Cain

I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted. Sports are dumb you guys

[Doug Farrar ✍ @NFL_DougFarrar]

Amazing article by @hbryant42 on what has made itself obvious in America in the 10 years since Colin Kaepernick took a knee. https://t.co/S6UZavIUy3

[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.

[Ella Septima-Hamer @jbrous41]

“Far left” and just a mfer talking about free buses.

[Cain @amcainer]

When I see traindog

[katie @spongebobfan360]

wow.... is this real??

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

[Cain @amcainer]

@mcuban @Jason @cavsdan @cavs oh man. sounds horrible. what about guys that hang out with pedophiles?

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Sharing the moment together ❤️‍🔥

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Running down the wing ✅
Hearing the Arsenal sing ✅
Winning the league ✅

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

My favourite ever video. Nothing will ever beat it.

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

[Jum @JesterJum]

Once I became a parent, I finally understood that Star Wars scene where Yoda gets so tired of answering all of Luke's questions that he just dies.

[Tony Martin @mrtonymartin]

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

“There is no where in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you are a weapon of the enemy in life”
~Pastor Howard John-Wesley
of Alfred Street Baptist Church
In DC #CharlieKirk

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full email below

[Baseball King @BasebaIlKing]

This is the nastiest kickball pitch I’ve ever seen 😂

(via ebaumsworld/IG)

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom.

He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had.

But at least he's not a Black woman.

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Please understand that this platform is about to become the very least reliable source of information in the aggregate if Trump starts losing tomorrow.

Coup Two requires people to feel "robbed" and Musk is going to go into overdrive making the MAGAs feel that.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Wisconsin, your vote will make all the difference in this election. I’m asking you to reach out to your friends, parents, siblings, neighbors, and work with them to make a plan to vote. 

Two days – that’s all the time we have left until Election Day. Let’s get this done!