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Merritt Paulson names his Timbers Mount Rushmore, plus a little storytime | Exploring future of data in soccer

Extratime

Andrew Wiebe

Usnationalteam, Fifa, News, Sports News, Football, Concacaf, Sports, Mls, Majorleaguesoccer, Usmnt, Soccer, Worldcup

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Andrew, David, Calen and Doyle tackle the Timbers Mount Rushmore with owner Merritt Paulson. Come for the chainsaw/CCL stories and stay for Paulson’s take on a club pantheon. Will the guys agree with his take? We’re making at least one change…

Plus, Matt Doyle gets exclusive rights to cliffs above FC Cincinnati, and Toronto FC Director of Analytics Devin Pleuler stops by to explain why soccer trails behind the NBA and what the most exciting wrinkles and technology in the field say about the future of data and the beautiful game.

11:42 - Merritt Paulson tells Timbers stories

16:34 - Merritt's Mount Rushmore picks

32:52 – Extratime is making one small change … Final Timbers Mount Rushmore

52:22 – Who on earth belongs on the FC Cincinnati Mount Rushmore?

59:05 – TFC Director of Analytics Devin Pleuler on data and soccer

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Extra Time, driven by Continental.

0:05.0

How are you feeling after that matter?

0:07.0

I feel a lot better than Bob.

0:09.0

Extra time is exactly how I find out.

0:12.0

What's going on in the

0:13.2

m-l-s. Maybe this podcast has influenced me a little bit as well.

0:17.0

Get lost.

0:18.0

Get lost. Everybody up here, every single day goes into the office into the laboratory to try to cook up some great stuff for you guys.

0:29.0

That's why he's here!

0:30.0

Wow! From Brooklyn, New York. You are listening to extra time driven by Continental. I'm Andrew

0:38.3

We with my partners in soccer. David Goss. Cait Car. Matt Doyle, what's up boys, big show today for you.

0:45.3

Merritt Paulson, the owner of the Portland Timbers is gonna come by.

0:48.7

I mean he would probably put up the Mount Rushmore if that was a real thing he's going to share his he

0:53.9

offer funding he did not we did not ask him about funding we probably should have

0:58.3

done that you know I've also you know I've tried to get him to build a Diego

1:02.2

Valerri statue in the past and that wasn't met with as much enthusiasm.

1:05.8

Yeah, well don't waste time trying to double dip because Valerier is clearly going to be on Mount Rushmore.

1:10.0

Where was you put in?

1:11.0

Maybe Multanoma Falls you could just

1:13.2

What about like Mount Hood? Can't you see Mount Hood from Portland so just like

1:17.7

yeah carve up a face of that or like a side of that got four faces got room for more than that to be honest with you

1:25.2

Just put it on top of the gym that sits on the back of the province's work

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