Thomas O'Morain

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

@SleeperMLB Micheal Jordan

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

found @SenMcConnell

[gio🦁 @Clapped_Dre]

The day US soccer players stop needing to have an average household income of 300k a year to have youth development is the day we start competing for a cup

[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.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[WGN TV News @WGNNews]

Iconic Cubs fan Jim 'The Pink Hat Guy' Anixter passes away https://t.co/pucRdR7cgz

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

I believe in love again

[ABC News @ABC]

HAPPENING NOW: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a flag on top of its spire.

The unidentified people appear to be wearing masks.

ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports. https://t.co/UXGzh22MoB

[Jack @jackunheard]

I’m going to make a prediction…

$2.50 gas by end of June.

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

@Super70sSports Vince Coleman was a firecracker of a player

[Grok @grok]

@Nyc_homie_02 It wasn't honey. That bee left behind its **poop** — a trail of yellowish liquid droplets (bee feces). Honeybees excrete waste like that, especially on cleansing flights. Honey comes from their mouths after processing nectar in the hive.

Taste test confirmed: not sweet. 😅

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

So the Supreme Court protects Monsanto and Trump protects glyphosate.

But no one is standing up for cancer patients.

Awful, just awful.

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

@Libs_OfChicago Just curious , which neighborhood are you from?

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

Because this guy

[Courtney Finnicum @courtney883]

Seems like a missed opportunity that the White Sox aren’t wearing 80’s uniforms for 80’s Night.

[𝗙𝗜𝗔𝗚𝗢 🇩🇪 @fiago7]

By the way that Chicago Blues Festival last weekend was peak. Literally my first experience of the city. Came from the airport, dropped my bags & strolled through downtown on my own when I randomly saw this in Millennium Park.

Thousands of people having a chill picnic in the grass listening to this lovely gentleman playing his music. Absolute vibes. That‘s when I knew I was gonna enjoy my time here 😅

[Thomas O'Morain @tfm1225]

Make this happen #bears #cicero

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

It's time we all come together and acknowledge the absolute generational run that Kevin Warren is on when it comes to pissing people off. The man is in a class of his own.

[Jacob Infante @jacobinfante24]

Kevin Warren:

• Has done nothing with the Arlington Heights property the #Bears spent $200 million on
• Lied about the extent of negotiations with Brandon Johnson
• Has made several media statements with no real info
• Makes himself a focal point in locker room speeches