Pepe Silvia

Able to make bogey from anywhere.

Just a reply guy

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@mattturck In other news, winning gets you to the next round.

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@TrungTPhan That's why the Cabo Verde v. Argentina game was so pure

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@TronCarterNLU That was a clear flop. Don't get a clear yellow and then do that.

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@BudLightSadness I feel like you are missing a third thing

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@RobProvince Weird how the chip didn't pick up that contact with the wire that is supposed to be an immediate stoppage.

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@TronCarterNLU Apparently they need to make the camera cables out of human hair for the ball chip to pick up contact

[TPA _Red_Bolt 🔴🔴⚡️⚡️ @TAMPARED6]

@MelissaReddy_ What happened to the technology that detected every little touch?

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@BravoKiloActual @Heminator Even considering flying for a 245 mile trip that isn't for business is absolute lunacy.

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@ohiowhiskey So more people can find out Total Wine is a scam

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@TronCarterNLU Landon seems incredibly spiteful

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@joelgaines Zebulon The Don

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@KVanValkenburg It's really quite simple KVV. We tie the European club model to the American Country Club system! Can you imagine an Augusta FC! They have the money to offset the costs for families, and you have built in turf management for facilities!

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@CharlotteFC @USMNT

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@dprokosc @chadmumm "on average"

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@ghostdog310 @NickFoyles How have I never heard "manbum" before

[Nick Foyles @NickFoyles]

Did Tim Ream have the worst World Cup game in history?

Horrible marking to allow the 1st
Got dunked on to give up the 2nd
Moved out of the way to block the 3rd
Watched his teammate get pressured, lose the ball and concede the 4th while marking space and watching

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Star Spangled Ballers @SpangledBallers]

Not only is this a totally unforgivable play by Freese, but the utter lack of athleticism by Ream here is astonishing.

This might be THE most embarrassing sequence in US Soccer history.

[Shawn Eni @ShawnEni]

OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war.

Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus.

Penelope embodies clever loyalty.

Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature.

Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.

Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting.

The Sirens weaponize music.

Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up naked and useless.

Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-war speeches in the Iliad.

Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage of empire in human form.

Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western civilization by being hot and petty.

Hera is running divine opposition research.

Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a workplace dispute.

But apart from Helen, Athena, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, Cassandra, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Andromache, Hecuba, Aphrodite, Hera, and Thetis...

WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?

[Pepe Silvia @ElevenAlpha]

@TronCarterNLU @dcarterruff The year is 2033. The USMNT Renard era that resulted in a group stage exit is referred to as the "Widow's Peak".