Who’s on Furth?

urbanism & baseball

[Nick Price @NickPriceKC]

Netflix is TERRIBLE at broadcasting sports. They just get a bunch of high-profile people involved but the actual production is terrible.

How do you not have Exit Velo on the screen? Why are you cutting away from home runs for sideline interviews? Just terrible

[Nikki Wolfe @Nikki704]

Petition to stop putting sporting events on Netflix

[dren⚾️ @dren_braves]

they fixed the Derby format, it's pretty much perfect, but Netflix is giving the worst camera angles imaginable for 90% of swings

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

this has been one of the worst home run derby broadcasts I have ever watched. they’re straight up not showing many of the swings. no exit velocity. taking the wrong camera constantly. putrid stuff from ye olde Netflix

[Adam @NCFC_Adam]

The kind of shit you unfunny colleague who isn’t really into football will show you at work and expect you to laugh at

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

I see a lot of this stuff, but Haaland was actually playing in an offshoot of a professional soccer club at AGE FIVE. Norway absolutely does the elite youth sports thing despite putting on the show of not doing so.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

As a longtime consumer/critic of sports punditry, politics people need to understand that "we just need to fight harder" is usually cope. Not only is it not a plan, it signals the absence of a plan, and the unwillingness of an organization to ask real questions of itself.

[oh lord @ohlordnoNC]

I cannot fathom the mind of someone who finds the southwest more liveable than anywhere on the east coast. I would rather spend an eternity in hell than live in Phoenix

[Philadelphia is a nice city and you should visit🔔 @PhillyGov]

Defund the fire department.

[🅿️ @the_P_God]

“So you guys like beer” - guy on bachelor party who only knows the groom

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This is a great reminder that there are people who long for endless toil and drudgery, who hate progress in all its forms, who would rather you ride a horse than drive a car or fly on a plane.

And we cannot let them win.

[- @MusialaEra]

You have family, a wife, kids who need you. You have decades ahead of you. Quit this football nonsense

[Chuong 🚀 @ChuongIsHere]

Lefties will watch and video and be like “what if we made the buses free?”

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Remembering when there were four World Cup matches a day and life had purpose

[Immortan Joe Mazzulla @normal_jake_]

Every single ignorant team sport fan tries to tell you that you need to exclusively play that sport from sun up to sun down from age 2 or you will never stand a chance and I am telling you that they are wrong and you must ignore them for the sake of your kid

[drew @ImNotOwned]

lmao this is a good illustration of why I am only a case by case union supporter. I always support the right to unionize. I also support the ability to tell them to eat shit.

[Taupe Avenger @TaupeAvenger]

Honestly, he’s right. Yosemite needs to replace the valley loop with a train and add a ton of hotels and developed campgrounds there as well as make the shuttle buses run every 5 minutes. It’s the only way to accommodate the demand without ruining the park.

[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.

[AEMILIA 2484 @aemilia2484]

@Freyy_is Murder of Roger Ackroyd

[James Harris @JamesCHarris97]

2am kick off, the Azteca, Bellingham and Kane, 10 men, Burn heading a million crosses away, Wonderwall, Kane’s interview, Henderson breaking his arm in the celebrations.

In twenty years, we’re probably looking back on this as the most iconic England match ever.