coach O's crawfish guy

say hello before you say goodbye

[coach O's crawfish guy @samlorio]

Ppl dogging on The Odyssey of all things for having tropes or being "formulaic" is hilarious because like. Where do you think those narratives came from lol

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan says one problem with modern amateur criticism for films is people recognizing a narrative trope & seeing that as a negative.

“To be able to identify the mechanism doesn’t invalidate the mechanism.”

(Source: @ZhugeYY)

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Amber @bloodberry_tart]

Michelob Ultra tastes like it would be okay for a baby to drink one

[Stephen Ford @StephenSeanFord]

The Odyssey (2026)

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[gaut @0xgaut]

best seat in the house

[Melanie H @hamnox]

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

[ひ @foulestench]

in sea of monsters, percy jackson completes the quests of the entire odyssey in like a week which took odysseus 20 years
i know my goat

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!

[Qsama bin Johnston @QsamaBJohnston]

A diarrhea outbreak in Ohio? I guess you could call it the “Cleveland Browns”

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

[Miserable Mets Fan @MiserableMet]

A generational wordsmith I’ll be telling my kids and grandkids about

[Zito @_Zeets]

Make stutter penalties illegal. On the basis that they’re fucking stupid.

[coach O's crawfish guy @samlorio]

Pro tip - never leave home without a koozie

[coach O's crawfish guy @samlorio]

"VAR is the bane of my life" - Darren Fletcher QUOTE OF THE TOURNAMENT

[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.

[Jaack @Jaack]

Messi being shit at penalties is like the world’s best chef not being able make a ham sandwich.

[Matt Herdman @MattHerdman]

Europe: “America has no soccer culture”

America: *does a wildly corrupt thing with the president of fifa*

Europe: no not like that

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

Don’t wanna drink on a Monday but my country needs me

[#1 computer user @inherentvibes]

charlie kirk getting kirked is like lou gehrig getting lou gehrig’s disease