Ryan Whitney

1/4th of the @spittinchiclets podcast team and the inventor of vodka pink lemonade @pinkwhitney For Business Inquiries contact [email protected]

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

@GarageBeersChad @spittinchiclets My guy. Pinkies up to not pulling a whit when buying your drinks

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

67 days until the NHL season

[RGF @rgfray1]

Ryan Whitney Celebrity Family Feud Highlights

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

How I sit at the restaurant while my girl tells the waiter my food is cooked wrong

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

STEVE HARVEY DIDN’T EVEN LET HIM ANSWER. What the fuck is this @FamilyFeudABC??? Give him a second for christ sake.

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

I could have had 10 minutes before the buzzer and still wouldn’t have had an answer

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Ryan Whitney on Celebrity Family Feud

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Just an absolute beat down

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

If STD is one a big dick has to be

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

The dreaded no answer. Still want to puke. Didn’t even know what player meant. Pathetic.

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

I do think Steve Harvey would love chiclets. He and Biz would be a vibe

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

I don’t understand how Barstool finds these people. Jeff Nadu is one in a billion and there’s 30 people who actually work at the company who are just as tapped

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

No Red Sox tonight…no problem. Tonight we play the feud on @FamilyFeudABC

[Stuart Feiner @StuartFeiner]

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Thursday 8pm est it is finally here. Although the Flaggs are the classiest family I have ever met, and quite charming, we put our game faces on and go for the jugular and showed no mercy. Must see television. @FamilyFeudABC

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

They did it again this fing team. Mid recording of tomorrow’s @spittinchiclets and the Sox win again. 14 in a row complete wagon.

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Tom Cruise putting the accent on when saying Spain and Argentina is A+

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

They did it again this team is something else

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

No one wanted to listen. All star break would slow em down? Ok

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

All Red Sox fans need to relax. 157 games left Let’s get home light it up on opening day at Fenway and go on a run. Were fine

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

@BarstoolGruden Watching tape sipping on a pink whit. That’s my coach

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Argentina never dies it’s incredible. What a goal That is a complete snipe

[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.