Craig Stammen looks like a 6th grade camp counselor when he addresses the team in the locker room. I bet he’s got an acoustic guitar he’s itching to break out

The World Cup is long enough that you start to build routines around watching games. It’s like being on a long vacation. The longer the vacation the easier it gets to see yourself doing something else for the rest of your life

If you turn your tv 90° all of those French fans become Paraguayan

Wayne Gretzky looks like Madonna

It’s healthy to remind oneself the players are the ones embarrassing themselves out there, I’m just an observer

Maybe this is a completely obvious take to avid soccer fans but the biggest difference in my mind between US soccer and the really good teams is the ball handling. The first touch and the passing is so crisp amongst the top teams and their decision making is much quicker. US has a long way to go

It is hilarious that the talk in the first 58 minutes of the game was all about Argentina being a master at knowing how to do just enough to win but not too much so that they preserve themselves for the later rounds

The plums have taken a beating in this World Cup

Oof

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Drove through PB this afternoon and it is already total chaos. I like seeing all of the people flood to the beach on holidays. It reminds me why I live here. Vacationers special trip to the beach on 4th of July weekend is any random day of the week for San Diegans minus the crowds.

Watching the stock market climb simply because the rule makers are no longer enforcing the rules highlights the value of exploitation. Having a president who does not care is worth trillions in speculation but without trillions in profit backing it once he goes away it all falls apart spectacularly

Roki gonna be in tears again

Bruh

Good sports day. England won, the US won and the Padres set a new franchise record

BIH has gotten as much help as humanly possible from the refs. All that is missing is a gifted pk

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Hittin’ swićs for the bićs

The law being applied arbitrarily is as American as it gets

BIH got the mayor of Gas Town, the People Eater, on their sideline.

Keeping score is just another example of stats getting in the way of real baseball. Too many stats, people

If there ever were a tone of voice that represents a wanking motion it would be the tone of voice Jesse Agler used to call the seventh inning defensive changes for the Padres

Cynicism rewarded

74 wins

The collective exhale could push sailboats all the way across the Atlantic

Oof

Congo’s kit is worth one goal on its own

Listen to that stadium, holy shit

Steve Finley “Long career” *wink

I think we know where this one is headed

France is so hot right now

France should try kicking the ball between the goalposts

That was a great camera angle in the live shot for that goal.

Oh, you got both arms up. You had me worried there for a second, Norway

I like the font on Norway’s kit. It screams Scandinavia

lol

Morejon’s been a Padre for three decades. Most people don’t know this

The USAA slogan “We take care of our own” hits differently these days

Cutoffs and relays at 3pm

I would say missing the goal completely is an abject failure. No heroes, only goats

This is good drama

Are goalies more of a hero for saving a PK or is the kicker more of a goat for missing the PK?

The Buster Posey rule except soccer

I wonder how many of the tickets sold for this series were season tickets. The Padres know a lot of st holders sell their dogers series tickets above face value. If the team limits the number of partial STs for this series the team can pocket that markup themselves. I wouldn’t put it past them

Jackson Merrill is completely lost at the plate

A reminder to clean the vent hood in your kitchen. Yikes

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The beginning of The Defector podcast this week they talk about podcasts pivoting to video and how hard it is to market things now that everything runs on “the algorithm.” All of it is incredibly sad, depressing, disorientating…I don’t know what the right word for it is but it fucking sucks ass

30 years for possessing a pamphlet. If you’re going to get life for robbing the bank then everyone in the bank becomes expendable