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@Pads1818 🤣🤣🤣

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Twice check swing missed call my ump @Dodgers bites us in the a$$

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@Matt_M_626 @derekcarrqb @Dodgers We laugh about it now but everyone around us was pissed and in shock

[Doug McKain @DMAC_LA]

🚨Giving away one brand new Tarik Skubal Dodgers jersey away to any Dodgers fan that likes/retweets this. Let's keep this tradition alive!

[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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@Astro_Jose @ucmerced Are you still in the area? Would love to have you as a guest at our school!

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@Astro_Jose showing "A Million Miles Away" to my 8th graders at Mossdale Elementary in Lathrop. They enjoyed seeing "Stockton" at the beginning. #OrgulloHispano

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@PleveJuan

[Blaze! @PleveJuan]

@JacobsVegasLife @ledesm038 @lakers6man

[Q @RaidersAQ]

GIVEAWAY 🚨 🚨

Giving away TWO Fernando Mendoza Raiders jerseys, let’s welcome @fernandomendoza 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

RULES:

1) MUST FOLLOW AND RETWEET
2) TAG 1 FRIEND BELOW

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

I hate to break this to SF Giants fans - who are some of my favorite people - but Tony Vitello is not a major league manager and being a fringe Hall of Fame candidate does not make Buster Posey a baseball genius. It's gonna be a long year🤦🏼‍♂️

[Kirk Cousins @KirkCousins8]

The Autumn Wind…

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@YouKnowBall_pin @JayEfffZ

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@srchilaquilles They hate us cuz they ain't us

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Best radio quote ever today,

"Want to watch Bad Bunny? Watch Bad Bunny.

Don't want to watch Bad Bunny? Don't watch Bad Bunny...

You don't have to announce your departure!"

@CarmichaelDave

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@GiantHotTakes Giants fans weren't saying this when they were tied for 1st right before the Devers trade. Yall thought you were actually going to do something 🤣🤣🤣

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@Brett_A_Taylor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@mmonreal0423 @RoundTheFoghorn @SFGiants I'm judt wondering when I can buy my group tickets for when the Back 2 Back WORLD CHAMP @Dodgers GO TO @OracleParkSF 🤣🤣

[Forever 8:24 @lakers6man]

@mmonreal0423 @RoundTheFoghorn @SFGiants Nope. Wasn't wondering

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@SportsCentralO @grok Yesssss