Jack Warner

RC '77 Cancer survivor since 2015. Follow Devils, Jets, Red Bull and FC Gotham soccer Mets & RU! Kotidor Chronicles series fantasy author he/him

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

Winner in the Fantasy Category at #HalloweenBookFestival 2025
Available from ⁦@ShadowSparkPub⁩
#ghosts
#witches
Mysterious #magicalbeings
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[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@SteveGelbs And then the @Mets Mets it. 🤢

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@elizarose159630 New authors need SALES whether printed copies or ebooks. If a writer friend gives you “a free copy” not only do they make no $, but it doesn’t count towards their sales tally. If you can’t afford a paperback or hardcover, please spend a couple dollars to get an ebook🥺

[Tai Harrow - Author @taiharrow]

hope all the authors are having a wonderful evening!!

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@20th_Centurygal Keith Moon always looked like he was fighting off alien zombies trying to climb over his kit. Even though he was behind Roger and Pete your eyes were drawn to the drummer 🤔

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@Riflemanscreed2 And metal, which holds up better than wood. The breeze made clothes smell fresh 😊

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

Available now in paperback and ebook

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

It seems like broken bones are an all too common result of HBP when so many guys are throwing 95, 96 or more MPH 🥺

[Anthony DiComo @AnthonyDiComo]

News: Mark Vientos suffered a bone fracture on that HBP. The Mets aren't offering more details at the moment, but he's obviously going to miss weeks.

[Markemus (Author) @markemusgames]

Looking for a cozy weekend read? Check out The Lighthouse At Bloody Point, a romance mystery about a lighthouse keeper who falls in love with a ghost and works to solve her murder. It's my debut novel, check the pinned post! I hope (and think) you'll really enjoy it 😊

[Cons @CaptainCons]

Carli Lloyd has two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals

She can say whatever she wants

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@adamOsaussies Good point but another problem is American parents want immediate return on their $$$. If a team is improving but has a 3-7 record and doesn’t “win” in their tournaments, parents pull their kids or get the coach sacked. Coaches sacrifice skills and smarts for wins

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

Interesting fact: IRL they buried the two victims on a farm so close by the dead were found almost immediately

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

The older I get, the stronger I feel that Casino is a better film than Goodfellas. I think a big reason for that is Robert De Niro. De Niro is brilliant in both films but he’s underutilized in Goodfellas. In Casino, that’s not the case- Bob is given the keys to the car & he drives the shit out of it. I think Casino is the best De Niro-Scorsese collaboration behind Taxi Driver.

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

Four Olympic golds
Four stars above the Shield
Four American players with over 130 goals in international play
“Better to keep still and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove any doubt” 🤭😏

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Why the USA will never be a football superpower.

Pay to play.

In England, from 10 to 16 I payed junior football. The teams were mostly started by a parent who wanted, for free, to give kids a team to play in. Those teams then joined FA sanctioned leagues ( Lichfield league, Walsall league in my case). Subs were about 50p a game ( subs are a fee for admin, pitch hire, referee).

The model in England hasn't changed much, save for the fact there's fewer teams and fewer leagues. But the cheap to play model, meaning the poor and rich can play equally, holds.

I'm staying with one of my best mates in Miami. Had a late night conversation 2 nights ago. 2 kids that play football.

$4000 per season, per child to play for a team.

Why?

US junior leagues are private enterprises (shock). The US equivalent of the Football Association offers no grassroots football, no level 1 to 3 cheap badges for Moms or Dads to take so they can coach the basics, no structure locally or nationally of organised leagues, just profiteers who start up a league, charge a fortune, and if you're a poor Messi-esque talent from the wrong part of Miami, sure you can buy a ball and play on a patch of grass, but forget organised football, you can't afford it.

So imagine, in a nation of 350 million, how many kids they're missing out on and will continue to after this successful World Cup for them.

Money, greed, pay to play.

99.9% of greats to play the game wouldn't have made it in America. Because they couldn't afford $4000 ( plus) to play. In subs my Mom probably paid £200 total over 6 or 7 years of junior football.

America, it's not all about money you know, it's about opportunity for all too. And you're pricing generation after generation out of the chance to be a part of this incredible sport you've seen first hand.

To the US Federation. Do fucking better. Organise local and national junior leagues, van profiteering, offer cheap coaching badges for parents who want to give their time for free to America's kids.

Football. Accessible to all.

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

@usmntonly $50K is not a lot of money in the Northeast or the west coast or in Metro areas like DFW or ATL. 😯

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Every kid is unique. The beauty lies in their enhancements and not expecting what we want out of them.

[🌈 Author 🪶 QUILL CASSAVA ELSKA 🐻 Empath 🥀 @QuillElska]

Empathic author 🪶 of 9 published novels, all are available via the links on my site.

Writing 👇
- TRIAD OF INFINITY.
- SKYWATER.
- NEVERENDING CALAMITIES, short story collection.

Check out my website:
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[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Wes Anderson is getting a huge tribute in LA this weekend. Los Angeles is celebrating 30 years of Wes’s cinematic universe with a weekend of events scheduled from July 10–12th. Anderson is currently in West Hollywood as we speak making the rounds & doing some promotion. The entire weekend is anchored by some live performances at the Hollywood Bowl with music from Anderson’s films. I love Wes & I’m here for any and all tributes to him.

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Seven years ago today, the USWNT became back-to-back World Cup champions 🏆

The team has won a record four women's World Cups and will hope to capture their fifth title at the 2027 event.

[j @thickyrubio]

Good on her for saying it because every time the US has a pants shitting embarrassing loss the first thing we get is a retired guy like Dempsey saying how proud they are and how much heart the team showed. Those dudes played like complete ass tonight and people should say so.

[Jack Warner @JackWarner16]

OK. Idiots watching Carli Lloyd Hollins on World Cup broadcasts who don’t seem to know she was on TWO World Cup champion teams. Like a bunch of players who came out of American colleges
USWNT jersey has four stars, more than
any German kit. 🤔

[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.

[Dr. Ketzer (follows back fiction writers) @Wisteraverse]

Weekend of conventions and meeting fellow authors!