Watching @themlg.bsky.social and @michaelcaley.bsky.social talk about modeling the World Cup from first principals as I sit in 48 degree water for 10 minutes, as one does.

We are quite excited about this!

HUGE WORLD CUP SCANDAL: Wife is rightly pointing out the number of Africa kits I absolutely cannot pull off. I am rightly pointing out that getting no Africa kits while getting many kits from other places is, uh, problematic. We are at an impasse.

Sorry but this is fucked up! You can’t support BDS and then turn around and say this. I mean you can obviously, but I’m gonna narrow my eyes at you in some kinda way about it.

They really couldn’t do that. It’s easy to see how they got republicans to cave and split off DHS from the rest of the budget while ICE was murdering Americans in the street. Is the proposal that Rs will cave and agree to pass a federal budget just without funding for the Supreme Court? Why?

more on Chris Richards' status as he deals with an ankle issue -- he trained with the #USMNT for the first time today but will not play tomorrow against Germany plus, Mauricio Pochettino complains about "a lack of clarity" from clubs on player injuries www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

This is fucking insane.

Already attracting significant transfer interest, the World Cup is set to be a breakout stage for Yan Diomande but how did he go from Florida to qualifying for Champions League soccer in Germany? www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

It’s deeply annoying to be like an expert in this shit and then hear this nonsense.

This.. graph isn't showing what you think the graph shows.

This gets at what has bothered me about this whole thing. Well one of the things. Ganz has Platner dead to rights. But part of the reason Platner’s thing sells is that “has a Nazi tattoo” engenders conversations of “is he a Nazi?” not “he’s antisemitic.” That matters a lot for Jewish people.

Since Israel's genocide in Gaza, I have worked to convince my Jewish family that anti-Israel politics is not all antisemitism and is in fact justified at this moment in time, with some success. Making a guy with a Nazi tattoo the face of anti-Israel politics in the US makes that job so much harder.

Physically forcing your partner into a room and then physically preventing them from leaving for the night is a crime and intentional tort called false imprisonment, the article here includes a very classical description of an occurrence of domestic violence

I agree with this: But I would like to say again that the man knowingly got a Nazi tattoo and then once on the campaign trail lied about it and said it was absurd to think he’d have knowingly gotten a Nazi tattoo because he’s obviously not a Nazi.

I mostly agree with the whole “judge me for who I am, not who I was” idea Platner likes to put forth. Yesterday I was judging him as a guy who would not apologize for accidentally getting a Nazi tattoo. Today im judging him as a guy who knowingly got a Nazi tattoo and lied about it.

I granted a slot of benefit of the doubt to people arguing that Platner didn’t know what the Nazi tattoo was over the last couple of months. Guess I should stop doing that.

Six-year-old with a broken arm was flinging herself all over the playground after school like a psycho and when I asked her to cool it, because, you know, cast and such: “Why daddy I already broke my arm? See! IT’S ALREADY BROKEN.”

Ok this is actually a fun story. My dad gave up tix to the Knicks that night because the game’s umpire cancelled and he offered to cover. Then I hit my only home run, it was a close play at home and I beat the tag and my dad called me safe and, unsurprisingly, the catcher lost his mind at my dad.

Also known as the night Mike Goodman hit his only youth baseball league home run.

This is a sign of AI being useful and in demand, not useless. But one which maybe makes profitability hard. This thing is useless but people are conspiring to force it on users is a different problem than this useful thing is hard to gatekeep and thus will be come ubiquitous at extremely low cost.

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

Seems bad

Ah. I see.

plus, a funny thing that happened today: Sergino Dest said he views himself as a wingback and Tim Ream said his actual role on the team is that of a winger! #USMNT www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

dispatches from Fayetteville — first, Chris Richards trained outside in front of media members for the first time today but he was still training separately with the group #USMNT www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Yes, tactical this and virtual that, but I'm also not gonna act like the best part of today's press conference was when Rodman stretched over Wilson and Swanson and said "I'm your guys' baby," just very sincere and special stuff we're all getting to witness on this team.

Triple Espresso is back and vibes are off the charts. The last 2 years have seen program growth while managing their eventual returns. Emma Hayes incorporated virtual 'tactical refreshers' alongside check-ins for absent players. More on the Trio's return to #USWNT 🔽 www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

People can and should like what they like for whatever reason they like it. Naked quality level is a small part of what makes fandom. But it’s a really bad idea to reason backwards from what you like to conclusions about how what you like must definitionally have the highest skill level.

"The WNBA is better than the NBA because the players play hard and have good fundamentals" is the woke version of "College basketball is better than the NBA because the players play hard and have good fundamentals"

Look I’m 42, I really resent having ended up as a millennial. On the other hand I just recorded a podcast about my podcast for subscribers of my podcast because they were talking about the podcast in the podcast’s discord. So like I should probably not complain about it.

talking to American libs about FIFA's standards for host nation politics

The World Cup is almost here!!! I want to diiieeeeee [celebratory?]

up to 2018 in the world cup what went wrong series. feels wild that this is now at the point when myself, @themlg.bsky.social et al were writing stuff about it for statsbomb.

🌎🏆 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏 𝐃 🇺🇸 United States Mike L. Goodman | @themlg.bsky.social 🇵🇾 Paraguay Roberto Rojas | @robertorojas97.bsky.social 🇹🇷 Türkiye Ahmet Bob Turgut 🇦🇺 Australia Vince Rugari | @vincerugari.com 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐘 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/23gz... 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐄 👉 podcasts.apple.com/podcast/2026...

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

Daily reminder that @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social is on Youtube now and you should subscribe to our podcast there because now you can see our pale white faces sling our hot soccer takes. www.youtube.com/shorts/QFa0V...

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!

Ok. So I went to the dentist and it was bad news. I got hit with a big bill. Any help would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/5770fb997

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!