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[jack @Jack152329]

@RealMatSmith I mean just horrible penalties and mistakes by everyone. Not on the same page at all

[jack @Jack152329]

@theStevenRuiz It’s weird 9 couldn’t get to him. Wonder what happened there

[jack @Jack152329]

@HPbasketball Cheaters. Holding all day

[Michael Ritter @MikeSteveRitter]

Yall have no idea how much it means. #MIZ #TrueSon

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Bo Nix is back.

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

Sean Strickland spoke out against Bud Light after he heard that they may DROP Dustin Poirier after he was arrested for public intoxication 😳

"That is the most un-American f*cking thing that you can do. You spent $6 billion creating an addict, and in his lowest time you're contemplating letting him go?

Bud Light, if you want to represent America, you stand by him and you help him. That's f*cking American."

(via @SStricklandMMA)

[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.

[jack @Jack152329]

@mohammedali_93 We don’t care. Should’ve never been a red card.

[jack @Jack152329]

@Lou_Sticca @robertkufersin @WMckennie @pulisic @FIFAWorldCup Why? Red card shouldn’t have been red card. A wrong was righted. Hate you foreigners telling us how to feel

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Folarin Balogun AVAILABLE for USA vs Belgium!!

[jack @Jack152329]

@JakeZivin I don’t know how someone could watch that in full speed and argue anyone involved should be punished. It seems like a freak accident that could happen on any play. Mind boggling that’s a suspension in any sport.

[jack @Jack152329]

@JakeZivin For example

https://t.co/FOdqDJMPcj

Hockey has the same rule. Kicked out = 1 game suspension. Here the player gets kicked out of the game, NHL looks at it the next day and says it was a mistake and there will be no further punishment.

https://t.co/WovAkvI9Ms

[jack @Jack152329]

@JakeZivin In all 4 of those sports, if a player is ejected, there is an appeals process to deem if it was actually malicious. The fact Balogun is out next game makes me lose all respect for soccer. Both players were going for the ball and an unfortunate collision happened.

[jack @Jack152329]

@JakeZivin Not after that Red Card I wont

[jack @Jack152329]

@ElliottBCFC @Dt33345 You’re a pussy

[Jon Tweets Sports @jontweetssports]

Is there an American judge who can grant a temporary injunction against FIFA that makes Balogun eligible for the next match?

[jack @Jack152329]

@AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC Trump needs to step in then

[BearsShowYo @BearsShowYo]

How Americans protecting Balogun in the states

[jack @Jack152329]

Not a sport

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

64' - Folarin Balogun has been given a red card.

We will play the remainder of the match with 10 men.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

64' - Folarin Balogun has been given a red card.

We will play the remainder of the match with 10 men.