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I used to be good at sports. Matt in Phoenix P1. DF. Everything is a bit.

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Pacey and Joey ended up together. I still feel bad for Dawson. #thingsIthinkofwhilewatchingfootball

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@JoeHealey42 Yeah I’m not sure honestly. Cool scene for Lesnar to put him over.

I was assuming he was going to retire here in Minnesota but I’m guessing he will have one-off matches whenever he wants a big payday and who can blame him.

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@JoeHealey42 And a tombstone?!?

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@JoeHealey42 Kicking out of THREE F-5’s?!

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My goodness Medić

[90s WWE @90sWWE]

The top 5 basic cable shows for the beginning of August, 1999

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@unusual_whales

[brandon* @brndxix]

me in an amc signature recliner with a large popcorn on a random tuesday

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It’s impossible to know how much of Errol Spence Jr.‘s decline traces back to the car crash, but the punishment he took against Crawford appears to have had a profound effect on him. Whether it’s physical, mental or both, he doesn’t look anywhere near his former self.

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@TheCinesthetic

[Davor Vitković @DavorVitkovic]

So Jaylen Brown didn't wanna be Robin in Boston. Now he will be Alfred in Philly

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@JoeHealey42 @TheHershAZ No, of course not!

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

They were called Lean Pockets and they tasted like Hot Pockets and they were still bad for you but they had the word "lean" in their name, which made them healthy at the time.

[Tipodis D. Devil @tipodissd]

Whoever decided to put an IMAX 70mm screen at Arizona Mills of all places….

thank you.

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@TheCinesthetic The Leftovers.

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@Breaking911 So would that put Arizona in Mountain time or Pacific time year round?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

2020 was 2020 days ago.

[Zach Alberico @zalberico]

This would have been a perfect Seinfeld episode: George gets fit on the drug, starts dating some really good looking girl and finds out she's on the drug - hems and haws about breaking it off with her because if they have kids "the genes remember", before he can break it off she finds out he's on the drug and dumps him.

He tells Jerry can you believe it?

Jerry sips his coffee and says, "well, the genes remember"

Meanwhile Kramer and Newman are running a peptide blackmarket and Elaine's boyfriend is getting fatter, but refuses to take the drug so she's trying to swap his insulin with a Zepbound injection.

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@awfulannouncing “…the count will stay at 3-2…”

[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.