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The Dutch are about to do their best doorbolt impression.

I only watch soccer every 4 years but I’m pretty sure you aren’t supposed to allow those guys to run free into the box. Gregg: “we’re too smart to do smart things.”

Your wife did it right: stick with the raw bar or fried seafood at the Old Ebbitt.

East Coast Checking in. Up a zero dark thirty to get in a workout before I pick up the tree and we do this thing. LETS FUCKING GO!!

York forever.

I don’t know fuck about the actual law, but gotdamn, I wish I could be this mouthy in a letter to the Hill.

You need to diversify your bonds… —Wu-Tang Financial

LFG.

Some asshat in my office actually scheduled a Zoom for 2 pm today. Good luck getting anyone's camera on during that.

My version is: You are a sentient sack of meat on a speck of dust hurtling through an infinite void. Your specific life is the result of random biological chance, and from a universal time perspective, is so short that it doesn’t really merit relative measurement. Try to enjoy your time here.

In general, I find that anyone who espouses Rand after the age of 20 to be both intellectually and morally weak.

As somebody who froze my ass off watching the Chaps lose to Wilmer Hutchins in 90, I celebrate your entire catalogue. It’s been wonderful to savor this run, even from afar.

Four Days in October, because I watched it all live originally. Bo Knows

It’s weird, when I did my West Texas/Big Bend road trip, I rented a Camry with auto assist options, and I thought that was perfect for long drives: Lane straightening, adaptive cruise control, etc. It made driving much less stressful, and it was all very well integrated.

Your standard cop outside the facilities is just trying to get through this event without doing something to get his family beheaded. Qatar isn’t Iran where the security forces run the country. I’m sure FIFA is being leaned on by the leadership to comply. Why else would said notorious whores fuck over InBev, Giant booze conglomerate who has no problem doing that filthy thing you like if you will accommodate their sales and advertising?

I think that’s an accurate description. And it’s not Qatar losing FIFA money, it’s the other way: if FIFA wants their final payments, they’ll do what the Qataris want. And like a French whore, there’s nothing FIFA won’t do for money.

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Apologies for being a bit rude. Im not arguing the nutritional benefits for lower socioeconomic groups, and I freely acknowledge that traditional Asian food production and rice based diets have well researched nutritional deficiencies. But in my travels in Asia, well heeled Asians need to be just as concerned about diabetes and obesity as low caloric and vitamin uptake.

This point about the quaint American notion of scholar athletes is so spot on. Even with baseball and basketball, which have post HS amatuer drafts, we still make the player at least go through the motion of going to school, even if they learn very little. Soccer does not. There's no learning going on in those academies outside of soccer. I think most American's can not wrap their minds about how graft ridden, results oriented, and money driven international soccer is. We tend to view it through our lightly corrupt professional sports ("Oh, those Astros. Naughty, Naughty!!" No Coaches Challenges in the last two minutes!!! RIGGED!!). FIFA is just a different world. The players are used up and tossed out at a young age, bought and sold like property until they become truly international stars. And soccer oriented nations throw entire armies of young athletes into this system. The best analogy I can give is the Chinese and gymnastics. Basically, can you read and do basic addition and subtraction? You've had enough school. Go play soccer. If you fail, hit the fucking bricks.

Tell me you haven’t walked through the Seoul or Hong Kong airport without telling me you haven’t walked through those airports. Rich East Asian travelers are fat as fuck. Like American Midwest Fat. Soccer is a niche sport for wealthy mostly white suburbanites in this country. I live in Prince George’s County, MD. It’s majority minority. Kevin Durant is from Hyattsville. The DeMatha football and basketball machine is 10 minutes from my house. This county produces an incredible array of athletes, and it’s not poor. But soccer is barely an after thought. The quality of the fields is appalling. The coaches are just dads. There’s barely a travel team infrastructure. But you go to Howard or Montgomery counties, and it’s soccer complex after soccer complex. The talent pool we mostly mine is about a dozen wealthy white communities. We might have 300 million people, but the nation that actually plays soccer past 5th grade is tiny.

Isn’t that literally everyone in the industry? Toss in a few former bottle service girls/failed models who aged out of the game and chose real estate over only fans/stripping just to complete the trope.