Is it a known thing, like a World Cup broadcast tradition, that the FIFA camerapeople love to show fans flapping their lips in slow motion? Because I find it very off-putting 😂

Hard to overstate how much more enjoyable the Red Sox became while I was paying 100% of my attention to the World Cup over the past month

I'm crushed for Mo, but I am also in the "I want as much Messi as possible for as long as possible" camp, so I'm only like 60% saddened by this result

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

This could still be reversed if Tutankhamun calls up Infantino

You're going to get really sick of me using superlatives to describe Darryn Peterson

According to this law, the Belgian team must now be placed on a barge and set adrift on Lake Superior

If you're just discovering soccer, just know that your beloved Erling Haaland plays for this generation's Premier League equivalent of the Yankees/Lakers/etc. that any self-respecting fan not born into it should hate. Congrats, you just got hoodwinked into being a Kobe fan

My great fear is that all US soccer fans are now hopping on the Norway bandwagon because "they do the rowing thing and Haaland seems so fun on his TikTok and he scores a lot" and this will translate to a whole new generation of VERY casual Man City fans who will be annoying as hell

To be honest with you, "Round of 16" feels exactly right. Emotions, sure, but looking at it rationally, at no point should anyone have been swept away by notions that the USMNT is one of the eight best squads in the world right now

oh so it's like rocket league but with people

Not me having constantly screamed "Belgium is fraudulent" from the rooftops for the past three weeks

I realize it's just one game, but I'm ready to say that Darryn Peterson is a superstar. All the great things we saw will translate to actual games. I don't think there were many doubters among Jazz fans, but I'm sure there are even fewer now. And (and and and!). . . he played 27 minutes!

TIRED: Overreacting after one game of Summer League WIRED: Overreacting after one quarter of Summer League INSPIRED: Overreacting after one play of Summer League

gotta be a guy at the swift-kelce wedding watching cape verde vs argentina on his phone just whooping under his breath

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

Here's another one I just saw: "Messi is the LeBron of soccer. Play long enough and you eventually get some records even if you can’t remember anything they actually did"

I’m so happy for Mo, man 👑

@danclayt0n.bsky.social hey Dan, I could be way off, but did you once tell a story about playing ball with a group maybe in NYC and they pulled you aside after to steer you right on their style of ball? Something like “that’s not how we play here?” For some reason my brain remembers it as you.

Know what I need in my life? More “your job is going away in 2027 unless you become an AImaxxer like me (and sign up for Lovable)” posts from a certain HIGHLY overrated product management thought leader

My initial reaction is that the Sixers will still need Joel Embiid to stay healthy

Now THAT is a blockbuster trade

After the first Belgium goal the second felt inevitable. I still consider them fraudulent

Just like we all expected when he took out KDB and Doku

Based on my texts and people ringing my doorbell, 289% of houses in my neighborhood are having their roofs redone right now

Jazz fans! I have an announcement. If you hate Donovan Mitchell for how he left but you don’t hate Walker Kessler for how he left you’re absolutely totally 100% doing this wrong

I do love the smell of a new book

Someone shared this What But Why article with me the other day and I've never read something that so perfectly encapsulates how I think about life. Sometimes someone will be like "see you next year!" and in my brain I'm like "that's 1/80th of our lives" waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-...

Why aren’t we making our BLTs with pancetta? What are we even doing here?

Thinking about shorting #$MRVL. Why? Oh no reason at all. But I bet they're about to hear that they need to execute better

Me as a SaaS product manager these days

I don't know what I would be doing right now, in life, without the World Cup

Excited to watch @colyou.bsky.social's large adult Uruguayan son

Sucks for Donte DiVincenzo though

Fable 5 was Blue Ivy’s illuminati sacrifice

Personally I don’t mind this Finals ending in five because we have the World Cup for the next six weeks

I feel bad for college football but this is tremendous content

You Red Sox fans out there aren't going to believe this, but Brayan Bello isn't doing well in the first inning today

(I have been thinking about this post a lot today as people snap photos of famous artworks in this museum)

I’m grateful that my wife isn’t the type to ask me to take a photo of her staring thoughtfully at a painting at The Met so she can post on IG about how inspired she was (Offense intended if your wife would do that 🤷🏻‍♂️)

This guy can’t shut up about going from 20 humans to 3 humans. Every day with the 85% workforce reduction. Earnestly: what happened to the other 17 humans, and how do they feel about Jason constantly bragging about it?

Wait. . . like *all* emails?

I am glad that everyone—EVERYONE—on Bluesky is correctly pinning this mess on Koby Altman, Kenny Atkinson, and James Harden. And not on Donovan Mitchell, who got this flawed roster to the conference finals but can’t do everything himself.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my grief after the unexpected losses of my dad & brother in the last few years. So of course I sobbed when I got to this part of a recent PTFO. In a good way. Sports! @pablo.show @kentremendous.bsky.social @joeposnanski.com youtube.com/shorts/n-4QY...

I can’t wait to die historic someday on the Fury Road (I-15 between Salt Lake City and Ogden) when Utah runs clean out of water

I am happy for @theshums.bsky.social, and only @theshums.bsky.social

@andybehrens.bsky.social Hey Andy! Me again. I read your very entertaining newsletter with Ken Rosenthal and I have to ask: any reason you said "NL-only leagues" for Cole Carrigg? Like, you wouldn't stash him otherwise?

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

Go off, (Egyptian) king