Garrett Walker

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@Johnrkhyu @crashoutking1 Probably had a Charlie horse dude lol

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@bfw looking forward to the show B-Walk

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@chloepeterson67 Congress needs to stay out of sports. I would think there are more important matters for them to tend to, but evidently not lol

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@BarstoolBigCat how many days until College Football?!

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

Happy for @MattP1Gallagher 🍻

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@RealCGriff Congrats on the shitty gear

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@robinlundberg We all know who needs to go 🇧🇷

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@BarstoolBigCat Does that mean it’s for sale?

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@SmokeHollywood @news4buffalo I chuckled

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@BUCNDrummer @mountaineerjdub Oh okay. I get what you’re saying now

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@JRSettles @WNBA @WNBAComms @CathyEngelbert @OfficialNBARefs You can throw Ashley Gloss in there too

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@BUCNDrummer @mountaineerjdub I don’t think we get a new CBA before a work stoppage

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@RetroMoviesDB “I got my wad of hundreds, magnum condems, and I’m ready to plow”

[@amuse @amuse]

https://t.co/5tedBik5II

[Brett L. Tolman @tolmanbrett]

Worth the read.

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@UnderdogWNBA @PhoenixMercury Remember when this dumbass had her wig fall off and ran to the locker room last year? Lol

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@YoitsRosie Why is no one talking about DB coming in late and kneeing her in the shoulder?

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@1053SS @BobbyBeltTX another angle

[Garrett Walker @GarrettWal13279]

@1053SS I know @BobbyBeltTX is trolling with his anti-Caitlin talk and doesn’t even watch the sport. But that girl has went through more cheap shots than anyone

[correlation @nosyone4]

BLIND ASS REFS