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my special sickness means the first thing I thought of was how I’m still salty about the Jackson Ragen red card vs Vancouver in April of 2024, which today’s is a near carbon copy of. (Today thankfully didn’t include an insane 4 minutes(!) of VAR consultation prior to revising a yellow to a red.)

Bout to be grousing like Seb at Level 4

BBC gushing on Seattle: “That’s the thing that really struck me, our commentary team said, Dion Dublin is there, had to cover his ears, because it was that loud.“ “Like an intense European game, that kind of volume, that kind of noise, that kind of passion.” Well done everyone.

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

Jesse is “Summoning the Genie”

Each member of the crew hates Lalas for different reasons Rebecca Lowe and Thierry Henry are used to working on high quality soccer TV shows and can’t believe how boorish and stupid and boring he is. And Zlatan is just like “I simply do not respect anything about this man, I yearn to destroy him”

believe we have definitive proof that wu tang clan ain’t nuthin ta fuck wit

On the eve of the World Cup a banner day in the @sounderatheart.com ‘MLS’ discord channel on these comments.

Everyone seems to be happy with Germany breaking lines at will and corner kicks without a plan? I don’t get it. Notwithstanding the wonder goal, it looks like USMNT are the ones deserving of the bag and stick treatment this time around.

For both Carnell and Neville: Over 60% of their outfield minutes in 2026 were from guys under 25 so inconsistency was inevitable. Rapids, RBNY, SD, and NE explicitly hired experienced developers of youth to address that, and it has been intermittently rocky, but it was baked-in to expectations.

Context matters y’all. It’s a bit weird to suggest Sounders are in a bad way when the 2026 all comps record vs the rest of the top 7 in a weirdly competitive WC is 6W-2L (w 3 away wins) and where the 2 L’s, this team’s most historically hard away games, were pretty marginal. And all without Pepo.

This weeks Ring for Analysis is very fun and must listen for Sounders Supporters who will see lots of parallels to Arsenal. They had a quiz on longest running British managers where those with say the 5th or 6th top tenure is shockingly short.

I know Phil was fighting for his job but in retrospect probably should have given Miller the night off.

absurd for someone to trot out “as a downtown Seattle resident” to garner local credibility about any topic. ABSURD!

This game shares a lot with the RSL game - 2 opposing goals, Dotson starting in place of CR7, Nouhou and Ragen getting caught positionally not respecting two of the fastest runners in MLS.

Morris is having his best "Receiving G+" year ever via @americansocceranalysis.com. Top five in MLS in Receiving G+ above average per96 (min 200 min). And doing it while back lines have now decided that the best approach to contain him is shamelessly engaging in fourth degree assault.

A year ago tomorrow LA Galaxy announced the re-signing of Greg Vanney after earning 4 points though 13 games following their 2024 MLS Cup win. Felipe’s write up is worth revisiting as Neville, Carnell, and Vanney somehow all still have jobs.

Bringing that Dempsey energy!

I am keeping track. How can this be happening if the starting 9 hasn't scored? The subs are a big part. On a goal contributions per game basis the Sounders bench is contributing at its highest clip ever in the league.

That’s what I’m talking about Jesus!

I wrote about other teams taking advantage of Sounders mistakes and 2 minutes in vs San Jose it happened again. Otherwise a good sustained response in the first half. Keep it up and there should be at least another goal in this for Seattle.

Opponents are earning results with guile. Sounders need figure out how to do that too. I get into it on @sounderatheart.com

Now in their fourth year MLS still hasn’t moved beyond the “Minimum Viable Product” phase with their centralized cookie cutter broadcast. Showing replays of controversial moments effectively is a minimum requirement for an American sports presentation and they simply can’t figure it out.

Submission: South end: Don busted in and said what’s the noise! Whole stadium: You’re just jealous it’s the Orca Boys!

Tough economy out there for PPDA merchants

“MLS stood pat. It was a mistake.” 1000% saw this coming at the time. (Sounders winning it all was bad actually.)

"Sounders allowed the game to become predictable." For me this is what most needs work. They make it too easy for the other team. Seattle is near dead last in Opta's "Direct Speed" measure for passing sequences. Totally agree with @elrolonw.bsky.social this morn calling for more decisiveness.

Philly Union is apparently having a language model help plan their roster. As we can see that’s been going swimmingly…

All credit to Stef Cleveland. Last year it was Steffen, Daniel, Crepeau & Stuver all delivering a season best GK outings to save at least a point vs Sounders. Cabral and now Cleveland have been those guys this year combining for a xGOT allowed - GA of (2.96+2.64)-(1+1) = 3.6 goals prevented.

Shot: “It was when the Sounders and the Timbers and the whitecaps entered Major League Soccer that things took off. That a new Level was reached.”

GGG's Chicago Fire have been in a losing game state for just 35 minutes through nine MLS games this season (via ASA). Is this the year the Fire finally figure it out?

Hassani Dotson got the “tough kid” seal of approval from Brian Schmetzer last night. 54/56 passing - seems like he has already(!) caught up to the one-touch expectation in midfield. A missing piece to just lock it down that Sounders lacked last year. Glad we have him. stats Via @fotmob.com

Literally last month MLS settled a suit with Vancouver for doing exactly this?!?

Had major audio issues across all the games at the same time couple games back too. I hope this is not a pattern developing…

Pretty wild to see Earthquakes defensive progression under Bruce. Felt like the rollercoaster nature of this team was a given. We’ll see how they hold up against LAFC. @futi.live model does a good job of showing the whiplash these last few years.

When Sounders needed goals Brian put Moose on first last night. Moose didn’t play at all last week when they needed just one goal. Did Moose not play last week because this was the same center ref he went ballistic on in Leagues Cup last year?

The gaslighting from the ref last night was abominable. Phantom fouls, issuing a yellow card to the VICTIM of an assault, and then putting up six minutes added when we had just sat through five of a Tigres player laying on the floor because he needed a rest. Concacaf is a clown show.

I’m pretty happy with how the Sounders played soccer today. Tigres on the other hand have no honor and embarrassed themselves in both legs. They are truly the “that guy” of Concacaf.

The team with a mercurial Brazilian player that has a history of checking out big moments thinking about signing a *different* mercurial Brazilian player that has a history of checking out in big moments? What could go wrong!

The referee made zero effort to manage the game or admonish anyone and as a result Tigres just kept escalating. This was a complete opposite experience from the refereeing of Oshane Nation in the América/Nashville. I just want Sounders to be refereed consistently. It is not too much to ask.

Insane to look it up and this is Snyder Brunell’s 11th top flight start. Yeah brother!

vi continues to be relevant in 2026. IYKYK

This guy is out here LinkedIn-posting through it. Actual pressure would have consigned him to the pundits desk already. Supporters are rightfully restless at seeing Colorado and Vancouver and San Diego make good coach choices and it making a huge impact from day one. Timbers could do that too!

Sounders are benefitting from both earned advantages and ‘circumstances’ in CCC: - No R32 games - Secured R8 home 2nd leg vs Tigres - No game between R8 fixtures - Tigres play 1st place Chivas Saturday These are the ‘margins’ @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com loves to talk about. Gotta make it count.

In 7 all competition appearances in 2026 Paul Rothrock has 5 goals from 7 shots on target on just 9 total shots. 5 goals from 9 shots?!? That is golden boot level efficiency right there. "We have Paul Rothrock" continues to manifest.

Last year I wrote for @sounderatheart.com about how this Sounders superpower in Leagues Cup was the developmental players seizing their moment when given the opportunity. We’re seeing it again with Antino Lopez who’s contributing to clean sheets by playing within himself. 59/60 passing last night.

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