We are back with another offseason episode as the 2025 season draws nearer. Have the Seattle Sounders painted themselves into a corner with their recent roster decisions? We discuss that topic, along with some thoughts on the future of Obed Vargas and a silly season rumor linking the Seattle Sounders to Marcus Rashford.

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We are back with an offseason episode with some headlines around MLS to cover, including a new sporting director for Atlanta United with Seattle Sounders ties. We also update the Seattle Sounders’ ongoing pursuit of an FC Dallas duo and give our thoughts on the team’s offseason to date.

With the release of the 2025 MLS schedule, be sure to tune in to the Lobbing Scorchers YouTube on Friday at 7:30 pm ET for our live reaction show!

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Seattle Sounders forward Jordan Morris joins Noah for this special episode to talk about his work off the field with the Jordan Morris Foundation and his mission to support and inspire kids living with Type 1 diabetes. Then we chat about the 2024 season, the emergence of a new persona, and his 2025 ambitions with the Sounders set to participate in the Club World Cup.

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MLS Cup 2024 is a wrap and we’re back with our first offseason episode. Lobbing Scorchers was on the ground in Los Angeles for the title match, and returns with some tales from the New York Red Bulls beat and postgame locker room.

We do our game review and give the LA Galaxy their due, then hit some of the early offseason items as the focus shifts to 2025!

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The Seattle Sounders season is over after their 1-0 loss to the LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park in the Western Conference Final. We lay down one last L Pod of the season with Sounder at Heart overlord Jeremiah Oshan from Los Angeles as he joins us for our game review, Agenda Check and your questions.

In another exciting development, we also successfully fired up our first-ever Lobbing Scorchers postgame live stream! Stay tuned for more of those this offseason and in 2025.

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After weathering some technical challenges, we are back with the biggest Dub Pod yet as the Seattle Sounders have eliminated LAFC in the Western Conference Semifinals on an own goal for the ages and an instantly iconic Jordan Morris game-winner. Where does this one rank in the pantheon of all-time best wins in club history? That’s one of the topics we tackle after recapping another epic upset of the Black & Gold.

We also hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and preview a Western Conference Final against the high-flying LA Galaxy.

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After a bit of downtime during the international break, we are back at it in a big way with a jam-packed episode. A lot has happened since our last show, including the demise of Inter Miami, Lionel Messi and Tata Martino as part of a Round One that saw all three of the top three seeds in the East eliminated.

Meanwhile the Seattle Sounders are training ahead of this Saturday’s Semifinals matchup against LAFC who they will play for the approximately 27th time across all competitions this season. We catch up with Jordan Morris as our first-ever player guest and preview this weekend’s match with our friends at Happy Foot Sad Foot.

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With Noah out of commission for the week, Ari wins yet another battle for technology and lays down the Solo Dub Pod coming off the Seattle Sounders’ Round One Best-of-3 Series victory over the Houston Dynamo. As always, he hits our Agenda Check and takes your questions, before reacting to a wild slate of results from the start of the playoffs, including a highly comedic defeat for our friends the Columbus Crew.

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It’s a Playoff Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders won a riveting, high-octane Round One Best-of-3 series opener against the Houston Dynamo at Lumen Field on Monday night. That gives the Sounders a 1-0 lead ahead of Game 2 in Houston on Sunday. We break it down in our game review, take your questions, hit our agenda check and react to the other results that have taken place around the league so far in the playoffs

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Lobbing Scorchers is a Seattle Sounders and MLS focused show brought to you by Sounder at Heart. Hosted by Major League Soccer's Ari Liljenwall and Producer Noah Riffe. Join us as we lob our scorching takes on the American soccer landscape, Seattle Sounders, Major League Soccer, USMNT and more.

It’s not every day your arch-rival has one of the most catastrophic meltdowns in MLS history, but the Portland Timbies did exactly that in the Wild Card round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. We break down the fine points of their 5-0 defeat to the Vancouver Whitecaps, Evander’s postgame tweets and Phil Neville and Ned Grabavoy’s blazing hot press conference.

After that we go through our playoff brackets and make our picks on who we think will make it to MLS Cup.

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Lobbing Scorchers is a Seattle Sounders and MLS focused show brought to you by Sounder at Heart. Hosted by Major League Soccer's Ari Liljenwall and Producer Noah Riffe. Join us as we lob our scorching takes on the American soccer landscape, Seattle Sounders, Major League Soccer, USMNT and more.

Portland Timbers stink!