James Click Admirer

[James Click Admirer @dopioscorpio]

@jackharlingen Favorite genre of A&M dudes (in no particular order):
-Greater Houston minor league drug mules
-South Texas exotics ranch heirs
-North DFW suburb LinkedIn weirdos
-East Texas square toe boot and trucker hat guys
-Alamo Heights weekend ranch goers
-Westlake athletic dept. walkons

[James🗳 @_fat_ugly_rat_]

This may be a narrative violation for some but Texas is actually one of the *least* rural states out there! The median Texan lives in a McMansion suburb that was built in 2005 that’s 25 minutes outside of Dallas or Houston.

[jackson @foreverstros]

In late 2022, Jim Crane and Jeff Bagwell had a choice between two philosophies, represented by two people, Dusty Baker and James Click. They chose Dusty, and good ol fashion manly man baseball as a concept, and it has gone poorly, as I feared it would the day they made the choice

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

He literally has not taken any stand whatsoever

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

We are witnessing a truly terrifying display of complicity from Houston Mayor @whitmire_john, who appears to be telling the federal government: do whatever you want and I will pretend to have zero power to hold you accountable when you kill someone in the streets of my city

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

Houston: the federal government is claiming that they put armed officers on your streets without body cameras and that they can shoot you in the street without providing any video footage of what happened and your mayor is lying and telling you the city can't even investigate it

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

look the important thing is that we made the blue haired grad students sad attempting to destroy American science, if a Chinese century is the price of some lib owning we just have to accept that

[Nicole Foy @nicoleMfoy]

Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive

I'm always struck by how many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize

[erica cheng 鄭伊澄 @oop_echeng]

remember when several city council members tried to enact policy to prevent something like this and the mayor just folded

[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.

[Spencer Morris @ProspectSpencer]

The Astros have announced their intention to go all in with queen high

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

The fascinating and unfortunate subtext of MLB’s bargaining posture for decades now is this:

They are comfortable shrinking baseball, the sport, in exchange for further solidifying the institutional power of Major League Baseball, the corporation

[Swaggy Unc, IQ 267 @swaggyunc]

Eating in Mexico coming from England or Scotland has got to be a transcendent experience. Like seeing colors for the first time

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

defunding the fire department and then being like 🤓☝️ um actually this was inevitable once earth developed an oxygen rich atmosphere.

[James Click Admirer @dopioscorpio]

The right wing project at work in real time. Such a shame.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

screwworm prevention is one of those markers of state capacity that gives you confidence adults are in the room somewhere

one by one, those markers fall

[party mom @fifimcfae]

hunter biden, you have to stop. you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your bitch too bad. they'll kill you.

[Art Vandelay @LJS527]

@YarrowGrace

[Based F. Kennedy 🇺🇸🦅 @Based_F_K]

@YarrowGrace Diseased Beef…brought to you by DOGE.

[James Click Admirer @dopioscorpio]

Truly can’t believe that I live in an American media environment where this is embarrassing for an average news outlet to post. Even the outlet who used to tell truth to power every Sunday evening by publishing 60 minutes has been neutered by Bari Weiss’s carefully constructed BS

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Your 401(k) is about to become Elon Musk's exit liquidity

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:

Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.

This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.

Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.

The rules built to protect passive investors:

1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.

2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.

3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.