jeff

🐕 📚 🍺 ⚾️ ⚽️ University of Toledo grad. Part owner Detroit City FC. #DCTID #COYS

[jeff @sorojamer]

My love

[jeff @sorojamer]

@TigersJUK https://t.co/rDyLRybMFw

[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.

[jeff @sorojamer]

@DanCampbellBrnr @TigersJUK Honestly, I’d be surprised if a majority of Americans can point out Tennessee on a map.

[jeff @sorojamer]

@TigersJUK

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

ICE agents are responsible for the offenses they're committing.

But just one monster established the 3,000 arrests/day quota that he knew couldn't be met without turning America into a fascist state.

This is that man.

When the tables turn, he'll need to be imprisoned for life.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Doctor: "Can I go check her pulse?"

ICE: "No! Back off! Now!"

Doctor: "I'm a physician."

ICE: "I don't care."

[Marco Rubio @marcorubio]

There is nothing patriotic about what is occurring on Capitol Hill. This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Instead we are getting “grok put them in a Bikini”

[Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman]

Annual reminder that judging Christopher Columbus by the standards of his own time doesn't make him look better: His contemporaries criticized his greed, his inability to do basic math, his terrible management of his crew, and his cruelty. He went back to Spain in chains.

[jeff @sorojamer]

@CleGuardians

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨

LAST CHANCE to Win 1 of 3 copies of '1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe' by Peter Fritzsche from @BasicBooks.

“An admirable and useful addition to the history of World War II.”

Must retweet/repost to be eligible. Draw Friday.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT🚨

Win 1 of 3 copies of '1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe' by Peter Fritzsche from @BasicBooks.

“An admirable and useful addition to the history of World War II” and “Haunting, panoramic"

Must retweet/repost to be eligible. Draw Friday.

[Detroit City FC @DetroitCityFC]

Introducing the first look at AlumniFi Field: the forever home of Detroit soccer.

Learn more about our future home: https://t.co/NRHJsQJsNI

[Detroit City FC @DetroitCityFC]

The forever home of Detroit soccer has a name: AlumniFi Field.

📰: https://t.co/4Hjk0LxJlH

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

reminder that Sharon Osbourne would throw hands for Ozzy Osbourne 😭 she got sued after this

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.

[Marc Ryan @MarcRyanOnAir]

A majority of Americans don’t realize this is what Detroit actually looks like.

[Bryan Dawson🇺🇸 @BryanDawsonUSA]

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower would respond:

“Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

[jeff @sorojamer]

@TigersJUK Highly recommend a Detroit City FC game while you’re in town.