Brian Soudi

Exasperated at idiocy. Golf. Baseball (Cubs). Chicago architecture docent/appreciator. Traveler. College sports: pay the players, no more excuses.

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

You will better understand college sports when you understand this:

It is the main marketing and fundraising program for the schools.

Donations, applications and brand recognition all go up with football and basketball success.

So it’s an investment, not an extra-curricular.

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@JaysonLavie @TourSwingsTommy The line on top of the putter, designed and engraved by precision machines to be absolutely perpendicular to the face, and equipped on almost every single putter, is misleading?

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@Autoline No.

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@DavidAFrench Couple things

1) not sure you’ve noticed but 70 million voters PREFER these behaviors

2) Susan Collins has looked away from and enabled the worst of Trumpism…and those behaviors.

[Blake Toppmeyer @btoppmeyer]

You also have schools that pay coaches $13M (and soaring) and pay team weightlifting coaches $1M+.

Congress gonna cap their earnings, too?

[Captain Caleb @captaincaleb18]

Travis - "What's the best iconic Chicago food?"

Caleb - "Chicago tavern style pizza, honestly it's the best pizza I've had in my entire life."

Yeah Caleb knows ball 🍕

🎥: @newheightshow

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

Daughter is home from college and wants to know if we want to go do something at 9 PM. Uh, we don’t do that here.

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

This may be a Top 10 all-time MLB photo.

[Tour Swings Tommy @TourSwingsTommy]

Does Adam Scott still hold the title for most “textbook” golf swing?

And if he doesn’t, who does?

My pick is Davis Riley.

I will not be taking further questions at this time.

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@KCPSShain Or…the Bears were political hacks, way out of their league in maneuvering the state govt to a compromise.

In the end, what is Illinois really missing for 11 games per year.

Oh - and IND site they’re looking at? Yikes.

[Truth Nuclear Nonproliferation @SmlPenguinPolls]

The real blackpill about America that most people outside the US dont even get is that the Americans you meet when they visit your country, or when you visit theirs, or through cultural output, are the 90th percentile most open-minded, cosmopolitan, and educated Americans

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Awareness: 0

[@scottjshapiro.bsky.social @scottjshapiro]

DO YOU SING?

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

NEW: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event at the White House, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

This is weird for him to post — as he’s the frog. And the frog is a fool.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

An old, but apt fable:

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Adam Nathaniel Furman @adamnfurman]

It isnt well known, but the Monadnock building, Chicago’s masonry skyscraper (still the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed) was intended 2 be constructed from a polychromatic gradient of bricks from deep brown at the base, 2 bright yellow at its crown

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@BeReasonable01 @jstewartIndy You’d say the same thing about income taxes, sales taxes, VAT taxes…

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Design for a new apartment building in Saman, Iran

Love the combination of terracotta and turquoise!

By Sahar Kamaluddin and Nima Safdari

[Brian Soudi @soudipop]

@CenterdSocal @jason_kint Just hilarious. If this were true, why not prosecute them?

Instead of the fake prosecutions of Comey, ICE protestors, etc?