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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're gonna get it.
- 0:02Speaker 2: This isn't rugby, No, No.
- 0:05Speaker 1: This isn't just a drink fest. Who can drink the most,
- 0:07Speaker 1: who can be the nicest, who can smile more, who
- 0:10Speaker 1: can hug the most?
- 0:11Speaker 3: No?
- 0:12Speaker 1: I think this is a soccer match. I think the
- 0:14Speaker 1: US when we're.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Gonna we're gonna make Kylie Minogue cry today and then
- 0:17Speaker 2: we're gonna taste her tears.
- 0:21Speaker 1: I love your references. I'm sorry, I don't even know
- 0:23Speaker 1: who any of these things, these people these uh, yeah,
- 0:27Speaker 1: we'll need that. We'll need that as we do some
- 0:29Speaker 1: on site producing.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Kylie. Oh, I love it that Kylie sure is. Yeah,
- 0:39Speaker 2: that's a cover. Yeah, she's got some hits. Yeah, she's
- 0:46Speaker 2: well known.
- 0:47Speaker 1: One of my favorite songs in high school. Yes, there
- 0:50Speaker 1: you go, liar, Thank you, actually, thank you. Ashley knows me. Well.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Great morning to you. It is
- 1:00Speaker 2: a Friday. We are broadcasting here on your favorite radio
- 1:03Speaker 2: station in the Galaxy at Jimmy's on First as we
- 1:07Speaker 2: get ready for the Team USA match against Australia. The
- 1:11Speaker 2: hype is building around here. The breakfast portion of Jimmy's
- 1:15Speaker 2: on First is filled up people waiting the bars getting
- 1:17Speaker 2: ready to open. And that's when the Aussies get the
- 1:21Speaker 2: scent in the air. A bar just opened. You smell
- 1:26Speaker 2: that first call? Yeah yeah. And so they'll be here soon,
- 1:31Speaker 2: descending upon us with their yellow shirts and their beady
- 1:35Speaker 2: eyes as we get ready to face them on the pitch.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Settle this thing once and for all at high noon,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but we called in some reinforcements today. Matt Stretch Johnson
- 1:46Speaker 2: is with us KJR, a lum former voice of the
- 1:49Speaker 2: Seattle Sounders, and he has been to seventy World Cup matches.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Today will mark his seventieth of his life. He and
- 1:57Speaker 2: his brother have done this every four years since they
- 2:01Speaker 2: were how old four years?
- 2:02Speaker 1: I don't know, ninety four the math, Yes, since nineteen
- 2:06Speaker 1: ninety four.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Okay, they've done plenty of traveling. Let's put it that way.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Travel is your keyword. By the way, for the USA giveaway,
- 2:13Speaker 2: if you want to shot at twenty five hundred dollars
- 2:16Speaker 2: in cash of a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars jackpot,
- 2:20Speaker 2: will enter travel at ninety three three KJR dot com
- 2:23Speaker 2: right now for your shot at that. So, I've got
- 2:26Speaker 2: a soccer expert here with us and you're getting great feedback,
- 2:32Speaker 2: by the way, Apparently the text line everybody's very happy
- 2:34Speaker 2: to hear you fun and so they're saying you sound good.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Ashley and I were talking about it during the break.
- 2:39Speaker 2: We're not so sure.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Yeah, A couple of people like, can I get the money?
- 2:43Speaker 1: He owes me. I thought that's what I heard Ashley
- 2:45Speaker 1: say a little bit of that.
- 2:46Speaker 2: So apparently you've given a lot of bad scratch tickets
- 2:49Speaker 2: over the years, A.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Couple a couple. I thought it was a fun gift
- 2:54Speaker 1: and it just blew up right in my face because
- 2:56Speaker 1: there was no reward and all of a sudden, the
- 2:59Speaker 1: gift part, it was a great idea.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Thank you for the gesture. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
- 3:06Speaker 2: return the favor here. I'm gonna do something for you
- 3:08Speaker 2: because here in this country and you know them, you have,
- 3:12Speaker 2: you're friends with these people that don't like soccer. We
- 3:16Speaker 2: are American sports fansy, we like football, basketball, baseball, some
- 3:22Speaker 2: of us like hockey. But you know what that soccer
- 3:26Speaker 2: just does not work for us. And here are the reasons, ABCD.
- 3:29Speaker 2: So I could I kind of belong in that category
- 3:34Speaker 2: quite frankly, if I'm being honest, I want our friendship
- 3:37Speaker 2: to grow, and I don't want to start on a
- 3:39Speaker 2: bed of lies. Okay, so I kind of belong in
- 3:42Speaker 2: that group. But today we are celebrating soccer. We are
- 3:46Speaker 2: celebrating football, we are celebrating America. We are celebrating the
- 3:49Speaker 2: World Cup, we are celebrating Matt Stretch Johnson. So I'm
- 3:53Speaker 2: going to do you a favor. I'm going to ask
- 3:56Speaker 2: all of our questions that an American soccer fan deems stupid,
- 4:02Speaker 2: and I am going to let you answer it, and
- 4:04Speaker 2: I'm not going to even fight back. You just tell
- 4:07Speaker 2: me your perspective on all of these questions that we've
- 4:11Speaker 2: had about a sport.
- 4:11Speaker 1: You gotcha? And is this from not necessarily you, but
- 4:14Speaker 1: is this more on a bent of a soccer hater,
- 4:17Speaker 1: from someone who either deems it completely boring and I'll
- 4:20Speaker 1: never be a fan?
- 4:21Speaker 2: Yes?
- 4:21Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, shoot, let's go.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Now I've got to do the umbrella. Is I don't
- 4:27Speaker 1: defend soccer? I? Oh, I don't, well, I don't defend soccer. No, no, no,
- 4:32Speaker 1: we'll do that. We'll do the we'll do the skin,
- 4:35Speaker 1: we'll do the skit. I'm happy to do this skit.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Not a skit, it's a favor. I gave tickets to
- 4:41Speaker 1: a buddy. Yeah, when I was with the Sounders and
- 4:45Speaker 1: this score was nil nil zero zero. The shots on
- 4:49Speaker 1: the shots attempted by each team were twenty six to eighteen.
- 4:53Speaker 1: It was an unbelievable entertaining match. And I said, how
- 4:57Speaker 1: did you like it? I did the game? I remember
- 4:59Speaker 1: it was versus here. How did you like it? So dumb,
- 5:03Speaker 1: so boring? So? And I was like, all right, that
- 5:06Speaker 1: person will never get into soccer. That's fine. The game
- 5:09Speaker 1: was as entertaining of a match as you can have.
- 5:12Speaker 1: But no goals, right, And I get it. Do you
- 5:15Speaker 1: need goals American? These goals and no draws? So I
- 5:18Speaker 1: don't mean to get ahead of whatever your questions are.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I don't fight it, right, I don't fight that. I
- 5:25Speaker 1: don't fight that person who will not ever get into it.
- 5:28Speaker 2: That's the point of this exercise. I don't want to
- 5:30Speaker 2: fight with it. I don't want to argue about it.
- 5:32Speaker 2: I don't even want to have discourse. I want you
- 5:34Speaker 2: to give your perspective on the questions that people that
- 5:38Speaker 2: don't like soccer in this country, and then.
- 5:41Speaker 1: We cut it off.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna move on to the next one.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool.
- 5:44Speaker 2: So what does Matt stretch Johnson think when guys like
- 5:49Speaker 2: me would say a sport should never feel good with
- 5:55Speaker 2: so many ties? Why are ties okay to a soccer fan?
- 5:59Speaker 1: Because every tie is different, every draw is different, every
- 6:03Speaker 1: match is different. I just explained. I didn't know you
- 6:05Speaker 1: were gonna ask that there are draws that are thrilling.
- 6:09Speaker 1: There are draws that are thrilling. Thrilling in the World Cup,
- 6:12Speaker 1: it goes up another ten levels draws. When it is
- 6:17Speaker 1: a draw, there is so much tension. You're sitting next
- 6:20Speaker 1: to someone from Belgium and they need that point, They
- 6:23Speaker 1: need the three points for a win. They can't let
- 6:25Speaker 1: Egypt score, and you can feel it, you can feel
- 6:28Speaker 1: their vibe sitting next to you at these World Cup matches.
- 6:31Speaker 1: A regular season match, yes, it's a massive drop down
- 6:35Speaker 1: in that feeling, but the ebb and flow of a
- 6:38Speaker 1: soccer game. Ziggy Schmid, the late great Ziggi Schmid, used
- 6:42Speaker 1: to tell me that goals change games. Yes, that's obvious,
- 6:46Speaker 1: but you get that first goal and all of a sudden,
- 6:49Speaker 1: the pitch is tilted and you are looking at a
- 6:51Speaker 1: completely different perspective. And that other team is dying all
- 6:55Speaker 1: of a sudden. Neil Nol was one thing. You're down
- 6:58Speaker 1: and goal. They're dying to have it tied. They're dying
- 7:00Speaker 1: to get a point on the road, they're dying to
- 7:02Speaker 1: get a point in the first first match of a
- 7:05Speaker 1: World Cup. So you can't convince MLB fans, You can't
- 7:12Speaker 1: convince an NFL fan that a draw is thrilling. They
- 7:15Speaker 1: can be completely entertaining because it's the game within the game,
- 7:19Speaker 1: and if you're not already into the game, I can't
- 7:21Speaker 1: sell you on a draw. But when you're there today,
- 7:25Speaker 1: if it's one one in the eightieth minute, I mean,
- 7:28Speaker 1: it's a massive deal for both teams. Australia might love
- 7:31Speaker 1: a point in Seattle, Washington and they've got four points
- 7:35Speaker 1: after two matches, and the USA is dying for that
- 7:38Speaker 1: next goal. And that tension you can feel, you can
- 7:41Speaker 1: just taste it, and there's something there. So the draw
- 7:45Speaker 1: is a big part of it. And at the end
- 7:47Speaker 1: of draws, you watch the players. They're exhausted. They've been fighting,
- 7:50Speaker 1: they've been defending, they've been attacking, and draws can be thrilling.
- 7:55Speaker 1: But I can't talk everybody into.
- 7:57Speaker 2: That Okay, we're not going to do that. Yeah, I
- 7:59Speaker 2: want your perspective on this. Here's the next one who
- 8:03Speaker 2: can live with nil nil.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Ever, in a sport, it's tough, no goals scored, it's tough.
- 8:10Speaker 1: But exactly what I just said, I remember doing the game.
- 8:14Speaker 1: I remember exactly who we played. It was the Sounders
- 8:17Speaker 1: hosting Houston Dynamo at three pm on a Saturday, and
- 8:21Speaker 1: the Sounders had twenty six shots, not all of them
- 8:24Speaker 1: on goal, of course, they had twenty six shots. And
- 8:27Speaker 1: it's that old adage. They could play for three days
- 8:29Speaker 1: and they weren't gonna score. Same as turkey up there
- 8:31Speaker 1: in Vancouver on Saturday. And there are some matches that
- 8:35Speaker 1: you are just snake bit. You can that you're either
- 8:37Speaker 1: hitting the post, hitting the crossbar, the goalie is just
- 8:40Speaker 1: on his head and you're not going to score. And
- 8:43Speaker 1: is hyper hyper disappointing for soccer fans when you don't
- 8:47Speaker 1: score again, I can't sell that. I can't sell that
- 8:50Speaker 1: to somebody that's not into soccer, because that's their point.
- 8:53Speaker 1: That is the point. Not only is it nil nil,
- 8:55Speaker 1: not only is it a draw, but nobody scored in
- 8:58Speaker 1: this sport we're watching nobody. I can't. I can't sell it.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I love it right because of the tension, because of
- 9:05Speaker 1: that want, because that will because you're just aching for
- 9:09Speaker 1: your team. My team in in in England is west
- 9:12Speaker 1: Ham horrible. We got relegated. We're down to the next division.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Damn couldn't couldn't score goals. Yeah, that's who will be
- 9:19Speaker 1: playing home and home. Couldn't score goals And you're just
- 9:23Speaker 1: aching and at the end of the game your heartbroken,
- 9:26Speaker 1: because that's what it is, because you have ninety minutes
- 9:28Speaker 1: and then it's the next week. But nil, nil. I
- 9:31Speaker 1: get it, I get it. I understand.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Sugar used to tell me he's the famous boxing writer.
- 9:36Speaker 1: I used to talk to him. I used to produce
- 9:38Speaker 1: a Softy show and I would call him every Wednesday
- 9:40Speaker 1: afternoon and you're good for tomorrow. Birch Sugar was amazing
- 9:47Speaker 1: real yea, what an amazing man, I mean, what a
- 9:49Speaker 1: good person. Too used to do.
- 9:51Speaker 2: He used to tell me a true boxing fan like
- 9:54Speaker 2: he was. Once a draw. They wanted such a good
- 9:59Speaker 2: match that you can't.
- 10:00Speaker 1: That makes sense, And I can hear Bert Sugar saying that,
- 10:04Speaker 1: Oh God, Softie's got great Burt Sugar stories.
- 10:07Speaker 2: All right, next one, Oh ride soccer fan, that's what
- 10:12Speaker 2: you are.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Well, the.
- 10:17Speaker 2: I can't stand the flopping. Can't they stop or curb? Stretched?
- 10:22Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely, and they're on their way, on their way.
- 10:26Speaker 1: In this World Cup, it's called mistaken identity. Al Maron
- 10:30Speaker 1: Miguel al Maron in the match versus the USA from Paraguay,
- 10:34Speaker 1: Miguel al Moron flopped down like someone shot him and
- 10:37Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's a horrible but that's the deal. He
- 10:40Speaker 1: went down and Tim Reim didn't touch him. Tim Reim
- 10:43Speaker 1: gets a yellow card, free kick Paraguay. Now in this
- 10:47Speaker 1: World Cup, they go to video assistance and Tim Reim
- 10:51Speaker 1: didn't touch him. Al Maron went down on his own.
- 10:54Speaker 1: He wanted to induce a free kick late and I
- 10:57Speaker 1: don't remember what it was to get a set piece
- 11:00Speaker 1: deep in USA's territory and have an advantage. Video assistant
- 11:04Speaker 1: said no, no, didn't touch him. So they take the
- 11:07Speaker 1: yellow card away from Tim Reim and they get a
- 11:09Speaker 1: yellow card to Miguel al Morone and he will never
- 11:13Speaker 1: If he gets another yellow card, I think he is
- 11:15Speaker 1: gonna be He would be suspended for the third game.
- 11:18Speaker 1: That's how you get it. You have to penalize the
- 11:21Speaker 1: player so there's no more flopping. Nobody wants it. England
- 11:24Speaker 1: is almost done with it because late in a match
- 11:27Speaker 1: a guy will still go down like someone just absolutely
- 11:30Speaker 1: crushed him. Nothing, the referee will give him a yellow
- 11:32Speaker 1: card immediately and so and a free kick going the
- 11:35Speaker 1: other way. So that is being worked on. It's been
- 11:39Speaker 1: I want to say, it's been in that that way
- 11:41Speaker 1: in England for five years. This now with the video assistants,
- 11:45Speaker 1: I want to say, this is the very first World
- 11:47Speaker 1: Cup that they're using this and it's helpful. Yeah, can't
- 11:51Speaker 1: argue with that. It's it's it's horrible. It's faking. You're
- 11:54Speaker 1: faking right, Yeah, it's stupid, but there it's big steps
- 11:59Speaker 1: are are have taken place that that's gonna be taken
- 12:02Speaker 1: out of the game.
- 12:03Speaker 2: All right, Next one footballer, you're old boy.
- 12:07Speaker 1: I don't like this part. I don't like I don't
- 12:09Speaker 1: like this part when you do this, go ahead?
- 12:12Speaker 2: Next one, Uh, penalty. Let's talk about the penalty kick.
- 12:15Speaker 2: Why in a sport where it's so hard to score,
- 12:20Speaker 2: is a penalty kick so easy?
- 12:24Speaker 1: And why in a sport do you end a game
- 12:27Speaker 1: on pks? Because that's always that's always a discussion too.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Like thanks for that.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Yeah, the Champions League Arsenal versus psgesus ended in PKS
- 12:36Speaker 1: and the best center back in the world, bluest PK.
- 12:39Speaker 1: It's still moving. It's it's in a river in Hungary
- 12:42Speaker 1: right now. That is also deemed that after ninety minutes
- 12:47Speaker 1: and then two fifteen minute halves and there's no goals,
- 12:50Speaker 1: this game is not gonna There's not gonna be a
- 12:51Speaker 1: goal unless there's a major mistake, a slip something like that.
- 12:55Speaker 1: So they go to PK's that's heartbreaking. You lose your team.
- 12:59Speaker 1: There's a lot of ur No fans listening right now
- 13:01Speaker 1: that know exactly what I'm talking about. That they lost
- 13:04Speaker 1: the Champions League final in PKS. It's not as easy.
- 13:08Speaker 1: These guys make it look incredibly easy when you're taking them.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I took them for my team for about two years
- 13:14Speaker 1: until I've missed like three in a row and my
- 13:16Speaker 1: confidence went down. There is not a word where my
- 13:19Speaker 1: confidence went. It went. I couldn't I couldn't kick a
- 13:22Speaker 1: penalty kick. So they make it look easy. Harry Kane
- 13:25Speaker 1: made it look easy on Wednesday versus Croatia. You know
- 13:29Speaker 1: the box is eighteen. You're inside that box. If there's
- 13:32Speaker 1: a if there's a foul committed, that's that's the rules.
- 13:35Speaker 1: That's why if you're on the attack all the time
- 13:38Speaker 1: you do have it is a positive because you're putting
- 13:40Speaker 1: the defenders on their back heel. They don't want to
- 13:44Speaker 1: value in the box because that will happen. So that's
- 13:48Speaker 1: the penalty. I mean, you can't. You know, it's a
- 13:50Speaker 1: sacred area. You're really close to the goal. The defender
- 13:53Speaker 1: just can't start hacking players hacking players. My thought is
- 13:57Speaker 1: that ending games on pks is brutal, but there's no
- 14:01Speaker 1: right now, that's the way they end them, and there's
- 14:03Speaker 1: no I mean, it's it's rough, it's it's terrible.
- 14:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't like the comment. Oh I'm not
- 14:08Speaker 2: supposed to comment.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you're the you're the soccer hater. You're
- 14:13Speaker 1: the guy that doesn't like soccer. So go ahead. I'm
- 14:16Speaker 1: good theatrical susamination.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Of the flop and and the penalty, k Yeah for sure,
- 14:24Speaker 2: I'm out on that.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't the good referees and I just I
- 14:27Speaker 1: reference your I reference England. I watch most games, so
- 14:31Speaker 1: I'll watch four or five games a weekend and those
- 14:33Speaker 1: referees are four yards to seven yards away and they
- 14:37Speaker 1: know that the guy went down without it. Nothing happening,
- 14:40Speaker 1: right if they call it PK, it does go to
- 14:43Speaker 1: Video Assistant refereeing and they clean that up and they
- 14:46Speaker 1: get that right. But yeah, the flopping, the floppings horrible.
- 14:48Speaker 1: I mean, flopping's horrible, and it's getting out of the.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Game all right. Last one, Let's see if he can
- 14:52Speaker 2: spin this one. See if he can spin it like Beckham? Uh, posh, spice,
- 14:58Speaker 2: keep going. Is there anything that can be changed with
- 15:02Speaker 2: extra time? Because not knowing exactly when the game is
- 15:07Speaker 2: ending is weird.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Yes, they have worked on that for you.
- 15:10Speaker 2: Okay, mister sophomore.
- 15:13Speaker 1: Now you'll see you'll see not only on TV, but
- 15:19Speaker 1: now in the stadiums they'll show the extra time up
- 15:22Speaker 1: on the big screen. That's new you never saw. Okay,
- 15:26Speaker 1: four minutes. I would always go to my phone. Jackson
- 15:29Speaker 1: Felts would always go to his phone, hit his stop
- 15:31Speaker 1: watching what is four minutes? I did it when I
- 15:34Speaker 1: was a Sounders broadcaster, like what is four minutes? Because
- 15:36Speaker 1: it's nowhere in the stadium now and I can't answer
- 15:39Speaker 1: for MLS and I don't go see English games live,
- 15:44Speaker 1: but in the screens on the big screen at Seattle
- 15:49Speaker 1: Stadium today will have the extra time, the clock moving,
- 15:53Speaker 1: and you will see it will not only be on
- 15:56Speaker 1: the TV screen, It'll be on that big screen. Yeah,
- 16:00Speaker 1: it's frustrating. I went to a lot of high school
- 16:03Speaker 1: soccer two weeks ago. I think I saw you down
- 16:05Speaker 1: there in I was surprised you were there. But they
- 16:11Speaker 1: they at with two minutes. The announcer comes on and says,
- 16:16Speaker 1: I mean with two minutes left. There's an announcement that
- 16:18Speaker 1: says the final minutes of the match will be held
- 16:20Speaker 1: on the field, and you're like what And there's no
- 16:23Speaker 1: board that says four minutes or five minutes. You have
- 16:25Speaker 1: no idea when it's gonna end. Now you see the
- 16:27Speaker 1: referee talking to both coaches and he's telling the players, yeah,
- 16:30Speaker 1: there's four minutes or you could see him because I
- 16:32Speaker 1: was intent on how much times left. But now at
- 16:36Speaker 1: the World Cup you see in Seattle Stadium up on
- 16:39Speaker 1: the big screen. So that is cleared up. All right,
- 16:41Speaker 1: you're doing this is good, This is much better. I
- 16:44Speaker 1: feel much better than I thought I would.
- 16:47Speaker 2: Get it off your chest.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm not getting anything off my chest because
- 16:50Speaker 1: I still can't stand flopping. I still can't defend nil nil,
- 16:53Speaker 1: I can't defend peeks. There's a lot of stuff I
- 16:56Speaker 1: can't defend. But again, in Seattle, at five years old,
- 16:59Speaker 1: we grew up here in Seattle going playing soccer. Yeah,
- 17:02Speaker 1: everyone did, a lot of people petered out. A lot
- 17:05Speaker 1: of people like, no, it's not for me. I'm gonna
- 17:07Speaker 1: go play baseball. I'm better football, I'm better. But a
- 17:10Speaker 1: lot of us I have two fake hips. A lot
- 17:13Speaker 1: of us are stuck with it.
- 17:14Speaker 2: You can't tell thank.
- 17:15Speaker 1: You while I run to the bathroom. Yeah, a lot
- 17:18Speaker 1: of us just stuck with it. My brother's forty five,
- 17:21Speaker 1: fifty years into his soccer career, and and so we
- 17:25Speaker 1: just it's just ingrain. This is just what you've been
- 17:27Speaker 1: born with. This is just what you've grown up with.
- 17:29Speaker 1: And and some of it you can't defend because it
- 17:32Speaker 1: is kooky or hacky or get up, why are you?
- 17:37Speaker 1: That is the biggest one is flopping.
- 17:39Speaker 2: I noticed you mentioned Jackson Felts. Have you met him?
- 17:43Speaker 2: Do you know?
- 17:44Speaker 1: I've been I was lucky enough to call him a
- 17:46Speaker 1: coworker during the broadcast, So yes, he was a co worker.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I was coworkers of his. I think he was the
- 17:52Speaker 1: pregame in post game, so actually he was my boss.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Is that right?
- 17:56Speaker 1: Yes, how you viewed it, that's right, that's how I
- 17:59Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I'm out of a job, you know,
- 18:00Speaker 1: maybe that's why I got kicked out. I don't know,
- 18:03Speaker 1: but yes, talk about a guy with passionate about soccer.
- 18:06Speaker 1: I got a great story if it comes up. Uh,
- 18:08Speaker 1: when we when we have him.
- 18:09Speaker 2: On, all right, Well, he's gonna come on next. All right,
- 18:12Speaker 2: we got stretch here. That was a good exercise. I'm
- 18:15Speaker 2: glad we did that. I'm closer to you.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, it's it's been coming. It's been coming,
- 18:21Speaker 1: it's been yeah, it's been all right.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Jackson's gonna join us next. Sports Radio ninety three point
- 18:26Speaker 2: three kJ R f M Soccer use and they are
- 18:29Speaker 2: now descending into Jimmy's on first to drink all of
- 18:33Speaker 2: our beer. Here they are. Look at the look at
- 18:35Speaker 2: the look look at that, look at that the fierce
- 18:38Speaker 2: determination on their face.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Just good looking people and looking smiling and like, hey,
- 18:42Speaker 1: how's like you can't like you can't dislike them? Oh
- 18:44Speaker 1: I can't dislike them, I know uh.
- 18:47Speaker 2: Matt Stretch, Johnson our special co hosts Today and lookie,
- 18:50Speaker 2: lookie who stopped by our set. It's our own soccer superstar,
- 18:57Speaker 2: Jackson Felts is with us. How are you, sir? How
- 18:59Speaker 2: you fail?
- 19:00Speaker 3: Let's let's go here we go less than four hours
- 19:03Speaker 3: from kick?
- 19:04Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 19:05Speaker 2: Do you know Jackson?
- 19:06Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's exactly the Jackson I know actually, because
- 19:10Speaker 1: that's all when I worked with him, That's that was
- 19:12Speaker 1: the version I got. And I was like, oh, your
- 19:15Speaker 1: poor hearts, your poor circular. Oh die in sixty It's okay, yeah,
- 19:21Speaker 1: don't say that, but yes, uh yeah, I just go
- 19:25Speaker 1: into my what I was saying, like, I want, yes,
- 19:27Speaker 1: my version, my version of Jackson now we had. I
- 19:32Speaker 1: was lucky enough in the five years that I was broadcasting,
- 19:35Speaker 1: when I was a play by play radio man for
- 19:38Speaker 1: the Sounders, we were looking enough to go to four Cups.
- 19:40Speaker 1: My first year we won in Toronto. It was unbelievable.
- 19:44Speaker 1: P K's you know, I mean crazy. Next year we
- 19:47Speaker 1: go up there, they were the better team. They win
- 19:49Speaker 1: two to one. I think it was still a great season,
- 19:54Speaker 1: a great venture, but it was very disappointing. A year
- 19:57Speaker 1: goes by and two years go by, and two in
- 20:00Speaker 1: nineteen was magical. Just we were a really good team
- 20:04Speaker 1: and the team that went down to l a f C.
- 20:07Speaker 1: That was my highlight of a sports career was that
- 20:10Speaker 1: match down in l a f C. They were dominant
- 20:14Speaker 1: all year, record breaking all year. We go down and
- 20:17Speaker 1: win three to one and literally kick their ass. Yeah,
- 20:19Speaker 1: our best players played their best matches. I'm here comes.
- 20:22Speaker 3: To coosbu all day, all day, best performance in Sounder history, Laru.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Diaz, Morris, Nico Ldero, our back four, our goal, the
- 20:32Speaker 1: whole thing. So that sets us up for MLS Cup.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Everybody assumes we're going to Atlanta. Everybody it's it was.
- 20:39Speaker 1: They were the best team in the East. They had
- 20:41Speaker 1: a better record than the Sounders. We're going to Atlanta,
- 20:44Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Toronto upsets Atlanta on a
- 20:47Speaker 1: Tuesday night, I believe. And that Tuesday night, get your tickets.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Here we go. It wasn't even a pr machine. As
- 20:54Speaker 1: you said earlier, Needed or Aaron Levine said, Needed Place
- 20:57Speaker 1: was sold out. Not an empty seat, the goosebumps, not
- 21:01Speaker 1: an empty seat, right, And so they're crescendo. We have
- 21:04Speaker 1: great access. We talked to the players bright Schmetzer's right
- 21:07Speaker 1: next to us. We're just the whole week was it
- 21:09Speaker 1: was special. It was special. We're right involved. Well, we
- 21:13Speaker 1: end up winning, and I mean we're we're up. No,
- 21:17Speaker 1: we're up three to zero. Into the ninetieth they get
- 21:20Speaker 1: a consolation goal, even though it was a superb consolation
- 21:23Speaker 1: goal by outa door, and so it's it's done and dusted,
- 21:26Speaker 1: as they say, right, it's the game is in hand
- 21:29Speaker 1: in the eightieth it's done. It's done. I'm having trouble
- 21:32Speaker 1: breathing in the last couple of minutes as I'm a
- 21:35Speaker 1: Seattle light. There are sixty six thousand people record for
- 21:39Speaker 1: an MLS Cup. All my friends are there. We're on
- 21:42Speaker 1: the field afterwards, and Jackson tries to take the microphone
- 21:47Speaker 1: to start the postgame show, and I'm standing there grabbing
- 21:50Speaker 1: my stuff, and I'm all whatever, I'm gonna go down
- 21:52Speaker 1: on the field. I'm a baller with a badge, you know,
- 21:54Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go down and take pictures and maybe
- 21:56Speaker 1: get an interview. And Jackson Felt starts a postgame show
- 22:01Speaker 1: and there's a pause and he says, I don't even
- 22:03Speaker 1: know what to say. I don't I can't even breathe.
- 22:07Speaker 1: I can't, I can't believe this happened. And I'm looking
- 22:10Speaker 1: at him like really, I mean this game was done
- 22:11Speaker 1: in the eightieth so he's had fifteen minutes. But he
- 22:14Speaker 1: was so jacked up. It was so I don't mean anything.
- 22:18Speaker 1: It was so precious. That's that's the word my mother
- 22:21Speaker 1: would use. It was so precious. And I was thinking,
- 22:24Speaker 1: I remember the words I said. I can't say him
- 22:26Speaker 1: on the air, and I'm like, man, damn him. That's awesome.
- 22:29Speaker 1: It was so genuine and I was like, that's a
- 22:33Speaker 1: freak right there. That's that's an interesting person who fifteen
- 22:39Speaker 1: minutes later can't absorb that we won and put words
- 22:42Speaker 1: in and it was awesome because then Pete Fewing joins
- 22:44Speaker 1: him in Wade Weber. I believe Danny Jackson and Danny
- 22:47Speaker 1: Jackson and it was a great postgame show. I got
- 22:49Speaker 1: your players from down on the three album field three
- 22:51Speaker 1: hours on. They would still be going on if it
- 22:54Speaker 1: was up to Jackson. But his his passion, it's what
- 22:58Speaker 1: soccer fans are, right, It's it's what he would say, Yeah,
- 23:01Speaker 1: Neil Nil is still great that it's soccer and it
- 23:03Speaker 1: was entertaining, but his passion after that game was something
- 23:06Speaker 1: I vividly remember. Yeah, six years later, seven years later,
- 23:11Speaker 1: and it's so cool that he's so involved still and
- 23:14Speaker 1: it's his deal.
- 23:15Speaker 3: So the chill chill is just like here because that
- 23:17Speaker 3: was I remember. I remember crying on the air. I
- 23:19Speaker 3: remember saying, it's the greatest day. It's the greatest day
- 23:21Speaker 3: in Seattle soccer History's a softy.
- 23:23Speaker 1: He's the softy soccer. So today, what does today mean
- 23:28Speaker 1: for you as the USA comes to Seattle?
- 23:30Speaker 2: Jeez?
- 23:31Speaker 3: I mean it's it's right there at the twenty nineteen
- 23:33Speaker 3: level of that MLS Cup. I mean, we got to
- 23:36Speaker 3: set the stakes here. I mean the United States and
- 23:38Speaker 3: men's national team has played here what about a dozen times? Right,
- 23:41Speaker 3: but World Cup steaks and not only the luckily look
- 23:45Speaker 3: at the actual individual game.
- 23:47Speaker 2: United States gonna win today.
- 23:48Speaker 3: If everything falls right, we could win the group today,
- 23:52Speaker 3: we could secure ourselves a spot in the knockout round.
- 23:56Speaker 3: And then additionally, so if you win the group, you're
- 23:58Speaker 3: facing a third place team in the round of thirty two. Well,
- 24:01Speaker 3: you win that game, you're back here at this stadium
- 24:04Speaker 3: for the round of sixteen against potentially in Egypt or
- 24:06Speaker 3: of Belgium.
- 24:07Speaker 1: I mean the stakes for today, a winnable match, by
- 24:10Speaker 1: the way, very much.
- 24:12Speaker 3: I mean like, we're talking about a situation right now
- 24:14Speaker 3: where United States wins today and look at.
- 24:17Speaker 1: All the stars and stripes.
- 24:17Speaker 2: This is incredible.
- 24:19Speaker 3: If they play behind this crowd and they win, then
- 24:23Speaker 3: we could be talking about a magical run that gets
- 24:26Speaker 3: remembered for the next one hundred years of US soccer.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Jackson Felts, What I mean, that's all you wanted right there?
- 24:34Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all you wanted. I'm gonna take a break
- 24:36Speaker 2: here and then we'll come back and get Jackson's thoughts
- 24:39Speaker 2: on the actual match itself. But we got passion.
- 24:42Speaker 1: We got passion spilling out from every poor You're surrounded by.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Good luck, Good luck, brother.
- 24:47Speaker 2: I got painted in the corner by a couple of
- 24:50Speaker 2: soccer nut bags. It's Sports Radio ninety three point three
- 24:54Speaker 2: kJ RFM, Jackson Felts, our soccer expert. It's Sports Radio
- 24:59Speaker 2: ninety three point three KRFM, here with Scretch and I
- 25:02Speaker 2: all right, So Christian poolisic. We don't know if he's
- 25:05Speaker 2: going to play. Have you gotten an update? And how
- 25:08Speaker 2: concerned are you if he doesn't play? Yeah?
- 25:10Speaker 3: So he's been limited all week, and I think that
- 25:14Speaker 3: concerns me because I don't like the fact that he
- 25:17Speaker 3: hasn't played in turn the team, not that he has to.
- 25:19Speaker 3: I think they could, you know, seamlessly integrate him back in.
- 25:23Speaker 3: But the question is, obviously, if he's not good to start,
- 25:26Speaker 3: and you say, if you're Mauricio Pochattino and you want
- 25:28Speaker 3: to say, all right, let's just play conservatively. We know
- 25:30Speaker 3: we need him for the third game against Turkey, we
- 25:33Speaker 3: know we need him for a round to thirty two,
- 25:35Speaker 3: round of sixteen, then let's just play conservatively.
- 25:38Speaker 2: The question is, then what do you do?
- 25:40Speaker 3: Geo Reina had that great goal at the end of
- 25:42Speaker 3: the Paraguay game, and I think he's the obvious choice
- 25:46Speaker 3: to go in there. You switch around the midfield a
- 25:48Speaker 3: little bit, not doesn't need to change too much. But overall,
- 25:52Speaker 3: I would say my concern level Chuck is probably at
- 25:55Speaker 3: about a four, just because I think there's so much
- 25:59Speaker 3: talent other than Christian Polisic that even if we don't
- 26:02Speaker 3: have the superstar, I think we're gonna be okay for
- 26:06Speaker 3: the United States.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Are you a fan of Brendan Aronson?
- 26:09Speaker 3: No, not really, I mean, oh, I love it.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Not for the starting lineup.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Like listen, you know a role player to come off
- 26:16Speaker 3: the bench, but I'm not starting Aaronson in a game
- 26:19Speaker 3: like this. Giororina is I think the one obvious choice
- 26:23Speaker 3: if we're missing Christian.
- 26:24Speaker 2: I keep hearing that we're weak on our back line.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Is that true? And how much would that matter?
- 26:32Speaker 3: I think we were without Chris Richards. Now that Chris,
- 26:36Speaker 3: he's kind of our big main center back. He's he's
- 26:39Speaker 3: been so against Paraguay his passing was eighty three out
- 26:43Speaker 3: of eighty three. That is the most passes with a
- 26:46Speaker 3: one hundred percent completion rate in the World Cup since
- 26:50Speaker 3: nineteen sixty six. Having Chris Richards back in that back
- 26:54Speaker 3: line now that he's healthy, just changes the entire dynamic
- 26:57Speaker 3: of this team. So now we went from my think
- 27:00Speaker 3: very concerning back when in those friendlies leading up to
- 27:03Speaker 3: the World Cup it was very concerning, especially go all
- 27:06Speaker 3: the way back to the Belgium game where they dropped
- 27:07Speaker 3: five on us. But now I don't I don't have
- 27:11Speaker 3: very much. I mean, Australia is an athletic team, They're
- 27:13Speaker 3: a good team. They can certainly get up. They got
- 27:15Speaker 3: a couple of big center backs, but I'm not as
- 27:18Speaker 3: concerned now on the defensive end, now that Chris is.
- 27:20Speaker 1: Back, I got nothing that's fantastic. I mean that that
- 27:24Speaker 1: that he just literally broke down the collective with him
- 27:28Speaker 1: inserted and being healthy in the back, with reeing Desk
- 27:30Speaker 1: and and and uh and Robinson. Yeah right, I mean
- 27:36Speaker 1: it is a collective that can shut this Australian team down.
- 27:39Speaker 1: I'm not as concerned with Polisic as as maybe most are,
- 27:43Speaker 1: because you need him healthy a hundred percent, not even
- 27:46Speaker 1: for the Turkey match. Let's get a point there, we
- 27:49Speaker 1: win the group. You need him healthy in the round
- 27:52Speaker 1: of thirty two. Absolutely positively. This is a tournament that's
- 27:55Speaker 1: three matches long. Everyone's got to have patience. Even the
- 27:59Speaker 1: teams like Bain Paraguay Turkey that didn't get the amount
- 28:03Speaker 1: of points they wanted zero or one, they still have chances.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Teams have chances. I just think the team is USA
- 28:10Speaker 1: is better. Right. If you I'm a fan of Brandon Arenson,
- 28:13Speaker 1: I think he's got a motor. Yes, he might not
- 28:15Speaker 1: be as creative, but he will get the loose ball.
- 28:17Speaker 1: He will he will not make a pass that you're
- 28:20Speaker 1: shaking your head at your point with Raina is spot on.
- 28:24Speaker 1: I mean absolutely spot on. So all of a sudden
- 28:26Speaker 1: we're talking about a US team that has options, which
- 28:29Speaker 1: is bizarro for USA fans, right, I mean this is
- 28:33Speaker 1: we didn't go to the World Cup in Russia. You
- 28:36Speaker 1: know this this team, this isn't a team since two
- 28:39Speaker 1: thousand and two made the quarterfinals, lost to Germany, and
- 28:44Speaker 1: that was the run he made. Jackson made a perfect point.
- 28:47Speaker 1: This is on paper and or in our thoughts and
- 28:50Speaker 1: in our hearts, we're on our way to possibly get
- 28:53Speaker 1: into the round of sixteen against a beatable team. The
- 28:56Speaker 1: way this is set up, Egypt doesn't scare me, No Belgium.
- 28:59Speaker 1: But let's get past that round to thirty two down
- 29:02Speaker 1: in Santa Clara, because good third place teams can show up.
- 29:05Speaker 1: It'll be some scrappy ones. But his point right there
- 29:08Speaker 1: is what I took away is we have little depth
- 29:10Speaker 1: on the outside in the midfield that we've never had.
- 29:13Speaker 2: What should what is the appropriate reaction to a win,
- 29:17Speaker 2: to a draw, to a loss today?
- 29:20Speaker 3: I think part of that changes with the Turkey Paraguay
- 29:23Speaker 3: result later tonight, because that could effectively, if you win,
- 29:27Speaker 3: clinch the group for the United States. There's results in
- 29:30Speaker 3: those gold differentials, and then there's all that that play
- 29:32Speaker 3: in a role here, but a win and beer going
- 29:37Speaker 3: everywhere post game and from from two to six pm
- 29:41Speaker 3: a lot occidental with beer and tequila flying, celebrations around
- 29:45Speaker 3: because at that point we're at six points. Only Australia
- 29:49Speaker 3: could catch us, and we're really just in more than
- 29:52Speaker 3: the driver's seat to win.
- 29:53Speaker 2: This group a draw.
- 29:55Speaker 3: You know, I think there's still some confidence going in,
- 29:58Speaker 3: but at that point your level with Australia to the
- 30:00Speaker 3: group and they face Paraguay, who I think is very beatable.
- 30:03Speaker 3: For Australia, we face Turkey, who I think is better.
- 30:06Speaker 3: So I think that that comes with some nerves and
- 30:09Speaker 3: a loss. Yeah, I think I think a loss would
- 30:12Speaker 3: be just immensely disappointing because you're on.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Yeah, immensely disappointing making Turkey next week. I must win
- 30:19Speaker 1: and then you win that match against Turkey. Who's who's
- 30:23Speaker 1: you know again, is to Jackson's point tonight at eight o'clock.
- 30:26Speaker 1: I believe it is eight o'clock Paraguay. Turkey will settle
- 30:29Speaker 1: the table after two. It's a big deal. But then
- 30:32Speaker 1: you go down and you should beat Turkey in a
- 30:34Speaker 1: must win match. It'll be very tight, it'll be very even.
- 30:38Speaker 1: The odds will say that. But you win that game
- 30:40Speaker 1: and then you move forward. That's the World Cup. A
- 30:43Speaker 1: win today, Pioneer Square is busy until midnight, I mean literally,
- 30:46Speaker 1: because the Australians don't care their party and they still
- 30:49Speaker 1: have three points. Yeah right, they can. They can play
- 30:52Speaker 1: their last game against Paraway Paraguay get one. If tonight's
- 30:55Speaker 1: a draw, that's what we're hoping for. Tonight is a draw.
- 30:59Speaker 1: We win this. It's it's a party. But great, I
- 31:02Speaker 1: mean he analyzed it perfectly. Still a loss, it's in
- 31:06Speaker 1: your hands because you have those three points in your
- 31:08Speaker 1: pocket and you go down to La next week and
- 31:10Speaker 1: beat her.
- 31:11Speaker 2: So very disappointing, but not devastating.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Yes, very disappointing, especially I mean yes, especially with this atmosphere.
- 31:17Speaker 1: I don't see it happening now. I do not see
- 31:19Speaker 1: it happening. I think the worst is a draw and
- 31:22Speaker 1: they'll be like rats, that's a damn it. I agree,
- 31:27Speaker 1: damn it. But I don't see that happening. A loss
- 31:30Speaker 1: I don't see happening, and so it could be a
- 31:32Speaker 1: special special day here starting in two a couple hours.
- 31:35Speaker 3: I think it's a win and I and I think
- 31:37Speaker 3: I think it could be a big win because Australia
- 31:39Speaker 3: is so athletic stretch. I mean, they're gonna want to
- 31:41Speaker 3: run like Metcalf's gonna get up on that wing and
- 31:43Speaker 3: they're gonna want to run and gun a little bit.
- 31:45Speaker 3: And if they commit too many numbers forward and if
- 31:48Speaker 3: they do that early, I don't.
- 31:49Speaker 1: See that happening. I don't see that happening they I
- 31:52Speaker 1: don't see that happening. I don't think we're gonna they.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Want to dream. I want a dream.
- 31:56Speaker 1: No, No, I love the debate because I don't see them
- 31:59Speaker 1: opening up themselves. I don't see them leaving space behind
- 32:04Speaker 1: their midfield. I don't see it. They're gonna be disciplined,
- 32:06Speaker 1: they've got they've got three points in an upset. And
- 32:10Speaker 1: that first goal, this first goal is one of the
- 32:12Speaker 1: biggest deals in you and I's history of watching this
- 32:16Speaker 1: sport with the USA. The first goal will determine everything.
- 32:20Speaker 2: All Right, what's your day like?
- 32:21Speaker 1: Then? Today?
- 32:22Speaker 3: Okay, So from here, I think I go move my
- 32:24Speaker 3: car because I'm in a two hour spot. I come
- 32:26Speaker 3: back here at Jimmy's. I put on something other than
- 32:28Speaker 3: the United States Jersey. Go into the stadium and just
- 32:32Speaker 3: settle in the atmosphere for an hour. Head to the station.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Pregame at eleven thirty, kick off at noon on with
- 32:37Speaker 3: Dick Fane for postgame at two thirty. We'll we do
- 32:39Speaker 3: our post game show for Lightheart at two o'clock. Dick
- 32:42Speaker 3: Fane starts at two thirty here from Jimmy's and it's
- 32:44Speaker 3: just an absolute party until Andrews has a game later tonight.
- 32:48Speaker 2: So here we go. Have a great day. Thank you,
- 32:51Speaker 2: Jackson straight Jackson Speltz with this right here on Chuck
- 32:56Speaker 2: and Buck in the morning. All right, we got more
- 32:58Speaker 2: with stretch coming up at nine thirty. But hey man,
- 33:01Speaker 2: when I say we're gonna do a Seahawks one series
- 33:03Speaker 2: and that's a daily breakdown of the Seahawks, nothing stops. Oh,
- 33:07Speaker 2: nothing stops me. Just try to get in my way.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Not four SOCCA rows could stop me from doing the
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