Mark Padilla

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

I have a golden ticket for tonight’s game! One of the best perks to having Orioles Birdland Membership!

[The Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun]

The longest lines of the YEAR. @orioles Hawaiian Shirt Night No. 1 is going to be packed.

Are you trying to get the shirt this year?

🎥: @bymattweyrich

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

Adley with the confidence. I think I would be able to do it too.

[MLB @MLB]

All-Stars were asked if they could complete the 9-9-9 challenge 🌭

Almost everyone had the same answer 😂

[Miami Marlins @Marlins]

By popular demand: Jonah’s Dream Day.

[All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽 @AllFutbolMX]

🤯🇺🇸 OFFICIAL: 'Ted Lasso' star, CRISTO FERNANDEZ, has officially made his debut for El Paso Locomotive.

The Mexican actor has fulfilled his dream of becoming a professional footballer.

"FOOTBALL IS LIFE". ❤️👏🏼

[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.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

THE TELEMUNDO CALL OF THE MALIK TILLMAN FREE KICK IS THE BEST THING YOU'LL EVER HEAR 🇺🇸🦅❤️

[MLB @MLB]

It's tough seeing others live out your dream 🐶🌭

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

@masnOrioles The technical difficulties are clearly back

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

RIP THE SCRIPT @Nike

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[MLB @MLB]

It’s giveaway time, Baltimore 💪

We are giving away a new Orioles City Connect jersey just for you! Repost and reply for your chance to win!

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

@MLB @Orioles Let’s go O’s!

[Jay Cuda @JayCuda]

number of people watching TruTV on purpose

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

@BigFredComedy @JasonLaCanfora Judon in the 5th round of the 2016 draft?

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

The Ravens might be the unluckiest team in the last 20 years. I remember all of these all too well.

[𝙕𝙖𝙘𝙝🦦® @NewEraZach]

2017: Tyler Boyd
2019: Derrick Henry
2020: Lamar pick 6 vs Bills
2022: Huntley goal line fumble
2023: Zay Flowers fumble
2024: Mark Andrews 2 point drop
2025: Tyler Loop missed kick

[Mark Padilla @markmpadilla]

Do you remember when you joined X? Because I didn’t until I saw this. It used to be better. #MyXAnniversary

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Repost to enter for a chance to win an authenticated 2131 30th Anniversary baseball autographed by Cal Ripken, Jr!

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

And of course, Rich Eisen's return to SportsCenter included a tribute to his longtime partner, the late, great, Stuart Scott.

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Ready? Go.

[Baltimore Ravens @Ravens]

Sights & Sounds Wild Card edition

Wired tonight ➡️ https://t.co/QAMrHDbpc4

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

2025 is coming