June 10, 2026 • 34 mins
BRAD EVANS (Seattle Sounders/World Cup Analyst) We are on World Cup Eve! What does it mean to Brad to not only be a part of the World Cup broadcasts, but to have it happening right here in Seattle. The US needs to take a step forward- why hasn’t it happened and what needs to happen to make the shift? What does Brad expect from them on Friday? Can they make a run? What would be more shocking; the US not making it out of pool play or going on a run? :30- It’s time to check in with our listeners and answer their burning questions… Sup? :45- We wrap up the humpday show with one last thing!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
All right, nine o'clock hour' here on this humpday. Thanks
to everyone that's participated in our little conversation about World
Cup coverage yesterday, and now we get ready. We are
one sleep away from the World Cup beginning twenty twenty six,
and of course Seattle is going to be a major
part of that. As a matter of fact, KJR is
going to be a major part of that. We will
be airing the US Paraguay game Friday night at six
(00:34):
o'clock right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ R FM, Paraguay translated to guys.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, Yeah, like a pair of guys.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right, Uruguay? I am assuming is then one guhy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Or just when you're calling someone, uh, it's like the
informal Uruguay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No you're Aguay, something like something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But you will be hearing the next guest that we
have on the air here on Chuck and Buck during
our broadcast coverage as well. Former sounders great eight nine
years with the Seattle Sounders, Brad Evans now joins us
here on the radio program in time for the World Cup.
Good morning, sir, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're doing great? How excited are you for this tournament
to get underway and for Seattle and yourself to have
a part in the theater?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Gosh, I mean this is a long time coming. I
mean I was nine years old in nineteen ninety four
when the World Cup was last held in the US
SO and I've missed out on a World Cup one
of the last cuts for the twenty fourteen after doing
all the World Cup qualifiers, so that was a bit
heartbreaking down to hear this one announced. It's finally my
opportunity to experience what it's like to have a World
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Cup in your country and to attend it is most important,
right this is a one cented generation tournament that's going
to be held here and I'm beyond excited. And to
be involved obviously doing radio pre HAF and post with
you guys is going to be awesome to come in
every day and hopefully be in the stadium.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
For one of the matches. So I'm just excited.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The Sounders have a ton of activations with the pier
and the barge, and we are working pretty much every
day for the next month and a half really, so
it's going to be busy, but also it's going to
go by in the snap of a finger.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know of your wound, and I don't mean to
pour salt into it, but I mean, I do want
to ask Brad Evans that as a soccer player, and
you're growing up in America and you you know, you
become a star at the high school level, and then
you become a star at the college level, and then
you play professionally, and then you're good enough that you
represent the US and several different competitions and yet the
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biggest tournament in the world for you to have come
so close to being able to play, and it's something
I'm sure you dreamed about, how your entire life. How
much does it sting to this that you got that
close and didn't get to participate.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Geez, you said you don't want to pour salt on
the wound, and a one minute diatribe of pouring salts
completely on the wound that happened ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I got nothing to do it. But I think it does.
It's said, I think it's an interesting story to tell
right now, and I.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Had to get it out of you some way, and
I think, yes, yes, it is a tough one. You
go through your whole career and then you kind of
get this opportunity. You know, my opportunity with the national
team came from really nothing. I was kind of a
fringe national team player to start. I was on a
basically a second team for the Gold Cup tournament in
two thousand and nine. So I got my feet wet there,
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but I just kept putting my head down and plugging away.
I was never the best player, never the most skillful,
but my mo throughout my whole career and even as
a youngster, was just I had to outwork everyone and
determination on the field, and yes, you know, to see
your ultimate dream get cut short.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
At the moment, it didn't. It doesn't sting as.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Bad as it does now, understanding when you leave the
game that you left something on the table. You know,
in the moment, you still you know, you jump on
the flight and then you go back to the Sounders
and you've got a game the next weekend, so there's
not too much time to dwell on those big moments
at the time. But now you look back and you realize, wow,
it would have been great to, you know, tell the
kids one day that I participated in a World Cup. Yes,
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it would have been amazing, but that's the reality of sports.
Like you said, it's the percentage of the percentage of
the percentage of the percentage.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's so small.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It's when I played, it was twenty three guys on
a roster out of you know, three hundred plus million
in this country. You know, however many million play soccer,
you know, growing up, and then you kind of narrow
those numbers down. So it's a really big opportunity for
anyone in any place around the world.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
But you learn a lot of.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Lessons through through those defeats, I guess you could call them,
and so it really allowed me to put my head
down and work hard. After that, I did get called
back into the national team quite a few times to
play in games, so my national team career wasn't done
at that point. It was really just the missed opportunity
of making a World Cup roster.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
How have you tended to deal with people that remind
you of this painful thing, do you?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, I just kind of avoid them at all costs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They hang up, never go on their radio shows again,
ever see them in person, and you know, tackle slide
tackle them.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Slide tackle there. You go, better be wear in your
shing guards. When I see you next week.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Brad Evans is with us. I threw a lot of
compliments in there, all time one of the all time sounders.
Great joining us that right here. It's going to be
a part of our World Cup coverage show for you
as well on Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
A R F M. All right, So how important I
mean we talk about this all the time, and they've
talked about this my entire life. The US needing to
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take that step forward to start being mentioned amongst the
great country's in the world at this sport. So how
important is this tournament to the US reputation and the
growth of its program.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Well, look, I think the US has taken leaps and bounds.
Is the awesome Vice documentary on YouTube. That's a series
that kind of talks about the US men's national team
and it's come up, you know since the forties fifties,
first participating in this tournament that started in nineteen thirty.
The real shift was, you know, nineteen ninety four you
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kind of got the buzz going in the US and
then MLS comes around in nineteen ninety six, and if
you think about the rest of the world, what a
head start they've had with their domestic leagues consistently for
over one hundred years. Right, you talk about the powerhouses Brazil, England, Spain, France,
these clubs have been around since the eighteen hundreds and
consistently not taking breaks. Like in the US you had
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the NASL, you've had a league, you've had USL, and
now Major League Soccers had a good run for thirty years.
That's the biggest thing. And when you look at this roster,
there's only eight players that are domestically from MLS that
are playing on this roster. The rest are playing at
the biggest teams in the world. You've got Ac Milan Juventis.
I mean, you run down the list of guys playing
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in France as well, some big, big teams.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
So you're starting to see a shift, albeit slow.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Now that doesn't mean that the rest of the world
has just taken a pause, right, Those players have gotten
better as well. So we're still playing catch up in
that respect. And now it's time for this group to
put it all together. With players that, like I said,
are playing and some of the best teams in the world.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Can they do it as a team That's going to
be the biggest thing. I think when I.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Look at this team that there's a lot of fantastic
individual players. Ziggi Schmidt used to always tell us, former
coach of the Sounders, you can have one piano player,
but the rest of us have to carry the piano.
And I don't know if I see that in this group.
I see a lot of piano players, and when that happens,
things don't tend to work out too great. If they
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can figure out a way to have one guy be
the center point and the rest of them do the work.
That's what Argentina does with Messi, That's what Portugal will
do with Ronaldo. That's why those guys are the best.
But this US men's national team needs to figure out
a way to have one guy shine and the rest
of them do the work to advance. The tournament's a
little bit different though, Yeah, Christian polistic I think it
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is the guy, okay, right, He's he's the he's the
golden boy, and if he can have a great tournament,
he's gonna carry this team. Much like Landon, Donovan and
Clint did. They found a way to play together. So
the tournament's a little bit different, though. You've got you've
got forty eight teams instead of thirty two, so you
will have eight third place teams that advance. So the
chances of the US advancing are pretty high. I suspect
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they'll get at least three points in the group. That'll
that'll mean most most certainly that they advance into the
next round. That's when the real challenge starts, because if
you're third place finisher, if you're you're gonna end up
playing a first or second place team from another group.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
That's gonna be the difficult task. Gotta pick up points
group play.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Brad Evans is with US. So what do we know
about Paraguay going into Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean Paraguay is a strong team. You figure
when you talk about South America, you talk about some
of the best teams in the world consistently, I mean
the top three from South America, Columbia, Argentina and Brazil.
All those teams have a chance to win this tournament.
And now you're talking about a Paraguay team that had
to go through that qualification with those teams and get results,
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which they did. I mean, you've got an MLS player,
Miguel elmi Ron who played in the English Premier League.
You kind of run down the list of what is
going to be a very technical but a very intense team.
The last time these teams face there was a massive
brawl at the end. The US ended up winning two
to one. So there's a little bit of tension in
this game stemming from that one about a year ago.
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It's going to be a difficult challenge for the US
because these South American teams, they consistently play in their
big tournaments every two years. They've got Copa Sudamericana, which
all those players play domestically in massive games down there.
So when they come together, there's something different about putting
on a jersey in a World Cup.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I expect a low.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Scoring game, and I don't usually make predictions. I don't
like to, but I think US, being on home soil
in Los Angeles, I'm guessing two to one, just to
get off on a good foot, it'll be huge for
them to get three points.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Longtime sounders, Great Brad Evans, our guests here as we
get you ready for the World Cup. We're one sleep away.
It gets started tomorrow Friday night. US has taken on
Paraguay and Brad Evans is going to be part of
our broadcast month here in coverage of the World Cup
twenty twenty six, which we'll touch of course Seattle throughout
the month as well. I mean, I'm not as big
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a soccer fan, Brad as I am as some of
the other sports, and so I don't know. I mean
I always hear about soccer that that was a big upset,
But when you're talking about a sport where usually the
scores two to one, one to nothing, I mean it's
usually within a goal. I mean, how big of an
upset would it be if the US were to not
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get out of their group, or if the US made
a deep run into the playoffs. I mean, what's the
fine line between something that's in soccer that is expected
and something that is shocking.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, great point.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I think the more shocking point of or storyline would
be the USA not advancing out of the group. I
think it's more realistic for these guys to make a
decent run in this tournament.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It would be a success.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I think if the team makes the quarterfinals, I think
you could realistically look at the FIFA rankings, we sit
like seventeen, so if you're thinking quarterfinals, that's the top
sixteen teams you're kind of right on par with where
your ranking is in the world. Now, if they advance
past that, you know it's possible. For sure, they're going
to have to show up and show out and play
out of their minds. But I think realistically making it
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out of the group isn't good enough for this team
and the occasion. Now, if this tournament was being played
somewhere else, I would think making out of the group
would be a plus, But these guys have higher standards.
The head coach, Pochettino's coach some of the biggest teams
in the world at the club level. His expectation is
that he can take this team on a deep run,
and he's a real thinker. He's not like a Jurgen Klinsmann,
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a prior coach who was just jovial and happy and
not really a tactician. This new head coach is a
pure tactician and hopefully he can get this US team
on the same page. But since the US is at home,
the expectations are much much higher. It would be a
massive disappointment and people would say, oh, yep, this is
typical the US. They get knocked out of the round.
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They didn't rise to the big occasion, we need to
have something happen like two thousand and two where the
US turned some heads and really you know, you beat
Portugal South Korea and then you make it to a
game against Germany where they didn't have var at the time,
but what would have been a USA goal to find
themselves in the round of eight. That is the expectation
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for this tournament and this group. Now there's a lot
of pressure with that, the whole country hosting. There's gonna
be an intense amount of pressure on these guys, but
they're used to it. Like I said, they're playing in
some of the biggest teams in the world where there's
probably even more pressure on a weekly basis all year long.
With those teams, it's now up to them. And you know,
when the draw came out, everyone was clapping, Oh it's Australia, Paraguay, Turkey.
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But the flip side of that is all those teams
are thinking the same thing about playing the USA. I
don't think any of the other teams in the group
are saying, oh, that's a potential world champion. Everyone else
is thinking I can beat that team. And so this
group is going to be really interesting to watch because
I do think that they everyone has a realistic chance
of picking up points. It's going to be you know,
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who gives up the least amount of mistakes in the game.
Like you said, two to one, one nil could be
a goal of PK and then it becomes a chess
match after that, just to survive to get through to
the next round.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Who has the best team in the world in your opinion?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
On paper, I think it's France, they really do, and
they've they've showed that consistently. They're you know, their ranking
is number one, but then you know every now and
then it'll it'll fluctuate. It's Argentina at certain points, and
when you have Messi on the field, anything can happen.
I think Spain has has shown that they can. They
can play like no other team in the worlds. There's
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a reason why Spanish football has looked at as as
the pinnacle. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, the best teams
in the world right there in one league. I don't
know if one of those teams truly will win it.
It could be a dark horse tournament because there are
forty eight teams, but at the end of the day,
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there's a reason why the best players on France Vain,
Brazil has an incredible chance to win this Argentina. There's
a reason why all those players play at the best
teams in the world. It's because they have a realistic
chance at winning this tournament.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
In our last minute, you know Soccer, you know Seattle,
you know them both very very very well. How do
you think we're gonna do as a host here for
the World Cup? What's the next couple of weeks? We ask,
next few weeks going to be like here?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yeah, look, I think Seattle will blow it out of
the water. You've got soccer hotbeds all throughout this country,
and when it comes to international soccer, you've got Boston,
New York, Chicago who have real international mixes on a
massive scale. Right, We're talking ten million people in such
a small vicinity that is supercultural, multicultural. And then and
then you come over here to the Pacific Northwest, it's
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it's it's a little bit different, but still multicultural. And
the Sounders have shown that with our fan base. The
Reign have shown that with their fan base, and soccer
speaks the world's the world's game, and what the Sounders
have done and prepared on the waterfront. No one else
in this country has taken those steps to do something remotely.
They'll have watch parties, yes, but when you've got this
barge that's been built out with a field on it
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on the water, you've got the peer set up activations
every single day. Former Sounders, Legends, Rain Players, rain Legends.
Just it's going to be a massive soccer show. And
to be here in the Northwest where it will be
realistically cool, right the rest of the country is going
to be sweltering hot. It's just a fantastic opportunity to
show up, show out and show what we do up
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here in our little upper left corner.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, great having you on. I hope you've forgiven me
for the way that this got and we're looking forward
to your coverage and hopefully we can chat again, but
if not, have a ball and we're looking forward to
hearing you from you here on KJR.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah, I appreciate it, guys. Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Brad Evans former Sounders, great joining us here and he'll
be doing pre and post and intermission and everything else
throughout the course of the coverage, and we appreciate him
popping on with us here. Today again US Friday night
at six o'clock against Paraguay right here on kJ R.
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on next, it's time for sup. I know we don't
normally do it at nine thirty, but we're looking for
your questions. You can ask Ashley a question myself. A
question could be about sports, it could be about you
can pride into our personal lives, whatever, you want to
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do four nine four five one, But your question must
start with SUP, as in what's up? And then direct
it's at the person that you want to answer the question.
If it's both of us, then it's both of us.
But SUP is yours to play with? Next text line
four nine four five one. Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ r f M. So, yeah, it's just sup
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question mark, and so we ask you to weigh in
four nine four five one. You take control of the
programming here four nine four five one. Uh, sup as
in what's up? What's up? Ashley? What's going on with
block dot dot dot dot? So that's the way it works,
So we don't normally do it here at nine thirty.
(18:51):
So I figured I owe you to explanation here as
to what's coming your way. What do we have then,
in terms of questions.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
We've got this one from the two five to three
except Chuck, I do you think Walter Jones would do
against Aaron Donald or Miles Garrett all in their prime
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Not too well. Walter's a little far removed from the game.
I mean, I think, let's put it this way, as
well as anyone that's ever played the game. No, I
think he could handle Miles Garrett for sure, for sure,
the greatest left tackle, arguably against arguably the greatest right
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defensive end. Yeah, I think Miles Garrett would beat him
on occasion, But most of the time, I think Walter
Jones wins that. I mean, think about it. I mean,
even when a record setting number of sacks is twenty
three over sixteen games, so that's just a little over
or seventeen games, that's like one in a third sacks
a game. So most of the time Miles Garrett gets
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beat by the left tackle. And so if you have
the greatest of all time, yeah, I think Walter Jones.
I mean he's not going to stop him every single time,
but he's going to do a better job than just
about anyone that's ever played. Okay, that's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Walter.
In seventeen games, Garrett against Walter Jones, if they played
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seventeen times against one another, I promise you Miles Garrett
would not get a record number of sacks, probably be
around eight eight.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, that would be decent. Okay, So yeah, you do well.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Give him nine, which is more than most people got.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Again, Ry, Yeah, let's see, sup, Chuck, from the two
five to three. What is the biggest rift you've ever
had with somebody at a station, and has it ever
come to blow?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Never has come to blows. I probably it was probably
you know, I said, I'd be honest about it. Probably
the time with Bucky. Yeah. We got into a disagreement
with something one time and he kind of because Bucky's
very large and can be intimidating, and he kind of
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like stared me down and I went off like a
Roman candle, You're not going to do that to me
in the workplace. Uh. And he did not like that.
But we ended up I think, in a better place.
But it's always there, It's always in the back of
our heads. So that was probably the biggest rift that
we ever had.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well it's purple sheet says, I Mean, if everybody got along,
this would be a boring workplace.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got along. Well yeah, So I
didn't like him like trying to like intimidate me physically,
and then he didn't like that some of the words
that I use.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, that's fair. Well, you brought up Bucky. So we've
gotten a lot of Bucky questions. We've got to sup
Chuck and Ashley, where's Bucky? Can we get an update
on Bucky? We miss him?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And what's up with Bucky participating in the home.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Run derby but not showing up all the trees? Well, no,
he's on medical leave. It's not that he's just not
showing up for work, right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Right, I don't know. I mean, I'm glad it was
asked that way, because, believe it or not, people are
like angry with Ashley and I, Yeah, like we have
anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And secondly, you do have to understand there are laws
that govern this there. With him being on medical leave,
it means he can't really contact us, and we can't
really contact him because it would be seen as us
pressuring him. Even if we were just hey, we missed you,
come back, it would be view it could be viewed
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as pressuring him to return to work when he has
medical stuff and that's the reason that he's on leave.
So he got an additional extension, so we weren't expecting
it to take place. From what we understand, it's nothing
to be concerned about, but obviously there are issues enough
that he needed another extension to the medical leave. So
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we don't have really any information and we don't have
any troll over it whatsoever, and we really can't do
anything about it until he's off medical there, and we
have no idea when that will be, and we don't
know when that's going to be. So that's just where
we are. You know what, since it's been brought up,
you know how they do things here when somebody's gone,
(23:16):
we're not allowed to talk about him at all, right,
So the fact that we keep bringing him up every
show should show you this is not one of those
scenarios for those of you that are accusing us of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That, Yes, of lying and covering things up. And his
ads are still running on the station just so, Yeah, his.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Ads are still running. So, I mean, there's a plenty
of evidence that suggests that this. You know, we're being
forthright with you about all of this. But yes, he's
been out for an extended period of time and we
don't know when he's going to be back, and I
really don't even know the severity to his reasons for
not being here. So we'll find out eventually, and as
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soon as we have any information, we'll pass it along
to you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
There you go, Yeah, let's see with both of you
when you listen to other shows. Do you listen for
content or are you listening for like radio technical prowess.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh, I lookstened for them to screw up so I
can hold it over their heads.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I listened like in the mornings on my drive, and
I listened so I can argue with them or be like, oh,
oh that's a good point. Oh come on, you idiots,
Like no, that's not you know, like I have my
own conversation with them back and forth. When I was
in the music stuff, I'm listening like, oh, well they
did that well or they.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Didn't do that well. How do I how could I
use that?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, it's strange because I did not. I have not
always done sports talk radio. I got away from it.
I did comedy radio, music radio for a good chunk
of my career, and then I came back to sports
at the tail end. And so when I was not
a sports talk show host, I would still listen. I
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would listen to sports talk radio, as you know, and
I would get more angry then, like you're right, when
you are in the B business, you're just sort of
listening so that you didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, make sure you're caught up on everything.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're supporting your teammates. You want to hear how they're
doing and how they handled said subject. And then you
also listen for, oh, I didn't think of that angle.
Either I need to have an opinion on that angle,
or I need to either acknowledge it or counter it
the next day, something like that. And so yes, you
(25:28):
kind of do use it as a scouting report, if
you will, for your own show, and what you should
be talking about the next time that you crack the mics.
And so those three things I would say combined. But
I'll tell you though, when I was in the car
as a funny morning DJ, you know, morning Zoo kind
(25:50):
of guy who was just trying to push the envelope
all the time with edgy comedy. And then I'd get
in the car and I listen as just a listener
of sports talk radio. Man. For some reason, I yelled
a lot more at the car, I did you idiot,
what are you talking about it?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Moron?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
People listen to us. Oh, I'm sure from the two
of six up, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
There's always a lot of debate about the best baseball
movie of all time, But in your opinion, what is
the worst baseball movie all.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Time worst baseball movie.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I mean, mister Baseball wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It wasn't bad. I didn't mind that one so much.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I would never put in the best category though, that's
the only one I could really think of.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It might be man. I immediately thought the question was
going to be what's my favorite? What do I think
is the best? And that's Bull Durham, So I can
say that the worst baseball movie of all time? Oh boy,
I guess base What was the one with Napoleon Dynamite
and David Spade? Bench warmersh bench warmers, bench warm Not
(26:51):
that I watched it from beginning to wind, but I
saw enough of it that I'm like, I can't take this.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Wasn't There was basketball about basketball or baseball, and basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Was actually kind of funny. But that's from the South
Park guys. Yeah it was. It was combining the two.
It was, yeah, we're gonna invent a sport that combines
baseball and basketball, got it? Yeah, so it was basketball.
Then they were the Beers I remember correctly. That wasn't terrible.
I mean it was you know, it was one of
those like where there are ten fifteen really big laughs,
(27:22):
and but for the most part it swung and missed
more than it hit.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Okay, Yeah, and let's see, I'm gonna grab one more here.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Gosh.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And there's a lot of good baseball movies. I'll say
baseball and boxing do the best job of making movies.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, I like baseball movies the best in football movies.
There's a lot of good football movies from the two five,
three except Ashley and Chuck. How come you guys don't
do cross talk like the other shows? Do you just
figure you have too much to cover with the time
you have?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You know what that started with when I went to mornings,
Puck said he didn't want to do it, he didn't
really like doing it, and so I'm like, well, I'm
not going to force you to do it for sure.
And then we created one last thing, and then one
(28:10):
last thing I enjoy. I think that's a great way
to close out every show. So there was talk about
maybe bringing it to our show, and I just told
our boss, I like, one last thing, I don't want
to do anything. I don't want to do cross talk.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, it's our little moment to all have something to
end on.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, So so that was sort of it. It wasn't
I didn't do it with Mitch. By the way, when
I was doing Middays, Mitch didn't have me on, so
I didn't think it was part of the show. It
got suggested. Puck told me. That was one of the
first things he said, like, Hey, I don't want to
do cross talk, so if you don't, you don't want
to do it either. Let's just not do it. He
wanted to prepare for his show. I wanted to use
(28:49):
the last fifteen minutes prepare for his show. So we
never did it. So it never started. And then when
conversations began about maybe we should do it, I'm like, no,
I like one last thing to close the show. Yeah,
we're going to stick with it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Love it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So coming up next cross Talk on Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFN. All right, final segment of today's
radio program. And yes, we do one last thing to
close out our show. So what do you got ask?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I have no patience for soccer complainers?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you know we're I don't like to draw a
lot of attention to the negative people on the text line.
We were just looking at text so it's kind of
hard to ignore this SOT right before we're going into
Brad Evans. We get a complaint day before the biggest
sporting event in the world, and we're not even mentioning it.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Shameful reporting. Well, first of all, we're not reporters.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah true.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Second of all, we were literally in the break before
having Brad Evans on to talk twenty two minutes of soccer.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So then I said, we aren't reporters, and you were saying, like, here, look,
Brad Evans is on right now. As I'm responding back,
he said, you promised World Cup coverage, yet it's all Seahawks,
Stanley Cup, NBA, no discussion of roster selections, no mention
of friendlies, no mention of game performance, anti soccer bias.
So then I said, we had an entire segment yesterday
(30:11):
where we asked people what kind of soccer coverage do
you want? Like, because we aren't soccer experts, we aren't
soccer analysts, so I just would you rather us fake it? Yeah,
that's what I don't understand, because then if we.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Do that, then you're not gonna like the analysis.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, then you're just gonna be mad.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And so you guys don't even know what you're talking about, right,
you're right, we don't.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So that's why we're bringing in experts. And we have
asked the audience, the majority of the audience, what they
would like.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And as for.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Your saying that we talked hours, we're talking hours of
the NFL off season, and that's a lie to we
have two segments of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Officie.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh, we're going to talk to the NFL because that's
what moves the needle. I mean, this is this is
we run a business here, Yeah, and the business is
that you have to satisfy your customers and you got
to get the most those people through the doors. So like,
there's a there's a reason why we talk a lot
of football because it's what most people want to listen
to the longest periods of time. Yes, you know, there
(31:11):
is a reason that you know, Yes, there's a parfait
on the McDonald's menu board, but they're going to promote
their cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right, Okay, yeah, you can get all that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, they're going to sell a lot of cheeseburgers,
so they talk the most about their cheeseburgers. Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And also we talk more baseball almost like right now.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, right now, right now, but there's just more stuff
happening in the moment right now. Yeah, and we know
it better, so that's why that's happening. So exactly, I
don't tell you right now. We're going to cover the
World Cup as through our prism and it's just not
going to be a lot of analysis from from me, right.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'm not either. I'm not going to fake that I
know what's happening on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I'm just not equipped for it, and you don't want
it anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I watch it like a casual fan. That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I might not even watch it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Oh see, I will watch it.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I do love World Cup, but I'm not going to
pretend to know the ins and outs and inticacies of soccer.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I'm not. I don't, that's not that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, I want to close with this. You know Victor
Woman Yamba can't wait to watch him play again tonight.
I mean, he's thrilling, he's great for the league, and
I do like him. I think he's just a well
rounded person for sure. I mean, this is a guy
that reads before every game, but he seems to already
be jaded by the entire American media process at age
(32:34):
twenty two. I mean, this is his first long extended
exposure to how the NBA is covered, and he already
seems to have had.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It with it, Like he doesn't have a long way
to go.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
He doesn't even want to be a part of it.
And this is probably somebody that's gonna be in the
spotlight for the next ten years if things go the
way he wants them to go. I mean, it took
about ten years for Giannis, for whatever reason, to have
had enough of it, and he went for from media
darling who suddenly jaded and angry. And I think about America.
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I think I think that's what he's jaded and angry about.
So if Wimby's already there at age twenty two, I mean,
let's face it, it's French. They were kind of taught
to like look down their nose at us.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well, yes here, I am right, but that's why. And
then Americans say French or snobs and things like that.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Right, but they're kind of taught that way, like like
our priorities are auto whack and all of that sort
of thing. He's reading before games and people in the
league think he's weird for doing it. So I don't know,
I don't know where this is going to end up.
I don't know how love much longer Wimby's going to
be lovable because it kind of feels like he's already
drawing his lines in the sands. I mean, he walked
(33:47):
away from Alisa Salters interview after Game three of the
NBA Finals, like just answered the question and left.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, that's just disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, So I mean, we'll see, we'll see how he's
going to handle this going forward, but it looks like
he's already kind of drawing the line in the sand,
like I don't want to deal with you people ever.
All Right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
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Two Big Blocks
All right, nine o'clock hour' here on this humpday. Thanks
to everyone that's participated in our little conversation about World
Cup coverage yesterday, and now we get ready. We are
one sleep away from the World Cup beginning twenty twenty six,
and of course Seattle is going to be a major
part of that. As a matter of fact, KJR is
going to be a major part of that. We will
be airing the US Paraguay game Friday night at six
(00:34):
o'clock right here at Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ R FM, Paraguay translated to guys.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, Yeah, like a pair of guys.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right, Uruguay? I am assuming is then one guhy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Or just when you're calling someone, uh, it's like the
informal Uruguay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No you're Aguay, something like something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But you will be hearing the next guest that we
have on the air here on Chuck and Buck during
our broadcast coverage as well. Former sounders great eight nine
years with the Seattle Sounders, Brad Evans now joins us
here on the radio program in time for the World Cup.
Good morning, sir, Good morning everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're doing great? How excited are you for this tournament
to get underway and for Seattle and yourself to have
a part in the theater?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Gosh, I mean this is a long time coming. I
mean I was nine years old in nineteen ninety four
when the World Cup was last held in the US
SO and I've missed out on a World Cup one
of the last cuts for the twenty fourteen after doing
all the World Cup qualifiers, so that was a bit
heartbreaking down to hear this one announced. It's finally my
opportunity to experience what it's like to have a World
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Cup in your country and to attend it is most important,
right this is a one cented generation tournament that's going
to be held here and I'm beyond excited. And to
be involved obviously doing radio pre HAF and post with
you guys is going to be awesome to come in
every day and hopefully be in the stadium.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
For one of the matches. So I'm just excited.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
The Sounders have a ton of activations with the pier
and the barge, and we are working pretty much every
day for the next month and a half really, so
it's going to be busy, but also it's going to
go by in the snap of a finger.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know of your wound, and I don't mean to
pour salt into it, but I mean, I do want
to ask Brad Evans that as a soccer player, and
you're growing up in America and you you know, you
become a star at the high school level, and then
you become a star at the college level, and then
you play professionally, and then you're good enough that you
represent the US and several different competitions and yet the
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biggest tournament in the world for you to have come
so close to being able to play, and it's something
I'm sure you dreamed about, how your entire life. How
much does it sting to this that you got that
close and didn't get to participate.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Geez, you said you don't want to pour salt on
the wound, and a one minute diatribe of pouring salts
completely on the wound that happened ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I got nothing to do it. But I think it does.
It's said, I think it's an interesting story to tell
right now, and I.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Had to get it out of you some way, and
I think, yes, yes, it is a tough one. You
go through your whole career and then you kind of
get this opportunity. You know, my opportunity with the national
team came from really nothing. I was kind of a
fringe national team player to start. I was on a
basically a second team for the Gold Cup tournament in
two thousand and nine. So I got my feet wet there,
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but I just kept putting my head down and plugging away.
I was never the best player, never the most skillful,
but my mo throughout my whole career and even as
a youngster, was just I had to outwork everyone and
determination on the field, and yes, you know, to see
your ultimate dream get cut short.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
At the moment, it didn't. It doesn't sting as.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Bad as it does now, understanding when you leave the
game that you left something on the table. You know,
in the moment, you still you know, you jump on
the flight and then you go back to the Sounders
and you've got a game the next weekend, so there's
not too much time to dwell on those big moments
at the time. But now you look back and you realize, wow,
it would have been great to, you know, tell the
kids one day that I participated in a World Cup. Yes,
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it would have been amazing, but that's the reality of sports.
Like you said, it's the percentage of the percentage of
the percentage of the percentage.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
It's so small.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It's when I played, it was twenty three guys on
a roster out of you know, three hundred plus million
in this country. You know, however many million play soccer,
you know, growing up, and then you kind of narrow
those numbers down. So it's a really big opportunity for
anyone in any place around the world.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
But you learn a lot of.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Lessons through through those defeats, I guess you could call them,
and so it really allowed me to put my head
down and work hard. After that, I did get called
back into the national team quite a few times to
play in games, so my national team career wasn't done
at that point. It was really just the missed opportunity
of making a World Cup roster.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
How have you tended to deal with people that remind
you of this painful thing, do you?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, I just kind of avoid them at all costs.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They hang up, never go on their radio shows again,
ever see them in person, and you know, tackle slide
tackle them.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Slide tackle there. You go, better be wear in your
shing guards. When I see you next week.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Brad Evans is with us. I threw a lot of
compliments in there, all time one of the all time sounders.
Great joining us that right here. It's going to be
a part of our World Cup coverage show for you
as well on Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
A R F M. All right, So how important I
mean we talk about this all the time, and they've
talked about this my entire life. The US needing to
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take that step forward to start being mentioned amongst the
great country's in the world at this sport. So how
important is this tournament to the US reputation and the
growth of its program.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Well, look, I think the US has taken leaps and bounds.
Is the awesome Vice documentary on YouTube. That's a series
that kind of talks about the US men's national team
and it's come up, you know since the forties fifties,
first participating in this tournament that started in nineteen thirty.
The real shift was, you know, nineteen ninety four you
(06:32):
kind of got the buzz going in the US and
then MLS comes around in nineteen ninety six, and if
you think about the rest of the world, what a
head start they've had with their domestic leagues consistently for
over one hundred years. Right, you talk about the powerhouses Brazil, England, Spain, France,
these clubs have been around since the eighteen hundreds and
consistently not taking breaks. Like in the US you had
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the NASL, you've had a league, you've had USL, and
now Major League Soccers had a good run for thirty years.
That's the biggest thing. And when you look at this roster,
there's only eight players that are domestically from MLS that
are playing on this roster. The rest are playing at
the biggest teams in the world. You've got Ac Milan Juventis.
I mean, you run down the list of guys playing
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in France as well, some big, big teams.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
So you're starting to see a shift, albeit slow.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Now that doesn't mean that the rest of the world
has just taken a pause, right, Those players have gotten
better as well. So we're still playing catch up in
that respect. And now it's time for this group to
put it all together. With players that, like I said,
are playing and some of the best teams in the world.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Can they do it as a team That's going to
be the biggest thing. I think when I.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Look at this team that there's a lot of fantastic
individual players. Ziggi Schmidt used to always tell us, former
coach of the Sounders, you can have one piano player,
but the rest of us have to carry the piano.
And I don't know if I see that in this group.
I see a lot of piano players, and when that happens,
things don't tend to work out too great. If they
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can figure out a way to have one guy be
the center point and the rest of them do the work.
That's what Argentina does with Messi, That's what Portugal will
do with Ronaldo. That's why those guys are the best.
But this US men's national team needs to figure out
a way to have one guy shine and the rest
of them do the work to advance. The tournament's a
little bit different though, Yeah, Christian polistic I think it
(08:21):
is the guy, okay, right, He's he's the he's the
golden boy, and if he can have a great tournament,
he's gonna carry this team. Much like Landon, Donovan and
Clint did. They found a way to play together. So
the tournament's a little bit different, though. You've got you've
got forty eight teams instead of thirty two, so you
will have eight third place teams that advance. So the
chances of the US advancing are pretty high. I suspect
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they'll get at least three points in the group. That'll
that'll mean most most certainly that they advance into the
next round. That's when the real challenge starts, because if
you're third place finisher, if you're you're gonna end up
playing a first or second place team from another group.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
That's gonna be the difficult task. Gotta pick up points
group play.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Brad Evans is with US. So what do we know
about Paraguay going into Friday.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean Paraguay is a strong team. You figure
when you talk about South America, you talk about some
of the best teams in the world consistently, I mean
the top three from South America, Columbia, Argentina and Brazil.
All those teams have a chance to win this tournament.
And now you're talking about a Paraguay team that had
to go through that qualification with those teams and get results,
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which they did. I mean, you've got an MLS player,
Miguel elmi Ron who played in the English Premier League.
You kind of run down the list of what is
going to be a very technical but a very intense team.
The last time these teams face there was a massive
brawl at the end. The US ended up winning two
to one. So there's a little bit of tension in
this game stemming from that one about a year ago.
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It's going to be a difficult challenge for the US
because these South American teams, they consistently play in their
big tournaments every two years. They've got Copa Sudamericana, which
all those players play domestically in massive games down there.
So when they come together, there's something different about putting
on a jersey in a World Cup.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I expect a low.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Scoring game, and I don't usually make predictions. I don't
like to, but I think US, being on home soil
in Los Angeles, I'm guessing two to one, just to
get off on a good foot, it'll be huge for
them to get three points.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Longtime sounders, Great Brad Evans, our guests here as we
get you ready for the World Cup. We're one sleep away.
It gets started tomorrow Friday night. US has taken on
Paraguay and Brad Evans is going to be part of
our broadcast month here in coverage of the World Cup
twenty twenty six, which we'll touch of course Seattle throughout
the month as well. I mean, I'm not as big
(10:50):
a soccer fan, Brad as I am as some of
the other sports, and so I don't know. I mean
I always hear about soccer that that was a big upset,
But when you're talking about a sport where usually the
scores two to one, one to nothing, I mean it's
usually within a goal. I mean, how big of an
upset would it be if the US were to not
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get out of their group, or if the US made
a deep run into the playoffs. I mean, what's the
fine line between something that's in soccer that is expected
and something that is shocking.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, great point.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I think the more shocking point of or storyline would
be the USA not advancing out of the group. I
think it's more realistic for these guys to make a
decent run in this tournament.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It would be a success.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I think if the team makes the quarterfinals, I think
you could realistically look at the FIFA rankings, we sit
like seventeen, so if you're thinking quarterfinals, that's the top
sixteen teams you're kind of right on par with where
your ranking is in the world. Now, if they advance
past that, you know it's possible. For sure, they're going
to have to show up and show out and play
out of their minds. But I think realistically making it
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out of the group isn't good enough for this team
and the occasion. Now, if this tournament was being played
somewhere else, I would think making out of the group
would be a plus, But these guys have higher standards.
The head coach, Pochettino's coach some of the biggest teams
in the world at the club level. His expectation is
that he can take this team on a deep run,
and he's a real thinker. He's not like a Jurgen Klinsmann,
(12:31):
a prior coach who was just jovial and happy and
not really a tactician. This new head coach is a
pure tactician and hopefully he can get this US team
on the same page. But since the US is at home,
the expectations are much much higher. It would be a
massive disappointment and people would say, oh, yep, this is
typical the US. They get knocked out of the round.
(12:54):
They didn't rise to the big occasion, we need to
have something happen like two thousand and two where the
US turned some heads and really you know, you beat
Portugal South Korea and then you make it to a
game against Germany where they didn't have var at the time,
but what would have been a USA goal to find
themselves in the round of eight. That is the expectation
(13:15):
for this tournament and this group. Now there's a lot
of pressure with that, the whole country hosting. There's gonna
be an intense amount of pressure on these guys, but
they're used to it. Like I said, they're playing in
some of the biggest teams in the world where there's
probably even more pressure on a weekly basis all year long.
With those teams, it's now up to them. And you know,
when the draw came out, everyone was clapping, Oh it's Australia, Paraguay, Turkey.
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But the flip side of that is all those teams
are thinking the same thing about playing the USA. I
don't think any of the other teams in the group
are saying, oh, that's a potential world champion. Everyone else
is thinking I can beat that team. And so this
group is going to be really interesting to watch because
I do think that they everyone has a realistic chance
of picking up points. It's going to be you know,
(14:02):
who gives up the least amount of mistakes in the game.
Like you said, two to one, one nil could be
a goal of PK and then it becomes a chess
match after that, just to survive to get through to
the next round.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Who has the best team in the world in your opinion?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
On paper, I think it's France, they really do, and
they've they've showed that consistently. They're you know, their ranking
is number one, but then you know every now and
then it'll it'll fluctuate. It's Argentina at certain points, and
when you have Messi on the field, anything can happen.
I think Spain has has shown that they can. They
can play like no other team in the worlds. There's
(14:40):
a reason why Spanish football has looked at as as
the pinnacle. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, the best teams
in the world right there in one league. I don't
know if one of those teams truly will win it.
It could be a dark horse tournament because there are
forty eight teams, but at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1 (15:14):
In our last minute, you know Soccer, you know Seattle,
you know them both very very very well. How do
you think we're gonna do as a host here for
the World Cup? What's the next couple of weeks? We ask,
next few weeks going to be like here?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yeah, look, I think Seattle will blow it out of
the water. You've got soccer hotbeds all throughout this country,
and when it comes to international soccer, you've got Boston,
New York, Chicago who have real international mixes on a
massive scale. Right, We're talking ten million people in such
a small vicinity that is supercultural, multicultural. And then and
then you come over here to the Pacific Northwest, it's
(15:51):
it's it's a little bit different, but still multicultural. And
the Sounders have shown that with our fan base. The
Reign have shown that with their fan base, and soccer
speaks the world's the world's game, and what the Sounders
have done and prepared on the waterfront. No one else
in this country has taken those steps to do something remotely.
They'll have watch parties, yes, but when you've got this
barge that's been built out with a field on it
(16:14):
on the water, you've got the peer set up activations
every single day. Former Sounders, Legends, Rain Players, rain Legends.
Just it's going to be a massive soccer show. And
to be here in the Northwest where it will be
realistically cool, right the rest of the country is going
to be sweltering hot. It's just a fantastic opportunity to
show up, show out and show what we do up
(16:35):
here in our little upper left corner.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Well, great having you on. I hope you've forgiven me
for the way that this got and we're looking forward
to your coverage and hopefully we can chat again, but
if not, have a ball and we're looking forward to
hearing you from you here on KJR.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah, I appreciate it, guys. Thank you all right.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Brad Evans former Sounders, great joining us here and he'll
be doing pre and post and intermission and everything else
throughout the course of the coverage, and we appreciate him
popping on with us here. Today again US Friday night
at six o'clock against Paraguay right here on kJ R.
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Yeah, so if you need an excuse, which let's be honest,
you shouldn't because it's great on its own, but if
you need one, there you go.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It's an excuse for the next month.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Honey, I don't have a choice. Yeah, World Cup, World Cup.
I mean I got a excuse to go. Yeah, I'm not.
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on next, it's time for sup. I know we don't
normally do it at nine thirty, but we're looking for
your questions. You can ask Ashley a question myself. A
question could be about sports, it could be about you
can pride into our personal lives, whatever, you want to
(18:09):
do four nine four five one, But your question must
start with SUP, as in what's up? And then direct
it's at the person that you want to answer the question.
If it's both of us, then it's both of us.
But SUP is yours to play with? Next text line
four nine four five one. Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ r f M. So, yeah, it's just sup
(18:31):
question mark, and so we ask you to weigh in
four nine four five one. You take control of the
programming here four nine four five one. Uh, sup as
in what's up? What's up? Ashley? What's going on with
block dot dot dot dot? So that's the way it works,
So we don't normally do it here at nine thirty.
(18:51):
So I figured I owe you to explanation here as
to what's coming your way. What do we have then,
in terms of questions.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
We've got this one from the two five to three
except Chuck, I do you think Walter Jones would do
against Aaron Donald or Miles Garrett all in their prime
right now?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Not too well. Walter's a little far removed from the game.
I mean, I think, let's put it this way, as
well as anyone that's ever played the game. No, I
think he could handle Miles Garrett for sure, for sure,
the greatest left tackle, arguably against arguably the greatest right
(19:32):
defensive end. Yeah, I think Miles Garrett would beat him
on occasion, But most of the time, I think Walter
Jones wins that. I mean, think about it. I mean,
even when a record setting number of sacks is twenty
three over sixteen games, so that's just a little over
or seventeen games, that's like one in a third sacks
a game. So most of the time Miles Garrett gets
(19:55):
beat by the left tackle. And so if you have
the greatest of all time, yeah, I think Walter Jones.
I mean he's not going to stop him every single time,
but he's going to do a better job than just
about anyone that's ever played. Okay, that's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Walter.
In seventeen games, Garrett against Walter Jones, if they played
(20:17):
seventeen times against one another, I promise you Miles Garrett
would not get a record number of sacks, probably be
around eight eight.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, that would be decent. Okay, So yeah, you do well.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Give him nine, which is more than most people got.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Again, Ry, Yeah, let's see, sup, Chuck, from the two
five to three. What is the biggest rift you've ever
had with somebody at a station, and has it ever
come to blow?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Never has come to blows. I probably it was probably
you know, I said, I'd be honest about it. Probably
the time with Bucky. Yeah. We got into a disagreement
with something one time and he kind of because Bucky's
very large and can be intimidating, and he kind of
(21:05):
like stared me down and I went off like a
Roman candle, You're not going to do that to me
in the workplace. Uh. And he did not like that.
But we ended up I think, in a better place.
But it's always there, It's always in the back of
our heads. So that was probably the biggest rift that
we ever had.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well it's purple sheet says, I Mean, if everybody got along,
this would be a boring workplace.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got along. Well yeah, So I
didn't like him like trying to like intimidate me physically,
and then he didn't like that some of the words
that I use.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay, that's fair. Well, you brought up Bucky. So we've
gotten a lot of Bucky questions. We've got to sup
Chuck and Ashley, where's Bucky? Can we get an update
on Bucky? We miss him?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And what's up with Bucky participating in the home.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Run derby but not showing up all the trees? Well, no,
he's on medical leave. It's not that he's just not
showing up for work, right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Right, I don't know. I mean, I'm glad it was
asked that way, because, believe it or not, people are
like angry with Ashley and I, Yeah, like we have
anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And secondly, you do have to understand there are laws
that govern this there. With him being on medical leave,
it means he can't really contact us, and we can't
really contact him because it would be seen as us
pressuring him. Even if we were just hey, we missed you,
come back, it would be view it could be viewed
(22:33):
as pressuring him to return to work when he has
medical stuff and that's the reason that he's on leave.
So he got an additional extension, so we weren't expecting
it to take place. From what we understand, it's nothing
to be concerned about, but obviously there are issues enough
that he needed another extension to the medical leave. So
(22:56):
we don't have really any information and we don't have
any troll over it whatsoever, and we really can't do
anything about it until he's off medical there, and we
have no idea when that will be, and we don't
know when that's going to be. So that's just where
we are. You know what, since it's been brought up,
you know how they do things here when somebody's gone,
(23:16):
we're not allowed to talk about him at all, right,
So the fact that we keep bringing him up every
show should show you this is not one of those
scenarios for those of you that are accusing us of.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That, Yes, of lying and covering things up. And his
ads are still running on the station just so, Yeah, his.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Ads are still running. So, I mean, there's a plenty
of evidence that suggests that this. You know, we're being
forthright with you about all of this. But yes, he's
been out for an extended period of time and we
don't know when he's going to be back, and I
really don't even know the severity to his reasons for
not being here. So we'll find out eventually, and as
(23:53):
soon as we have any information, we'll pass it along
to you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
There you go, Yeah, let's see with both of you
when you listen to other shows. Do you listen for
content or are you listening for like radio technical prowess.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh, I lookstened for them to screw up so I
can hold it over their heads.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I listened like in the mornings on my drive, and
I listened so I can argue with them or be like, oh,
oh that's a good point. Oh come on, you idiots,
Like no, that's not you know, like I have my
own conversation with them back and forth. When I was
in the music stuff, I'm listening like, oh, well they
did that well or they.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Didn't do that well. How do I how could I
use that?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, it's strange because I did not. I have not
always done sports talk radio. I got away from it.
I did comedy radio, music radio for a good chunk
of my career, and then I came back to sports
at the tail end. And so when I was not
a sports talk show host, I would still listen. I
(24:50):
would listen to sports talk radio, as you know, and
I would get more angry then, like you're right, when
you are in the B business, you're just sort of
listening so that you didn't miss anything.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, make sure you're caught up on everything.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're supporting your teammates. You want to hear how they're
doing and how they handled said subject. And then you
also listen for, oh, I didn't think of that angle.
Either I need to have an opinion on that angle,
or I need to either acknowledge it or counter it
the next day, something like that. And so yes, you
(25:28):
kind of do use it as a scouting report, if
you will, for your own show, and what you should
be talking about the next time that you crack the mics.
And so those three things I would say combined. But
I'll tell you though, when I was in the car
as a funny morning DJ, you know, morning Zoo kind
(25:50):
of guy who was just trying to push the envelope
all the time with edgy comedy. And then I'd get
in the car and I listen as just a listener
of sports talk radio. Man. For some reason, I yelled
a lot more at the car, I did you idiot,
what are you talking about it?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Moron?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
People listen to us. Oh, I'm sure from the two
of six up, Chuck.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
There's always a lot of debate about the best baseball
movie of all time, But in your opinion, what is
the worst baseball movie all.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Time worst baseball movie.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I mean, mister Baseball wasn't great.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It wasn't bad. I didn't mind that one so much.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I would never put in the best category though, that's
the only one I could really think of.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It might be man. I immediately thought the question was
going to be what's my favorite? What do I think
is the best? And that's Bull Durham, So I can
say that the worst baseball movie of all time? Oh boy,
I guess base What was the one with Napoleon Dynamite
and David Spade? Bench warmersh bench warmers, bench warm Not
(26:51):
that I watched it from beginning to wind, but I
saw enough of it that I'm like, I can't take this.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Wasn't There was basketball about basketball or baseball, and basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Was actually kind of funny. But that's from the South
Park guys. Yeah it was. It was combining the two.
It was, yeah, we're gonna invent a sport that combines
baseball and basketball, got it? Yeah, so it was basketball.
Then they were the Beers I remember correctly. That wasn't terrible.
I mean it was you know, it was one of
those like where there are ten fifteen really big laughs,
(27:22):
and but for the most part it swung and missed
more than it hit.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Okay, Yeah, and let's see, I'm gonna grab one more here.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Gosh.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And there's a lot of good baseball movies. I'll say
baseball and boxing do the best job of making movies.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, I like baseball movies the best in football movies.
There's a lot of good football movies from the two five,
three except Ashley and Chuck. How come you guys don't
do cross talk like the other shows? Do you just
figure you have too much to cover with the time
you have?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You know what that started with when I went to mornings,
Puck said he didn't want to do it, he didn't
really like doing it, and so I'm like, well, I'm
not going to force you to do it for sure.
And then we created one last thing, and then one
(28:10):
last thing I enjoy. I think that's a great way
to close out every show. So there was talk about
maybe bringing it to our show, and I just told
our boss, I like, one last thing, I don't want
to do anything. I don't want to do cross talk.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, it's our little moment to all have something to
end on.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, So so that was sort of it. It wasn't
I didn't do it with Mitch. By the way, when
I was doing Middays, Mitch didn't have me on, so
I didn't think it was part of the show. It
got suggested. Puck told me. That was one of the
first things he said, like, Hey, I don't want to
do cross talk, so if you don't, you don't want
to do it either. Let's just not do it. He
wanted to prepare for his show. I wanted to use
(28:49):
the last fifteen minutes prepare for his show. So we
never did it. So it never started. And then when
conversations began about maybe we should do it, I'm like, no,
I like one last thing to close the show. Yeah,
we're going to stick with it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Love it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
So coming up next cross Talk on Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFN. All right, final segment of today's
radio program. And yes, we do one last thing to
close out our show. So what do you got ask?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I have no patience for soccer complainers?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
So you know we're I don't like to draw a
lot of attention to the negative people on the text line.
We were just looking at text so it's kind of
hard to ignore this SOT right before we're going into
Brad Evans. We get a complaint day before the biggest
sporting event in the world, and we're not even mentioning it.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Shameful reporting. Well, first of all, we're not reporters.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah true.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Second of all, we were literally in the break before
having Brad Evans on to talk twenty two minutes of soccer.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So then I said, we aren't reporters, and you were saying, like, here, look,
Brad Evans is on right now. As I'm responding back,
he said, you promised World Cup coverage, yet it's all Seahawks,
Stanley Cup, NBA, no discussion of roster selections, no mention
of friendlies, no mention of game performance, anti soccer bias.
So then I said, we had an entire segment yesterday
(30:11):
where we asked people what kind of soccer coverage do
you want? Like, because we aren't soccer experts, we aren't
soccer analysts, so I just would you rather us fake it? Yeah,
that's what I don't understand, because then if we.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Do that, then you're not gonna like the analysis.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah, then you're just gonna be mad.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
And so you guys don't even know what you're talking about, right,
you're right, we don't.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So that's why we're bringing in experts. And we have
asked the audience, the majority of the audience, what they
would like.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And as for.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Your saying that we talked hours, we're talking hours of
the NFL off season, and that's a lie to we
have two segments of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Officie.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh, we're going to talk to the NFL because that's
what moves the needle. I mean, this is this is
we run a business here, Yeah, and the business is
that you have to satisfy your customers and you got
to get the most those people through the doors. So like,
there's a there's a reason why we talk a lot
of football because it's what most people want to listen
to the longest periods of time. Yes, you know, there
(31:11):
is a reason that you know, Yes, there's a parfait
on the McDonald's menu board, but they're going to promote
their cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right, Okay, yeah, you can get all that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, they're going to sell a lot of cheeseburgers,
so they talk the most about their cheeseburgers. Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And also we talk more baseball almost like right now.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, right now, right now, but there's just more stuff
happening in the moment right now. Yeah, and we know
it better, so that's why that's happening. So exactly, I
don't tell you right now. We're going to cover the
World Cup as through our prism and it's just not
going to be a lot of analysis from from me, right.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'm not either. I'm not going to fake that I
know what's happening on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I'm just not equipped for it, and you don't want
it anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I watch it like a casual fan. That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I might not even watch it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Oh see, I will watch it.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I do love World Cup, but I'm not going to
pretend to know the ins and outs and inticacies of soccer.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I'm not. I don't, that's not that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, I want to close with this. You know Victor
Woman Yamba can't wait to watch him play again tonight.
I mean, he's thrilling, he's great for the league, and
I do like him. I think he's just a well
rounded person for sure. I mean, this is a guy
that reads before every game, but he seems to already
be jaded by the entire American media process at age
(32:34):
twenty two. I mean, this is his first long extended
exposure to how the NBA is covered, and he already
seems to have had.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It with it, Like he doesn't have a long way
to go.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
He doesn't even want to be a part of it.
And this is probably somebody that's gonna be in the
spotlight for the next ten years if things go the
way he wants them to go. I mean, it took
about ten years for Giannis, for whatever reason, to have
had enough of it, and he went for from media
darling who suddenly jaded and angry. And I think about America.
(33:08):
I think I think that's what he's jaded and angry about.
So if Wimby's already there at age twenty two, I mean,
let's face it, it's French. They were kind of taught
to like look down their nose at us.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well, yes here, I am right, but that's why. And
then Americans say French or snobs and things like that.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Right, but they're kind of taught that way, like like
our priorities are auto whack and all of that sort
of thing. He's reading before games and people in the
league think he's weird for doing it. So I don't know,
I don't know where this is going to end up.
I don't know how love much longer Wimby's going to
be lovable because it kind of feels like he's already
drawing his lines in the sands. I mean, he walked
(33:47):
away from Alisa Salters interview after Game three of the
NBA Finals, like just answered the question and left.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, that's just disrespectful.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, So I mean, we'll see, we'll see how he's
going to handle this going forward, but it looks like
he's already kind of drawing the line in the sand,
like I don't want to deal with you people ever.
All Right, we'll talk to you tomorrow at six am.
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