USL Championship Game Preview of Tulsa for @pghsoccernow.bsky.social . pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/21/p... #USLPlayoffs

‘The Diplomat.’ I’m the dork who really wish it was an incisive political drama and not a screwball rom-com.

Newest HTHL Substack is up! Thoughts on how the new Fall-to-spring schedule will affect Colorado. First roster move predictions! Who stays! Who goes! Plus the always exciting first guess at a depth chart! And... the NYT cast shade at the Pids. #Rapids96 open.substack.com/pub/holdingt...

Jewish orgs have been talking for the last several years about ‘combating antisemitism’ and I keep hearing ‘ok guys we’re down 55-0. NOW is the time we start playing defense!’

From 'you'll be expelled if you come out as gay in rabbinical school' to '51% of the rabbinical school is gay' in just 20 years. Incredible.

A final article celebrating the Hounds big win in the Eastern Conference final. An Ed Thompson/Mark Goodman photo gallery! @pghsoccernow.bsky.social #RiverhoundsSC pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/18/p...

This is an atomic bomb. Every paragraph you read you think ‘wow what a terrible guy.’ And then there’s another paragraph. And another. And another. You would think in 2025 this behavior wouldn’t be tolerated or covered up. Tanner was doing this for YEARS. Incredible work by Pablo.

Weird that the GOP is now the higher taxes party And the Dems are the cut taxes party. Up is down. The sky is purple. Cats and dogs, living together. Mass hysteria.

Gotham FC just scored on a free kick in extra time, nothing left on the clock. Soccer rules.

#Rapids96 notes: With only really 3 or 4 player contracts likely to expire, the roster doesn't have a lot of flexibility. Considering the team finished poorly, I expect some players under contract will be cut or traded. Cannon, Vines, Ronan, Atencio. Rafa N too, if the price is right.

Ten days till #Rapids96 announce options exercised and contracts extended. According to my spreadsheet, the following players contracts are set to expire: Calvin Harris Andreas Maxsø Ollie Larraz Michael Edwards Ian Murphy Jackson Travis Darren Yapi Nico Hansen Sam Bassett Nate Jones

Must read recap of the Riverhounds incredible win last night at Highmark Stadium to send them to the USL Championship Final! pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/16/r...

Also, for the first year I wrote for Burgundy Wave, my Rapids writing averaged around 35 clicks.

I once wrote a run-of-the-mill game preview in which I questioned the legality of three player transfers They had come from a team in Europe that was probably engaged in an illegal shell third party transfer. I was threaten w/ legal action. Article was amended. I think it had 45 page views total.

My snaps of the match, Hounds-RIFC Eastern Conf final. #RiverhoundsSC @steel-city-fc.bsky.social

Wow! The Riverhounds are going to the USL Championship Final!!!

Quite a thing that Costa Rica rolled out a starting lineup last night with Francisco Calvo (33) Keylor Navas (38) and Kendall Waston (37) in it.

I'm hoping to go to the World Cup this summer. FIFA currently not selling tickets. Stubhub top section in Philadelphia start at $1000. I don't think it's likely I can afford to go to the World Cup this summer.

After reading the article in @theathleticfc.bsky.social , I'm actually only slightly-annoyed-mostly-ok w/the schedule change. There's a break mid-Dec to mid-Feb that avoids the worst Colorado weather. The season start change is kind of negligible. The big hurt for #Rapids96 fans - no July 4 game.

Facebook is now just a place to go to look at ads targeted at me. There's nothing else there.

MLS has voted to switch to the European schedule I know its a moot point, but I hope Colorado Rapids voted no. Games at DSGP in December and February will be played in blizzards and ice and -10 F conditions. It will be hellish. #Rapids96

Claudio Reyna and his wife approve of this message.

This is Batya Ungar-Sargon, noted former journalist with The Forward, just nodding along as Megyn Kelly blithely excuses sexual assault of underage women by powerful and wealthy men.

Preview: Rhode Island hope to keep defying the odds My preview of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds-Rhode Island FC. Pic is my favorite thing I wrote. Do us proud, @steel-city-fc.bsky.social . Call Koke Vegas a jagoff for 90 minutes. pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/13/p...

R' Naftali Tzvi of Ropschitz taught: "One who is small in reality, they hold themselves as if they are great." This is as it teaches in the Gemara (BM 85b) - “A small coin in an empty barrel calls: Kish, kish”. And our rabbis also teach ‘ (Sanh. 24a) ‘A sign of arrogance is poverty of Torah.’

“Somehow, Bond returned.” Problem solved.

Happy ‘first day in the 30s’ to all us East Coasters. Brrrr. 🥶

This is so f#&%ing metal. Well done, @steelarmy.bsky.social .

When are we gonna stop with this bullshit? The problem is: half the country thinks the problem is income inequality, healthcare, the rising cost of living, and underfunding public education. And the other half thinks the problem is immigrants, trans folk, and not enough low wage factory jobs.

Bluesky is extra spicy this morning I see. Look, I hate it too. Healthcare is broken. Costs on everything keep going up. The government is mostly broken. But sometimes you have to accept your losses.

“It is your patriotic duty to starve.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

If MLS can’t convince fotmob to display a three game series correctly I dunno that they should be doing this format. Fotmob’s brackets show aggregate scores of the three games. Aggregate score is totally irrelevant. I’m annoyed.

‘Nobody Wants This’ handling how rabbis get selected for their jobs IS SO FAR FROM REALITY THEY MIGHT AS WELL HAVE HAD THE VATICAN SELECT FOR THEM

PA has temporarily restored SNAP benefits. So next week my daily ‘instead-of-lunch’ donations will go to the Food Bank of the Rockies in Colorado.

HOUNDS UPBEAT AHEAD OF EASTERN CONF SEMIS VS DETROIT The mood seemed light and happy at @riverhoundssc.bsky.social training on Friday as the team made their final tuneups before Saturday's matchup against Rust Belt rivals Detroit City FC. 👨‍💻: Mark Goodman pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/07/r...

Patrick Agyemang is on tv right now as Derby take on Blackburn Rovers.

Went out to Hounds final tune-up before their second round match in the USL playoffs and got some good quotes. #RiverhoundsSC pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/11/07/r...

Fall in Pittsburgh is purdy. Winter, notsomuch.

Just donated to my local food bank. Gonna try and eat only canned goods rice and beans from my pantry everyday till SNAP is restored, and donate what I would have spent on lunch to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. It’d be great if, instead of this, the Federal government actually worked, tho.

I always avoid reading Ross Douthat's work in the NYT. And with his piece 'Did liberal feminism ruin the workplace?' I am continuing that tradition. (Why the hell does this man still have a job?)

Re: USMNT’s best GK. Bring back Sean Johnson.

1) Ricardo Pepi is back! 2) Auston Trusty is back! 3) Jedi Robinson, Weston McKennie, Tim Weah, Christian Pulisic out. That's a lot of quality we're missing. 4) Josh Sargent: healthy, left out. 5) I really don't know what calling up Gio Reyna accomplishes. Shoulda used his spot on a newbie.

Be careful what you wish for. Democrats wanted to end the filibuster when they had a slim majority. Now they love it. Based on recent election results, the Senate flipping back to blue seems like a definite possibility in 2 or 4 years.

A guy I like to coach the Rapids is apparently the favored pick for LAFC. #Rapids96 www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

Lived there from 2006-2011. Hated this fountain. Thought it was the ugliest thing ever. Also, I think I only saw it function as a fountain once. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

Just let me and Doyle chair a constitutional convention. We’d fix the US government AND restructure the US Soccer pyramid all in one go.

1' Kickoff! Colorado Rapids 2 hosting MNUFC2 in the MLS NEXT Pro Western Conference Final. R2 lineup is chalk, great to see Sydney Wathuta starting! Come on Rapidos! 0-0 | #Rapids96

How Colorado Rapids 2 flipped the script against Minnesota to make the MLS NEXT Pro Cup Final in the most cathartic way possible: burgundywave.com/2025/11/02/c...

DOGSO in Columbus with the Crew already up 1. And they hit the free kick. Woo!

A Year Below Expectation HTHL's year end review of what went wrong for the Colorado Rapids in 2025. @rapids96podcast.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/holdingt...