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@J_Swish24 Uncle Mark and Diana Schaefering

[CT @CeeTerrence]

Nailed it

[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.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

Tom Stillman has been doing this for years

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

The Utah Mammoth owner Ryan Smith is just walking around outside the arena hanging out with fans 🦣

Best owner in sports?

[CT @CeeTerrence]

You mean you think this is better than The Cat asking players their favorite ice cream

[Stew @StewStilez]

Cardinals TV production has been top notch this season- this segment, specifically, kicked major ass

[CT @CeeTerrence]

@KylePorterNS Thanks for sharing. Pured

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@LOUandZOU It was and I was there.

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@JacobCersosimo @KMOV First sign of a leader

[CT @CeeTerrence]

The dude is hanging over the plate wearing body armor. What does he expect.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Willson Contreras took a HBP from Brandon Woodruff, who has now hit him six times in his career

Right after the hit-by-pitch he slid into second base and David Hamilton seemed shaken up

[CT @CeeTerrence]

Absolutely ridiculous. Game is so far off the rails it’s incredible

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

There are moments that offer a pretty good sense that something new is going to work. This feels like one for ABS. The Cincinnati crowd’s reaction was thunderous. And the situation itself — twice it salvaged a bases-loaded opportunity. This system plays.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

Seen at every roller hockey rink every Saturday

[IcyVert @IcyVert]

Been around hockey all my life and never seen anything like it

[CT @CeeTerrence]

lol you’ll never see this

[SabresBuzz @SabresBuzz]

Armchair GMs complaining about Colton Parayko ad museum until they watch the massive RD beat the brakes off JT Miller at 4Nations tourney in 2025 #SabreHood ⚔️

[Jari the Hutt @kurri_jari]

Let's be honest.

Canada didn't lose because of OT being 3 on 3.

Canada lost, in large part, to the best of their best - Makar, MacKinnon - failing at the biggest moments.

Makar and Toews let Matt Boldy go on an afternoon stroll in the park right past them, below.

MacKinnon flubbed a shot on a gaping net.

Makar gambles on the pinch in OT.

And I'm still not sure went MacKinnon thought he was doing on Werenski.

Then MacKinnon has the audacity to whine in his postgame comments.

Shameful stuff from MacKinnon.

And a very underwhelming performance by Makar in the tournament.

Thank you.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

The one that found the back of the net more than the other you loser

[Joshua Clipperton @JClipperton_CP]

A gutted Nathan MacKinnon: "You be the judge of who was the better team today."

[CT @CeeTerrence]

I don’t disagree

[Pierre LeBrun @PierreVLeBrun]

Honestly will say it again, 3 on 3 OT in gold medal game is such a brutal way to end it.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

@watilo @SouthwestAir Have the same issue! How can they bungle this so badly.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

Hey @SouthwestAir nice new system of assigning seats that aren’t next to each other for a mother and child on the same reservation. So I called and the agent said that although she sees open seats next to each other she can’t do anything about it? WTH

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It’s absurd

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

There is absolutely no difference between this play and the Buffalo play. Adams did not make any move. He caught it, secured it as he was tackled and then stripped on the ground. Same exact thing. Same exact. This is why fans hate the NFL refs. No consistency game to game

[CT @CeeTerrence]

City, County, and dozens of municipalities need to be combined into a single “city limits” and one governing body. No need for a study

[Dion @2024dion]

The downfall of St Louis in nearly every way needs to be studied

It’s not like Detroit where the city collapsed but the suburbs are doing well—the whole region seems washed

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

Year round single sport specialization benefits the adults who can make money off of it at the expense of the child’s development.

[CT @CeeTerrence]

@jasonwhitlock Why?? Nothing good has happened on the MO side since P&L