2014 Final felt much more winnable than this for Argentina. I mean, you can’t even create a compilation of big misses (à la Higuain, Palacios) - there haven’t even been any.
Injuries and fatigue clearly a major factor, but not being able to bring on Gonzalez or Lauturo—tough.
Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:
Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.
Drop what you're doing and go listen to the Odd Lots podcast that dropped this morning, with @arkroeber in conversation with @TheStalwart and @tracyalloway. Best sense-making on China's economy & the trade war I've heard in a long time. Arthur is incredibly lucid and persuasive.
Jesus Christ, I’ve never wanted anybody to win something more than I want Luis Enrique to win the CL this year after seeing this.
I’ve got a nine year old daughter and this just flawed me. What a man
For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch
2024 Democrats are the red dot.
Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.
@conorsen ‘24 was 2 pts better for GOP in NJ. Not a ton, especially with 2 more years of a deeply unpopular administration. Add in low propensity issue, Dobbs fade, etc. Pretty simple.
@KenMichaels111@paolo_lim@dcg1114 This, and the environment was still R+4. It’s just a lot of high profile races swung due to good/terrible candidates. And then you bake 2 more years of high prices+global conflict? Pretty insurmountable.