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6-19 H1: World Cup Action w/ Sounders Coach Brian Schmetzer & Jess · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Czech chech check.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Happy Friday, you happy unique Seattle sports Friday,
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  Speaker 2: Greg Bella news to have been, Christopher Kid with you
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  Speaker 2: are alive. But Jimmy's on first across the street from Blomenfield,
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  Speaker 2: two hours before the first World Cup US men's soccer
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  Speaker 2: match ever in the Pacific Northwest ever in Seattle, and
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  Speaker 2: I have next to me Seattle Soccer Royalty Sounders. Yeah right, saundershot,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Smetzer, Seattle's favorite side.
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  Speaker 1: This is Seattle's favorite is.
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  Speaker 2: With us as well, and Brian's between the two of
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  Speaker 2: us here. Jimmy's on first, two hours before the biggest
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  Speaker 2: international soccer day in the Pacific Northwest history. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's hyperbole to say that. No, Brian, you're a
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  Speaker 2: lifelong seattle Man in soccer, your family. It goes well
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  Speaker 2: beyond the Sounders. What does this day mean for you personally?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's the culmination of years of you know, soccer
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  Speaker 3: fans in this area. You know, you start back in
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  Speaker 3: the fifties sixties with the ethnic leagues. My dad used
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  Speaker 3: to take me down to Lower Woodland and the Germanian
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  Speaker 3: Germans would play against the Hungarians and the Italians had
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  Speaker 3: a team, just had a team. That was my first
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  Speaker 3: taste of all of it. Then, obviously as you grow
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  Speaker 3: up little a little bit, a little bit older. My
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  Speaker 3: dad took us to Germany in nineteen seventy four, so
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  Speaker 3: right after the World Cup there, that was my next experience.
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  Speaker 3: That was actually an interesting one because West Germany played
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  Speaker 3: East Germany, you know, and we were playing around in
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  Speaker 3: the square of my dad's hometown and we didn't know,
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  Speaker 3: we're twelve years old. All of a sudden we see
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  Speaker 3: this TV fly out the window because West Germany lost
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  Speaker 3: that game one nothing. So that's another World Cup experience.
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  Speaker 3: Then you fast forward that to you know, the World
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  Speaker 3: Cup in ninety four. We saw a couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: I went down to the Rose Bowl to watch USA Columbia.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that vividly. Then you come to the Sounders
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  Speaker 3: and you know, hosting big exhibitions, Barcelona, Chelsea, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of things going on, and all along every stop
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  Speaker 3: of that journey, there's been Sounder fans, there's been soccer fans,
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  Speaker 3: there's been fans of just being around here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: and so now, yes, it is a culmination of everything
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  Speaker 3: coming together for what is the biggest game I think
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  Speaker 3: that Seattle has ever seen on a soccer stage because
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  Speaker 3: it's the World Cup. I mean, look, I love Conker
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  Speaker 3: CAF twenty twenty two. I love I love MLS Cup
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen and twenty. Look, we've had some League's Cup
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  Speaker 3: last year against MESSI I mean those are good memories
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  Speaker 3: for all of us Sounder fans.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the freaking World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's it's massive.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, how has Seattle in the US put on the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup so far?
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  Speaker 1: Eight days in? As you were awesome?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's awesome. I mean you walk around the stadium,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's energized. You got activations up in downtown, you got
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the barge. We got a barge. We
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  Speaker 3: actually floated a barge in to you know, have people
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  Speaker 3: watch the waterfront.
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  Speaker 1: Is crazy. Uh, last night.
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  Speaker 3: In Mexico, Mexico playing against South Korea. I was up
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  Speaker 3: in Lake City, my my old stomping ground. It at
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  Speaker 3: least goes up there just and people were crazy there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've we've hosted in little parts of the city,
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  Speaker 3: bigger parts of the city. Obviously around the stadium. Seattle's
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  Speaker 3: knocked it out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: How much is this the vision of Paul Allen when
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  Speaker 2: he built this stadium? He built it the international soccer specifications,
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  Speaker 2: hoping to get a World Cup. Have you thought of
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  Speaker 2: that in the nod to Paul Allen away here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think of it from time to time. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: we wouldn't be here without him and he wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: here without the soccer community. So it was a win
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  Speaker 3: win situation.
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  Speaker 2: For Oside for those that aren't weren't here back in
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  Speaker 2: the mid nineties when this stadium got approved by the
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  Speaker 2: soccer community.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there was a touch and go vote where, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the people needed to vote to see how much money.
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  Speaker 3: I look, I don't know all the details, but there
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  Speaker 3: was some tax things and money and all that, and
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  Speaker 3: the voters were going to approve this stadium or not.
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  Speaker 3: And Paul Allen, to his credit, he said, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to make sure that this stadium can host
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  Speaker 3: big soccer events. And sure as heck, the soccer community
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  Speaker 3: came and put a bunch of votes out there, because
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  Speaker 3: this is what it turned into.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the World Cup is here today US and Australia.
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  Speaker 2: The broadcast live here starting at eleven thirty pre game
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  Speaker 2: twelve o'clock noon live on ninety three point three Kjar.
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  Speaker 2: But we are the pregame show here, the Greg Best
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  Speaker 2: Show with Christopher Kidd Well from Jimmy's On First with
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  Speaker 2: coach Brian smetz Er the Sounders. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: a quick soccer question. How how has coach Ponchettino change.
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  Speaker 2: Pocheccino changed how Christian Rodin is used on the national
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  Speaker 2: team and is it similar to how you employ him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would hope that coach Pottoccino uses Christian today.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Obed Vargas got in for Mexico yesterday. We'd
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  Speaker 3: love to have some of our sounders or ex sounder
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  Speaker 3: in Obed's case, and get on the field, touch the field.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan got to play a few minutes down and cutter.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But look, Potaccino is all about you know, the team first,
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  Speaker 3: and it's the mentality and you bleed for your country
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  Speaker 3: and the badge. That's how he grew up in Argentina
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  Speaker 3: and you you felt that when you watch that Argentina
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  Speaker 3: game the other day in Kansas City. I mean those fans,
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  Speaker 3: that's what he was brought up with. And so he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to instill some of that within the United States
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  Speaker 3: soccer culture, and Christian is just the prime example of
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  Speaker 3: somebody that has those same values. And so I'm hoping
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's one of the reason why Christian
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  Speaker 3: was on the team. Because Christian, every time you watch
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  Speaker 3: him in a Sounder jersey, he does everything humanly possible
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  Speaker 3: for us to get a good result.
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  Speaker 2: There's the fact that Christian Polistics nursing as a calf
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  Speaker 2: injury perhaps raised Christian rod it might.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, he chose Sebastian Burhalter instead of Christian
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  Speaker 3: the other game. But Christian's got a shot at playing
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  Speaker 3: for sure. I mean, let's see how it goes. You know,
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  Speaker 3: lineup's gonna be out here pretty soon. I mean, pull
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  Speaker 3: asitch is the biggest question mark or biggest talking point.
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  Speaker 3: But US has a good squad, a deep squad. So
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  Speaker 3: if somebody gets injured or he wants to make some
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  Speaker 3: changes because maybe we're ahead in the game or that
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  Speaker 3: third game, he's gonna need to use everybody. Because it's
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  Speaker 3: seven games to a final, that's right, it's a one
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  Speaker 3: game more than in previous World Cups.
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  Speaker 2: The US went and a winner. The winner of US
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  Speaker 2: Australia has clinched, well, we'll clinch a spot in a
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  Speaker 2: round to thirty two. A US win and a Paraguay
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  Speaker 2: win over Turkey tonight means the US would clinch the
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  Speaker 2: group and would get a favorable round to thirty two seeds.
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  Speaker 2: If the US wins the group and they went around
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  Speaker 2: to thirty two, they will play back here in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: July sixth, in the knockout stage around the sixteen Most awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan mas Vita Marae.
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  Speaker 2: Is with us from Castadian Sports and that I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you have soccer questions for coach Brian Smeer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 2: First, as I had to jump on. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: was so giddy with yeah, I just drove from Lake City.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I only get a chance to say this because when
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  Speaker 2: I'm covering, you know, I don't get to like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just in awe right now. But Brian, yesterday we heard
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  Speaker 2: from both coaches. I thought it was interesting because you
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  Speaker 2: do this a little bit. And Chima talked about belief,
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  Speaker 2: you know how coaches. He said, you know, Australia is
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  Speaker 2: all about belief, and I was thinking, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I think he wants us to put that out there
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  Speaker 2: and that's the messaging.
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  Speaker 1: How much of is that important?
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  Speaker 2: And get your players to understand that the duels that
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  Speaker 2: you like to talk about, how important does that play?
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  Speaker 3: I love the duel stat you know, in the first
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  Speaker 3: game against Paraguay, the US, I mean they were on
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  Speaker 3: the front foot from the referees whistle. And he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: want to have that same type of energy, enthusiasm, winning
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  Speaker 3: the duels, counter pressing. You know, he's gonna want all
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  Speaker 3: of that because that's the emotion that he talks about.
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  Speaker 3: That's the emotion that he wants his players to play with.
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  Speaker 3: And so for him, it worked the first game. Let's
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  Speaker 3: hope works the second game.
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  Speaker 2: Tactically it looked like they attacked the US went wide
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  Speaker 2: and Pattachino's got them cutting inside and bringing in more
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  Speaker 2: players inverted wingers. Yeah, there you go. Now Australia plays
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  Speaker 2: you know that five and four? How breaking down? You know,
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  Speaker 2: how do you you get a six to sixth center
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  Speaker 2: back who looks like you can play for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely so, So what you try and do is you
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  Speaker 3: try and get players in between those lines to give
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  Speaker 3: them some you know, some problems, some decisions to make,
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  Speaker 3: even though they have five defenders back there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta figure out where the small spaces are gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: Put yourself in those spaces. Kind of be quiet, precky
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  Speaker 3: like to say, look, just be quiet in there. Move
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  Speaker 3: your body, your body position, turning inside, turning towards a goal,
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  Speaker 3: drawing players out, drawing one of the center backs out
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  Speaker 3: and then having movement in behind is going.
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  Speaker 1: To be critical.
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  Speaker 3: Breaking down a deep block. We've had problems with it
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  Speaker 3: at times. You know, the US is gonna certainly have
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  Speaker 3: his challenges because Australia is a good team.
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  Speaker 2: Ballina's ability, I mean to to drop to Si like
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  Speaker 2: you sit.
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  Speaker 1: In that channel.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a surprise how he actually understands that, uh
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  Speaker 2: flo uh Bologna's ability to like you said, get in
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  Speaker 2: between the center backs and then bring western the tain inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be it'll be critical that we attack with number.
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  Speaker 3: You know, guys have to be you know, all engaged.
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  Speaker 3: But you know you got to worry about the counter
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  Speaker 3: attack as well. So I want them to play in
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  Speaker 3: between lines. I want you you need a center forward
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  Speaker 3: to play on either shoulder of this guy that could
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  Speaker 3: be playing for the Seahawks and then and then from there.
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  Speaker 3: The game's fluid and you got to take what the
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  Speaker 3: game gives you.
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  Speaker 2: The coach Papa said for Australia that we also have something.
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  Speaker 1: For them, and he sounds.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's got speed on the outside. I did see
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  Speaker 2: that against Turkey exactly. So they had twenty eight of
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  Speaker 2: the possession against Turkey and beat him too. No on
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  Speaker 2: counter attack, that that that happens in our sport.
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  Speaker 1: Yes forgot, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean especially if look, first goal has been critical in
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  Speaker 3: this World Cup. Look, there's been some draws, teams have
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  Speaker 3: come back, some of the favorites Belgium Versus Egypt. Egypt
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  Speaker 3: scored first, Belgium had to leave it till the second half.
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  Speaker 1: But if you.
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  Speaker 3: Score first, you really can kind of control tempo, and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes that works against you. If you score first, take
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  Speaker 3: your foot off the gas. Your opponent will have more possession,
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  Speaker 3: but you're actually in the lead and dictating Temple.
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  Speaker 2: We're live across the street from Blomenfield, an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half or so before the US and Australia live
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  Speaker 2: here on ninety three point three kjfrem in.
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  Speaker 1: The World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: The first men's World Cup match ever in Seattle and
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  Speaker 2: where was Seattle Soccer Royalty Sounders coach Brian Smetzer. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to question the text in four nine four
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  Speaker 2: five one under the comma dodge, that's a text sign.
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  Speaker 2: What you want to ask coach Smetzer, I'll ask him.
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask you, coach, how has Mauricio puceetto tactically? You
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  Speaker 2: mentioned the attitude shift, but how has he tactically changed
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  Speaker 2: the Americans do? How do you notice they played differently
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  Speaker 2: this national team this World Cup cycle?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if they've changed tactically. They play
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  Speaker 3: in a four to three three, They like to get
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  Speaker 3: their wing backs higher. They sometimes build three to two,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes they build three to one. Uh, there's various tactics
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  Speaker 3: for their opponent. I think what he did well against
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  Speaker 3: Paraguay is he nailed the tactics for that particular opponent.
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  Speaker 3: And then you saw him playing with the back line
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  Speaker 3: of five and some of his preseason you know, tune
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  Speaker 3: up games. So we'll see what he does here.
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  Speaker 2: From what you've seen of Australia, how would you attack Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I'd play four three three, I'd get numbers in between
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  Speaker 3: the lines. I would i wouldn't be afraid and go
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  Speaker 3: back to back line of three. Now some people would say, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you can do a back line of five or three
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  Speaker 3: and then just match Australia up man for man, and
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  Speaker 3: then you have individual duels. Their right wing back against
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  Speaker 3: our left wing back. Our left wing back is pretty
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  Speaker 3: darn good. Uh maybe he goes that way, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking he's gonna go four three three and you know,
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  Speaker 3: come after him myz.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The creativity is that something that he's brought in. Was
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  Speaker 2: it the fact that a lot of these players are
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  Speaker 2: playing in the other league. I mean from a you know,
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  Speaker 2: a team concept. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love some of the tricks and some of the
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  Speaker 3: fancy passes, pull a stitch, ob his one v one
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  Speaker 3: nobility in the in the wide channels. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: US had a complete game, and again it's it's the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to rest on their laurels.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're too smart for that. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: they got to perform again in a in a big
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  Speaker 3: match against a tough opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Brian Smetser.
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  Speaker 2: The expectations of even the casual sports fan for the
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  Speaker 2: US team is now through the roof after that four
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  Speaker 2: to one win over Paraguan Friday, what's you as a
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  Speaker 2: realistic expectation for where this team goes Visa VI, France, Spain, Argentina, Germany, England.
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  Speaker 3: Just well, look, I'm a I'm a supporter, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: US fan. Let's get first in the group. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: a good draw in the round of thirty two, round
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  Speaker 3: of sixteen, for sure, they could make it there. And
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  Speaker 3: then after that, you know, then it's depth, it's injuries,
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  Speaker 3: its form. If US goes on a good run of form, hey,
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  Speaker 3: they could, they could do it.
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  Speaker 1: Do it as in the final for sure.
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  Speaker 3: You're putting me on the spot for sure?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Why not the US? Yeah, the US could make it
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  Speaker 3: to a final? Why not? You heard a leader believe?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? On ninety three point three K JR.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Brian Spetzer, I appreciate of all the things you
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  Speaker 2: could be doing right now before the biggest match in
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  Speaker 2: Seattle isster you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna thank you for saying that. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: go get in the stadium now and get my beer
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  Speaker 3: and watch warm up and just be a fan.
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  Speaker 2: You enjoy that you've earned that. Thank you, sir, Good
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  Speaker 2: luck to the Sounders. We'll be watching.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Brian Smetzer, Seattle Socker Royalty live here from across the
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  Speaker 2: street from Womenfield A Jimmy's on first. We're about ninety five,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred minutes away from kickoff of the US and Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Brian Smetzer, we'll come back. Go to Jesson
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  Speaker 2: and McIntyre from Peer fifty eight. Oh excuse me, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay here. Thanks Brian, appreciate you, Thank you all.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Felt saying goodbye. Alex Coptfield appreciate them.
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  Speaker 1: Ma's ma's beating Murray.
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  Speaker 2: He's with us again, Cascadia Sportsnet and now a big
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  Speaker 2: shot Fox team.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle TV soccer analysts.
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  Speaker 2: What must have You've grown born in red, You've played
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  Speaker 2: high school soccer here, you're a Seattle soccer guy. But
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine what it is for Brian Smetzer. His family,
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  Speaker 2: they've owned a soccer shop in Lake City since he
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  Speaker 2: was a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: He played at Nathan Hale. He's a Seattle guy.
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  Speaker 2: When the Sounders in the NASL ninety four World Cup,
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  Speaker 2: he attended. What this day means for Brian Smetzer, coach
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  Speaker 2: of the Sounders.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I mean I honestly right now, sitting
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  Speaker 2: there with Brian on this day for a second, it
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I felt like twelve years old and I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do that because something that they have done
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  Speaker 2: that is in terms of what people don't understand in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the Smetscher family, right like, and not only
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  Speaker 2: not only culturally, but also soccer. He mentioned his dad
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  Speaker 2: a little baitosy and he talked about how they were pockets. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you something the Lake when Walter Smetzel
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  Speaker 2: created the Lake City Hawks, right he that was the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of Seattle culture. And we talked about how they was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Peter Hatchrick will tell you about. There's Capitol
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  Speaker 2: Hill Soccer and LVR Lauris View Ridge all those, but.
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  Speaker 1: The Lake City Hawks.
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  Speaker 2: When mister Schmetcher started that, the rumor was like wow,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't touch the ball for the first three days
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  Speaker 2: of training.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was the rumor that was going out Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Why and so you can imagine, you know, like wow,
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  Speaker 2: and then from there I think the.
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  Speaker 1: Connection the Sounder had, the connection. That's Brian the connection
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  Speaker 1: to the community. So then they opened up a sport house.
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  Speaker 2: On Lake City Way, and and that store was where
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  Speaker 2: he gave away things. And you know, kids, I know
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: he do massive amounts of gear to the soccer community.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: He donated to the Seattle Parks and Recreation late that programming.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I remember he didn't I remember asking Brian he was
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: behind the counter. I didn't know, Hey, look we got
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a late night program will but he's like, look here,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: here's a bag of stuff. It helped us to a
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: late night program and that was replicated in a lot
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: of places because the love for the community and the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: connection that soccer builds is just so now, so what yeah, what.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Does that mean to him giving everything?
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: You know, he plays those San Diego soccers and all
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: these types of mats.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: But I mean it's like, yeah, I have no idea.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine Jackson Felts with us our ninety three
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM soccer. And I was pretty in post
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: game host your gods to Brian smetz are a lot.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: How did you saw him there? I mean, what was
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: your view of Brian smetz Er and what this day means?
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I think I think he's feeling the moment, and I
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: think we all are that this is something special. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: just got out of the stadium and I spent a
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: good twenty minutes just walking around the North lot and
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: up the steps and down the steps, and up the
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: steps and down the steps. This is it's hard not
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: to get emotional, guys. This is this is beyond anything.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: That has ever touched our city.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And what's amazing is we may one up and in
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks with a round of sixteen right again.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: But I don't know, it's I'm getting chills. A tear
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: came in my eye as I was as I was
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: just looking out at the thousands upon thousands what looks
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: feels like millions of United States men's national team fans
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: in that North lot right now.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: And Brazilian fans and Mexican fans and the soccer who's
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: just had a marsh on from across the street.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: I came down here, I was here at seven thirty
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: this morning. I got I brought two Sounders jerseys, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I was able to trade one of them with this
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: guy named Oscar with a real Madrid jersey.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And I'm just like, I've asked a bunch of Australians
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: like this gentleman here, Hey, we trade trade Jerseys. Trade
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: scar for Sounders Jersey. None of the Australians will do it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: But the gentleman was running realm in Jersey and I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: like trade and he's like sure, And that's the beauty
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: is everybody's here and he said like he said from
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Madrid and then he said no camera.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: So there were three thousand Australians massed in Victory Hall
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: across the street from the T Mobile Park and a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: party that started at seven thirty more and they were
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: throwing inflatable kangaroos.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: They were ball inside.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Then they marched from the corner First in Royal brom
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Down First Avenue into the stadium. My son and my
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: wife are there and they're now in Victory Hall because
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the OSSI's have vacated and some people can actually get.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: In there now. It was wild. I posted a video
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of a Twitter acts of g Bell Seattle.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: There's so much more to tell you about the color
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: of the greatest International Sports Day in Seattle sports history.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We'll do that more next, including perhaps Jessin McIntyre from
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the US March on site of Peer fifty eight or
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: alive from Jimmy's on First across the street from Limenfield,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: an hour and back one hundred minutes or so before
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: US and Australia's World Cup match.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Vibe on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd on your
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Home for the Huskies, Krackett and the twelfth Man Sports
• 19:56
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• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Welcome back Reggel Show.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Christopher can live because Jimmy's on First across the street
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: from Loomenfield. We are ninety minutes away from kickoff of
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: US and Australia Group state match in the World Cup,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the first ever US World Cup match in the Pacific Northwest.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And Man, we just had Brian Smetzer on across the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: street from the stadium here at Woomenfield, a Jimmy's, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: he said, I asked him, what's a fair expectation. He said,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: if Byking the US can get the win today over
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the Australians, which would put him in control of the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: group to get a favorable round to thirty two matchup
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: against a third place team, which would mean if they
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: win the group, they would be in the round of
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: sixteen match here in Seattle, then July sixth, then he
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: says they could go to the final. That's what he said.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Brian Smiths said they'd go to the final. Breaking news
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: from the pitch. Christian Polissic is out. He will not
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: play today because of the calf stream. We'll see if
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that means guh Raina starts pas Vina Marrer I would
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I would think that means Grena, who came on from
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Polistic in the second half in Inglewood and the four
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to one victory of Paaraguy, scored that really majestic goal
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: at the end outside of his left foot.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I think Gioorina slides in there.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: What do you think they do with Christian Ballistic now
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: out real quickly before we go to Jessin No, absolutely,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I think so because of you know, similar pace and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: kind of the guy and to your point, kind of
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: he's got that swagger going on and you know energy
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: for energy is critical, So I think Raina is the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: most obvious choice right now. So it won't be easy
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to beat the Soccers without their best player.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Christian Polistic who's out today, had not trained all week.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Jessamine McIntyre has been down at Pier fifty eight at
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the Late Waterfront Park. That's where the US fans had
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: their gathering and then march on.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I think Marshaan Lynch was down there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I was told Jessin McIntyre, how are you, ma'am and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: what did you see?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And what are you seeing?
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Down there was a marsh On march on, that's for sure,
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: and oddly enough, Jameis Winston was also a part of
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: the whole kicking off of this march on.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: But we also best to see the men in Blazers
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Live podcast. Marsh On was not exactly radio friendly and
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: he was everything of them wouldn't expected tend to be dumb.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Button hopefully was ready. But I got to tell you,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: it's not like one hundred thousand people. I walked about
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: six blocks with them halfway to lumin from here, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: would say, just judging by by my eyesight, but it
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: was unbelievably great, great energy. There was no over rowdiness
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: as we've seen in some cities when it comes to
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: very exciting games. It was a lot of supporting and
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: you know, I just spent some time in Australia. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: know that our Australian friends are usually in good humor
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: and good manner, and there were some of them down
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: here too. This was very very USA driven obviously, but
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: they were enjoying everything as well. And I just think
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: that the atmosphere is exactly what Seattle does right. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: you know, we saw it with the twenty fourteen Super
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Bowl parade, where you know, people just do things right.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: And I just noticed how great the the energy was
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: down here. Everybody's in it together, people bumping into each other,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: crawling all over each other, and it's just an oops,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, let's go have fun together. I really think
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: Seattle's going to show out, and those visiting to Seattle
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: from outside of the area are going to show up
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: really well. I'm really proud of what I've seen so
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: far in the six hours I gets out here.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Jessa man I mentioned earlier this week, this is unlike
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: NFL or a Seahawks crowd, where there's a tribalism and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the secularism of Seattle versus San Francisco forty nine, or
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: fans getting beer pored on them, or the Rams fans hated,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: or the Cowboys fans not welcome here. Here, it's everybody
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: for them. Okay, I'm okay, you're Okay, as a vibe
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: down here. Yes, everyone in America's for the US Soccer
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Ruse are partying with the US right in this bar,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: right across the street of Victory Hall where the Soccer
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: RHUs party was in their march on into the stadium.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: About three thousand people were inside Victory Hall and had
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: that bar and grill before the Marita has had to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: cap it at three thousands of the fire code. But
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: if you can describe just the vibe of soccer and
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: international soccer in the World Cup that you as you
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: see it as opposed to what a normal sporting event
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: in Seattle, say Major League Baseball, the NFL is.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you described it really perfectly, because this
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: is a global event that just happens to be local
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: for us. You know, it is a global event, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: I think that there is a different side now. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: you know, I played soccer growing up, and you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: once I got to high school, I had to choose
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: between not volleyball and then basketball and track and stuff.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: So I didn't necessarily grow up in the sport. It
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: just happened to have played. I don't consider myself and
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: I mean this out of respect for true soccer fans.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: I don't consider myself as super fan, but I have
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: always gotten excited for the World Cup, and I think
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: that goes for a lot of people because we have
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: this embarrassment of riches of sports that we get to
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: watch and root for year round. And soccer isn't the
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: primary sport in the United States as a whole, but
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: it is very, very very well represented here and there
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: are a ton in Seattle and I love that and
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: I respect it, and I, like I said, even though
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: I'm not a huge soccer fan, because that would be
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: disrespectful to those who are, I love it. When I
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: go to a Sounders match, I have my stars. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: get very excited for it, and I think it's a
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: game that in the true atmosphere of the environment, they
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: do it very very well. And I just think today's
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: going to be nuts. I ain't a very I think not.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I mean it a very good way.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Jessmond mcadart down a Peer fifty eight with the US
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: March on Fans March, you mentioned one hundred thousand people
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: that stadium where we hold six.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Well, that's what it felt like. That is what it
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: felt like. Okay, Well, I know there's only about seventy
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: thousand who go in the stadium without march felt like
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: it went on throughout the entire city.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Are there tickets available down there? This morning?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: When I woke up on the secondary ticket sites, the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: price was down to twelve hundred dollars to get in.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It's now up to twenty four hundred. For the few
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: sites that still have availability. Are their tickets available? People
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: hawking tickets on the street.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Somebody listening might want to come down if they're near Seattle,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to come downtown and see if our ticket's even available
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: down there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: I don't think so. I didn't see anyone, and usually
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: you'll see that in the areas that we were at.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: I didn't see any scalpers out there whatsoever. I did
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: not see anyone I had got tickets. I need tickets,
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: literally nothing. And that's probably the first time at any
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: event that I've been to that I haven't seen that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: There have been people walking up and down First Avenue
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: South right outside of here Jimmy's and Royal Brahm and
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the Mariners Stadium with I need ticket signs, but they're
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: all I need tickets. There are nobody that has I
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: have ticket signs walking up and down the street, Jessamine,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I person. Yeah, you get to come in. Where do
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you go from here to watch the match? Oh?
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: Well, you know what, I am going to head of
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: the station. Now, what time is a LA ten thirty
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: in the morning. I've been half here since seven. I
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: am going to come back to the station and then
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: we're going to I'm going down to do the Mariner's
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: street game.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: So the Mariners tell me that there are only single
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: tickets available tonight for what is Fireworks night, and they
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: expect those to set up very soon.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: There're gonna be one hundred Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: I think there's a lot of double dippers like people
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: are doing bold.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: One hundred and ten thousand people in the stadium district
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: in downtown here today in Seattle for one of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: best sports days.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I appreciated, Jessman, enjoy.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Your day, all right, thanks Dug.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Jessmin McIntyre from Peer fifty eight.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Maz Vine and I are going
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: to talk about the impact of Christian Polistic not playing today.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk briefly about the Mariners opening their three.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Game series against Boston tonight after Julio Rodriguez sat out
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: yesterday's series ending win and at eleven thirty we'll go
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: to the pregame show, a national WES national Fox Sports
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: broadcast simulcast here on ninety three point three before the match.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: You can hear it live. This is the US Australia
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: pregame show by from Jimmy's on ninety three point three
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: kJ RFM.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Lo Gregbelt Show.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: With Christopher Kid Live from Jimmy's on First across the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: street from Loomenfield, where we talked to Brian Smith to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the top of the hour. The Sounders coach and Seattle
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Soccer Royalty has been dreaming about this day his whole life,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the world coming to his stadium, his pits from downtown Seattle, Liominfield, US.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: In Australia playing a new and kickoff French.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Metzer told us Masna mary A that he thinks the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: United States could advance not only to the round of eight,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: but maybe the semifinals, maybe the final, and then get
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: a favorable draft for this round to thirty two, which
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: a win today would pretty much I'm sure why not
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: in those ways exact words, right, why not? And he
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: says it's a tournament because it's deep and injuries can
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: can take a you know, a role in this thing,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: and then fatigue and all those things at each game
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: as we all know, whether it's you know, if you
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: look at the NCAA right tournament.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: His tactical stuff also plays into that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: So and speaking of injuries, Maz, we got word in
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: about twenty minutes to the Christian Polisic will not play
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Team USA.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Sam. How's that change him?
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Dramatically. I think he's gonna go one of two ways.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing some people are saying Ricardo Pepe will will
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: step in and then.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Then he'll go to Well, I mean the thing is, you.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Know, we can get online all we want until they
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: roll out the eleven. But if those with Pepe, I
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: think that he would change and have two strikers up front, right, So,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I you know, that seems a little far fetched at
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: that point, but I think to what we talked about,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Giorna seems to would be the obvious choice if he's
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: going to keep this lineup, because what you get from Ana,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: he means the closest technical.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Ability and energy that's there and direct runs. He's got
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that guy to take on one b one maybe two
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to one. The other one is Brendan.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Aaronson he's more of a workhorse right there with high
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: pressing a billion direct attacking and and he's more of
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a defensive piece. Another option would be Tim tim Ware
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean he offers more. He's a natural
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: winger because the one thing where they are they don't
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: have a lot of depth in the United States, natural
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: depth is that winger position. So it's all really going
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to depend on what, you know, which way that he's
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: gonna go that him being.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm uncle sam Usa top had you gotta
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's uh, international soccer nationalism and yet with
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: an understanding that it's all for fun and everything else,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: right that not to cross over that line and enjoy
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the the experience. So so those are kind of you know,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think uh Sebastian would go in there and uh,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: because then you change a whole midfield Sebastian culture. Sebastian
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Burkholder had been starting they started last NTCH instead of
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Christian roll Don on the outside, and Brian Schmitz was
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: saying he'd be interested to see if roll Don gets
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: a bigger role today his sounders are because of Christian
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Polistic not being there Revive but Jimmy's on first where
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: they're a mix of soccer rus and American Outlaws or
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: US soccer fans, and they're Sasquats, the Sonics old mascot
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: walking behind us. There's guys wearing Michael Dixon Seahawks jerseys,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the Australian punter for the Seahawks.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: This isn't the only thing going on downtown tonight.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: At seven ten, the Mariners play the Red Sox in
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a fireworks night game. And I had a Mariner's official
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: tell me over at Victory Hall about an hour ago
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that there are only single tickets available. They're expecting that
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to be sold out by the afternoons. So we're talking
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten thousand sports fans paid attendees, not
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: counting the ones who aren't getting in the stadiums who
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: are down here this afternoon for the US and Australia
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: World Cup and then a Marinas in Red Sox. The
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Mariners yesterday got three runs in the first inning. Cold
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Emerson's two runs in the first inning a double bike.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: It's gonna make double bike. Cole Young in a two
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: run single by cold Emerson, the two Youngsters middle infeaters.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: The three runs in the first inning, and that's all
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: they needed because Brian Wu was outstanding seven scoreless headings,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: three hits, aout, nine strakeouts for a six win. The
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Mariners are two games up for five hundred, which in
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: the America League West is good enough for a one
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: and a half game lead over the age. I mentioned
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: tonight Fireworks night for the season over against the Red Sox.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller is starting tonight. They got a night game
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night the Mariners do against the Red Sox. Emerson
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Hancock starts at seven to ten game Tomorrow night Sunday
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the home standing series finale. Logan Gilbert is gonna start
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: a one ten afternoon game on Sunday.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: If you didn't see.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Also around sports news, the club Gary Payton got a street.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Named after him in his hometown of Oakland.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, OZ the Seattle SuperSonics twitter x page reported quote
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  Speaker 2: drivers are already reporting full court pressure and trash talk
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  Speaker 2: at every intersection of Gary Peyton Way in Oakland. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if Gary Payton has a role in the
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  Speaker 2: Sonics when they come back, hopefully in the fall of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight to be the NBA's expansion team. I've
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  Speaker 2: does a lot of talk about that in some kind
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  Speaker 2: of role of Gary Payton shoting the Sonics. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the ownership group we talked about Samantha Holloway and one
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  Speaker 2: roof Sports and Entertainment positioning themselves to bid on the
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  Speaker 2: Sonics and then bringing Melinda Gates into the fold with
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  Speaker 2: one roof Sports and Entertainment to position that group to
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  Speaker 2: have the inside track for whenever the NBA decides to
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  Speaker 2: expand to Seattle in Las Vegas. That vote could come
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  Speaker 2: this fall. Up next back to the World Cup, which
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  Speaker 2: is going to be across the street for me in
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  Speaker 2: about an hour and eight minutes kickoff time. KIFA does
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  Speaker 2: it right on the dot when they say a twelve
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  Speaker 2: noon game, it starts at twelve noon. Nico Moreno buddy
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  Speaker 2: at mos Vita Murray and fellow Fox thirteen sports analyst,
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  Speaker 2: also is a columnist for MLS Espanol. Rain is going
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  Speaker 2: to join us with MAZ the Talk World Cup next
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  Speaker 2: to ninety three point three k j RFM