Phoenix Squad Spectre 9

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

How ironic that the @bobdylan's generation, doesn't heed it's own words.
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
#MarchForOurLives

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@DanVanderkamp @tennisalt @devahaz The original post was about the US being dominant. For that, I think the NFL is going to have to radically decline in popularity and soccer in the US already being good enough to capture them. Unlikely but not impossible. That's really just a mindset shift said differently.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@DanVanderkamp @tennisalt @devahaz Of course if you ask children they're going to say they want to play a sport because they love it. But the people who are the top .1% in athletics start thinking about it like a business pretty quickly. But as I said before, it's going to take football falling off in the US.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@alanleonardoqw1 @tennisalt @devahaz And I’m not saying football goes away but over time it drops in popularity and swaps places with soccer. Certainly and unlikely scenario anytime soon but it’s the only thing I can think of that’s even tangentially in the realm of possibility

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@alanleonardoqw1 @tennisalt @devahaz Probably. But IMO the one thing that could get the US close to dominant. The collapse of football starting with youth programs due to CTE risks. I’d imagine there are more than enough guys in the NFL today that would be amazing if they played soccer their whole lives.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@Myequal647 @tennisalt @devahaz That’s why I said it would take a decade at least with no guarantees. IMO the one thing that could really make a dent for soccer has nothing to do with MLS. It would be if youth football is severely curtailed due to CTE risks.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@DudeWhoInvests It’s called the curse of production. The more productive you are at work, the more work they give you until you burn out so hard that it’s near impossible to hold a job for long.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@tennisalt @devahaz Basically some billionaire would have to bankroll MLS and be fine losing hundreds of millions annually for at least a decade with absolutely no guarantee of it working.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@tennisalt @devahaz So it’s sort of a self defeating issue. To get the best athletes you need to pay the most. To be able to pay the most you have to have the best athletes.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@WHENESOTA This is the only crime that I support capital punishment for.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@_x_sean_x_ @StephenM If it didn't take millennia, what reason would there be to know Julius Caesar's favorite website?

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@_x_sean_x_ @TPUSA I'm a bit surprised the right is defending Kirk this much. He made a real sharp left turn at the end.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@komputernik @gtconway3d And a minimum of 12 pairs of Oakleys

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@PurpleForTheWin The US currently has ~100 venues that hold 50,000+ and 8 that hold over 100,000. We could host the next world cup and not even have an duplicates.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@PenguinSix It's almost like you shouldn't paint granite, and you definitely shouldn't paint granite that's underwater all the time.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@anthony64748247 @ikisnick I suppose the only ways to handle it are to be like you did, and alright, this saves a lot of conversations or be upset from a combo platter of not being as clever as you thought, not getting a big reveal, and not surprising anyone. I'm just happy their folks and yours were cool

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@anthony64748247 @ikisnick That said, I can’t imagine what it would feel like to find out you were in a “glass closet” where everyone sees you in it and the secret you think you’ve held so close to your chest has been openly discussed for months by your friends and family.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@anthony64748247 @ikisnick Yeah if you switch the kid’s bf to gf but none of the behavior, and mom said “is your girlfriend coming” and he got all defensive like we haven’t put a label on anything or we’re just friends. No one would be trashing mom.

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@soupformy_fam *only if it's a rental

[Phoenix Squad Spectre 9 @nlyons9]

@ChadHartmanShow There’s a reason the MNGOP has lost every state wide race for the past 20 years. Their primary voters are so howl at the moon crazy that to have a chance at the nomination you have to kowtow to just the dumbest people so much that it poisons the well for the general