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Chuck & Buck 7-10 Hour 2: Brad Evans, ABC's of the Mariners & we have some frontrunners! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Get crosses in end to worry by both Rowley audio
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  Speaker 1: heads it back in to able to find a boppe to.
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  Speaker 2: Traffic twenty core World Talcos.
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  Speaker 3: Gives trying to lead to the quarterfinal.
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  Speaker 2: Let's getting beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: Did you Saytan beautiful?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I agree.
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  Speaker 2: Soccer's just in bananas.
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  Speaker 1: She really is, especially in this stage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about it. Good morning to you. It
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  Speaker 2: is Chuck and Ashley with you as we roll into
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  Speaker 2: our number two coming up here in about five minutes,
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  Speaker 2: and Brad Evans we'll be joining us on the show
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  Speaker 2: to talk about France advancing, but it's also about the
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  Speaker 2: matches coming up over the course of the next couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. And of course we haven't chatted with Brad
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  Speaker 2: about Team USA being eliminated. Last time we had him on,
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  Speaker 2: we were previewing USA Belgium with him that very day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we really were. We thought we were going to
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  Speaker 2: beat in Belgium, but it didn't turn out that way.
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  Speaker 2: They invested us. So let's get to your headlines before
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  Speaker 2: we bring in Brad. Aboard here on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 2: on the boarding. We will start with the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Why not France won over Morocco two to nothing. The
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  Speaker 2: highlight there provided by Fox. It was a scoreless game
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  Speaker 2: between Morocco and France for quite some time, but killing
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  Speaker 2: and Bape scores the goal breaks the scoreless tie, and
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  Speaker 2: then it kind of felt like France just toyed with
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  Speaker 2: him from that point forward. So they're the first team
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  Speaker 2: to advance to the final four. And then today you've
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  Speaker 2: got Belgium and Spain at noon, Norway, England, Argentina, Switzerland,
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  Speaker 2: and they will play on Saturday. Wimbledon finals will be
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  Speaker 2: elt Saturday and Sunday. The women will play tomorrow at
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  Speaker 2: eight am. The men will play tomorrow at eight am
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  Speaker 2: our time. The Seahawks bid is down to two ownership
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  Speaker 2: groups or at least two front runners, which we will
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  Speaker 2: discuss a little bit later on in this hour. And
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners lost to the Miami Marlins eight to four
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  Speaker 2: yesterday in Miami. Swept by the Marlins. Swept. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I did warn you that's an improved Marlins team, but
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  Speaker 2: you don't expect to get swept in that situation. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: bad pitching, bad hitting with runners in scoring position again
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  Speaker 2: and bad defense leads to the eight to four loss.
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  Speaker 2: And so how do you get better, You got to
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  Speaker 2: dust yourself off and play an even better team starting tonight.
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  Speaker 2: The Tampa Bay Rays have the best record in the
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  Speaker 2: American League right now by four full games. Nick Martinez
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  Speaker 2: will start for them. Luis Castillo will start for us.
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  Speaker 2: First pitch is at four to ten today and then
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  Speaker 2: as soon as this series is over, we just slide
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  Speaker 2: right in to the All Star Break. Part of the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Week now is the MLB Draft, which will
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  Speaker 2: get started tomorrow at ten am. The Mariners have the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth pick overall in the draft. The Futures Game's
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  Speaker 2: going to be held on Sunday. That will feature Kate
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  Speaker 2: Anderson and Ryan Sloan, so that might be worth a
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  Speaker 2: look if you're a Mariners fan. Home run Derby's going
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  Speaker 2: to be on Monday, and believe it or not, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be on Netflix, not on normal cable television.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be on Netflix, So if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have that streaming service, you know, might have to head
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  Speaker 2: somewhere to watch it. And then the game will of
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  Speaker 2: course be played on Tuesday, So there you go. Those
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  Speaker 2: are your headlines. They are brought to you by Frost
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  Speaker 2: you Yeah? I did cors lights while I watched the
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  Speaker 2: US lose to Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was the bummer. You chose chill us also.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they put us on ice all right, joining
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  Speaker 2: us and now on the program former sounder, a sounder
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  Speaker 2: legend really, and he is really taken hold of this
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting thing because he's been spectacular for US in our
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  Speaker 2: World Cup coverage throughout the last few weeks here at
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  Speaker 2: And it turns out we can bug him twice in
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  Speaker 2: one week and he doesn't even get angry with us.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Evans joins us here on Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 2: the morning. Good morning, Brad, Oh, good morning guys. Doing
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  Speaker 2: all right? You sound sad?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sad.
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  Speaker 2: You're still sad?
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  Speaker 5: Actually, oh yeah, I'm still sad. I actually just want
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  Speaker 5: my money back. What do you mean the game on Monday?
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  Speaker 5: I paid for those tickets and I left the game
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  Speaker 5: and I want my money back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, welcome to what it feels like to be a fan. Brad.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's funny in I think it was twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty eleven or twenty twelve, we played the La galax
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  Speaker 5: year at home and we got smashed for nothing, and
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  Speaker 5: all of our season ticket holders, all the fans, I think,
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  Speaker 5: send emails to Adrian and their ticket reps and said
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  Speaker 5: we want our money back for that game, and.
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  Speaker 4: They did it.
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  Speaker 5: And as a player, I couldn't understand because it didn't
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  Speaker 5: feel like we didn't try in the game. Things just
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  Speaker 5: on the day didn't work out, and I really didn't
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  Speaker 5: understand it. And this is my first time paying paying
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  Speaker 5: for a ticket to a soccer game, especially.
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  Speaker 4: That amount of money. I could have bought.
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  Speaker 5: Season tickets for the next two years for the Sounders,
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  Speaker 5: And I left thinking the same exact thing, I want my.
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  Speaker 4: Money back, and I get it. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I laugh to keep from crying, because, yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: was a that was a rough go and certainly unexpected
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  Speaker 2: is the word I'm going to use. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think that you were warning us man Belgium's really good
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week and that this was not going to
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  Speaker 2: be an easy match. But for them to have dominated
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  Speaker 2: really from the beginning, certainly at the beginning and then
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  Speaker 2: all the way through the match. How surprising and disappointing
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  Speaker 2: was that for you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, really surprising and disappointing that the atmosphere. I went
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  Speaker 5: down with Jamie before the game and we left an hour.
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  Speaker 5: We did our you know, the typical park line scooter
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  Speaker 5: get into the whole crowd situation. I had never been
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  Speaker 5: a part of anything like that where all of you know,
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  Speaker 5: Occidental Square Pint whatever it was, was all shut down
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  Speaker 5: and people were just everywhere. It was a zoo and
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  Speaker 5: it was the most electric atmosphere I've.
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  Speaker 4: Ever been around.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you go an hour and a half before
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  Speaker 5: the game, everyone hyped up. I did not see really
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  Speaker 5: one Belgium jersey in a sea of red, white and blue.
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  Speaker 5: We had a great time getting into the stadium, seeing
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  Speaker 5: friends of old former teammates with the national team randomly
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  Speaker 5: in the stadium. Everyone's home were super high, and then
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  Speaker 5: you get the fly over with the four Jets and
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  Speaker 5: just was pumped, and then the whistle blew and it's
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  Speaker 5: like something completely changed and we are all still trying
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  Speaker 5: to figure this thing out of what happened. All of
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  Speaker 5: my friends, former colleagues players, no one has an answer
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  Speaker 5: and I don't think we've heard an answer in the
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  Speaker 5: press either from coach from the players as well. What
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  Speaker 5: really would happened? Was it tactically just completely unprepared. I
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  Speaker 5: think the biggest disappointment for me was this is a
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  Speaker 5: World Cup. I didn't see anyone after the game falling
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  Speaker 5: to the ground because they were so tired that they
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  Speaker 5: put so much effort into the game. It looked like
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  Speaker 5: both teams neither team really broke a sweat in the game.
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  Speaker 5: To be honest, it felt very routine. It was a
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  Speaker 5: walk in the park for Belgium. And disappointment, I think
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  Speaker 5: is just the underlying theme here.
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  Speaker 2: So if we don't have the answers buddies speaking to
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  Speaker 2: the actual answers of why that would have occurred, what
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  Speaker 2: is your best guest in terms of why there was
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  Speaker 2: a lack of energy, why that Belgium seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: a step ahead at all times? I mean, are you
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  Speaker 2: willing this morning to lay it at the feet of
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  Speaker 2: anyone in particular or any group in particular.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, I think the opponent that we faced was
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  Speaker 5: also we talked about it, you know this week already
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  Speaker 5: before the game, was we're facing a Belgium team that
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  Speaker 5: is a top ten team in the world, has been
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  Speaker 5: for the last ten plus years, and a legit top
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  Speaker 5: ten team in the world. That the way that people
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  Speaker 5: rankings work, you play better teams, you get results, you
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  Speaker 5: get higher rankings. Well, when you play in CONCACAF, most
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  Speaker 5: of the teams except for Mexico Canada are ranked lower
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  Speaker 5: than you, so you pick up points along the road
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  Speaker 5: and your ranking goes up. The US hasn't really beaten
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  Speaker 5: a really solid team in a long time, and I
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  Speaker 5: think there's a little false when you look at the
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  Speaker 5: FIFA rankings. There's a false narrative there that the US
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  Speaker 5: is ranked as high as they are and they beat
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  Speaker 5: teams that they were supposed to be in the group
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  Speaker 5: stage and obviously Bosnia as well, and then they face
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  Speaker 5: the team that is just a class above. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you look at it in every sport, you know, there's
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  Speaker 5: teams that are just a cut above and top to bottom,
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  Speaker 5: goalkeeper to striker, all the way through.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what the US faced.
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  Speaker 5: And they got another dose of reality, and US as
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  Speaker 5: Americans got another dose of reality and where we stand.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of work to do, and this
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  Speaker 5: isn't just about that team.
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  Speaker 4: It starts with you soccer and all the way up.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it is a good thing because.
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  Speaker 5: Everything I'm reading online is how this whole system needs
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  Speaker 5: to be changed. Well can it be changed? I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: but it at least starts the conversation again of how
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  Speaker 5: can we get more players to play at that level?
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  Speaker 4: To be at that level, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Think there's a real clear cut answer or the pay
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  Speaker 5: to play model. We could talk for hours and hours
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  Speaker 5: about it, how expensive youth soccer is from a young age.
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  Speaker 4: But we just faced a team.
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  Speaker 5: That had it looked like men amongst boys in a
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  Speaker 5: certain context.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish you would get your money back. Brad
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  Speaker 2: Evans is with us here on Chucking Buck in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: First chance to chat with him since the US was
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  Speaker 2: eliminated by Belgium on Monday. We had Brad on Monday
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  Speaker 2: morning to preview that match. But you can hear it.
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  Speaker 2: Payne's still there here on this Friday from that loss.
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  Speaker 2: Christian polisics getting beat up by not just media types
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  Speaker 2: you know and talk Mike myself or talking heads like
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  Speaker 2: Steven A. Smith, but he's getting beat up by former
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  Speaker 2: players for how poorly he played on Monday? Are you
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  Speaker 2: going to join in on that one? And then number two,
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  Speaker 2: is it fair? Is it fair for the media to
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  Speaker 2: be as harsh toward Polisic as they seem to have
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  Speaker 2: been this week.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it stings for sure as a player when
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  Speaker 5: you get criticized, But when you are of that caliber
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  Speaker 5: and you've been on every commercial leading up to this
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  Speaker 5: World Cup, every time you turn on the TV, it's
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  Speaker 5: your face, You're going to naturally have to take the
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  Speaker 5: brunt of all the criticism. And it's no different than
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  Speaker 5: being a captain on any team, whether it's MLS or
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  Speaker 5: around the world.
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  Speaker 4: But when you're a player of that.
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  Speaker 5: Stature and the expectations are there, and what he felt
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  Speaker 5: in the twenty eighteen qualifying round not making that tournament,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he put his everything into those games and
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  Speaker 5: he was crying on the field afterwards and you could
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  Speaker 5: see how much it meant to him. And then he
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  Speaker 5: stepped into this game and just didn't have a great performance.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit harsh looking back on
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  Speaker 5: it now. Right Landon Donovan has been really vocal about
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  Speaker 5: his performance in the last game. Carly Lloyd, a former
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  Speaker 5: two times I'm you know, women's player of the year.
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  Speaker 5: They were really harsh on him, and I get.
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  Speaker 4: It, though.
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  Speaker 5: If you go to Europe and read the papers, you
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  Speaker 5: have to imagine that there's no football, basketball, baseball, hockey.
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  Speaker 5: Everything surrounds soccer, and the pressure that those players feel
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  Speaker 5: in tabloids, especially in normal news. It's on every news station,
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  Speaker 5: on TV. There's no other sport, so you kind of
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  Speaker 5: have to wrap your head around extrapolating all that and
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  Speaker 5: the pressure they feel on a weekly basis. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think it's anything new for Christian. Of course, it's new
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  Speaker 5: coming from within his own country, but he's been playing
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  Speaker 5: outside the US since he was, you know, fourteen fifteen
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  Speaker 5: years old, so I think he's used to it. He's
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  Speaker 5: felt pressure before and the expectation of what he can
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  Speaker 5: and should be. You know, in the playoffs, in a
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  Speaker 5: knockout round game, I had pulled a piece of bone
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  Speaker 5: off my ankle. Well, it had already swollen up in
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  Speaker 5: the you know, sixtieth minute, and I told the trainers Tapic,
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  Speaker 5: I'd be profe and Tom and all, I'm finishing the game.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes it's the mentality thing. Sometimes it's the pain threshold thing.
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  Speaker 5: Omar Gonzalez, who I saw at the game, played in
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  Speaker 5: a World Cup two or three ligaments in his ankle
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  Speaker 5: in the seventy fifth minute, said tape it, I'm finishing
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  Speaker 5: the game. So you kind of go back and forth
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  Speaker 5: between what's best for the team and what's best for
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  Speaker 5: the player. In that moment, maybe he was too injured
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  Speaker 5: to proceed. He wasn't having the best game either, So
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  Speaker 5: there's pressure with being the captain of a team and
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  Speaker 5: high expectations and being on TV. But you have to
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  Speaker 5: be able to shoulder it and move on to the
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  Speaker 5: next thing. I think it's fair because I think their
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  Speaker 5: message is a broader statement about where US soccer's at
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  Speaker 5: and where we can be. It's not just about his performance.
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  Speaker 5: No one on that pitch had a good performance. But
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  Speaker 5: he's the captain. In my opinion, he's captain America. Tim
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  Speaker 5: Reem's the actual captain, but he is supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: the best player on the field and he didn't show
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  Speaker 5: up on the day. So yeah, you're gonna get criticism.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's represents true growth for the sport here
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  Speaker 2: in America. I mean, even if it is criticism. Brad,
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  Speaker 2: they were discussing it on formats platforms that typically ignore soccer,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that every league could learn from this.
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  Speaker 2: I think the WNBA could learn from this. Hey, getting
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  Speaker 2: criticized and making headlines.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Bigger you get, the more critical the analysis becomes. And
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  Speaker 2: that represents growth. That means you're actually starting to weave
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  Speaker 2: yourself deep into the fabric of American culture. And so
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  Speaker 2: to me, Christian Polisic getting hammered this week, you know,
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  Speaker 2: feel bad for him, nobody. I'm sure he feels bad,
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  Speaker 2: But I think that that represents true growth of the
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  Speaker 2: sport here in this country, don't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, it's not unlike any other sport.
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  Speaker 5: We've been really spoiled as Sounders fans and season ticket
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  Speaker 5: holders with the Sounders because you've only missed the playoffs
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  Speaker 5: once since two thousand and nine. That's not the normal
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  Speaker 5: case in most sports. But let's the Kraken for example,
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  Speaker 5: or like you said, WNBA. You have to go through
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  Speaker 5: criticism and failures to get yourself up to the next level,
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  Speaker 5: to have that push, to have that push from the
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  Speaker 5: fans and the expectations to be higher on your team organization.
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  Speaker 5: That's a losing season for the Mariners you got to
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  Speaker 5: keep pushing because your fans, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: you love the sport, and when you do win, it
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  Speaker 5: makes it feel that much better that you know, you
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  Speaker 5: were a fan, you were a part of it, you
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  Speaker 5: were you know, voicing your opinion for the growth of
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  Speaker 5: that team.
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  Speaker 4: In particular, we're talking.
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  Speaker 5: About a national team, so it's on an even broader scale.
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  Speaker 5: You're taking everyone in this country, three hundred plus million
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  Speaker 5: saying we want better.
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  Speaker 4: But how do we get better? That is going to
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  Speaker 4: be the big question.
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  Speaker 5: But the rest of the world has had one hundred
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  Speaker 5: year head start on our national team and we are
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  Speaker 5: playing catch up since nineteen ninety four, to be honest,
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  Speaker 5: was kind of the jumping off point. So we still
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of work to do, a lot of growth,
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  Speaker 5: and there's no clear cut answer. There's too many massive
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  Speaker 5: sports in this in this country to say we're just
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  Speaker 5: going to become a soccer nation. There's just this is
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  Speaker 5: a giant melting pot. We have everything in this country
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  Speaker 5: and it's growing, which is great, but we still need
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  Speaker 5: to continue to put that pressure. But it needs to
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  Speaker 5: be on ESPN. We need to talk about it consistently.
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  Speaker 5: We have to not let this thing die most importantly
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  Speaker 5: to keep the pressure on US soccer to get to
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  Speaker 5: the next stage.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I agree. All right, So this weekend, who who
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  Speaker 2: are we going to end up seeing in the final four.
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  Speaker 2: You got France winning yesterday, so they're in. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: rapid fire through the Spain Belgium. Who do you like?
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  Speaker 4: I like Spain in that game.
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  Speaker 5: I think Belgium they showed it against the US that
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  Speaker 5: they've got the ability to beat an athletic tea. Now
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  Speaker 5: you're going up in a Spain team that is incredibly athletic.
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  Speaker 5: But also they've they've shown that they're they're the ability
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  Speaker 5: to win World Cups and they've done it before. I
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  Speaker 5: think Spain comes out in this one. I'm excited for
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  Speaker 5: that one today. Then England Alway is probably probably the
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  Speaker 5: most highlighted matchup so far in in the UH. In
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  Speaker 5: this round, I was really impressed by France just smashing Morocco.
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  Speaker 5: Morocco basically showed up without a fight, also similar to
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  Speaker 5: the US, and I think that they just faced the
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  Speaker 5: team that was a cut above. They've been my team
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  Speaker 5: to win the whole tournament from the start.
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  Speaker 4: England Norway is.
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  Speaker 5: UH is an exciting matchup.
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  Speaker 4: I think Holland has become this.
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  Speaker 5: Lovable character in this whole World Cup where he's got
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  Speaker 5: his YouTube blog.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: He's basically become American.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: He's said the greatest things about being in the US
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: and the fans, the fields, the.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Whole atmosphere surrounding the World Cup.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: That's our I think little Cinderella store in this whole
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: World Cup and I'm exceeded excited to see what they
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: can do. They did it against Brazil, There's no reason
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: why they can't do it against England and then Argentina Switzerland.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: We'll see in that one if we see Switzerland go
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: up to nothing and then somehow Argentina gets a result
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: in the last minute. Once again, it seems like they're
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: just they have no die in them, and that last
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: game was so epic against Egypt. You know, you can
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: talk about the refereeing here and there, but you still
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: have to put the effort in. That was that's been
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: the biggest thing so far. It's just if you put
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: in the effort, you're gonna find yourself with a result
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: coupled with your skill. In Argentina, certainly with Messi, if
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: he stays healthy, They're always going to have a chance.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: These are really really awesome matches, and I think that
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: we've converted a casual fan to say, I'm in this
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: thing until until through the final, right, we want to
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: see who wins this tournament and that that has been
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the best part about this world Yeah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: For sure. And and I've only got a minute. Maybe
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: we talk about this more on another visit. But what
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: is the experience like for Sounders when you guys would
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: return to the pitch after a World Cup event? Did
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: do you always get a boost? Does the MLS get
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a huge boost from a World Cup year?
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I mean you're always going to find that new fan
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: that that pops out, and the Sounders have done a
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: great job. I mean, we'll play Portland next Thursday, so
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I'll be three days before the final kind of in
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: the buzz around the game, and we're playing obviously our
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: biggest rival. They're going to open up most of the stadium, cheap,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: cheap tickets to be had for that one. We want
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: to pack it in and we always have our first
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: match on us. So if you're a first timer to
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: a Sounders game, check it out online. You get the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: opportunity to see a game for free. It is a
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: great opportunity to continue the buzz because the Sounders have
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: that atmosphere typically always have. I mean you yeah, some
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: games against Portland we've had sixty five tho in the stadium.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: So there's no reason why you can't replicate that, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: if you want to be a part of it, certainly.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: It's pennies on the dollar compared to a World Cup game.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Well let's keep recreating that atmosphere here in Seattle, keep
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: it going. And there's nothing like it to me. I mean,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: we've been spoiled as Sounders fans to have these amazing
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: fans with thirty thousand plus every game. It's just you
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: have to continue that buzz. Get cheap tickets to bring
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: out the family, first match on us, whatever it is,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: however we want to be in the building, just come.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Be a part of it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: The Rain are also doing a ton of promotions surrounding
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: the World Cup and it's going to be on grass.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: They're going to keep that grass in the stadium for
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: that game, So another opportunity to see a world class
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: pitch in that stadium. That kind of speeds up the
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: game quite a bit. And it's against Portland like our
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: this is our hugest rivalry in all of Major League soccer.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: It is a marquee matchup and it will be a
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: massive one for the Sounders. You have to use the
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: buzz to continue this thing going.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: All right, awesome stuff, man, Thank you very much. We
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: appreciate it, and enjoy the matches today and tomorrow, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you again next week.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: We'll do all right, see guys.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Brad Evans joining us right here on Chuck and Buck.
• 21:11
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• 21:18
  Speaker 4: It's awesome.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: X y Z today on the ABCS of the MS.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Let's get it going. X's for excuses, I'm not really sure.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, most people are bashing the hell out of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson, and I got a I'm in that. I mean,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you've heard enough of these shows if you listen regularly,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you know I've not I've been over I've been very critical,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: maybe even overly critical of Dan Wilson to this point.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: But those that are defending him seem to go down
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the he's just a puppet route, which number one. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: don't think that that's an excuse for Dan Wilson. Have
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: a backbone, then stand up for yourself. Yeah, I know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I know that when he took the job, he's there
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: were certain requirements that he had for taking the job
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: in the first place. I'm not going to be handled
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: this way, treated this with so he's Yes, there is
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a huge involvement like there is in every front office
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: with the lineup decisions, rotational decisions rules that are put
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: in place. Every single front office has them. The Mariners
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: are no different. But Dan also has some individual powers
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: as well that they're not allowed to touch. And so
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's an excuse for Dan. I don't
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: think we can just excuse that this team's underachieved and
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: just say, oh, it's the front office pull in all
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the strings. So that's that's where it starts. Secondly, that
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: we don't have managers that really do that much x's
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and o's anymore. I mean, we don't hit and run
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: anymore steals. We pretty much just have a green light.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe you'll tell somebody not to steal. I mean, but
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: that's side of the Mariners fallosophy. Like if you feel
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: like you can get there, Get there. Do you think
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: anybody's given Josh Naylor a steel sign? Never, He's never
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: never gotten a steel sign in his entire life. No,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: everybody pretty much has. If you think you can get there,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: get there. But we will tell you if we think
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that you're running too much. Nobody hitting runs. We don't
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: bun anymore. There are no rarely do you see double switches.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about a pitcher hitting if
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: you're facing a National League team. I mean, there really
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: aren't that many decisions. It's bullpen decisions and it's pinch
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: hitting decisions. That's it. And I don't think he's been
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: good at either one of those things. And then the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: third thing, and this really has to be emphasized, is
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: there Because there's been a lot of conversation from Poachattino
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: with the soccer team to to now Dan Wilson, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I read this online and I probably shouldn't even pay
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: credence to it, but I know that this conversation is
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: being held because I think it's being misinterpreted. When I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: say a manager's job in baseball is to get the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: most out of the talent given to him, that doesn't
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: mean that Dan Wilson needs to give a fiery speech
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: before every game. No, that doesn't mean that Dan Wilson
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: has to be a raw rock guy or wave palm
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: palms or anything like that. We don't need him to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: be Herb Brooks from Miracle.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: That's funny. I was just picturing him.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, before every game. We don't need him to be that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Ever, we don't need closed door meetings. We don't need
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: open door meetings. We don't need him, you know, with
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: a red ass and finding guys left and right. That's
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: not what I'm talking about.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the simple fact that a manager's job
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball and the modern day is here's
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the talent we're giving. You get the most out of it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Does anyone think that we've gotten the most out of
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: this talent so far this season? Do you do anyone
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: think that this team hasn't underachieved? Raise your hand if
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you think this was right. There are a few of you,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: There are a few of you that every year think
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: they stink when they don't even stink. Right now, they're mediocre.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Right, but right, yeah, I don't see a lot of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: hands up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, well certainly not here, But that's just it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And I brought this this point up earlier. Rob Thompson
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: had done an amazing job with the Philadelphia Phillies. He's
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the guy that sparked them because the previous manager wasn't
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: getting the most out of the talent that Dave Dombroski
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: and Philadelphia thought that they had. He's the guy that
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: sparked that. And then this year it looked like Rob
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Thompson couldn't get his team to play, so they made
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the uncomfortable decision of firing a very popular person with
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the fan base and with the clubhouse on the simple
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: grounds of we're better than this and we're not gonna
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: let this season get away. We have a veteran team,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: We're not gonna let this season get away from us.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And they put Don Mattingley in. And I don't know
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: if Don Mattingley's message is any better. I could promise
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you he's not raw on pomp on me. That's not
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Donnie baseball. But for whatever reason, the message changed and
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia affilies immediately started playing good baseball, immediately started
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: playing good baseball. So I'm not here to tell you
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: that Dan Wilson should get fired. That's not what I'm saying,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: even though I think it should be considered. But what
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I am saying is the excuses from those that are
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: defending Dan Wilson have all kind of run thin. There's
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: no question he's not getting the most out of his
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: talent right now. And I don't care what means you
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: have to operate under in order to get the most
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: out of your talent. You're going to be judged based
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: on whether or not you are. That's that's just as
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: fundamental as it gets. Are we playing as well as
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: this talent suggests that we should be playing? And the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: answer is absolutely not right now. How much more time
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: and a hundred sixty two game, six month campaign do
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: you give somebody to turn it around? Since we have
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: turned it around in the past after stinking for the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: first three months of the year. Well that's left to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Jerry and Justin. But I'm not going to forfeit this
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: season just because we've got a sacred cow and Dan Wilson,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: who was a popular player here in town. This team's
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: got to start performing and I'm gonna you know, the
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: bad al has given him a little bit of flexibility
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and a little bit of leeway and a little bit
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: more of a runway. But yeah, I think he's got
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: till about the trade deadline to turn this thing around.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's fair.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I think he's I think that's the if we're if
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: we're not playing good baseball by the end of this month,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: then I think he needs to go.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: That's just the job. That's the job, right, and you.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Still have time by the end of the month to
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: fix things and go on a run and put yourself
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: in a good playoff position.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go quickly through Y and Z because I
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: did say it's cool too, got Yeah, why is for Yandy?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yandy Diaz is is not the star of the Rays,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: but he's been there for a while, and Yandy Diaz
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: is kind of the blueprint though for the Rays, for
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: everyone that thinks the only way to win today in
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball is by hitting home runs. We have
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of teams having very good years that are
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: in the bottom five and home runs this year. Yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and the Tampa Bay Rays are pretty much the Marlins,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: but a better version of that. They strike out the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: least in the entire sport. They don't really hit all
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: that many home runs except from one guy, Junior Carmenaro,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: who's a superstar. And they have a high batting average,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and they're smart on the bass paths, and they're aggressive
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: on the bass paths, and they have a good on
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: base percentage. That's how they win. That's how they win.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: And then they always pitch well. They always find ways
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to find pitchers that pitch well, and that's the way
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: they're winning this year. Fifty four and thirty seven, best
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: record right now in the American League. And finally, ze
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: is for Zany, because I know how Zany it looks
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: that are the American leagues look so weak and so
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: watered down. I'm just going to warn you for the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: rest of the season. It's not as bad as what
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you think. Yeah, a lot of teams have had disappointing seasons,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: just like the Mariners. But I have a feeling right
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: now there are eight winning teams with winning records in
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the National League. There are five in the American League.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I think we'll end up around seven and six. I
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: think that's probably where it's going to end up before
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: it's all said and done. Maybe the National League is better,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: but not that much. The Blue Jays are going to
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: play better, the Red Sox have already started turning it around.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: We're going to play better. I don't have any doubt
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: about that, And so I don't think the American League
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: is The American League is a lot of teams that
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: were expected to do good have had bad first halfs.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: The Detroit Tigers are a good team and they're starting
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: to turn around.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Two.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: We saw that last year with the Detroit Tigers. They
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: now won five straight. So they had a bad first half,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: but they're starting to turn it around and they're back
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: in the wildcard race at this point. But I think
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: this thing's going to average out quite a bit. In
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the National League. The Cardinals are supposed to be rebuilding.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: They're not supposed to be forty eight and forty four.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: The Nationals are supposed to be rebuilding. They're not supposed
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: to be forty eight and forty six. I mean, this
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: thing will start to even itself out in the second half.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: And by the way, I don't know why you're rooting
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: for the American League to be better. Why are you
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: celebrating the fact that there are so many people out
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: there that are like that seem to be wanting the
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: American to be better? Right now, we need the American
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: League to be average.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shouldn't we be happy that we're average?
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: In the American League is as average, if not less average.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't we be like, whoo, good thing? The American League's
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: down in the first half. Good thing. We're not the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: only ones in this underachieving boat that we're riding in
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: as opposed to this league and we can't even win
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: this league. I'm actually encouraged that the Mariners aren't the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: only team in the AL underachieving in the first half
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: of the season. All right, coming up next, let's talk
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: about Seahawks ownership. For me, it's a really difficult topic
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to discuss. How do you break it down? We'll figure
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: out a way. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: R f M. I realized this is one of the
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: biggest stories of the year here in Seattle. Who's going
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: to own the Seattle Seahawks. Who's gonna be I'm not
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: underestimating just how hugely important that this is. I just
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: don't know how to evaluate it. I don't really know
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: how to turn it into a sports talk radio topic.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: How do we know that these two contenders, Cosla and Matal,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: if they're going to be good in FL owners. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: guess Osla has an association with the forty nine ers,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: but I'm already judge questioning his character.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Right, so it already makes bad decisions.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Right exactly, and hangs out with the wrong people.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: So there's that. And then mattal is with the Boston Celtics,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: so he's he's, you know, a big part of the
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Boston Celtics, so he does definitely knows professional sports, and
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: they've been running a good organization there, so I suppose
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of an experience, but neither of
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: them have run in ANFL team, right, I don't know
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: how good they're going to. I don't know how much
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: they know football. I don't know if if they were
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the primary owner of a football team, if they're going
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to come in here and just let it go, let
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the operation go as well as it's been going. I mean,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's a fool that comes in here and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: tries to change things.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: I also don't I don't love the idea of someone
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: owning the team who's.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Not from here.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I don't like that either.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, because then.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: At that point you're coming, you're trying to figure out
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: just how everything kind of works and operates here, and
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: you don't you don't have any investment really into the area.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Hmmmm. That worries me.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: So, I mean there are a lot of things. I mean,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I guess we could do Taiale of the tape one.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Mattal's fifty and COSLA's seventy one. Okay, now you might say, oh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: fifty year old, because he looks like he's still twenty.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: The guy, I mean, he looks like a Z's I'm
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: sorry from Parks and Reck. That's what he looks like. Meanwhile,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Cosla looks like ar Lee Ermie from Full Metal Jacket. Yeah,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: that's who he looks like, but an Indian version of
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: ar Lee Ermie. So one's fifty and one seventy one.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Do you like the idea of having the older guy
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: that's a little more experienced, the seventy one year old
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: versus the fifty year old who might sleep with the secretary?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You know, is that something that you'd be more interested in?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: But then you also have to consider the seventy year
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: old one year old. You know, we probably need to
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: vet his children because the oldest son's probably going to
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: be the owner of the Seahawks than in a few years,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: And what if his kids are turds? I mean, do
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: we know about the kids? Have we evetted the kids
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: yet to make sure we're turd free on that front?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Is that something I haven't Yeah, exactly, That's something I
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: would think that has to be considered. They're both kind
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: of worth about the same. Coasla's worth like fifteen bill
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and Mattal's worth seventeen bill. But Coesla is a self
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: made man. He's a venture capitalist. He kind of generated
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: all his wealth on his own, where Mattal dad he's
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the real brains behind the operation. He's He's just the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: heir to a steel fortune. I kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: guy that's self made frankly. So I mean, if you
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: want evaluation, I mean, yeah, I can maybe pick apart
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: two people I have never met and will never know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: who have never owned a football team. And I'm not
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: sure exactly how much foot ball knowledge they have, or
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: if it's good that they don't have any at all,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: because if they don't have any at all, then they
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: won't interfere, right, So I'm not really sure how to
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: assess two billionaires trying to buy your football team. And
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: so I recognize it as a big deal. But I
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: can't really tell you who's the better.
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  Speaker 1: Choice, right and I can't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know either, and I the only thing
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I keep hoping is that there's someone else that we're
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: just not hearing about that might have more some local
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: ties that could come out.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Of the woodwork.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Well where did Balmer go?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: What's he doing with all his billions?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I thought he was one of the front runners.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: And according to reports yesterday, it's Matal and Cosla are
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: the clear cut front runners. Doesn't say they're the only two,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't say it's down to two, but these reports are
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: suggesting that it's the Matal group, the Celtics group with
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Wick Grossbeck, who I kind of like, but I've only
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: seen him like trying to be charming. Okay, what is
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: he behind the scenes? I have no idea, So that group,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: and then Cosla, who looks rich man. He looks rich
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: he really does.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: There are some people there just pull it off.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Oh he does. Look. You got to pull up a
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: picture of a nod Coesla because that guy. You can
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: tell that that shirt he's wearing costs like thousands of dollars.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: He's taking the long sleeve T shirt game to a
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: new level.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Even though it just looks like, you know, one of
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Ryan Heay's fifty eight T shirts that he has in
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: his closet. I guarantee you that one's worth like three
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably made of Angel's angel.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Dust, angel wings, Yeah, angel dust. I don't know if we.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Want a shirt made angel dust.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that shows how much how many drugs I do.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I mean, I know we probably
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: should be talking about it, but that's about as far
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: as I feel I can talk about it. Yeah, that's
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: fair by me just raised my hands and saying, I
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. They have a lot of money,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: and I've not heard that they're criminals.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: There you go, two good things.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there you go. I think it's a dead heat,
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