Remember that one time Trump said he "didn't have plan, but had a concept of a plan"? Gee, hope that kind of shit never trickles into wartime or anything.

I can tell you as this guy's former boss several millennia ago: There's nothing quite like @mattdoyle.bsky.social unleashing a multi-thousand-word analysis just minutes after a match wraps. He's a machine. Read and learn.

Starting to think maybe this hasn't been a great final pre-World Cup window for the #USMNT. 🫣

Indiana's a football school, Iowa's a basketball school, Italy's a baseball nation. Rule of 3 "I's."

Gianluigi Donnarumma has been Italy's No. 1 keeper for 8 years. He's won a Champions League title, 4 Ligue 1 titles, a half-dozen other cups and countless individual honors... even a Euro title. And he's never played in a World Cup. He was *15* the last time Italy was in it. Absolutely insane.

I’m enjoying the hell out of DTF St. Louis. Perfectly wrapped little mystery, carefully written. Casting is so on point. (Although I can’t help but shake the feeling if this was made 5 years ago, Harbour’s part would’ve gone straight to @robdelaney.bsky.social.) www.tvguide.com/a/img/resize...

INJECT THIS INTO MY VEINS. #itfdb

Really hope Vegas getting an NBA team kills the talk of MLS going there. This makes 5 major-league teams added within one decade – the textbook definition of market saturation. I know soccer profiles differently, but I can't see how it would compete for attention. Let's talk about Indy & Phoenix...

I asked ChatGPT to speculate on a name and uniform design for a Las Vegas NBA team. I doubt this will be the eventual name, but man, this is actually really good.

Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.

I got called a “tech bro” by someone on here today. Which is a first for me. Do I have to go buy a branded fleece vest now?

I'm 100% supportive of the WBC supplanting the All-Star Game. Those are the stakes needed to reinvigorate fan interest. But if MLB is falling into "midseason tournament" temptation, let's go full FA Cup in between WBC cycles and get minor league teams involved. That would be epic.

Put aside the political poetry of this whole thing and you’ve still got Venezuela — a country that has produced impactful MLBers for decades — finally getting its moment in one of its two favorite sports. This team was so much fun and played with so much joy, it’s not hard to be happy for them.

Knowing President Asshat’s foreign policy strategy, this is probably just the excuse he needs to do something idiotic like naming Curt Schilling as ambassador to Venezuela.

Where’s Bruce Arena to complain about the choice of host city again?

Free Alex Zendejas!

Maybe I'm an old man, but I am underwhelmed by these #USMNT kits. I'm not an "it was better back when" guy, but for my money, the 2006 home look remains my fave.

Among a sea of underwhelming uniforms at the World Baseball Classic, the biggest missed opportunity was for Brazil to make theirs more in line with their iconic soccer uniforms. Even ChatGPT got this right with the tiniest prompt.

We need to be talking more about how Great Britain is allowed to compete as a singular entity at the WBC. Rise up, Scots and Welsh baseballers!

Holy crap Weston McKinnie.

RIP Lewis Skolnick. My spirit animal. 🤓

I’d say we’re in a constitutional crisis, but that term seems so quaint in light of everything going on.

I could write up a list of things that make me uncomfortable to be a representative of America these days (to say the least), but the lameness of hearing "U-S-A! U-S-A!" during international sporting competitions is near the top of the list.

A+ Mean Girls reference buried in here by @mattdoyle.bsky.social. This is what you get when you spend the easy money to subscribe.

Raise your hand if you knew there's a checkbox on your 1040 under additional income for "Olympic and Paralympic medals and USOC prize money." 🦗🦗🦗

I asked ChatGPT to speculate if MLS added two new clubs and then design their kits. Nailed the "expansion boring" on Indy, but that second kit on Phoenix Rising makes me want to let them into the league now. Would buy immediately. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This was an interesting little cultural note this here gringo did not catch. And combine this with Ricky Martin's song, "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii," it looks like Señor Benito was also low-key evangelizing for the Puerto Rican independence movement. The more you know, as they say....

Lol they literally made an alternative halftime show just for him and his cult and he didn’t even watch it. Benito rent-free in this human shit stain’s head.

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

I... have questions.

A storied history, of course, but The Washington Post was a beacon of hope and reason during the tumultuous 2010s and stood on high principles. Now it's the latest victim of the growing multibillionaire class escorting our march into authoritarianism. The enshittification of America continues.

Because I’m (mostly) an optimist, I prefer to look at this period in American history as the part of the ‘80s movie where the Billy Zabka character has made things look bleak for our hero.

Goodbye, Rocket Boy. You’ve done plenty to dismantle democracy, to say nothing of this once fine publication.

The comedy — and irony — of THIS schmuck being the one to say this…. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

SHUT. IT. THE FUCK. DOWN.

This is all so exhausting. At a certain point, you're kinda like "Just give me the blue pill and let me be."

Let’s be honest. The true scourge of our times is motion-operated sinks.

ICE is a domestic terror organization.

Almost makes you forget that the entire world is going to be rooting against us.

It'll never happen because money talks, b.s. walks, and FIFA is corrupt to the core. But the US should be stripped of co-hosting the World Cup and our team should be banned from participating. We live in a nation run by war criminals and should be treated as such. Full stop.

I've been lurking back in The Upside Down™️ just to check on baseball and basketball trade scuttlebutt. And I'm sad to report it's still a backwards-ass cesspool of hatred and idiocy. My mistake.

I’m a neutral for #MLSCup as I really wouldn’t mind seeing either team win. But weirdly, I don’t think Miami needs a victory to guarantee their continued existence. So maybe I’m ever-so-slightly Team ’Caps today?

So apparently I have tickets to [checks notes].... Switzerland vs. Qatar. 😑

I think we’ve all underestimated Shaq’s acting skills. How he kept a straight face when Rio Ferdinand told him to “get his hands into those balls” I’ll never know.

FIFA has always been Ground Zero for grift, obviously. But man if this whole sh*t show doesn’t drive home how dirty this all is, I’m not sure what will.

I’ve seen enough. Frank is not the guy. I don’t know what the answer is, and yes, the squad needs to be healthier and deeper. But this team is totally tuned out and these tactics are predictably dreary. Get rid of him. Just another Saturday in Spursville. 😕

Thank goodness for single-game knockouts. The way playoff soccer should be. Can we pretend three-game series never existed?

You know what impresses me? The restraint shown by every single one of these women, who have every right in the world to tell this human shit stain to go fuck himself. But then they'd be cast as "emotional" and "dramatic," right? And then probably fired. We have a LONG way to go in this country.

I’ve been a huge skeptic of this cash-grabbing super-sized World Cup, but I wouldn’t trade back scenes like this for anything. So many first-time participants and others who haven’t sniffed a World Cup in 30+ years. Soccer is about joy. Inject this into all of our veins.

I've had enough of digital transformation. I need more analog preservation.