I believe it was Oppenheimer who said: So what if a thermonuclear bomb can kill people? So can a kitchen knife? So can millions of knives already? This isn’t a new problem. It’s a new tool. …

Found recently out someone from law school who: -bought a hybrid magnet so he could park in the prime green vehicle parking; and -allegedly tried to argue his way into BigLaw diversity hire interviews by arguing he was Irish, won a local election on a progressive, “sustainability” platform.

Caitlin is one of the best folks in American Soccer, one of my favorite people to work with when she was at US Soccer, and deserves all the praise and success she receives. Orlando really got a great one here. Excited to follow her success!

Thanks to a random Instagram post, in the Hughes-Visnovsky household, we refer to watching Heated Rivalry (and watching the NHL generally) as “going to the boy aquarium.”

Top reported outgoing transfer fees from NWSL (per wiki): 1. Alyssa Thompson (20, ST): $1.3m 2. Naomi Girma (25, CB): $1.1m 3. Tarciane (22, CB): $979k 4. *Sam Coffey* (27, DM):$875k 5. Lindsey Horan(28, CM): $329k 6. Thembi Kgatlana (28, ST): $300k 7. Phallon Tullis-Joyce (27, GK): $160k

The only person in this list that is older than Coffey at the time of their transfer was Geyoro. Coffey- 27 (mf), Girma- 25 (cb), Shaw- 20 (st/am) Geyoro- 28 (mf), Smith- 20 (st), Thompson- 20 (st).

Lots of questions about St. Louis’s signing rights. Not clear if they’re sitting on his signing rights, but likely if they have some sort of permanent signing right to him, it comes via old MLS homegrown signing priority, not Discovery.

These are not the two key questions.

Baby has been sick since the holidays and his new thing is just being inconsolable in the mornings. The only thing that could get him to stop crying this morning was dancing in front of the mirror to Olivia Dean’s Man I Need.

I don’t know why we need to bully the SEC like that. The FTC hasn’t had a team in the national championship game for the same amount of time either.

Bleacher Report’s transfer window reporting is really making choices.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this is all happening as private equity funds, and people who made their billions from them are being more and more prevalent in the ownership side of the league.

Very cool to have played a small part getting this over the line. Kai was one of my favorite player in MLS. Can’t wait to see how he does in the Championship!

This has to be some of the laziest transfer rumor reporting I have ever seen:

Upgraded my iPhone for the first time in a while, and why Apple decided to make you go to 6 different corners of the phone just to nail down my phone background is insane to me. Nothing is intuitive, and the old settings from my old phone seemed to just disappear in the transfer. Am I old now?

No mention of striking, or even the need to go on strike in this letter is a very interesting choice.

Every time one of my State College-based family complained about Franklin it sounded like what white suburban parents complaining about rap music sounded like in the mid-90’s.

Imagine if they did The Darts at the Sphere…

I know it’s not the point of this post, but as a side note: if I didn’t have the kind of Pennsylvania pride I had, or if Thom Browne wasn’t from Allentown, PA, I’d have a lot more to say about how overrated and goofy his clothing designs are.

No artist has a duty to perform for all people, in fact, the entire business of live music, and the Kennedy Center itself is built off the concept of limiting access to such performances.

Counterpoint: they should.

This post reminded me of @jamellebouie.net’s video on the subject and the beautiful irony of the fact that by almost every line these racist dipshit’s draw to establish the concept of a“heritage American” by definition has to include basically 90% of African Americans.

This is implying that GMs and head coaches at the moment have no influence over the amount of money players they sign get paid, which…

Very funny to complain about being silenced by the powers that be in a major prestige publication

I agree with the NWSLPA’s proposed alternative and think it’s a much better way for teams to spend their money. But it’s important to read the CBA to know what the NWSL *can* do here before going into what it *should* do. So here’s the relevant CBA passages that the NWSLPA agreed to in good faith:

I think we’ve lost the plot on what professional sports…especially combat sports…are…

If I were president for a day, I would abolish TSA pre-check and Clear.

This is a great and correct take on the NWSL’s High Impact Player fund, *and* MLS’s TAM.

The assumption that MLS (or her clubs) aren’t interested in paying these players their market rate really ignores how far above market they have paid GA-signed draft picks up until very recently, which was also, for the most part to the detriment of their long-term career.

Tell me you don’t know how the Generation Adidas contract process works, without saying you know how Generation Adidas contract process works.

lol.

The network state stuff is a big reason why I think killing liberal arts and gen-ed requirements for “technical” and business degrees killed our society. It is just so dumb and the kind of thing you create the capacity to know is dumb about a month into a philosophy or political science class.

This guy’s talk about enshitification has been making the rounds, and it’s a great summary of why everything is worse now, but doesn’t really hit the cause: publicly traded companies need to *increase* profits year over year or they’re considered a failing business. www.instagram.com/reel/DSFlKgQ...

And get paid more than any of the “real stars” to do it.

Unreasonably annoyed by this still. Not sure how you can call yourself “football case study” if you aren’t… studying the case?

Given how long I know it takes for leagues to approve these things, there's no way this wasn't already in the works when the NWSL blocked the Spirit's Rodman deal, which begs the question: why wasn't the Spirit allowed to go ahead and make an offer via the HIP fund early and avoid the PR kerfuffle?

BEGINNING to integrate elite, experienced stars alongside emerging talent??? Did I just hallucinate the past 18+ years?

Great to see Targeted Allocation Money making a comeback.

28 Days Later and Prey (including the cut in Comanche). Both perfect IMO.

Speaking as someone having attended NYCFC, NYRB and NASL Cosmos matches in Coney Island, the trip out to the Cyclone’s stadium where Brooklyn FC is playing was the longest trip to a soccer match in the NYC metro that I ever undertook.

I use AI as essentially a spell checker– proofreading with my dyslexia always means I’m missing something , and asking staff to do it is a waste of their time. But that use case doesn’t make my output more “efficient.” It’s essentially an additional step for me. (En-dash intentional for humor)

This is possibly the best description of the gringo side of Miami I have ever seen.

The idea that the ancestors of foreign immigrants to a country made up of land stolen from its original inhabitants have any more of an innate right to be a member of said country than anyone else later born here is inherently un-American, and one that the country’s founders knew to be dogshit.

I have a lot of takes about the Rodman/Spirit/NWSL saga, (all of them correct), but one of the most mild, and likely most controversial take is that if the NWSL was actually in danger of losing most of its top players to big money European clubs, those top players would already be at those clubs.

The WSL has fairly strict (and very manufacturers) financial limits. www.onsidelaw.co.uk/news-update/...

The one thing I have found enterprise ChatGPT good for in my legal work flow is essentially as a fancy spell checker, but even then it still misses things, halucinates errors, struggles to explain where in a document it finds errors, and I wind up having to go through and apply its changes manually.

It’s very striking to me that there are zero soccer folks from any of the host nations, and zero representatives at all from one of the host nations entirely.

All the American and Canadian Soccer legends were busy?

Come for the legal analysis, stay for me having a mental breakdown over performance bonuses and the timing of the schedule change and the end of the current MLS CBA. Big thanks to @jeremiah.sounderatheart.com for having me on, had a really fun time with this one!

Should also note Todd was supposed to lead Sac’s MLS expansion roster build before their big money investor got cold feet and backed out during COVID.