Chris Kinnard

tech salesman, US history buff, constant hobby starter/stopper

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@xyxexnxcxi @atrupar Exactly what I thought. He seems like a guy (dr) who knows what a problem they can be for women

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@Timodc @willsommer I am *shocked*! SHOCKED, I tell you!

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@DJ_DSFU @ashleymcnamara My wife still doesn’t understand why I’m dying laughing during that segment

[Ciaran Durham @ciarandurham]

Imagine getting on a train at Manchester Piccadilly and waking up in Baghdad 😭

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@thedailybeast Nobody gives a shit about you Barron

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@Variety Ladies: frost yourselves.

[Scottie Schuffler @Schuffler44]

This video has been living rent free all week

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@RetroBayArea Face to Face in the early 2010’s

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@Acyn @MeidasTouch That’s the most human thing he’s ever done

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@chefjoseandres With all due respect, Chef, Matt is absolutely not a good guy.

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@ryanhammer09 @RJalenBrunson Became a Spurs fan after last World Cup because of Richarlison. I’ll never forgive myself

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@Bornakang I see Vince Vaughn in the top image

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@DschlopesIsBack The announcers said multiple times how elite the defender played it. From the TV angle, you’d see that the defender had effectively locked down the passing angle that would have been needed for the ball to actually reach Haaland in stride with the other defenders closing quickly.

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@Acyn

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@thedailybeast

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@DonteStallworth Pick a team that will be a perpetual disappointment and commiserate with us. Pick Tottenham

[Steve Banannon @Steve_Banannon]

>18 minutos do primeiro tempo, gol de Haaland contra a Argentina na semifinal da copa do mundo

>Messi pede VAR e o juiz aceita

>VAR começa a voltar no jogo, não encontra nenhuma falta de Haaland

> VAR continua voltando no tempo, assistimos o nascimento do primeiro filho de Haaland, o primeiro beijo em sua esposa, seu primeiro chute em uma bola, seus primeiros passos, a primeira vez que olhou nos olhos de sua mãe, seu primeiro choro… Nada de errado

> VAR volta ainda mais no tempo, vasculha a vida do pai de Haaland, da sua mãe, dos seus avós, bisavós, tataravós…

> verão de 793 d.C.
Na pequena aldeia de Skarvik, em um fiorde da costa da atual Noruega, vivia Eirik,Haaland o Lobo do Mar, um guerreiro experiente e capitão de um navio chamado Serpente Cinzenta. Sua aldeia enfrentava um inverno rigoroso, e os estoques de alimento e prata eram escassos.
Em uma manhã envolta por neblina, Eirik reuniu cerca de quarenta guerreiros. Com escudos de madeira pintados em vermelho e preto, machados afiados e lanças, embarcaram rumo ao oeste, atravessando o Mar do Norte.
Dias depois, avistaram uma pequena ilha com um grande mosteiro de pedra: Lindisfarne. Do alto dos mastros, um dos homens apontou para os telhados e disse:
- "Há riqueza ali."
Os monges não esperavam um ataque. Enquanto alguns copiavam manuscritos e outros rezavam, os navios vikings tocaram a praia. Os guerreiros desembarcaram rapidamente e avançaram pelo terreno.
Os sinos do mosteiro começaram a tocar, mas já era tarde. As portas foram arrombadas. Objetos de ouro e prata usados nas cerimônias religiosas foram recolhidos, baús foram abertos e alimentos estocados para o inverno foram levados. Alguns monges fugiram pelos campos; outros foram capturados.
Após poucas horas, Eirik ordenou a retirada. Os navios voltaram ao mar carregando provisões, metais preciosos e outros bens de valor. A fumaça do saque podia ser vista à distância enquanto a frota desaparecia no horizonte.
Quando os sobreviventes retornaram ao mosteiro, encontraram o lugar devastado. A notícia do ataque espalhou-se pelos reinos cristãos, tornando-se um dos episódios que marcariam o início da chamada Era Viking.

> Gol de Haaland anulado. Pênalti para Messi

[Chris Kinnard @ckinnard82]

@JamesSurowiecki you'll have to be more specific ;-)

[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.

[Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff]

Tariffs on Belgium just went up to 200 percent