Now that's a banger signing for them.

Reno was supposed to have a fat snowstorm today, I had a flight booked for LA so I could fly out on vacation on a separate flight. Was nervous it would get cancelled, so moved my flight last minute to last night and got a hotel in LA. Snowstorm didn't come. Universe not rewarding my anxiety.

Giving Sean Johnson a 2 year guaranteed deal at the number he wanted is going to age like milk.

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Heard from sources that MLS is adding a new high impact player rule for teams to retain free agents based on their score in the Audi Player Index and the Castrol Index

My last tweet about this stupid thing is that if you pick your team based on marketability I hope you lose every fucking game

No disrespect to Alisha Lehman who has had a fine and lovely career, but she is on this stupid marketing list for 1 fairly obvious reason that has literally nothing to do with her impact on the league.

I can squint and talk myself into the guardian or the ESPN one but the marketing one is frankly the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever read

I just referred to the Heisman trophy as the "MAC Hermann of American Football" because I couldn't remember the name, if you're wondering how my particular life priors fall

Pretty remarkable to spend 2 years building your culture and losing but not getting good picks, only for your culture to be losing every back to back and giving up as soon as you get down 10 points and being worse than YMCA teams on offense

Niche complaint but I dislike when one teams top matches another teams shorts, always trips my brain out

I am so excited to spend the entirety of next summer telling everyone who will listen Chelsea are dumb for doing this, because I have 200% confidence it will be us

An Arsenal defensive thing I rlike is when defending the penalty area when the ball is in wide channels, Rice fills in the near post zone, leaving the CBs to defend the 6 and pick up runners. Feel like so often you see the CB slide into that channel as help/cover, and the 6 has to pick up a runner

Just found out my neighbour who I convinced the North Star was actually the Halo space station when we were ~12 years old worked as a VFX editor on Andor, and I personally feel extremely owned right now

Liverpool putting up 0.6 xG and losing on xGD up a player for 60 minutes is pretttttty alarming

That’s a foul imo

Imagine watching that game and saying yes the winger who got 5 shots was the problem

That was one of the worst officiated game I've ever seen. SJP and Goodison turn refs into pumpkins I swear to god

Commentator been gargling Thiaw's balls all game as he fouls fouls fouls. Fuck you and fuck off.

Gordon's mother must be ashamed

Fun set piece thing: VAR has mostly copped on to offside players setting back screens to free up runners. Today, Newcastle have set picks stopping Chelsea's defenders from stepping up to play the offside trap. Not offside, and seems unlikely a ref calls a foul for it. Pretty clever.

I probably personally wouldn't call out my bosses and then lay a goose egg of this magnitude, but I'm not a premier league manager so what do I know

Chizzy gives me the same vibe as watching early Solanke Abraham. Not that similar a player but first striker since them that my eyebrows raise at.

Idk who they’re giving these ballots to because every year like 1/3 of the players who get votes are borderline nonsensical

More from @braidonnourse.bsky.social in the Denver Post here, looks like another MLS team found a loophole to force him into the draft this morning. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/18/r...

In the most MLS trade of all time, Toronto FC traded their first round draft pick to Colorado for a video analyst/assistant coach. Colorado then used that pick to select a player already under contract at their club for 2026.

Rapids drafting someone from their own club, this league is amazing

I’m sure that’s going to work out for them.

My biggest takeaway for the Maresca thing is that my gut reaction list of coaches I’d take over him is smaller than I thought it would’ve been

Depending on number, clear win win IMO

You gotta be fucking kidding me

Had a year end dinner at an Indian place, tried an Indian cola drink called “Thumbs Up”, was the most Coca Cola-y cola I’ve ever had. Im wired 2 hours later.

Nancy getting fired off of 4 losses in games they went 1.9-0.5, 1.3-1.5, and 2.7-0.9 is amazing content tbh

The funniest part of this is that it's not the tech. Waymo's get into WAY fewer accidents, and the accidents they get into are SIGNIFICANTLY lower risk (the average velocity of a Waymo crash is 1 mph, that's a real stat). It's just their rushed implementation being absolutely gash.

College coaches raiding the portal are going to go ham on this one

Personally think it's cool how far the College game has come that it fairly regularly looks similar to top level soccer. I was playing pretty high level college soccer 10 years ago and even the best teams played awful awful ball.

My take on the Nancy Celtic stuff is that every fan of every historic big club thinks there club is special. The aura of their existence protects against the rot of dogshit recruitment. It doesn't. Recruit garbage year after year and eventually you get caught. Nancy, O'Neil, Ange, doesn't matter.

Villa getting 3 goals from this cohort of shots genuinely deserves a points deduction

FM26 meta has been spending too much time with Pep and Maresca because double false 9/shadow striker with inside forwards is crack

This isn't quite the same as TFC signing Drew Moor in 2016 (who was also 32), but it rhymes. Difference being Moor was a lot cheaper, and TFC were starting from a much higher starting point.

If you don’t use all 5 subs every game you simply do not get to complain about fixture congestion or player fatigue, looking at you bald man

BDO noms is deeply imperfect but here's the top 30 from the last 3 years, you'd be hard pressed to tell me someone outside the league not on this list that should be eligible for this situation (and doesn't just fit under the cap as currently constructed)

Easily my fave random thing to do is dig into the ASA gmail and see the young kids playing with data for the first time who want feedback, and haven't yet found if they just post all the plots on twitter and just keep posting, in like 2 years they will work for a club

I also hate it but am not sure there isn't really something better that isn't very convoluted (My suggestion was at winter meetings the CSO's need to submit a list of high impact players and the X number of most frequently occurring names are eligible for this, which is very convoluted)

BC Lions host 9 games a season with ~25k fans per event, Whitecaps host minimum 17 at 20k fans per event. Not sure how they are anything but the number 1 primary tenant at this point.

If I was going to squint at something to be concerned about, you probably want a league mechanism to make sure the players teams want to use the special above cap money on are actually good/deserving of such spending. Hopefully it's not just USWNT.

The best analog is TAM (salary over max budget charge + upper limit to salary + can be used on multiple players + can't be used on regular players)