Brent

Glorified comic clerk. I like to talk about sports and comics. Wrestling is real!

[Brent @bmcumber352]

Punta Rowdies

[Orlando City SC @OrlandoCitySC]

Bringing the intensity back 🔥

[Kenny Omega @KennyOmegamanX]

After 1,698 days of waiting to get it back, we finished the race. Thank you for never giving up on me and always believing, one more time.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

Getting so much closer!

[DUNE @dunemovie]

All paths have led to this moment. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

Galaxy cluster formation is a messy process! Webb captured the formation of this young galaxy cluster in progress. Its two-sub-clusters have slammed through each other and travelled over a million light-years apart, repeating this process until they finally merge.

[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.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@WWE @Cory_Hays407 This is so bad 🤣

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@BRWrestling @WWE

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Back to Seattle to face a familiar squad.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Happy Bobby Bonilla Deferral Day: Bonilla is set to collect another $1.193 million from the New York Mets today, as he will each July 1st through the year 2035.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

😍

[Funko @OriginalFunko]

Chat, be honest… are we surviving? 🫣 Bring home new Funko POP! collectibles to complete your Resident Evil collection!

https://t.co/u6ObHCccRj

[Corey duBrowa @coreydu]

The Scots and Norwegians are making a very strong case for “best World Cup fans.”

[Brent @bmcumber352]

RIP 🐐

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

"He's probably the least culpable of everybody that has contributed to this morass of a season that the Mets are in...but they had to do something. This is the move that teams make."

Gary Cohen reacts to the Mets firing Carlos Mendoza

[Brent @bmcumber352]

2nd highest payroll in MLB. Can’t make this stuff up 😆

[Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN]

A rival executive said earlier this season that the Mets would be doing Carlos Mendoza a favor if they fired him. Because there was no real apparent hope for a turnaround. It's a flawed roster, and I don't think the Mets' W-L record will be held against him when future opportunities arise.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@Mets @MLBNetwork Do Sterns next.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@DarrenJMeenan @The7Line 💯 there’s 3 players in this current team I root for. There have been many seasons the team hasn’t played well but you could see they were trying and were easy to root for. This group is a joke constructed by the WORST GM in Mets history.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@USMNT @MLS @ussoccer LFG 🇺🇸

[Scott Snyder @Ssnyder1835]

ABSOLUTE BATMAN is going to be an animated series!

Nick and I can't thank @WB_Animation and @DCOfficial enough for making this happen.

https://t.co/IG1ntjIPTU

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

This whole season is an error.

[Brent @bmcumber352]

@Mets As a Mets fan, I hate this team. There’s MAYBE 3 players I enjoy watching. That’s it…..
Born in 84. Don’t remember 86. Seen some 💩. This is the worst it’s ever been .