And joining us now on the radio show. The head coach of your Satner's FC, Brian Schmatzer coach, how are you man? Good, tough thy Thanks for having me on today. I appreciate you doing it. You watched the Cracking game last night? Of course I slept in my Cracking T shirt after I you know, sobbing myself to sleep after they lost. Wow, Well would you make of what you saw last night? Man? Tell me
is a native show? Well, I mean, look, I love the whole story, and you know, we I think we talked about this a little bit earlier. I mean, I love the way the Cracking. In those games that they were winning, they would just be able to four check higher up the ice. They're super aggressive, they won the puck higher up the ice, and it just didn't feel like last night they could get any
mojo going. It was just kind of like weird. And then Dallas scored that goal, and you know the second goal, and you know, we clinked one off the post or crossbar or whatever and could have made it a little bit more time on the clock. But look, it was a sighting series. Credit to day, Credit to get sports fans for making this a big deal. I was into it. Well, Brian, you had a
very unique game this last weekend, no question about it. Probably the first game you've ever had with an hour lightning delay and finishing two guys up, right, first time ever? Yeah, lightning and two guys up, for sure, Dick. Yeah, but we've got a lightning. We'd have a lightning delay before a couple. You know, that's that's always hard. It's awkward. You know, players get warm and they get cold. They got to warm them up. But you know, the two red cards was unusual.
I don't think I've ever poached the game or even played in the game with two red cards. So that was interesting, and it was it was a challenge. I was gonna kind of tie this into the crack in a bit because we saw them struggle when they had the advantage on the power play last night, and they struggled really all playoffs long. You guys had a man up obviously, and did not really respond until you had two men up. Sometimes is that kind of hard? Do you guys kind of back off
a little bit when they know they had advantage? How do you kind of get through that? In soccer? Yes, Look, the other team automatically becomes the underdog. They're not supposed to win. The team that goes up a man is supposed to win, and so maybe there's a little bit of added pressure to the guy the team that's you know, playing a man up, and then you go two guys down. Then it's really, you know, there's no there's no bad outcome really for Houston. I mean, if
they lose, it's, oh yeah, we got two red cards. If they were able to hold on and get a draw, get a point, that would have been a massive success story for Houston. Take us through that lightning delay. What do you what do you tell your team? What do you have them do, especially when you don't exactly know how long the delay is going to be. Yeah, we try to just get them off their feet. You know, they sit in their lockers. Uh, you know,
they've got music playing. We watched some other games that some other games were going on at the same time, but just basically trying to just keep them engaged. I don't want them on their phones, you know, talking to their girlfriends or you know, wise or whatever. I need them to focus. I need them to focus. But you know, and then and then you know, you keep giving them updates. We were giving updates every
fifteen minutes, so the time goes by pretty quickly. Okay, So I gotta ask you because you mentioned that Brian Brian Schmitzer with us, who was the most likely candidate to be talking to his wife or girlfriend on his cell phone during LA Uh? Well, gosh, I don't know, softie, who would be the most likely one. Well, all of them were checking their Instagram accounts. I can tell you. Maybe it wasn't a wife or girlfriend, but they're all checking out how good they look on Instagram. There
you go, hey, speaking of looking good. Paul roth Rock, I'm still not convinced that's the guy's real name. By that that sounds like it sounds like a witness protection plan name, to be honest with you, or like a wrestling name. Paul Rothrock, who's from the area. Three goals in three games, including one against Houston. Tell us what you see in this kid and why he's been so successful early you think it's a great story, softly because it's it's a different story of a guy you know. And
look, he's still playing for Defiance. We haven't signed him yet, but he's making his case. He's taken you know, good opportunity and he's doing the best of it. Of them making the most of it. You know, he went to he was born and raised in Seattle, went to Georgetown, went to Notre Dame, played college soccer, and then came back.
He was actually drafted by Toronto, had a couple of years there with their second team, came back here, just came back home and you know, signed with Defiance and some guys just it's a different path to the pros and he's got a different path. But the kid was lights out and like I said, he made the most of his opportunity. And you know, we'll see if he parlays this into something more. How about another kid that you
just picked up. It's kind of fun to see a guy that's been involved with the Sounder since he was twelve years old being signed by you guys. Tell us about the nineteen year old Cody Baker. Yeah, tough as nails, Dick. I love the kid. He's tough as nails, he's got the Northwest grit, he's you know, gotten better technically. That was kind of the rub on Cody. Could he could he handle the pressure and the
technical aspect of our sport. But he's done really well. We actually you know, played him at left back for knew Who and Kellen Row is injured and that's actually, you know, that's hard on a kid. You know, that's hard on a young man making his debut. And he went over there and you know, he kicked out, all right. Brian Schmitzer with us on the air coach before we talk about some injury situations here Austin tomorrow, Vancouver in Vancouver on Saturday. First of all, tell me about kind
of the short week and how you pack all this in. Make sure the guys are ready. Yeah, we we're just focused on Austin because it's the home game. We're gonna put everything out there and start our you know, first lineup, first group, whatever you want to call it. We do have some injuries. Knew Who is going to be on the bench, you know, Leo Chu will be back available, so we'll have some reinforcements.
But we'll we'll run out a strong team and then we'll see how that game goes and we'll pick up the pieces and bust up to Vancouver and trying to you know, beat the Canadians. Do you like midweek matches, especially if you guys can pack a little momentum into the Wednesday game and carry it into a short week. Yeah. Well I'd love it, Dick, if it was Wednesday Sunday. I mean, Wednesday's Saturday. Those are pretty tough today
turnarounds for soccer players, pretty tough. But love love Wednesday Sunday. Yeah, it gives us a little rhythm, little momentum. Hey, the last time we talked, I think we asked you about Knew Who, and you were kind of playing things close to the vest, which we now find out we're kind of for obvious reasons. How long did it take you to diagnose that he had malaria? And how's he doing? That's a scary word. When when we heard the diet, when I heard the diagnosis, you know,
it's like, okay, malaria. I mean, geez, that's a dangerous disease. So we're kind of taking it back. I mean, I don't know all of the tests that the doctors were doing, and when they finally settled on okay, this is malaria. And how the you know, the blood draws have he had two or three different blood draws and so when we found out it was malaria. Actually, it's a very curable disease,
and so he was on the messin right away. But it was just a combination of he was coming out of Ramadan, he hadn't been you know, eating after sunset and drinking after sunset, and I think just his body was weak. Then the disease kicked in. So it set him back a little bit. But he's perfectly fine now, good spirits, good mood, So he's back good as ever. Well, you mentioned his status and choose status. How about Christian rolled On and na Ro Ruy Diaz. What's their status
for this week? That's still bad news, Jack. None of those two players will feature in either of the game's raoul just precautionary, just because you know, hamstring. We want to make sure this time is the last time he's injured. And then Christian, yeah, that one is just you know, it's a safety protocol. We just want to make sure he's one hundred percent. Saw some lingering headaches every now and again, but we have ramped
him up. We've given him some more physical activity and as long as he can handle that, you know, there'll be a week or two ramp up with that, and then we'll see how it goes. Gotcha, all right man, good stuff, good luck tomorrow, good luck over the weekend, and we'll talk in a week. All right man, all right, okay, all right, take care guys,