Is “Average Position” ever NOT just a cluster of players in the middle of the pitch?

You know what you don’t see enough of? Cuttlefish tattoos

“We don’t need more youth teams who can pass well, we need teams full of kids who can dribble well”. I keep hearing this as if skill allocation is a zero-sum game. But the best dribbler in the modern era developed as the lynchpin of the greatest passing team of all time

This is completely unacceptable. Only elected officials and upper echelon brass should be allowed to profit from this kind of thing.

Has anyone else noticed a pattern where car salesman, contractors, repair people, and other people dealing with bigger ticket items will give you a nice fair deal the first time around and then try to screw you once you become a repeat customer?

Starting last fall I began selling my extensive childhood comic book collection on eBay. Things were chugging along just fine until about 2 months ago. Since then, traffic to my listings and sales have steadily dwindled. It’s almost as if people are running out of disposable income for some reason

I can tell AI is proliferating rapidly based on the absolute plague of completely futile, idiotic, and full-on insane customer service interactions I’ve been having over the past year. If we start using AI to “assist” air traffic controllers, there’s going to be airports on fire nationwide

Officially issuing a recall on my “Spurs will never actually go down” position

Who Knew that during all his time in England “Harry Kane can’t win titles” was actually “Harry Kane can single-handedly keep any team upper mid table”.

What have you done now, Joe Biden?

The parking lots will be closed, and it’s impossible to walk there. 12 million bucks per pame to be extorted from the fans.

Sky-high ticket prices won’t be the only thing emptying the wallets of soccer fans attending World Cup games at some US venues this spring. Fans trying to get to MetLife Stadium from NYC can expect to spend $150 for a round-trip train fare for each match, officials confirmed. https://cnn.it/4tjaTOX

Are there any financial instruments that allow one to short this World Cup?

Soccer is the most important of the unimportant things. Eduard Löwen's return to the field was a reminder of how unimportant sports are, but simultaneously how they can provide some measure of joy during unthinkable suffering.

Wait… forwards can do that????

“And yea, from that day forward the people of Amsterdam did calleth the tasty repast Royale with Cheese, for they did lacketh knowledge of the Imperial System of weights and measures” St Vincent Chapter 1, Verse 23

Why is it that a hot stuffy room keeps you awake when you’re trying to sleep and puts you to sleep when you’re trying to stay awake?

Georgi Minoungou has kind words for Seattle Sounders. In 2023, he had surgery that left him blind in his left eye. Without the support from the club and fans coming to his house, he might have retired. "Thank you for raising me. I will always be grateful for that."

Behold! Trickle Down Economics working as intended

Not going to get into the weeds of the World Cup transportation row. Will only say that fans who attend the World Cup are typically not the rich, let’s pay money for big events crowd familiar to Americans. They are ⚽️ fans who sometimes save up for years to be able to attend.

If you’ve read the Bible, you know that Jules’ Ezekiel 25 quote is almost completely made up. If you’ve watched Pulp Fiction, you know that Jules’ epiphany in the final scene was that his victims were “The Weak” and that HE was “the Tyranny of Evil Men”

Seattle Kraken have made literally zero progress in the past three years. That 100 pt 2nd season and playoff run seem like such a fluke now.

I’m genuinely curious what happened between the end of last season and the beginning of this season that demoted Musovski from career-year-stats starter to bench role.

Champions League is so funny because people will ask "why dont people in the Bundesliga simply beat Bayern" and then they also hear Can Can 500 times

That was the best game of soccer between two teams I hate that I’ve seen in a long time.

U.S. Soccer losing its sporting director creates urgent needs right before the World Cup. What if we can’t survive group stage without a PowerPoint deck on the U.S. Way? The night before a historic knockout game, who will email consultants and create the LinkedIn content that will inspire victory

Put this World Cup on a rocket ship and set the controls for the heart of the Sun.

I’m reading Hristo Stoichkov’s biography and he describes the terrible back line of a youth team he played in as being “like Kennedy’s bodyguards”.

This visualisation serves as a painful reminder to every country that shares a border with the russians of how much territory they have stolen.For everyone else, it is a reminder that the russians have had aggressive ambitions towards Europe and Asia for centuries.(source:victoriaslog)

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Why does Pulisic keep getting Paul Rothrock’s USMNT minutes?

AI’s attempts to transcribe my Scottish friend’s voicemails are absolutely hilarious.

Planet Earth and Milky Way from Space

Mt Rainier tonight. Looks like the clouds and rain will be back soon, though

Mt Rainier tonight. Looks like the clouds and rain will be back soon, though

That’s a crazy way to say the program had a 60% success rate

I’m 100% reading “she’s thicker than zoo glass” as a compliment.

Today, compiling old back issues into a large expensive “Omnibus” is a big business for the comics industry. But back in the 80’s you could get a pocket book sized volume containing the first 28 issues of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian for 5 Deutschmarks (about $2.50)

Of course it happens to the Mariners…..

Just put Rothrock on the USMNT and be done with it

No sign of a den, but we came across a dam and a bunch of other beaver activity in a creek near the Puyallup River

This is the entire generative AI industry btw the markets just haven't caught up

I can’t help but notice that the more AI gets pushed on us, the more frequent and obvious the mistakes it makes are. I’m not the only one. My players have taken to calling anything or anyone they think is stupid “AI”.

I don’t hate that a lot of annoying media people complain about Bluesky because they come here and are met by angry pedantic weirdos because that keeps annoying media people out of here so the rest of us can chill. It’s some hidden elf village bullshit, they just met Glumpo the Bluesky welcome orc

I miss when the Sounders used to play matches in Seattle

Leading up to the next World Cup cycle there are going to be high school kids who have never seen Italy play in a World Cup

When I hear things like “Iraq had qualified for their first World Cup in forty years”….