Tyler Fitch

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[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

The authentic Regal Nole has joined us. My job is finished here. It’s been Real & Spectacular. See you on the other side. Cheers.

[Regal Nole - Real & Spectacular @GO9199]

Thursday Update:

I have documented proof that the ACC Grant of Rights does not require FSU to pay the ACC anything to leave. Once FSU leaves, it of course stops receiving "future" conference distributions from the ACC. The ACC has misrepresented that there is a GOR Penalty.

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@SpartacusNole56 15 years ago we used that same print for one for my son. Still use it daily today. Congrats

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@dragon35666 @Matthew23109733 @MarmotRespecter Actually it’s a wholly consistent opinion to want a tougher game. Guess toughness may be an American trait though

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@dragon35666 @Matthew23109733 @MarmotRespecter That doesn’t feel punitive enough to me to serve as a meaningful discouragement. That’s just one Americans opinion. I’ll continue to watch soccer.

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@Matthew23109733 @MarmotRespecter @dragon35666 Would actually be a really trivial thing for them to stop / if they have to stop play due to an injury that is not the result of a yellow or red card that player has to sit out for five minutes unless the team wants to sub. If you’re bad enough and you’re to stop playing…

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@SpartacusNole56 @SeminoleAlford Asshole blocked me too

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

5M youth soccer players in the U.S. if we took the top 5% and made club free, we talking about a $2-3B. Not insurmountable.

[Daniel Pearson @DPearsonPHL]

Btw lalas supporting the current system is basically proof that it doesn’t work. Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovic would never have had the money to pay for the American system. So we are stuck with players like Lalas and Pulisic as a result of this exclusion.

[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.

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

Decidedly American we celebrate neither when it was signed nor when the war was won but when we declared it to be true.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

The Pennsylvania Evening Post becomes the first newspaper to publish the text of the Declaration of Indepenence.

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

Officially a soccer power #usmnt

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card.

FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

[Doug McIntyre @ByDougMcIntyre]

FIFA has cleared the way for U.S. men’s national team forward Folarin Balogun to play in the USA’s round of 16 match against Belgium in Seattle on Monday, multiple sources tell me and ⁦@MelissaMOrtiz⁩ . ⁦@FOXSoccer⁩: https://t.co/Uaw9OE6mqQ

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

Like Mexican food, people, music, art - fuck the Mexican national team.

[HausenKS 🌾 @HausenKS]

To all the England fans asking why Americans would ever root for Mexico:

It’s simple.

It’s like having a little brother. You spend all year arguing with him, making fun of him, and reminding him who’s boss.

But the second someone outside the family starts picking on him, you suddenly find yourself standing next to him.

That’s CONCACAF.

We can roast Mexico 364 days a year. But when they’re playing England? For 90 minutes… ¡Vamos México! 🇲🇽😎

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

Get off Twitter and fix the program

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@SeminoleAlford Fix the football program

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@TheNBACentel It’s officially summer

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@TJ_Pittinger Definitely got @clay_fink

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@TJ_Pittinger Over/ under 2.5 total contract terminations by FSU by end of year?

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@DanielMiessler How do we quantify ROI for defensive cyber investment from an enterprise perspective.

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

“Be still, and know that I am God.”

— Psalm 46:10

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@ClayTravis Especially surprising to suggest this for a German tourist. The German ties to the South run deep in our nation’s space program and Huntsville, Alabama. https://t.co/pyzJDAbqSl

[Tyler Fitch @RegalNole]

@joetrades23 What was the before? How much did it cost?