Media Day 2004

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Pictures and Summary by David Falk

It was a great big old sunny beautiful wonderful kinda day as the 2004 Seattle Sounders took the pitch at The Hawk as a part of the club's "Media Day."

It was good to see the Pod so well-represented. Just a reminder that we are very much appreciated by the players & club---many of them knew us by our first names!

The microphone didn't work, but basically Adrian Hanauer started with a brief update on MLS Seattle: "We have the plan, we have league approval, we have partial investors---just not the "big fish" yet who is willing to lose big bucks for a few years as the team takes hold."

Brian Schmetzer spoke about his 2004 squad, and also introduced Pepe Fernandez, Jimmy Gabriel and Chance Fry as Sounder greats, among others, who will be honored this season during the 7 Saturday home matches.

Brian is very excited about his squad, calling them "loaded" and having "great chemistry and team spirit." It showed during the heated warm-up games which followed. This team is very skilled and very competitive.

Reporters on camera interviewed Billy Sleeth and Welton.