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  Speaker 7: questions I think for the common fan and certainly even Belgium,
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  Speaker 7: I don't think they were given a complete explaination either.
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  Speaker 2: According to some reports this morning, Belgium had the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: this morning by five am Pacific time to submit an
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  Speaker 2: appeal to the decision of the Infractions Committee that overturned
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  Speaker 2: the red card suspension for Bligan. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: a bigger picture question, Brad, about VR in soccer and
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  Speaker 2: international soccer? Is it to me feels a little bit
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  Speaker 2: in truth of it. But I'm not a soccer guy.
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  Speaker 2: You are, But it seems to me we've lost the
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  Speaker 2: plot on var and what they're intended for To correct
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  Speaker 2: clear and obvious errors rather than reofficiate plays and stop frame.
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  Speaker 2: And as I understand in the Balligan case, red cards
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  Speaker 2: are not supposed to be reviewed by VR in stop
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  Speaker 2: or slow motion frame, but in normal time is var.
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  Speaker 2: If we lost the plot on var or, how do
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  Speaker 2: you feel VR is now administered in the World Cup. Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I think in most cases VR does get it right.
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  Speaker 7: And for some reason this action took place. I think
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  Speaker 7: if it was given a yellow card on the field
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  Speaker 7: and then they said, hey, you need to review this,
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  Speaker 7: and he says, okay, I saw the foul on the
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  Speaker 7: field that was actually egregious. Here's a red card. I
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  Speaker 7: think everyone would have been okay with that. But the
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  Speaker 7: fact that there was no call on the field, then
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  Speaker 7: it goes to VAR and you're, like you said in
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  Speaker 7: the rules, you're not supposed to stop motion, slow it down.
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  Speaker 6: Everything looks worse in slow motion.
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  Speaker 7: In boxing, someone gets a ko, they slow it down
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  Speaker 7: every time it looks like someone's head is going to
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  Speaker 7: fall off. Well, the same thing happens in soccer too,
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  Speaker 7: so it looks more egregious than it actually is. And
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  Speaker 7: when you break down the play in real time, to me,
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  Speaker 7: it's still not a foul. There was no action from
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  Speaker 7: balligin to injure a player, or look even at the
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  Speaker 7: lower body of the Bosnian defender. Both players are jostling
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  Speaker 7: for the ball. It's an incidental kind of off balance step.
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  Speaker 7: To me, that's not a red card for sure. But
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  Speaker 7: if you slow it down and you only look at
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  Speaker 7: where the foot hits the ankle, the rest of the body,
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  Speaker 7: the rest of the play isn't involved, then certainly. Of course,
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  Speaker 7: if you slow that down and freez fram it, it
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  Speaker 7: looks like a red card challenge.
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  Speaker 6: So a lot of this is up for interpretation with
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  Speaker 6: the referees.
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  Speaker 7: VAR ultimately, I think has done a good job of
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  Speaker 7: you know, whether it's a penalty kick that should have
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  Speaker 7: been called or an egregious foul that should have been reviewed.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it's taken too much away from the game.
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  Speaker 7: But look, I wasn't a player while VR was around,
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  Speaker 7: so I can't speak to what the players are feeling
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: now or for the both sides of it, playing without
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: it and now playing with it. In my day there
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: was there was no VAR, So that's the only thing.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: I really know.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: I only know it from an analyst perspective, where we
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: get a lot of stoppages in play.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: It slows the game down.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: We get a lot of nuance from the referee depending
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: on where they're from, what their background is, how many
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: we have stats on everything, how many yellow cards and
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: red cards or referee gives out per game.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: You never know who you're going to get.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: So yes, if it's advantageous for you, you're excited about it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: If it goes against you, you're like, why is var
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: in the game? I hate it? So it has drawn
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: a lot of attention, but again I only know what
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: it's like to play without it, so for me, of course,
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: as a player, I'd rather be without it.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It's the voice of Brad Evans, sounder, former Sounders now
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: current Sounders analysts, former Sounder player and US national team player,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline about six hours
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: before the United States and Belgium play in the World
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Cup quarterfinals here at Leominfield in Seattle. All Right, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: match today, Brad. This will be the third time I
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: personally watched Belgium because this has been their home away
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: from home in Seattle. They've trained at the Sounders facility
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: down at Long Angors in Renting. I've watched them two
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: other times I thought Senegal ran them off the field
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and I can't believe that. They still can't believe Senegal
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: is not in this match. But Belgium got past Senegal
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: with a late rally. They look slow to me. They're older,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: they're in the mid thirties now, and Luke Kaku's just
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: a brute, but he's not exactly running up and down
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the pitch. They actually took to boint out and people
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: don't realize that one of the stars, a generational star
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: for Belgium, left the match in the fifty ninth minute
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: before they rallied from two nil down to beat Senegal.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: What are you expecting today? What do you expect the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: US and coach Pochattina try to exploit in Belgium today?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't think it's going to be a Belgium
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: team that sits in. Most of the teams the US
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: has faced so far, they've really sat in. I think
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: Belgium's going to try and play their game. They'll play
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: through de Bruyna the best that they can. Yes, like
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: you said, aging legs from de Bruyna, but still, in
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: my opinion, the best passer in this tournament. He'll pick
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: out anyone at any point, and we have trusts Ard
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: and Doku on the wings, they are rapid. You've got
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Trussard who just won an EPL title with Arsenal, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: you've got Doku who last year won with Manchester City.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: So these are top top quality players in the world. Defensively,
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: the US is going to really have to look out.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Are they going to sit with four in the back
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: or are they going to try and go in at
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: three in attack and then drop in with four. That's
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: most likely what will happen. I'm excited for a more
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: open game on the wings and on both sides of
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: the ball. I think it allows Christian Polistic a chance
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: to open his legs up. He is so good taking
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: guys one on one. And yes he's a little bit
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: more inverted. He plays on the left hand side, but
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: he's right footed, so that ability to cut inside and
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: create space, combining with if Bulligan starts tonight, and then
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: of course Ergino Desk on the other side and arguably
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: in my opinion, one of the most technical players on
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: the ball in this in this tournament, Dutch heritage er
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: de Visier, top top player. If he's allowed open space,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: the combinations with Weston McKinney.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: We've seen it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: The US has a great chance, but let's not forget
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: this is a Belgium team that destroyed the US just
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: a month ago, less than a month ago, pretty much,
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: so they're going to have their work cut out for him.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: USA only beat Bosnia. That was their first win in
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: eleven games against a European side.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: So history is not stacked up well.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Against this US men's national team side, especially against a
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Belgium team that's, you know, a top ten team in
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: the world according to FIFA rankings. But like you said,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: they haven't played get this entire tournament. I don't know
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: if it's heat, aging legs, tactics.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: The USA has an opportunity, like Senegal to get on
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: top of them early, but they've had the ability to
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: score late in games. Belgium has and they've showed their
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: class later on in matches, and the US is going
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: to have their work cutout for him tonight.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: The US has not beaten Belgium since nineteen thirty in
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the international soccer.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: Play, almost one hundred years.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: That's also the last time the United States finished highest
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: third in the World Cup. The very first one when
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: they went the third and yeah, it's the modern history
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: again if you missed it earlier, the modern history. This
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: will be a chance to reach the quarterfinals for only
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the second time ever, the other time in two thousand
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and two. Brad Evans joining US on ninety three point
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM, the Sounder former sounder now sounders analysts and
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: World Cup analysts for US, Brad, when you look at
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: what coach Mauricio Postatino has done beside the Argentinian the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: grid and the added dude and we're not backing down
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: from anyone and the comments he makes supporting his guys.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: What has he done tactically to change the US national
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: team and how has that shown up in the World Cup.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Well, tactically, I think he's got the formation correct. I
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: think when you really look at it, it's a four
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: to three three. You've got Tyler Adams with EPL experience.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: He's allowed to just sit in front of the back four,
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: sometimes a back three, and he's allowed McKinney. What I
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: love is just freedom to go anywhere on the pitch.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: He is so athletic. His ability to get in the
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: box late to combine with Sirgenial desk wherever he is
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: on the pitch. I think he's given freedom to guys
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: that in historically have kind of been handcuffed in certain
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: roles and told to play a certain way, especially under
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Greg Berhalter, was very strict in his tactical prowess.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Now, Greg was a good coach.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: He did well in the last World Cup, and he
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: continues to do well coaching the Chicago Fire, turning that
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: team around. But there is a little bit of freedom
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: that's lost with him. It has to be very A
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: to B B to C. Pochettino. You can see they
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: have freedom to mix up their play and where they
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: are on the pitch. Sometimes polistic will pop up on
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: the right, so genial desk will come inside. I like
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: that he's given them the freedom to kind of play
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: to their strengths most importantly, and all of these guys
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: have really taken hold of that, and I think they're
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: really enjoying their time. Look, I had three coaches with
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: the national team, Bob Bradley, Jurgen and Bruce Arena for
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: a short stint at the end, and I had never
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: seen a head coach bring a group in after a game, win, loser,
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: draw and bring.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: The group together and make it feel like it's their team.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Yes, Pochettino's making the decisions on who starts and who
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: comes off the bench, but it really seems like these
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: guys have the keys to the car and they're gonna
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: go as far as they want to in terms of
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: do they have it within this group to take the
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: next step forward to be that group that makes a
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: quarterfinal match and really make a statement because this group
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: at their age, they're pretty much all in their prime
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: and it's time for them to go. The coach is
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: hugging every player after the game, and I've never experienced that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: From a coach.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: I think the guys are really responding to his coaching
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: tactics and everything that he's said in the press is
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: spot on. He's behind his players. I love what he's done.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: I'd love to have him on a sit down conversation
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: for an hour just to talk about his coaching philosophy.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: One of the only older players on the US team
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: tim Ree mccaptain, and he's thirty eight years old. Multiple
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: World Cups with Ben's proger. He told me in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: mix oone, this is the closest team they've had, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he said that before they started winning. Was the US
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Australia match and he said it's the closest they've been
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and he credited Pochattino in his environment, in this culture
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: he's created. This is Brad Evans with It's on ninety
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. The winner of this match today
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Brett As you know, we'll take on the winner of
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the Portugal Spain match. It begins at noon our time.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Is Spain one of the tournament favorite Portugal would still
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: with Ronaldo but at times zero neil nol dras haven't
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: looked themselves either, much like Belgium. What are you expecting
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: in Portugal Spain today?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, look, it's a toss up for me.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: I think both midfields are arguably the best midfields in
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: the tournament, but Portugal hadn't really shown up. Yes, they
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: have one of the arguably the best player to ever play,
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Christiano Ronaldo, but his role has changed for the team
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: and I just saw it in the last game finally
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: him really celebrating with his teammates when they score. That
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: didn't happen in the group stage games. It was kind
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: of all about Ronaldo. Still, something may have switched in
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: his head and that's gonna take that team pretty far.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: If he can just be.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: The focal point, much like Holland was yesterday fifteen touches
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: on the ball against Brazil but scores two goals.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: He can be that guy for Portugal. He just has
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: to be.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Okay with that role and if he doesn't score, then
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: just occupying both center backs so that everyone else can
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: get involved in the game. And on Spain side, you've
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: got le Mignamal at eighteen years old, already sixty plus
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: goal contributions for Barcelona. On the flip side, Messi at
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: eighteen years old had one goal at this point at
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: the same age as Lamal. He could be the next
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: best player in the world ever in twenty years when
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: we're talking about him, if he stays healthy and continues
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: on the path that he's on.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: So that's the most exciting player for Spain.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: And it doesn't matter if he's one v two, one
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: v three, he's going to find and create space. So
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: for Spain it's going to be about playing through the
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: lines quickly. And it's not the Spain of their World
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Clup glory years, you know, a decade ago ish. They
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: play a little bit more direct and They're a little
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: bit underside, but still their ability to play in tight spaces.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Most of those guys play together on a weekly basis
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: with their club teams Barcelona, so they definitely had the
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: upper hand in this game. But again, tomorrow we could
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: be talking about this and Ronaldo has a hat trick
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: and bang, bang bang, they move on in this tournament.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: It's a toss up for me.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: I really don't know who I am. If I had
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: to pick one, I'd probably pick Spain, just top to bottom,
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: more of a team than Portugal, a little bit of
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: an aging side in Portugal and Spain on the up
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: and up again.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: So it's going to be an exciting one.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: But like you said, the US will have to get
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: the job done tonight and then I think go back
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: down to Los Angeles to play either Spain or Portugal.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: That'll be on Friday noon Pacific time, the winner of
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: this US Belgium match against the winner of Portugal in Spain. Brad,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: you've been around soccer all your life. Where did last
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: night Mexico and England in a STECA rank in terms
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of intensity and spectacle and just soccer skill?
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, we called the game in the studios at
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: iHeart there and at halftime I said, this is the
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: best game of the tournament already. It had everything, It
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: had the drama of being in Azteca. I've played in
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: that stadium with the Sounders against Club America, and when
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: you walk in there, you know the greats that have
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: played in there. There's not there's a handful of stadiums
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: in the world where players of yesteryear that lifted a
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: World Cup trophy have played in that stadium and you
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: really feel it. And that's a huge advantage for the
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: home team there, whether it's Club America, whether that plays
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: their club teams there or Mexico obviously, and their record
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: is unbelievable in Azteca. I think only two or three
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: losses in the last I don't know, fifty sixty years
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: or something like that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Ninety matches three losses.
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: Now, which is incredible.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: So that is a fortress.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Eighty thousand Mexican fans and a few thousand English fans
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: that made the trip down there. But Jude Bellingham was
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: world class last night. He put on a masterclass of
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: how a physical number ten, oversized number ten should play
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: the game. He looks like Zaddan when he plays and
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: I hadn't seen it before from him, but last night
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: that was my comment. He's the only player that I've
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: seen since Zidan to look and play like Zidan does,
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: and he showed it last night header and then getting
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: into the box late to finish a Harry Kane cross
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: and then to bust it for forty minutes. It felt
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: like with the eleven minutes of stoppage time to play
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: a man down. The only thing that was their saving
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: grace was it was sixty six degrees and raining, so
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: it was a little bit like home back in England,
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: albeit at you know, seventy three hundred feet elevation.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Brad Evans joining us on ninety three point three KJRFM
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: England and Norway in the round of eight. England wins
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and asks technical way they did him to defend with
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: ten men for the last fifty minutes, how empowered are
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: they and how much can they feel like they win
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the tournament and how much of a favorite are they
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: now to win the whole thing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: I think both teams played pretty similarly in Norway and England.
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: They both took the game to the opposing potential probably favorite.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: I think England technically was favored, but I throw that
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: all out the window. When you're playing that asteca against Mexico.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: Norway was happy to absorb the attack from Brazil and
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: catch them on a counter attack. And if you don't
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: finish your chances in these games like Brazil did, they
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: could have gone up to nothing. Obviously one nothing early
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: on in that one. With a PK, you're going to
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: be under trouble. And when you're playing against Holland, if
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: he gets one chance the balls in the back of
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: the net, it doesn't matter if he's in the box,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: outside of the box, he will find the back.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Of the net. He's probably the best pure striker in
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: the world right now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: And then of course on the flip side, you've got
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: England with that result of the Hoopla right Mexican fans
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: are shooting off fireworks music all night outside of their hotel.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Any competitive advantage and then they come out, play a
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: man down and get the job done three to two.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: So both teams are riding on a high right now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: The Norwegian fans have showed up in this tournament, far
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: out numbering the English fans. Is what it looks like.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: It's going to be a battle. But the one saving
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: grace for Norway is that most of those guys play
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: against the English players in the Premier League. Right there's
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: a lot of players on Norway that don't play in
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: the Premier League and it's a little bit of an
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: unknown when you step on the pitch for those England players,
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: which can give Norway maybe a bit of a mental
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: advantage in this one. That's gonna be That's gonna be
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: an exciting game. Harry Kane's proven again and again his quality,
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: even as he ages, just getting better and better, is
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: just like a fine wine. And with Bellingham and sock
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: up their bench is better than Norway's. That could be
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: the big deciding factor in this match.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, Brad, I'm pinning down on a prediction or how
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: do you think today is gonna go US Belgium? Five
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: o'clock right across the street from me.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I predicted two to one. I think the US
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: will will pull it out. I mean, the crowd here
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: Seattle and the buzzer around the city is going to
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: be top quality. And I just hope that this victory
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: propels US Soccer and really ignites the next generation of
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: of of players on the men's and women's just seeing
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: it in your hometown, in your home country, the ability
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: to get wins. There's been a lot of pressure. I
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: mean every commercial I see, no matter what channel it
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: is on TV, is about this US team. So there's
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: a lot of expectations there, but that should be the
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: correct course right now. With the Sounders, it's always been
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: the expectation to win, and they've proven that they could
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: do that. With the US team, the expectation hasn't always
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: necessarily been to win, but for some reason something has
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: changed in this tournament with this group, based on their
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: first four games that the expectation is that this team
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: makes a deep run in this tournament. A lot of
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: resources have been put behind this team. I mean I
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: hosted a US Soccer kind of get together last night
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: at Victory Hall, and I was like, who's not from Seattle?
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: And more than half the crowd there was not from Seattle.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: A lot of people spending their hard earned money to
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: come to this tournament to root these guys on, expecting
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: to see a victory.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Brad, I appreciate you, man. I know you've been busy
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: on the air on our shows and then on our
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: shows again this morning, and on our game covers, match covers.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, Brad Evans, enjoyed the day and with
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the finest, biggest sports day in Seattle history. Appreciate it
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: all right, Thank you Brad Evans, former sounder, sounder analyst,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: former US national team member, Phoenix native. Big day for
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: him and anyone who's been associated with US men's soccer.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: He mentioned Victory Hall right across the street for me
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  Speaker 2: over my left shoulder here.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It is. There's a lineup Jessman already along First Avenue
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  Speaker 2: South to get into.
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  Speaker 8: Victory all right, seattle' get it so if you planning
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: on going to that, it's the Belgium watch party or
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: pre match party too, but it looks like people are
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: lining up to watch Portugal and Spain.
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  Speaker 2: It starts at noon, about an hour and twenty minutes
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: from now. If you messed, I could talk with Brad Evans.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: You can get it on the iHeartRadio app downloaded for
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• 33:52
  Speaker 2: it up on the show on the podcast.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: We will and don't forget to send in your talkbacks.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: We always know that I love those.
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  Speaker 2: Esmond appreciates the talkbacks on the iHeartRadio app. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little red microphone at the bottom of the nine three
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  Speaker 2: three KJR page. We'll play those back along with your
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: text at eleven thirty up next, the Mariners made two
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: promotions inside their system that got a lot of attention.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Why a major league pitcher who got pulled while he
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: had a perfect game through seven innings yesterday. I'll tell
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you a little bit about what I saw in Vancouver
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: when I was up there Thursday night. See what how
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: they do the World Cup compared to Seattle. And eleven
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: o'clock Nico Moreno join us to talk more about the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: World Cup, including England Mexican at Mexico last night, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: he'll be with me at US Belgium today. All that's
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: coming up from Jimmy's on First across the street from
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  Speaker 2: Luomenfield on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back, Craig
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Bell from Jimmy's on First across the street from wil
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Jess I knocking tire back in the Elliott Bay Studios
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  Speaker 2: on ninety three point three kJ R FM. That weather guy,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Where's he from?
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  Speaker 8: Brian McMillan's sweltering eighty one.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: It's like two hundred degrees on the East coast of
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: ninety percent ubdity right now.
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  Speaker 3: I will say talking to my family was quite interesting.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Because man, buy our our families in Ohio and Michigan
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: are just under it right now.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Oh they're just bacon.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Oh it's and it's so damn human. The rest of
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the place. We don't have humidity here.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: No, I got bid on the face by a mosquito
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  Speaker 3: this weekend and it felt magical.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: So yeah, eighty one and sweltering makes me laugh. But
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be perfect today. No clouds in the sky
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: across the Pacific northwest for this US and Belgium at
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: five o'clock Atloomenfield right across the street from where I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: sitting right now. You heard Brad Evans in the last segment.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: We talked to a link with him and he mentioned
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: how history is not on the US's side today. Boise
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: right about that the US hasn't beaten Belgium since nineteen thirty.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: That's that ninety six years ago. We already talked about
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: how they're trying to reach the quarterfinals for just a
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: second time in modern history. Two thousand and two, being
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the other time. The United States has won just one time,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and it's last fourteen matches against an European opponent, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: that was last week when they beat Bosnia and Herszey
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Golovina to get to this point today. So not only
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: is it for a chance in the round to eight,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: but there's all this history this against the United States
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: doing this because we just don't get this. Yeah, we
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: get to the World Cup j justment and then one
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: or two weeks in oka group stage is over and
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: everyone else gets to play, and then we just watch
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: everybody else from Europe South America get to play and
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the US is out of it. That's what makes us
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: such a big deal. Today. They might be one hundred
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and fifty two hundred million people worldwide watching this. And
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's not even hyperperlely at all to say
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: this is the biggest sports day in Seattle history. You
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: can only probably compare it to the NBA Finals being
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: here with Michael Jordan's Bulls coming in in the mid nineties,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: or some NFC title games. I've attended all for the
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: NFC title games here in Seattle, and at a global scale,
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  Speaker 2: it's not as big as this.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's huge.
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  Speaker 5: And what I have loved every second of it is
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  Speaker 5: just the way that people have turned out and actually
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: like loved it and embraced the game and embrace each other.
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  Speaker 5: It's just been really, really lovely here in Seattle.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: It has everyone just being everybody. I'm okay, you're okay.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Jerseys from all over the world. Yes, Katari's in there,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: wearing their native clothing and running Americans here. It's been
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: a celebration of sport and cultures and nationalities and all
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: of that that make the World Cup so unique.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I was at the Mariners this weekend too.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: I was at a couple of those games. And everyone
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: who's visiting to witness the World Cup games is also
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: double dipping, which you should highly recommend.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really good thing.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: And yeah, just enjoying the city and embracing everything about
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: the cultures of each other.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I think it's been really cool.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Five o'clock today, the United States and Belgium live here
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: on ninety three point three KJR from the pregame show
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  Speaker 2: will be here from Jimmy's on first and National iHeart
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Radio pregame show right here from Jimmy's at first, starting
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: at four thirty. Infinnessa's right next to me. He's made
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: his way in from outskirts of Seattle to get here
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  Speaker 2: in time.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Get that man of Bloody Mary.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. He'll be hosting the show from twelve until
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: three here Portugal and Spain at twelve. That winner that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: will play the US. Belgium win on Friday in the
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: round of eight in Los Angeles. Jess when mentioned the Mariners,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: they just finished a five to one home stand and
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: put him in a game and a half up in
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: the American League West. And they made two moves in
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: their minor leagues yesterday that got some notice. Cazara Montes,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the right field of the big hulking right fielder and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: short stop Michael o'royo promoted the Triple A to Coma.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Montes is the number three overall prospect in Arroyos the fourth.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: And now they're going to be playing at Cheney Stadium
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: for the Rainiers, and we'll see people are asking when
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Montes is coming up, in particular for power hitting and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: aid in the offense. But now he's one step away
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: at Triple A to Coma along with Michael Arroyo. Also
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: in baseball. Yesterday, the Marlins had started Uri Perez had
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a perfect game on the A's in Sacramento. Through seven innings,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: he had ninety two pitches, and they took him out.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: He sat in the dugout and watched the reliever. The
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: first dude that came in for him came in and
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: walked the guy perfect game over one batter after Perez left.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it could have been a compilation of perfect.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, but what it was and you said, now
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: you think, oh, here we go ninety two pitches. The
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: arm was gonna fall off after ninety three. They had
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: to take them out and ruining baseball.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Does that sound familiar?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there was some extenuating circumstances. Yesterday. This was
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: the third start for Perez since he returned from the
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: injured list, so that Marlins had made up their mind
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: long before that that he wasn't gonna pitch deep, deep
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: into the game beyond well obviously ninety some pitches. So
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: there is some mitigating factor there that explains that. Although
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: we've talked about on the show, the trend, of course
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: is you're not pitching one hundred pitches of your arm's
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: gonna fall off. That's how baseball people think. Now, the
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Mariners are heading to Miami to play the Marlins, but
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: they won't be playing you're a Perez. Of course, he
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: just pitched yesterday, so they'll miss him in the three
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: game series that begins tomorrow night, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Mariners are in Miami. That's the longest flight you can make,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I think, in the Cutdom the United States.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I have done such flights, and I've.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Done it many times since. It's not fun, especially coming
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: back the other way into the headwinds. It takes like
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: seven hours.
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  Speaker 5: It's yeah, that's when you do a red eye and
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: you just hope to sleep exactly.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: They are lining up along First Avenue South, across the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: street from me. I'm a Jimmy's on First and across
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: the street at Victory Hall to watch parties for Spain
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Portugal in US Belgium. There's already a line all the
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: way down the street and we are still it's amazing
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  Speaker 2: hours until the match begins.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. It's just so great.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: So witness some stars and stripes walking all up and
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: down Occidental Avenue and yeah, it's already there are already
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: people here at ten to fifty five am a lot
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: of them for a five o'clock match to US and Belgium.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Up next, someone else to talk about it is gonna
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: be sitting next to me in the press box day
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno. He's a MLS spianol Fox thirteen Sports Seattle
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: sounder at heart. He joins us next to talk about
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: the World Cup and and for so join me at
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: eleven forty five after we do your text and talked
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: about because at eleven thirty all that's coming up on
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rents Sports Test your ninety three
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Happy Monday. I'm right across the street from
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Lumen Fair where the United States and Belgium will play
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: at five o'clock. Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrewed
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Corslight Choose Chill. FIFA has apparently heard the appeals of
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Belgium about the United States. Is star player Falgun flow
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Balligan being able to play It's played a red card.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you mean the guy that should be playing anyway,
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: the guy.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Probably shouldn't have a red card. And now they've flubbed up.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: The process to get rid of the red card exactly.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: So Belgium says they're going to leave all options open
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: for after the match. Apparently, so Baligan's gonna play, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Princidon Trump's talking about it and he's involved with the
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: president of FIFA and another ed states. Yeah, another reason
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: for the world to hate the US. Perhaps there's a
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: little more of an edge to this match on at
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: five o'clock today here in Seattle than there has been
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: in most World Cup matches. Spain and Portugal are playing
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: the other World Cup match today. It begins at noon,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: I believe that's in Dallas. The winner of that match
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: will played the winner of the US Belgium match. It'll
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: be Friday in the round of eight in Los Angeles.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: The United States has only advanced to the Round of
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: a one time in its modern history. That was twenty
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: four years ago. The Mariners finished a five and one
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: home stand yesterday by beating Toronto four nothing thanks to
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock's seven scoreless innings, tied for his longest outing
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: of his career. He had only allowed two hits over
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: those seven ings. All you needed was a Mitch Garber
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: home run to run. Homer made it three to nothing.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Midway through the game, GameSpy Andresmunio was finished it up.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Mariners are not playing to Florida Trekking to Miami begin
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: a three game series of margainst the Marlins. Mariners are
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: three games over five hundred game and a half up
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: in the American League West. Yesterday, at the World Cup
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: England and Mexico Absolute Banger in Azteca in England wins
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: three to two, defending the last fifteen minutes with only
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: ten men, and also Norway eliminated Brazil. Two more goals
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: for Earling, Holland, Helonel Messi, Killian and Bape all have
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: seven goals to lead the race for the World Cup
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Golden Boot as its top scorer in Brazil. Star neymar
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: announced after yesterday's match that he's retiring. The Seahawks rookies
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: are due to report in training camp in eleven days
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: July seventeen. Veterans report July twenty four, first practice of
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the Virginia Mason Athletics Center in July twenty fifth. Ninety
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM will be there live all shows
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: all days of Seahawks training camp beginning July twenty fifth.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Someone who sometimes makes it out to Seahawks, but primarily
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: is focused on soccer, which means he is absolutely focused
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: on this World Cup. Is Nico Moreno Sounderheart MLS Espanol,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Fox thirteen Seattle Television World Cup Analyst. He joins us
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: on the Beacon Plumbing hotline because he couldn't make it
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: downtown to Seattle yet because it's filling up fast. Nico
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: joined us in the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Hello, sur good morning.
• 45:15
  Speaker 9: We're having me on And yes, I am just finalizing
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: a couple of things because I don't want to have
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: to go and come back. Otherwise I would have been
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: there without a doubt. But once I'm ready to go,
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: I'm excited to see what the city's looking like and
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: hopefully I don't hit too much traffic.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Already a lineup outside Victory Hall of US and Belgian fans,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: but waiting to get into that place. There's already people
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: walking up and down Occidental Avenue outside Occidental Beer Hall
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: for that place. I'm surprised, frankly how many people are already
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: here six hours before the match. And okay, Nico, were
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: you on the couch last night? Your wife's Mexican side
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: losing in Asteca for only the third time and ninety
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: matches as a national team. That was just a banger
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: of a game. Is how'd you feel? What were your
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: impressions of Mexico in England last night day? I was
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal game.
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: I was impressed by how Mexico dominated the tempo of
• 46:13
  Speaker 9: that game, the way that they were able to pin
• 46:16
  Speaker 9: back England for as long as they did. And I
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: was just as surprised or amazed at how two or
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: three minutes of that game and just kind of on
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: the defensive end for Mexico just kind of shutting off
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: cost them the game. I mean, it was just two
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: quick goals that really play Mexico in a bad position
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: where you cannot allow Jade Bellingham, the best player on
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: that team, to just walk into the eighteen and have
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: a couple of tappens, right. I mean, it's literally in
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: two minutes that this game gets decided. Mexico has to
• 46:56
  Speaker 9: swim against the current and try to get back into
• 46:59
  Speaker 9: this game, and to their credit, they did. They had
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: an excellent timely goal right before the half that, if
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: you know soccer, a goal right before they have is
• 47:07
  Speaker 9: always a gut. Prince to the opposition Juliankiez, who is
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: without a doubt the most dangerous player for Mexico. He is,
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: without a doubt their breakout player of this World Cup.
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: He gets the goal that gave the team chance as
• 47:24
  Speaker 9: an opportunity. But England, you got to give them credit.
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: Even with ten men after Kwansa was sent off in
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: the fifty fourth minute, they're able to pack it in park,
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: the bus absorb pressure and they're able to hold on
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: to a three to two win at the end. So
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: difficult to see Mexico go out because as a fan base,
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: they've been electric. I mean, the atmosphere was phenomenal. As Tristeca,
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: I thought that they played very good soccer, but unfortunately
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: they just didn't have enough. And I hate to put
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: it on the coach and I won't take too long
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: on this regard, but after Javier Aguire did not put
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: his best players to try to tie that game at
• 48:07
  Speaker 9: the end of the game, he ends up taking hold off.
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: It starts to just kind of add more attackers without
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: any players that can provide effective services in or create chances,
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: and really just balances the team and really did a
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: disservice to all the effort they put in throughout the
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: ninety minutes.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: He stepped down abvier Gar did after the match has
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: already been playing and Ralpha Marquez, the former Mexican national player,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: is now the coach of the Mexican national team effective
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: last night. After that match, Where does England Nico? Where
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: does England fit in now? Because they have to be
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: empowered thinking they can win the whole damn thing after
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: winning as Teca with only three times as ever happened
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: in ninety matches against the Mexican national team. They got
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: still France, of course over that side of the bragget
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Argentina at all, Spain Portugal winner. But England with Kine
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: and m and I mean they're legit favored to win
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the tournament now, No.
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Look I like Norway.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: I think that they have a game breaker, a game
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: winner and X factor in Holland. I feel like they
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: are a team that has endured some difficult games as well.
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: But I don't think they're as a balanced or deep
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: as this England team is. And I think that's where
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: it really all falls apart. I think that England, with
• 49:32
  Speaker 9: the type of performance they put out yesterday, sometimes you
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: got to do it. You got to be able to
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: win the dramatic moments. I've said this in your show before.
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: You got to be able to endure those difficult games
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: in order to really make a run in a World Cup.
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: And I thought they did that in Mexico with the elevation,
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: with a hostile crowd, with one guy less on the field,
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: and you were able to push through. So yes, I
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: would absolutely think that moving forward. This England team with
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: the op Barol talent, individual talent in Harry Kane, in Soka,
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: in Rise, I mean, they really have a very good team,
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: that's deep. I think Gordon has been phenomenal to now.
• 50:12
  Speaker 9: He was a problem yesterday. I mean they could not
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: hold Gordon on that left flank. I mean he was
• 50:20
  Speaker 9: just running loose and they were unable to really hold
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: him down. The new Barcelona acquisition. So yeah, this team
• 50:25
  Speaker 9: definitely has the talent level and they have the mental
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: component to be far in this tournament.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: England is on the side of the bracket where Switzerland
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Colombia meeting around of sixteen tomorrow in Vancouver. Argentina and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Egypt play tomorrow. Argentina winner probably Argentina comes out of
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: that group, although Colombia is a really dangerous squad, so
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: they're on England's on the Argentina side of the bracket
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: of the United States is on the side of the
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: bracket with Portugal Spain. They'll play the winner. The winner
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: of the US Belgium will play Portugal Spain in Los
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Angeles in the round of eight on Friday. In France,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: of course, is already on that side of the bracket.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: They played Morocco Thursday in a round of eight. The
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  Speaker 2: first round of eight match Thursday, one o'clock our time.
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  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno joining US from sounder at hard MLS Espianol,
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  Speaker 2: Fox thirteen Sports Television World Cup analysts Okay, match at
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  Speaker 2: hand to day five o'clock here in Seattle, Belgium. Not really,
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  Speaker 2: it's belgiumself. The entire tournament needed a miraculous escape from
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  Speaker 2: down two nil in the last ten to fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 2: of that match against Senegal when they got out just
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  Speaker 2: outrun for most of that match, yet they still had
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  Speaker 2: to bring it. They still have a Ukaku, they've got Doku.
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  Speaker 2: They they've got people that make this a problematic matchup
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  Speaker 2: to say the least. If they play to their capabilities.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think the US has to do today
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  Speaker 2: to beat Belgium Nico.
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  Speaker 9: This team needs to start off the game with high
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  Speaker 9: intensity and not just getting an early goal, but dominating posession.
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  Speaker 9: I've seen a Belgian team throughout the group stage that
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  Speaker 9: half not being able to really control tempo. It seems
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  Speaker 9: like they want to, but they're unable to do so.
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  Speaker 9: Throughout various games. You've seen this team struggle without the ball,
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  Speaker 9: struggle to defend, and so I think that from the
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  Speaker 9: very beginning, this US's national team needs to control the ball,
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  Speaker 9: take it away, protect yourself with it, switch the point
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  Speaker 9: of attack consistently, really get them to defend, because that's
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  Speaker 9: not what they want to do. Jeremy Joku does not
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  Speaker 9: want to be pinned back trying to make sure that
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  Speaker 9: their genio desk is not getting behind him. He does
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  Speaker 9: not want to be covering space whenever McKenny impacts those
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  Speaker 9: half spaces in between the lions. Right, So I think
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  Speaker 9: that from the very beginning, Marisa Puchettino and this team
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  Speaker 9: need to go out like I don't know a rocket,
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  Speaker 9: right from the very beginning, and with all of this
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  Speaker 9: controversy that I don't know how much we'll get into.
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  Speaker 9: I am worried about one thing. I am very concerned,
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  Speaker 9: and maybe I'm getting ahead of this, but I was
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  Speaker 9: just gonna go ahead and say it. The one thing
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  Speaker 9: that I saw from this Belgium team that wasn't quite
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  Speaker 9: clicking is that they weren't looking like a cohesive unit.
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  Speaker 9: They weren't really a unified team we saw in Senegal.
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  Speaker 9: They didn't just suffer to the game, but they were
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  Speaker 9: at each other's throat. I've mentioned this before where Romelo
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  Speaker 9: Locaku has to stop a fight between Trossard and Tillman's
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  Speaker 9: in the hydration break of the second half.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to.
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  Speaker 9: Get everybody together. Rudy Garcia ends up taking out Jeremy
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  Speaker 9: Doku and the Bruner, who both come off extremely upset.
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  Speaker 9: He seemed like they were really quite gealous. And now
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: with all this controversy, I am a little bit afraid
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  Speaker 9: that they have some of that bulletin board material to
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  Speaker 9: get the team just playing together and unified and cemented,
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  Speaker 9: and that could be a bigger problem than maybe most
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  Speaker 9: are thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Of Nico Morena joining us here on ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three KJRFM about six hours less six hours until the
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  Speaker 2: United States and Belgium play in the World Cup four
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  Speaker 2: chance in the quarterfinals. All right, let's get to Balligan
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. I mean, we can go back to
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  Speaker 2: the red card itself. You know, soccer is so much
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  Speaker 2: better than I the process for overturning this and suspending
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: this suspension as it were, how's this look for? FIFA
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: has its own issues of corruption and well documented history,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. As a soccer guy, how does this
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: whole thing sit with you? In the fact that Belligan
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  Speaker 2: is going to be on the pitch here in six hours.
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  Speaker 9: So it is extremely complicated. I mean, I myself find
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  Speaker 9: a lot of indecision in what I want to think
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  Speaker 9: about this, right because I am of two thoughts. Right
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  Speaker 9: on one side, I totally feel like there is some
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  Speaker 9: sort of sports justice that Bolligan will be able to
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  Speaker 9: play this game, because I thought that var was used
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  Speaker 9: inadequately and not to the regulation by using those still
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  Speaker 9: frames to give Bollagan that red card. However, the way
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  Speaker 9: that this is kind of coming together reminds me a
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  Speaker 9: lot of and your family is going to kind of
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  Speaker 9: maybe see what I'm talking about here, because it felt
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  Speaker 9: all like the talk rule where nobody really knew that
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  Speaker 9: that was the rule, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 9: it decides a game and now it becomes a thing.
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  Speaker 9: This article twenty seven is being invoked to suspend the suspension,
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  Speaker 9: to stop the suspension or the disciplinary measure that was
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  Speaker 9: given to Bolligan is what it has everybody kind of
• 55:47
  Speaker 9: running for the hills that there isn't any clarity from FIFA.
• 55:50
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of individuals, both in the soccer world
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: and in the political spectrum that are trying to take
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  Speaker 9: credit for this, or they're saying that they calls. There's
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  Speaker 9: so many layers of this thing that the reality at
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  Speaker 9: the end of the day is that the optics are
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  Speaker 9: bad because it does feel like the host team is
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  Speaker 9: getting some sort of advantage to get a player that
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  Speaker 9: she's been suspended in this game. However, I want to
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  Speaker 9: clarify this is not the team's fault. Anyone who is
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: implying that Mariso Buchettino should sit balligin for this game,
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  Speaker 9: even though is going to be allowed or he's going
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  Speaker 9: to be available, it's crazy. I mean, look, the guys
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  Speaker 9: are there to win, to do a job, to create
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  Speaker 9: an objective and get to the final or win a title,
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  Speaker 9: and if completely out of their control, FIFA has decided
• 56:45
  Speaker 9: that Color and Boligan is going to be able to
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  Speaker 9: play this game, then you got to play them. You
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  Speaker 9: cannot just sit them. So the guys it's out of
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  Speaker 9: their control. All they have to do is go and
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  Speaker 9: play this game with whatever tools they have, and if
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  Speaker 9: that's one of them, then that. But unfortunately, the narrative
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  Speaker 9: at one point or another, if this USA team wins tonight,
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  Speaker 9: I think they will, there's gonna be some sort of narrative,
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  Speaker 9: an asterisch if you will, about the rules being bent
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  Speaker 9: for this uster's national team. And I feel like it's
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  Speaker 9: unfair to a group that has earned every single match,
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  Speaker 9: in every single minute that they've been on this tournament.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ultimate that he's playing, however, and it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like two wrongs made it right here, that it was
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  Speaker 2: wrong that there was a red card to begin with,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: and there was wrong how the process was to put
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  Speaker 2: him back in. But so is that the takeaway the
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  Speaker 2: two wrongs made it right and two wrongs shouldn't make
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  Speaker 2: it right here? Or is the fact in your mind
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  Speaker 2: he should have never been red card? First, and explain
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: what you mean about var was misapplied here with the
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  Speaker 2: stop frame in the slowdown.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so I stand firmly that volume should have never
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  Speaker 9: been given a red card using the slowdown of dar
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  Speaker 9: and the still pictures without the benefit of the context
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  Speaker 9: of the play and the leverage of his body and
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  Speaker 9: the fact that he was playing space and not the defender.
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  Speaker 9: FIFA to their I don't know if credit has been
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  Speaker 9: very vague with some of the wording, and so intent
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  Speaker 9: kind of gets taken out of the situation, which to
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  Speaker 9: me is ludicrous because if I'm fighting for space to
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  Speaker 9: get the ball and I don't see where your foots at,
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  Speaker 9: I should not be penalized for that, and he shouldn't
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: be taken as reckless because if you use a still
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  Speaker 9: frame of the impact and the severity of that injury,
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: sure you can make a case, but you have to
• 58:54
  Speaker 9: allow context and the regular speed of that play to
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  Speaker 9: determine whether it was malicious or reckless or not. And
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  Speaker 9: that's where I feel like it was misinterpret So now
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  Speaker 9: do two wrongs make it right?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 9: Fortunately, yeah, because of the way FIFA is kind of
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: putting it out, because this article twenty seven does give
• 59:17
  Speaker 9: FIFA or this judicial body the benefit to decide whether
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  Speaker 9: or not he should be suspended. And let me clarify
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  Speaker 9: I one thing. The red cards not being taken away.
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  Speaker 9: He's being put into a probational period where he's gonna
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: be able to continue to play, and if he gets
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  Speaker 9: another red card, then he would essentially serve both of
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: those red cards or that could be suspended for a
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  Speaker 9: longer period of time. So he kind of goes into
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  Speaker 9: this probational period as he plays for the US seven.
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  Speaker 9: So it's so complicated and complex that it would have
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  Speaker 9: been not just nice but almost important for FIFA to
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  Speaker 9: come out with the statement of their own But he's
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  Speaker 9: I don't think we're not going to get it.
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  Speaker 2: No, not. At this point, they actually said that Belgium's
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  Speaker 2: attempt to appeal or ask for an explanation this morning
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  Speaker 2: was quote inadmissible and have cleared Balgan to play. That
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  Speaker 2: it was as of this morning from FIFA. Nigo Moreno,
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  Speaker 2: the winner of this match, of course, you know, plays
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  Speaker 2: the winner of Portugal in Spain. That match begins in
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  Speaker 2: the round of sixteen at noon before the US match
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  Speaker 2: at five o'clock in Belgium across the street from me
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  Speaker 2: at Woomenfield. How do. Portugal looked like itself for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in the tournament the last match, and we
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  Speaker 2: had Brad Evans on talking about how if Ronaldo can
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  Speaker 2: assert himself and be the force that he has always
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  Speaker 2: been but is obviously in the fading moments of his career,
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  Speaker 2: that he sees Portugal with a real shot today that
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  Speaker 2: this isn't the same Spain team. How do you view
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  Speaker 2: that match?
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  Speaker 9: Definitely have a shot. But if this Spain hasn't been brilliant,
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  Speaker 9: neither has Portugal. I mean, I still think that Croatia,
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  Speaker 9: if they're not get maybe they didn't get robbed, but
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  Speaker 9: they deserve more out of that last final minute of
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  Speaker 9: that game where unfortunately the equalizer gets this allowed, but
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  Speaker 9: they really put Portugal into a bind in the end
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  Speaker 9: of that game. And look, this is the Croatia team
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  Speaker 9: that is very aged, if you will, They are extremely veteran,
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  Speaker 9: not the Croatia of old. Essentially this is the end
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  Speaker 9: of a generation and they were able to go toe
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  Speaker 9: to toe with this Portugal team that I continue to
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  Speaker 9: think that, yes, they're one of the best midfielding groups
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  Speaker 9: when it comes to the attacking components, but defensively they have.
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  Speaker 2: Now looked good.
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  Speaker 9: So Spain on their end, they also are coming from
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  Speaker 9: a game where they were able to get some goals
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  Speaker 9: on board. They were able to really get Lemol Jamal
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  Speaker 9: go in. I think not to the same effect, but
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  Speaker 9: I think that poor Road the right back is starting
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  Speaker 9: to attack the the system that Spain wants to play
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  Speaker 9: a little bit better, and that's given them some of
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: those overloads that they need in order to get that
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 9: team going offensively. So although I agree with Brad that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 9: Portugal has a chance to anybody to beat Spain, I
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 9: still think that the talent level and the depth of
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  Speaker 9: this Spain team with Padri, with pen with Rodri is
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  Speaker 9: going to surpass what I've seen from Portugal. Alternament long.
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  Speaker 2: Portugal Spain Noon today, US Belgium five o'clock at Lumenfields today,
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  Speaker 2: the last of six matches of the World Cup here
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle. The winners of those two matches will play
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  Speaker 2: Friday in Los Angeles in the round of eight, the quarterfinals,
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  Speaker 2: where the US has only been one time in modern
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  Speaker 2: New World Cup history. Nico Moreno, I know you got
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  Speaker 2: to get into Seattle. It's already filling up down here.
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  Speaker 2: Get in here. But I'll see you this afternoon at
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: the match.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, sir, thank you, and I'll see you at
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  Speaker 9: the stadium. Let's go us say, I will say, I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: am excited to see how electric the Adam Ifrew's going
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  Speaker 9: to be today and Shadow is gonna win again, baby Shadow.
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  Speaker 9: You guys are the best when it comes to making
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  Speaker 9: just the right environment.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go. Thank you, Nico, enjoy the match, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll be with him in the press box, Nico Moreno. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is it's already full filling up here in ox
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  Speaker 2: On Occidental on First Avenue South or Belgium. Fans going
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  Speaker 2: across the street for their own pre match party. Peer
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight has the United States pre match party and
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna march onto the stadium from there.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun march. I would recommend being down there now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, going down there now, and probably like one thirty
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  Speaker 2: two o'clock to thirty, maybe they'll start heading into the match.
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  Speaker 2: The gates open, by the way, three hout. If you're
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  Speaker 2: fortunate enough to have a ticket to this match, the
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: gates open three hours before the match. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if i'd recommend getting in that early with the ticket
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  Speaker 2: or the concession prices, You're better off staying outside. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest global.
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  Speaker 3: Go hang out with Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that.
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  Speaker 3: Go to Jimmys guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be here for a while and then before
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  Speaker 2: heading into the stadium. Up next to your chance to
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  Speaker 3: Yes? He should. Sorry, I that was my talkback.
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  Speaker 10: Greg Jessaman, what's up. This is your friend Greg and
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  Speaker 10: Huntington Beach. Not presently in Huntington Beach. I flew up
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  Speaker 10: last night. There's no way I'm gonna let this thing
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  Speaker 10: go down to my hometown and miss it. I am
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  Speaker 10: here in Seattle. It's gorgeous. Last minute tickets to the game.
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  Speaker 10: Don't ask me how much I spent, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 10: be worth it, gonna be marching. Maybe come say hi
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  Speaker 10: at Jimmy's. But this is an incredible event. Great job
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  Speaker 10: hosting it. Go USA.
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  Speaker 2: Aout. Yeah, he's been a bug time listener of the show.
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  Speaker 2: My brother was in Huntington Beach, so that's how we
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: bonded over that. He's lived to Huntings Beach for forty years.
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  Speaker 2: My brother. He mentioned how much he paid. I just
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: checked on the eighth second sight. It's fifteen fifty, which
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  Speaker 2: is actually less than the US in Australian match that
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  Speaker 2: was here in the Yeah, it was it was like
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  Speaker 2: over two thousand right the game started and it's being
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  Speaker 2: about two thousand. I have noticed this because I've been
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  Speaker 2: trying to get my son into some of them. He
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: went to the Round Egypt match. But the closer you wait,
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  Speaker 2: in general, the tickets go up because sites start taking
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  Speaker 2: them down, and then the demand goes up because there's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: fewer tickets available. So if you're thinking wait and wait
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  Speaker 2: and wait till right before the match, so far anecdotally
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't work. The prices just go up. So right
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  Speaker 2: now fifteen hundred to seventeen hundred, I see seventeen hundred
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  Speaker 2: and three hundred level I see nineteen hundred in the
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  Speaker 2: world bram Zone. If it was a Sounders game in
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: the south end zone, lower bowl, but not as much.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a relative term.
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  Speaker 5: I mean everything's relative when it comes to ticket prices.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it is. Four nine four five one is that
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  Speaker 2: the Komadad's text sign. We read back your text every
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  Speaker 2: day at eleven thirty. And there's a bunch on there
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  Speaker 2: for about this World Cup in particular. Forty five on
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  Speaker 2: all caps.
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  Speaker 3: Let him play, yes Balagan.
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  Speaker 2: Balagan yes? Four five says yes, Baligan should play. Should
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  Speaker 2: not have been a red card yellow at best, it
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have known corrupt raff trying to ruin the US.
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  Speaker 2: That's my buddy. We co st guard O day listener.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, sir. He should have never have two o six.
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  Speaker 2: You should he'd be allowed to play, never got should
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  Speaker 2: never gotten a red card in the first place. Agreed,
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  Speaker 2: two six.
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  Speaker 3: Guess what they still won.
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  Speaker 2: With ten Man the second goal with Tillman too. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: went over Bosnia Herscovina that got the US into the
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  Speaker 2: match today. Two o six says this guy knows his soccer,
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  Speaker 2: meaning Nico. Great guests, Yeah, appreciate that. Nico was really
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  Speaker 2: good explaining the ballot. He's amazing and how complicated it. Yeah,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: he's his wife is a native Mexican who is not
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: a very happy campers of last night, and he's he's
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: talked in the past how he gets to the doghouse
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: from Mexico loses. He might have been on the couch west.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hopefully you got a good night's sleep there.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're prepared, you got the right pillows
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  Speaker 3: and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus our good friend. And two of six is I'm
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: not heading down to one o'clock and I'm getting worried. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's filling up. They haven't closed the roads yet. They're
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: closing them at one o'clock around the stadium. First Avenue
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  Speaker 2: South will close at Edgar Martinez Drive, which is right
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  Speaker 2: where the home plate entrance to T Mobile Park is.
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  Speaker 2: That's as far north as you can go on First
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  Speaker 2: Avenue after one o'clock. But as of now, Floral Brom
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  Speaker 2: First Avenue South, I'll still open until one o'clock. There's
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  Speaker 2: already a line outside Victory Hall. The Belgian watch party
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  Speaker 2: is going to have commenced and they'll watch the Portugal
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  Speaker 2: Spain match there.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a really fun time down there.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It already is very festive here. I'm surprised
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: actually how many people are here? Two five three says
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  Speaker 2: quote huge day and capped huge day for the United States,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: making history in the world's largest organized, single sporting event
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: my generation will ever see on American soil. Spoil. When
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: you hear our president speak with FIFA at the last
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: match regarding the red card, I'm out, excuse me if
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  Speaker 2: any and y'all think this is a win. It isn't
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: tarnished and stolen. I do the sporting of it, being
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: as close to the event and actually interviewing the players
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: and coaches, they will not see this as taint. And
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: this is the world's biggest sporting event. If they win
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: and get to the quarterfinals, nobody's going to be saying
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: how there was possible political influence, nothing, none of that.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's just a headline. It's just a headline. I
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: mean everyone was calling everyone about that call.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and at the time I talked about how that
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: should not have been a red card.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't have and V agree. I think everyone agrees
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Well, there were some that said, look at his ankles,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: but Ben sideways, but.
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  Speaker 3: The accident was not intentional.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Well, there is intent. But the real issue is that
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: VAR interceding where it wasn't suppose and in a way
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: it wasn't supposed to. It's not the purpose. It's really
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: the whole thing is started by the VAR officials in
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: the booth who made this decision to stop action, stop
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: frame and send it to the official, the referee, who
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: was then compelled to call for the red card. Once
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: the guy I've watched if you noticed through the World Cup,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: once the guy goes to the monitor, he's coming out
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: issue a ruling in favor of the red card or
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: disalogo or whatever it is, to overturn the ruling on
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: the field. It's just the way it is. But VR,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: as Brad Evans mentioned, and as Nico Moreno mentioned, you're
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: not allowed by VR rule. You are not supposed to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: use slow motion or stop frame to rule on a
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: specific moment in a match and an incident in a match.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to do it in real time as the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: referee has saw it. And he again did not even
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: issue a yellow card for the infraction. He didn't even
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: call it a foul other than the fact that elegant
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: if you remember, Balgan was receiving a pass and was
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: challenged from behind by the Bosnian player before the incident happened.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: So there's no way of him even knowing where his
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: bankle or foot was.
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  Speaker 3: No there was, Yeah, So that's why I got very
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: mad at Var.
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  Speaker 2: But that is and in a sense, it is two
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: wrongs making it right. It was wrong for the red card.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: It's by most people standard wrong to overturn the red
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: card suspension. And here we are two six Greg. When
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: you talk Vancouver Soccer, I'm curious how the grass is
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: in BC Place. How they do it assuming there's no
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: role in rollout like Phoenix, Well they did it like Seattle.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: They have it on a platform that's above the turf
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: field the BC Lions play on. There is a fabric
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: roof to BC Place. It was closed because FIFA made
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: it be closed for the entire tournament. And the weather
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: had been great up till now, but Thursday night it
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: was raining in was about fifty five degrees fahrenheit and.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: So it wasn't na comfort for us.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Well, the roof closed was great in that sense, but
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: it wasn't true soccer and soccer and the Dome's weird
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Portaworn Spain are going to be playing in Dallas, but
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: it's probably three hundred degrees in Dallas right now, but
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: they'll be in a dome. But I didn't bring it
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: up yet. But I'll talk about real briefly. The Vancouver scene.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: It was downtown and marches to the match and the
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Swiss fans and the Algerian fan. There were more Algerian
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: fans in the yard than there were Swiss fans, by
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: the way, and they were louder. They just had nothing
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: to cheer about. But it was it was muted compared
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: to the Seattle scene. It was muted, and I got
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of static form my BC and Canadian friends
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: talking about that and mentioning that it was muted and
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: it wasn't as loud. It was the day after Canada
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Get Day. A lot of people were hungover. It was
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: two teams that not strongly supported inside Canada. Canada was
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: supposed to play in that match, but it lost to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: Switzerland and it caused them to go to Los Angeles
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: for the Round of thirty two. That was supposed to
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: be a Canadian match. Instead it was Switzerland and smashing
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: the party. So all of that conflated in the weather
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: and it just wasn't as loud as Seattle for sure,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: and I mean that's the experience I had. I wrote
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: about it for the news Tribute at the Newstribune dot com.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: If you want to see that story.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: Everybody read greg Yeah, he's fabulous. Thanks, I read you
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: I think four two by says when missing this game
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: for the world as an American, No, Flows should not
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: be allowed to play. Bad calls are a part of life.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: There should be a review process, but there isn't. Belgium
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: have to make a new game game playing twenty four
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: hours out. USMNT have to make a new game plan
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: twenty fours hours out. Haldi Wright and Ricardo Pepe know
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: the White House doesn't want them to play, which has
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: had to fill them with pride for wearing the USA jersey.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: He says in sarcasm. This decision will follow young Flow
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: for the rest of his career. It's not even his
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: faulty had nothing to do with it. England got a
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: red card yesterday. Should King Charles call FIFA to care?
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We don't have kings here.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: That was studs up. That'd be.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: A little Can we use the word gregious?
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Studs up? Yeah, sorry, go ahead. Oh no, easy call.
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  Speaker 11: What my grandpa would say, former referee, every time there's
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 11: a past interference, Easy call.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: Easy call? Yeah, I mean studs up.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, what is it? Show your true colors? If
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: a duck's a duck, if it quacks.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: For two five I'm not a soccer fan, but I
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: will watch today. For two oh six, I've watched a
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: few US men national team games at the Portland American
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Outlaws bar bar, but I think tonight I'll just watch
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: it home. Being from Seattle, I want to enjoy the
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: broadcast rather than being a bar crowd driving out the sound.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: That's the beauty of this event too. You don't have
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: to be a soccer fan. You can be a fan
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: of your nation.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Two five three, I'm watching double exclamation points headed down
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: to Pioneer Square directly after work. FIFA bots this red
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: card deal, but I do think they got it right
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: in the end. I don't think it should have been
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: a red card since there wasn't a foul initially. Then
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: that we have to replay that called red agreed.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: I think we ended up exactly where we should be.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you appreciate it. Thanks
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: for the text line. I'm trying to speak you up.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sick, got like one hundred and five degree fever.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: If you're wondering why it, it'll sound seriously. My son's like,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: you're going today, right, Yeah, I'm going today.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: This is a big deal, yep, and it's gonna be fabulous.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: Up next, and for Ness Anderson Hurst are sitting right
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: next to me at Jimmy's on First, right across from
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Oxmental Avenue, which is already filling up before the US
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: and Belgium play in the World Cup Round of sixteen.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: And Andrews are next to say what's on their show,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: which is the pre pregame show before US Belgium. Butch
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: Anders will be a part of a ninety three point
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: three kJ.
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  Speaker 12: R FM Welcome back Greg bellat Jimmy's on First, which
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 12: is already full and popping.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: So is Occidental Avenue right behind me. So is First
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Avenue south of lines getting into Victory Hall. So is
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: the woman walking by me with a red and white
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: speckled wig. It's already on and we're still five hours
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: before the US and Belgium in the Round of sixteen.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: I just want to mention it we talked about tickets
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: for this. If you're trying to get in, you can
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: still get online in the secondary site for about fifteen
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars in the third deck nineteen hundred in the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Royal Brom section of the south end zone of Royal
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Brom section for a Sounders game. But as I mentioned you,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: it's not like it's a Mariners game. We were talking
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: about Ian and Andrews where or Seahawk game. Whill you
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: wait until the last second and people are dumping their
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: tickets and the prices will go down. FIFA controls even
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: the secondary market tickets, so they take those off. I've
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: noticed about an hour hour and a half before the
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: match that you can't find tickets anymore. If there are
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: any left, they're going sky high because the market has
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: dried up and there are fewer tickets available. So don't wait.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: I guess is the advice Andrew Hrris and I and
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Fronessa next to.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 13: Those, Well, that's good advice because I think a lot
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 13: of people are used to sure you know the game,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 13: like like technically, cracking games are all sold out, Technically
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 13: Seahawk games are all sold out, but we all know
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 13: the secondary market there's always tickets. And like I know
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 13: a lot of people that come down here for Seahawks
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 13: games and waited out at one of the bars until
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 13: the last minute. See they can get you know, the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 13: pick because guy, if you're unloading tickets, you're gonna unoad
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 13: them at some point you're not going you're up on
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 13: going in. And same thing with cracking. You'll guys sit
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 13: there at Queen Amber. I got a couple of friends.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 13: They make a habit. They go to the Queen an
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 13: beer all hang out for a while, have a pretzel,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 13: have a couple of pints and just kind of keep
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 13: them in.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: Ah boom, now's time.
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  Speaker 2: To buy them.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 13: Yep, like six forty five or whatever, will be even
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 13: seven o'clock for seven to ten, first first drop of
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 13: the puck. You're saying you don't if you do that
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 13: down here, great bell's telling you you're not.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Getting in, no, because there won't be any tickets to buy.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Good to know, Yes, that's good enough. FIFA controls them
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: and pull them off the sites. FIFA cartel. Never heard
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: of them, cartel, this big deal. Ian you've been here
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: a day or two, Andrews, you've been here at day
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: or three, and played soccer here. Where's this rank in
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: your sports days?
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 13: It's not even it's not even a question of soccer,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 13: not a question of it's then it's just the biggest
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 13: thing that's ever happened in our town sports wise, period.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 13: And there's nothing that could greg here's the thing. Nothing
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 13: could ever rival it.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: No, not on a because of how global is it's global.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, like like we're never gonna get a super
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 13: Bowl here. And even then it's this is no one's
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 13: coming down in early February and hanging out for seven
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 13: hours before a game or going to the waterfront and
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 13: watching it, whether it's on the pier or the bro
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 13: barge or wherever you're gonna do it at like that.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 13: This is just different level, man, this is just different.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 13: We're never gonna in my lifetime, We'll never we'll see
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 13: this again, probably not in my lifetime, probably not. Yeah,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 13: I just it's it's I mean, ninety four was the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 13: last one, so what twenty two years thirty two years later?
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: Right, thirty two years.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 11: Later, And that's relatively recent compared to other countries. England
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 11: hasn't hosted since nineteen sixty six, so wow, really yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: That's weird.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 13: They might win this year. They might if they got out. Okay,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 13: last night, we know they did the plane take off
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 13: for Mexico City. Can you imagine I mean the fireworks
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 13: being shot at their hotel the night before.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Not outside their hotel, at the hotel.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 13: At the building, at their rooms. Yeah, it just I
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 13: file was England. I would get us to help stop celebrating.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: We're out.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 13: We are out of here right now. See, that's they're
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 13: not used to losing in that stadium.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: They are not.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: It's the first time they've ever lost a World Cup match,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 11: you know the Mexico has in that stadium, and that's
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 11: not like oh, it's like oh okay, you know, it's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 11: like what the first or second time they posted? No,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 11: this is they're the only host city that has now
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 11: hosted three World Cups.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Azteca.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: So it is hell out of dodge.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they don't lose their they haven't lost their in
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 11: competitive match in thirteen years.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: Weird, there was no outcry for that, right, it's happened.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 13: Well, but think about who was the team to play
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 13: Mexico before equittor Equitter remember this, they had the same thing.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah with the hotel. Yeah, we don't care about that.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: Right, that's home field advantage. Yeah.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: Well but but I kind of know what I mean.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 13: I mean, my point is is like there's a lot
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 13: of stuff we could make a big deal about, right,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 13: Like there's a lot of I mean, Iran's pissed off
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 13: because they practice in Tijuana. I say, that's your problem,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 13: not anybody else, but you know, but still like everyone's
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 13: you knows, other teams are complaining about travel.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 11: Even yesterday, Uh, one of the prime ministers or someone
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 11: high up in the Parliament in England personally stepped in
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 11: to stop FIFA bringing forward to England's kickoff last night,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 11: as he feared Mexico are trying to gain an advantage.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 11: Why is that not a big story compared to what's
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 11: going on.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, let's go just a little old US is
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: out there making waves.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you guys have today? We got something
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: to do with soccer?
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: This would be a fun show.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 13: Andrew's first of all, shout out to Jazz sticking around
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 13: and gonna run run our show. Yeah, Jess Jackson's already here.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 13: Andrews is here. Jackson Andrews have the pregame show. We
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 13: should remind err at four thirty. We are carrying the
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 13: game tonight. I think we need to emphasize that we
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 13: will have the game on ninety three point three KJFM,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 13: So if you're unlucky and driving around and maybe have
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 13: kids sports or coming home from work, we will have
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 13: the match for you five o'clock kickoff, four thirty pre game,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 13: but really the pregame started with Grego at ten o'clock
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 13: this morning. Here, Jimmy's up first, so my soccer guy
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 13: Andrews is gonna be with me. We'll spend the first
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 13: hour talking about all of the different things going on
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 13: with this match, and clearly controversy, everyone piling on the US.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: You can go pound sands, Switzerland.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 13: Chiming in anytime, Swiss Swiss, of all people, the Swiss
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 13: are gonna take a stand.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: You're yeah, so they're they're pissed off. Everyone's mad. We'll
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 4: talk about that.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 13: We will get baseball in well Molly Wop at one
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 13: o'clock with Nathan and Chris. Not sure how they're gonna
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 13: handle a five in one week. Uh, and then Danny
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 13: Jackson will join us at two o'clock.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: So there we go. That's and Anders Jackson felt right
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: next to me here at Jimmy's on First, across the
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: street from Luomenfield, on the biggest sports day in Seattle history,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: the US and Belgium five hours from now. It's all
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: I'm talking pregame, during game, postgame, play by play, at
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: the game. It's all right here on ninety three point
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: three KJRFM