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. Lobbing Scorchers is produced and owned by Just Once Media.
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 w...
It’s a Draw Pod as the Seattle Sounders closed their 2024 regular season with a 1-1 Decision Day draw against the Portland Timbers. We’ll break that down in our game review, hit our final regular-season agenda check and bring on special guest Max Bretos voice of LAFC and Apple TV announcer for a playoff preview.
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The Seattle Sounders but we still threw together an arguably-too-long pod, starting with going over this year’s 22U22 rankings. We then tackle the end-of-season awards discourse, with Ari realizing mid-pod that he was going to change multiple of his votes. Those two things took up pretty much the whole thing, but we briefly preview some Decision Day action and shoutout Obed Vargas for his first senior El Tri cap.
It’s another Dub Pod as the surging Seattle Sounders went to the thriving metropolis of Commerce City, Colorado and came back with a solid 1-0 victory. Albert Rusnák scored the game-winner, the Sounders moved to third in the West. Are they getting hot at just the right time? We’ll break it all down in our game review, hit our agenda check, take your questions, and jump around the league for our news headlines and winners and losers...
We’re back with one of the best Dub Pods of the season as the Seattle Sounders obliterated the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-0 at BC Place in Matchday 36. Georgi scored his first MLS goal. Albert Rusnak has 15 assists. And Paul Rothrock continues his ascent into the Major Leagues Soccer elite. We break it all down in our game review, hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and discuss Inter Miami clinching the Supporters’ Shield.
We’re back with a good, solid Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders took on the Houston Dynamo at Lumen Field and emerged with a 1-0 victory. The Sounders are officially headed to the playoffs and Paul Rothrock got a game-winner, which we break down in our game review.
After that we hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and close out with some takes on the other results from Matchday 35.
It’s an unfortunate Draw Pod this week as the Seattle Sounders relinquished a last-minute lead in Wednesday evening’s 2-2 result against the mighty San Jose Earthquakes. We break down the defensive lapses that led to the pair of unfortunate concessions in our game review but also celebrate some more red-hot form from Jordan Morris.
Later on in the show we also hit our Agenda Check, take your questions, highlight our Blazing Hot Coac...
The Seattle Sounders have vanquished the Club of Professional Wrestling Enthusiasts, so you know what that means: It’s another Dub Pod as we recap Seattle’s 2-0 win over Sporting KC, which saw the dynamic duo of Jackson Ragen and Paul Rothrock find the scoresheet as part of an excellent attacking performance.
Later on in the show we hit our Agenda Check, take your questions, hop around and MLS and debut a new segment inspired by Wil...
We are thrilled to bring you arguably the greatest Dub Pod in Lobbing Scorchers history as the Seattle Sounders absolutely obliterated the Columbus Crew at Lower.com Field in Matchday 31. We recap the hilarity that ensued following the Crew’s goalkeeper red card, which ended up seeing their center back play goalkeeper, Albert Rusnak score a hat trick and Wilfried Nancy give the most blazing hot coach press conference of the season.
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We unfortunately have to bring you another L Pod as we do our game review on Seattle’s 1-0 loss at Portland Timbers. A national pundit has weighed in on what ails the Sounders at the moment and we discuss whether or not we agree with his take. We also break down the latest performance from Pedro de la Vega, who continues to see more minutes down the stretch run of the season.
Later on in the show we hit our Agenda Check, take your q...
In arguably the most tragic L Pod in Lobbing Scorchers history, we unfortunately recap Seattle’s latest defeat to LAFC, this time 1-0 in the US Open Cup semifinals. Was it a penalty kick? Was Jordan Morris offside? We weigh in on the controversy at Starfire.
Later on we hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and preview Seattle’s upcoming Cascadia rivalry matchup at the Portland Timbers.
It’s an incredibly special show this week as we have both a Dub Pod and an LAFC L Pod in the same show. We do our game review of Seattle’s 3-2 victory at Minnesota United, hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and preview the upcoming LAFC Open Cup matchup.
Lobbing Scorchers is sad to report we must bring you an emphatic L Pod today as the Seattle Sounders’ 2024 Leagues Cup campaign has come to a crashing halt. LAFC continued their dominance over the Sounders with a 3-0 thrashing, we’ll break down all the fine points, hit our Agenda Check and take your questions. We also hit on a recent tweet from Matthew Doyle that caused a stir in the Sounders sphere.
Wrapping up we give you a look a...
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It’s a jam-packed episode as we dive into another League Cup Dub Pod! We break down the Seattle Sounders’ 4-0 thrashing of Pumas at Lumen Field that devolved into chaos and anarchy late in the match. We’ll also hit our agenda check and take your questions.
Headlining the program we bring on our friend Niko Moreno from Pulso Sports to talk about Cra...
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We bring you a massive Dub Pod this week as the Seattle Sounders shut down the LA Galaxy to advance in Leagues Cup. For that, we must admit defeat on our own analysis and praise the three defenders who hit the score sheet.
We will break down all the fine points of the fantastic performance, hit our Agenda Check, take your questions and debut a new ...
We’re back with an unfortunate L pod as the Seattle Sounders’ Leagues Cup group-stage match against Club Nexaca devolved into a full-on debacle that also saw them lose Pedro de la Vega to another injury. We break down what took place at Lumen Field in our game review before previewing this Thursday’s knockout-stage showdown against Joey Paints and the high-flying LA Galaxy.
We also hit our weekly Agenda Check, then discuss a couple ...
The Seattle Sounders didn’t play but that didn’t stop us from laying down some more coverage of Leagues Cup 2024. We react to the latest slate of group-stage matches, which included some more positive results for MLS clubs over Liga MX, with an unlikely hero emerging in the form of Austin FC.
Elsewhere, Dayne St. Clair went God mode again for Minnesota United, LAFC took a comedic defeat to the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Columbus Cr...
We are back on track with a Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders opened their Leagues Cup 2024 campaign with a 2-0 victory over Minnesota United at Lumen Field on Friday night. It wasn’t the best game we’ve ever seen, but Paul Rothrock has done it once again, giving us more than enough content to fuel our agendas.
Later on in the show we discuss US Soccer playing hardball regarding Jordan Morris’s potential call-up to the US Olympic team...
The streak of Dub Pods has sadly come to an unceremonious end as the Seattle Sounders were blown out 3-0 by LAFC at Lumen Field on Saturday, falling victim to the evil demonic goal-scoring force of nature that is Denis Bouanga. Were the national pundits correct in their prior assessment of Seattle’s improved play of recent weeks being fraudulent? We debate exactly that and more in our game review and Agenda Check.
Later on we take y...
We have our sixth straight dub pod as St. Louis CITY SC became the latest opponent to meet their demise at Lumen Field on Wednesday, falling 2-0 to the Seattle Sounders. Even Jon Bell is getting in on the action these days. We recap the festivities, dive into this week’s Agena Check, debate the merits of this red-hot run of form and preview this Saturday’s blockbuster matchup against LAFC.
Later on, we discuss the historic debut of ...
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