Ted Tomfoolery 🤪

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[Ted Tomfoolery 🤪 @TheDreme6]

People being sad a mourning a ride with racist source material: 😭😭😭

Me: 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Spain’s players refused to celebrate with Trump after the U.S. president attempted to insert himself into the middle of their victory photo. He was politely pushed aside.

[BREEZY SUPREME @BreezyxSupreme]

Tbh idk how to promote my band with these wild ass algorithms on here so if you black and fuck with rock just repost a nigga plz

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

I'm glad Jordan Walker said this.

Growing up, I can't tell you how many times I heard:

"Baseball is boring."
"Go play football."

I was even called an "Oreo" because I chose baseball.

There was definitely pressure to play the sports everyone else was playing.

Baseball changed my life!

That's why seeing players like Jordan Walker embrace being role models matters. The more kids who see someone who looks like them thriving in baseball, the more they'll realize it's a path that's open to them too.

I hope more kids feel free to choose the game they love...not just the one everyone expects them to play.

[Complex Sports @ComplexSports]

Jordan Walker said what he said 🗣️

(via @allthesmokeprod)

[Donnie Boscoe @KcStork]

This would mean black kids would be included...

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Women's Pro Baseball League has announced the identities of its four inaugural teams: the Boston Hunters, the New York Heights, the Los Angeles Queens, and the San Francisco Firebells.

(https://t.co/9YO6ahKAsT)

[zay dante @zaydante]

we all need to sit down and pick our favorite soccer teams I’m so fr

[Etan @EtanBoss]

Landon Donovan says America is missing soccer talent because kids can’t afford to play.

“Only 2% of kids playing organized soccer in America came from households that made less than $50,000.”

“If you don’t make $50,000, your kid cannot play organized soccer.”

“Think about how many kids you’re missing out on in this country because they can’t afford to play the game.”

“There is zero chance I could have played club soccer.”

“My mom made $34,000 a year, single mom raising three kids.”

“She couldn’t pay $4,000 for me to play club. Are you kidding? She couldn’t pay $400.”

“That’s not a good system to create good players.”

[Harrison Lee @HarrisonCLee]

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸

[Stella😈 @ParallaxStella]

Saw the best cosplay at Anime Expo today

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Hating Donald Trump is the most American thing you can do.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

I can’t believe how little this is being talked about.

[🍊Elgin Barrett Eugene Smith lll🍊 @Southside_Gunn]

Telling a nigga who is a college professor that works for NASA who has a side hustle as an NBA Player that he “Thinks” he’s smart is crazy.

That nigga is very much as smart as he believes

[hilo @whoshilo]

hey bud, which movie saved marvel from bankruptcy?

Say his name.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

may you heal so hard you start being creative again.

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Whole heartedly fuck every braindead dipshit who voted for this embarrassing retarded pedophile