Slotโs right. Over the last 4 years, the league has completely changed.
It has become far more defensively secure with intense M2M pressing, making it much harder to score from open play.
He himself fully packed his midfield the two times Liverpool played Arsenal, making it nearly impossible for either team to score except from a brilliant set piece.
Some would call that really cowardly and him a total hypocrite. Not me. Iโd call it smart.
However, there was something different about this year. This year was the first time in all four where there was just one team with far more bravery than all the others. Just one team that was prepared to play high whilst the others hid and shut up shop, hoping to score on transition against that team.
And that one team is Premier League Champions.
So that salty bald fraud can suck it.
Updated baseball rankings! Here are the top 25 regardless of classification and links for all rankings!
Class 1: https://t.co/zlOsFXCTgI
Class 2: https://t.co/oekzs9RpZH
Class 3: https://t.co/oH7NVx8rZV
Class 4: https://t.co/UBLXcZnhml
Class 5: https://t.co/f3dQgHggef
Class 6: https://t.co/AdwYxBao9h
All Teams: https://t.co/cpev3JTreA
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Mikel Arteta on the incident with Nick Pope:
"Itโs a clear red card, Iโve watched it 10 times. If you have ever played football, it is a red card. Itโs the second time in two games, because against Manchester City when Kai Havertz goes through and Khusanov fouls him, 1-1, the title is there, it is a red card, guys!" ๐
The Kelce brothers accidentally explained one of the longest-running training mistakes in professional sports in under 30 seconds.
A pitcher's delivery takes 1.5 seconds. The rest period before the next pitch is roughly 20 seconds. A starter who throws 100 pitches in a game produces somewhere between 2 and 3 minutes of total physical exertion across a 3-hour window. The work-to-rest ratio is approximately 1:20.
That ratio maps almost perfectly to the ATP-CP energy system, the anaerobic pathway that powers movements lasting under 10 seconds. Sprinting. Jumping. Swinging a bat. Throwing a 97 mph fastball. Every meaningful action in baseball lives in this system.
Distance running trains the opposite system. Aerobic metabolism. Slow-twitch muscle fibers. Type I fibers that are smaller, produce less force, and prioritize fatigue resistance over power output. Elite sprinters carry 60-80% fast-twitch fibers. Elite endurance athletes carry 60-95% slow-twitch. A 2008 study on collegiate baseball players found that combining endurance training with power training produced measurable drops in power output.
You are literally remodeling the engine in the wrong direction. Training the aerobic system when every sport-specific action runs on anaerobic fuel.
The tradition started decades ago because games last 3 hours and coaches confused game duration with physical demand. A game lasting 3 hours does not mean the athlete is exerting for 3 hours. A pitcher standing on the mound between pitches is recovering, not working. The correct training analog is a sprinter who runs 100 meters, walks back, and goes again.
Driveline Baseball, Eric Cressey, and every major sports science program has been publishing this data for over a decade. Strength coaches at the MLB level largely moved to sprint-based and med ball protocols years ago. But the foul-pole-to-foul-pole jog still persists at the high school and college level because the coaches who played in the 90s trained that way and never updated.
The Kelces just explained it to 3 million people faster than any journal ever could.
Thank you @PBR_Moulder and @PrepBaseballMO for the invite to the pre season all state showcase. I really enjoyed being around some of the best talent in the state! Here are my updated numbers.
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โ27 | C/RHP | Mason Thornton (Thayer)
The physical backstop emerged as one of the biggest winners of the day flashing raw strength at the plate.
+ 97.4 Exit Velocity
+ 73 mph C Velo
+ 1.90-2.00 Pop Time
+ FB: 81-82; T82.4
+ SL: 73-75
+ CH: 73-75
๐ค: https://t.co/i585bMErR5 // @mase_ct12