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It’s weird out here - keep a perspective. Motivate some good and act in good faith. #DETvsEVERYBODY

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@RayStOnge2 @AtoZ_Payton Lmao

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LOL bro this has to be a SNL skit

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo touched down in Lisbon this morning.

And went straight to his private jet.

Writer: Sol

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@JustinVerlander You da Goat JV!

God bless and thank you for making highschool after parties so damn electric!

Beatiful memories of 15 dudes after HomeComing huddled around the tv in someones basement putting emback while you dissected the A's and Yanks.

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@MarioNawfal Bait

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@RyanRozbiani Congrats on the bait

[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.

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@TrueFactsStated

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@MrBeast 8,177,600

[Unfiltered Soccer @UnfilteredSoccr]

Folarin Balogun on why he shook the ref's hand postgame after he was given a red card.

(via Tom Bogert, Paul Tenorio and Henry Bushnell)

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City, holding a banner from the skyscraper's antenna reading, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."

As of now it's unclear how the pair reached the top of the building as police work to get them down from the spire, 1,454 feet above the ground.

[Tylil @thetylilshow_]

LAKERS it was real 🫶🏽 I will no longer be supporting the Lakers. Where my dad go is where we GO 💪🏽💪🏽 #JamesFamily 👑

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@the_det_times Had Jamo first tuddy this game too, man those were the best 90 minutes of our life.

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@owroot May 19, 2023 at 9:21 pm

Isle Royale, MI

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@FreddyLA7 Welcome to the 313 brother!

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Messi Messi MESSSI

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How blessed are we, a proper idol takes the stage tonight 🩵

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France really didnt see Spain's result eh? Fucking pathetic they deserve to lose at this rate.

Lets go Senegal!

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@FreddyLA7 @astros Let’s go Tigers baby!!

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@actionjack69 @iluvektar100 I swear this dudes been unlikable.

He’s 7’6 how can you be a fan if he’s not on your team

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@TrueGemHunter Mexico

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@TrueGemHunter 3-1