You've got FC Dallas, Houston dynamos, sounds like earthquakes, LAFC, and then, and then the Sounders, uh, I don't know how I would think that if the Sounders can get out of that plan game, which they are right now outside of, I got to think that they would fancy their chances against just about any of those, those teams ahead of them in the standings.

Yeah, I suppose you could say it's been a streaky season, right? Because St.

Louis was really poor, had an extensive, I'm pretty sure it was like maybe one of their first 10 or something like that.

So they've had a weird streakiness to them as well.

The Whitecaps are, on their day, they're still pretty fearsome, but they are just not as dominant as they were last season.

there's just, I mean, they really haven't fully replaced Sebastian Berhalter, I think is the short answer.

And that's very understandable, right? When you look at what he's doing in the English championship right off the bat, and then what he's bringing to the national team, you can, you can understand, right? There's, There's the midfielder, then there's the force of personality that's involved with that.

And somehow, I mean, maybe that's why, but I have just been... blown away at what I've seen from him like I realized the goal that he scored against Mexico wasn't necessarily the best example of the Kevin Sullivan experience but it does seem to get you know it was an appropriate cap to what had been an impressive trio of games for him

am I, is it fair that I'm a little, I'm confused, but also hopeful.

Well, the logistical aspects of this, the reason that that USF and.

It's mainly them, right? Because the Gold Cup has been around too.

But the main thing that always comes up, of course, is the artificial turf at Lumen Field, aka Seattle Stadium, for this month.

And the distance for European-based players to travel.

I think we've got a...

We're now talking about a perfect seven wins, zero losses, zero draws, all-time competitive matches in Seattle for the U.S. men's national team.

Can you just sort of lay that out for us a little bit?