Eric Van Meter

[sean @_sn_n]

if you said this about Charlie Kirk you would be fired

[Jose @GuardsBurner_]

Lmao the White Sox broadcast was in the middle of saying Steven Kwan shouldn’t be trying to hit home runs…

“When you’re not a power hitter but trying to act like one.”

[Ben Houselog @benlikessport]

Akron’s head coach watching me dial up a fake punt after getting sacked 3 straight plays

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ok

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

The difference between inflation under Biden and inflation under Trump is under Biden we were lower than the rest of the world, under Trump we’re higher

In case facts still matter

[Shaston @ShastonC]

We are finally becoming a proper footballing country

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

This was the GOP primary, not the general election

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Jets fans watching a scoreless primetime game at MetLife

[𝐎𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐄 @ik_ohene7]

Gianni Infantino🗣️: “FIFA is officially the provider of happiness”

Trump🗣️: “Unless his team loses (Argentina)

Trump calling out Infantino for being corrupt right to his face on live camera is wild😭😭

[Ben Volin @BenVolin]

France-England for third place in America. Just like in the 18th century

[Vlogging Through History @VTHistory25]

White smoke in Cleveland...Lebron has made a decision?!?!

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

We have now joined this distinguished list of countries that added living leaders to their currency.

Philippines – Marcos
Uganda – Idi Amin
Malawi – Banda
Iran – Shah Pahlavi
Iraq – Saddam Hussein
Libya – Gaddafi
Syria – Bashar al-Assad
North Korea – Kim Jong Un
China – Mao

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

You can’t convince me life is just a series of coincidences. What do you mean Lionel Messi was randomly paired with a five-month-old baby after the baby’s family won a UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot while Messi played for Barcelona… and that baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal?

Lamine would go on to become one of the brightest young stars in soccer, wear the same No. 19 Messi wore for the same team when that photo was taken, and now, nearly two decades later, could face Messi in a World Cup Final???????

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump imposed tariffs…

So businesses raised prices and passed on the extra costs to consumers…

Then consumers paid more for everything…

And now Trump gave $49.1B in refunds to businesses, many of which donated to his campaigns.

This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Government-subsidized grocery stores = Communism

Government run gas stations = Freedom

Got it.

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

*Zlatan on Messi missing the PK*

“Everyone misses PK’s. I’ve missed PK’s, Thierry has missed PK’s… Alexi was never asked to take PK’s so he couldn’t miss…” 😬😬

[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.

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

You gotta give Trump some credit. He knows nothing about football but still decides to give a 2 minute speech on why he’s right and the referee is wrong.