every world cup cycle is different but they all end in the same crashouts and prescriptions for fixing US men's soccer. boats against the current etc.

i know the victory laps are in poor taste but i was the most right when i posted this last october and i stand by it

bivalve mecca

merits aside (I spent a week in CDMX and felt winded and dehydrated the entire time) it's so funny to be like "no excuses, a true Englishman would simply will his body to overcome oxygen deprivation"

been trying to figure out why i feel more fondly toward france than any other euro powerhouse teams and i think it's 40% nostalgia for the zidane/henry years and 60% they still have collars on their jerseys

messi vs. vozinha keeping the flame alive for those of us born in the 1980s

my goodness mexico is hoopin

attn: nation of germany subj: PKs message: for the love of god just pick a corner and kick the ball

I need everyone--PBS, shams charania, the entire white house press corps--to stop reporting as news that something was said if you have not even tried to confirm that it in fact happened. "a person said something" is not news.

can we please just stop doing this, what is the point of charts in the streaming era

extremely locked in fathers day mode (baking toddler snacks and listening to fountains of wayne)

cape verdean kids always totally dominated suburban boston youth soccer leagues

fun thing about watching the cup on telemundo is learning the spanish name for countries i didn't previously know. like the netherlands is "países bajos," i guess because spanish (correctly) doesn't acknowledge belgium or luxembourg

USMNT looking like a vastly superior team dominating inferior competition and I have never experienced this sensation before

mike bloomberg and rahm emanuel courtside and i'm supposed to believe the knicks are the team of the people

new york is my favorite city in the world and the only real city in america, which makes it complicated that i despise new york sports teams with a genetic, nay, ancestral passion and probably get more upset when they're good than i do about my own preferred teams being bad

people in the replies making the standard "but what if there's a bomb on the bus" arguments but I genuinely cannot recall the last time I've gone over 75 (and even that was just brief instances of getting out of clustered highway traffic, which I didn't *have* to do)

platner discourse has me remembering the dana carvey show "skinheads from maine" sketch which tragically does not appear to be available anywhere on the internet anymore

lol i cannot believe xavier becerra is going to somehow stumble backwards blindfolded into being governor of california. not a real state.

not the main point of course but I do love how absolutely everything that happens in bari weiss's CBS leaks within like 12 seconds.

I finally downloaded a permanent copy of the wbcn radio broadcast of warren zevon live at the metro 9/30/82, so now I never have to listen to anything else

I get it from a performance standpoint, I really do, but this is the ugliest bike I've ever seen in my life

pretty sure mine was merch from the official Redwall fan club

yeah I bet they are

they should let Clyde call the home games in the finals

goddam, one of the last of the giants

ooh looks like me and the kiddo are biking to japan center for a saturday morning kinokuniya and onigiri trip tomorrow

I do not believe wilt chamberlain was a "Kia NBA MVP" but point taken I guess

this is for sure my most boomer brained tendency but the Lakers simply cannot be allowed to win wearing black alternate uniforms at home in an elimination game

cardiff, wales. spent one night there when I was about 15 and just had a thoroughly miserable experience top to bottom.

"the red sox traded jeff bagwell for larry andersen" is a fact that's been in my brain probably since i was 7 years old and is part of why despite 20 years of constant success i still have a hard time recognizing boston sports teams aren't all pathetic losers

usually when i watch pro races i imagine myself in their position and think how amazing it would feel to be able to do these races. exceptions to this are paris-roubaix and the angliru. two things i'm very happy to never do on a bike.

some days i really miss gawker

i don’t have a lot of thoughts on the youngs knowing the beatles or not (i think mostly people will continue to be generally aware of the beatles) but it really shook me when i realized that i (born 1985) will most likely still be alive for the 100th anniversary of ‘meet the beatles’

as a bicycle racer, i appreciate how that horse just tailgunned the whole race until the final 1/8th and ripped off the sprint of his life to win it. this is what i try to do in crits except i can't actually sprint so i usually just come in 12th.

it’s kind of a bummer how every restaurant in urban america is the same restaurant now, BUT that restaurant is so much better than anything you could get outside a few cultural capitals 20 years ago.

this list is fine as these things go, though in typical times culture infographic style its attempt to be everything for everyone results in its being nothing for no one

this, signed by the top three leaders of the DOJ, is indeed one of the worst legal filings I've seen in my life, but I can't help but enjoy the idea that these guys are risking disbarment to make sure Trump gets his ballroom

it is kind of funny to think about how the firebomb-a-walmart online left is reacting to the guy who actually tried to kill trump being a will stancil superfan

yeah, let’s keep our eye on the ball, people, every bullet fired at donald trump is one fewer bullet that can be fired into the head of a sea lion

this is happening because I paid for their single-team MLB.tv package for the first time in 15 years this year

fantastic collection of people in the replies here who read neither the article nor any books written by its subject, declaring the factually accurate headline false and his books garbage AI slop (which they are obviously not). much illiteracy being invoked as proof of exceptional literacy.

well i guess we've discovered the conditions under which i'll root for the lakers (marcus smart making winning plays en route to humiliating ime udoka)

ime udoka should've yelled harder I guess

watched a dude on an e-moto weave through bike traffic on market st at 30 mph in the middle of rush hour, blow a red light and do a full back wheel skid stop to avoid getting hit by a bus, all right in front of an SFPD cruiser

i lived a 5 minute walk from this place for 2.5 years and went inside it maybe twice. rockridge is one of the best grocery-served urban neighborhoods in america.

sung by a white south african!

love that bsky was doing DMB discourse while I was out running a bike race today, a great favored topic of mine

the thing about being 11 in 1996 is I so badly just wanted *access* to evil empire, I had one friend whose parents let him buy parental advisory CDs and I went over to his house to listen to it like the most secret forbidden knowledge

lovely piece