Merry Christmas I hope you’re spending it with the High Impact Player in your life

Cindy meets Dog Riley

lol I just passed the Hoos football team buses and a CMB truck pulled over by the cops on the side of 66 😂

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Merry Christmas. You will log.

“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.” Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas

can’t even stay up for our 11pm Christmas Story screening smdh

My favorite part of WHITE CHRISTMAS is the throwaway joke about how Republican Vermont is. “Maybe we can dig up a Democrat!” Sounds silly now, but at the time (1954), a Democrat had *never* won a presidential or Senate race in Vermont.

Merry Christmas from Cleveland, Ohio

merry Christmas you wonderful skeeters

which mar-a-lago bathroom were they in

This, my friends, is backdoor union-busting by the NWSL. HIP basically strips agency and gains because players will feel pressure to perform through injury/health/personal matters so they don’t lose a spot on an arbitrary list. #nwsl

NWSL somehow made a system even dumber than anything I've ever seen in MLS

Me at the NWSL:

Felt Beard Taped To Child’s Face Hanging On For Dear Life With Entire Christmas Pageant To Go

We have blocked the NWSL account and call on you all to do the same. Bye NWSL til you negotiate with NWSLPA 👋

this is the most ghoulish part of all of this, IMO #nwsl

Fan supporter groups from NWSL are now uniting to call for a boycott effort against the league. It includes blocking the league on social media, boycotting the league’s merchandise store and calling for emailing the team and league to oppose the new High Impact Player rule.

We, and our fellow independent supporters groups, stand with the players.

So, if you’re an NWSL GM, you are not allowed to decide yourself — using all of the tools of a pro team’s front office — that a Player has a High-enough Impact to warrant a certain salary. But you *are* allowed to vote on a list that would determine that that Player has a High-enough Impact. Sure.

very seasonal that I had to string the FM antenna up the tree to get Nine Lessons and Carols (yes every year I am salty that WETA doesn’t broadcast it live)

what is Cindzo thinking about? wrong answers only

2nd place out of 19 playing bar trivia with @rarthen.bsky.social, pls clap

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

sleeping like an angel who wasn’t possessed by the chaos demons this morning

This dog had got a lot of problems with you people

quite honestly the league is fortunate to have people who will fight hard for it, without them the habitual rake steppers in the front office would’ve already led it to the same fate as wusa and wps

as @rarthen.bsky.social pointed out, he was fired from his first *two* MLS jobs after losing to #DCU (incl a club record 7-1 with Toronto) which is _hilarious_

the most baffling coaching hire by anyone since Belichick, what is going on

Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision. Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.

this trash is what Sally Jenkins is up to now??? jesus christ on a unicycle

....the solution seems simple, and the NWSLPA has said as much. whack $1m on the cap and move on. if certain teams don't want to spend $4.5m in 2026, they won't. it seems strange to me for the NWSL to do everything in their power to prevent what seems like an obvious solution.

positively insane

the powers that be in this league hate their fans, hate that they are subject to public criticism, and it shows #nwsl

If a single person on the internet tries to blame Trinity, I will personally fight you in a Waffle House Parking lot

Gonna start referring to my friends and family as High Impact Players and yes they will be judged by a strict set of criteria including Instagram followers

This is only slightly less offensive, and still way too skewed to the USWNT. If I'm Emma, I'm calling each owner personally to cuss them out. Why are you making your broke behavior MY problem?

Soccer Player Qualifies For NWSL HIP Designation By Having, "Really Cool Tik Tok Video" www.thenutmegnews.com/current/2025...

i just can’t believe they are this opposed to raising the fucking cap $1m

Screaming because a player like Midge Purce falls out of the criteria for an HIP contract but you have worms for brains if you think she’s not an extremely marketable player

I know when rules change we often name them for players, but this feels like one where you name it after its creator. Kind of like how people call baseball’s zombie runner the “Manfred Man,” this is the Berman Rule.

the NWSL would rather go to court with the NWSLPA, undermine the USWNT, and destroy NWSL team morale than make it easier to pay all the players more

The players don’t want this. The fans don’t want this. Only delusional multimillionaires and billionaires want this garbage.

High impact player rule - the player should have at least one million Instagram followers, be lactose intolerant, score at least 1100 on the SATs, have a 4.7 Uber rating, and their favorite color should be blue.

We stand with the @nwslplayers.bsky.social.

Ah yes, the famously informed and reflective Ballon d’Or Féminin and a not-at-all convoluted and devoid of ball knowledge “SportsPro Media Top 150 Most Marketable Athletes.” An all-time fumble from a league that looks less confident in its trajectory and planning with every passing week.

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

one thing that’s become very obvious about jessica berman’s nwsl is that owners would still much rather pay lawyers than players

"player power has gone too far" is an unbelievably gross phrase #nwsl