I expected greener bars tbh.

oh hell yeah this is a good crossover incredibly, Marinakis is roughly the median level of criminal for both a Greek shipping magnate and a football team owner

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We're not only set to have the biggest World Cup in history, but it will also be the oldest www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Oops all gender as the saying goes.

This is a good thing to say. And Democrats willingness to say it when other center left parties in the world will not is part of why my blood boils when dummies say democrats are more conservative than their counterparts in Europe.

A lot of my allegedly progressive compatriots seething that our PM didn't AllLivesMatter antisemitism at a Jewish event, and didn't say "anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism" in those exact words If you can whine your way out of every mention of antisemitism, you don't actually care about antisemitism.

I talk about sports for a living and I guarantee conservatives fucking hate me the second they hear me talk about politics.

Oooooooooh! Like this!

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Cannot tell you how much I resent the amount of fucking political commercials I’m going to have to see in Maine this summer.

Oh fuck off.

To some degree I bring this on myself for doing a lot of posting while Jewish. But also I cannot tell you how much the pressure to just shut up about a little light antisemitism on the left exists and how fucked that is. So, you know, fuck off.

I gotta tell you it does not feel good to come onto this here text based social media app on a regular basis and have people demand you give them actual evidence that the guy with a Nazi tattoo is antisemitic.

This has been an interesting test of the “the U.S. President could get Netanyahu to do whatever he wants with a single phone call” standard that was often asserted about the former U.S. President.

But like boy does it feel bad that this is what the democratic primary in Maine hath delivered us!

I think having Nazi ink on you for over a decade and not caring enough to remove it until you get caught with it is worse than sexting women who aren’t your wife, at least so long as the wife in question has come to terms with it. But the latter thing portends a higher possibility of worse to come.

The wait is over and it couldn't come at a better time because if the USMNT are going to improve on 2022, they need Christian Pulisic to be switched on like he was facing Senegal www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

I mean, no matter how the non-PL team approaches it, it’s true that they have the advantage in playing in a league that isn’t nearly as deep as the PL. Translating that advantage into success isn’t trivial but the advantage (which is more extreme than ever now) persists.

There’s a lot of conflating two things in anti-AI world these days. 1. Is providing AI profitable? For a while it was no, now it’s yes. 2. Is using AI at scale profitable? Massive corporate uptake is what makes 1. profitable. Might that not sustain? It’s at least possible I suppose.

I also think the fact that he has not apologized is part of his political appeal. Which doesn’t exactly suggest great things are coming down the pike.

1. People in Maine should vote for Graham Platner. 2. He doesn’t sound like a Nazi otherwise, does not excuse having a Nazi tattoo which is an extremely bad and antisemitic action on its own. 3. He has still not actually apologized for having a Nazi tattoo on his body for 20 years.

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Can’t complain about that from USMNT.

Jokes aside this is actually legitimately quite a good performance from the USMNT on the whole.

Having come so close, now what for Arsenal? The problem is obvious: they need best of the best attackers. Could Kroupi and Rogers, both targets, be the players to push Arsenal to “another level”? www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

We gotta get better technology.

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Guess the USMNT is gonna win the World Cup.

If my kids could stop breaking bones that would fucking rock. Fucks sake.

On the flip side, I can’t tell you how many press releases I’ve read from British teams that get their collective noun is always plural rule wrong.

Democrats. Even the bad ones are better than Republicans. By a lot.

Ninja birthday incoming.

This shouldn't come as a shock but not only is Luis Enrique quite good at his job but with Pep Guardiola out of the management game for now, he's the best current club manager in men's soccer www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

So uh... this USMNT squad has some concerning areas, even more so if Chris Richards isn't fully healthy so @pcattry.bsky.social and I did some pondering www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

The problem with John Fetterman is that about one of five times he votes like Susan Collins. The problem with Susan Collins is that she votes likes Susan Collins five out of five times. So no actually Susan Collins is worse than John Fetterman (or Graham Platner). Obviously. Still sucks tho

Hello, my name is Grace and I started my current career because this guy thought I was good at writing football articles. So if you're mad at my takes, you should direct your anger towards Mike.

It’s World Cup time now so gonna do this post so I can put it in my responses as necessary. Hello, my name is Michael and I’ve been work in the soccer analytics and media industry for well over a decade despite you not knowing who I am. So, yes I’m aware of that mundane factual point about soccer.

They’d have a legit interesting team if they weren’t married to playing a striker on the wrong side of 40. The fact that Cristiano Ronaldo is 41 is more important than the fact he used to be Cristiano Ronaldo.

He didn’t apologize. Democrats should all vote for him anyway. But he specifically didn’t apologize.

And now….the World Cup.

The idea that PSG dominated this game, which I’m seeing bubble up is insane. They were totally stymied for two hours by an Arsenal team that also couldn’t attack. An extremely even match for which penalties was an absolutely fair result.

That was a masterful 120 minutes of defense from Arsenal. Unfortunately the last half of it was in a tied game.

Fun game imo. Good drama.

If you’re an attacker and you visibly hook a guys arm you’re just not getting the call.

Finally got a replay and it definitely wasn’t a pen.

I dunno if that was a pen but I do know the ref wasn’t calling it even if it was.

Gabriel stayed up there a REALLY long time and it created chances at both ends.

Refs been kinda a mess but that’s a stonewall pen.

only 45 minutes left and they haven't given up a single good scoring chance truly spectacular defensive half by Arsenal