A-Tex Devil

What's up with the Orcas in the Gibraltar Strait and Portugal coast? They are like the Hells' Angels of the open seas. I saw the short documentary of them wilding on great white sharks, which was cool, but they seem to be stepping up now.

Well, Booker and Fox were bagged on as good stats bad team guys until they weren’t. I am not saying Green is either, but he has that potential. Or he is a worse Bradley Beal or better Jerami Grant. We just don’t know yet. (Ignore positions…. You get my point). I like adding Harden if it’s 3 years or less which he probably won’t do, and Lopez, too. I am meh on FVV but I am sure he’d add value. Thoughts on Middleton? Or I guess he is redundant. All that said, with the way the draft came out for us and the Brooklyn picks, we ought to also be in the business of any star demanding a trade in the next year or so with no one (yet) being untouchable.

We could have had 6 last night. What was our xG?

It’s a really interesting pro forma thought process. There are definitely large swaths of Republicans that won’t vote for Trump but would vote for anyone else with an R by their name. But there are also a ton of Trump supporters that were election no shows before Trump was the nominee that might go back to their holler and sit it out if he isn’t the nominee in 2024. I don’t know which group is bigger.

Yes. Has someone asked Trump yet if he understands that he only gets one term if he wins? Because (1) I am not sure he knows that, and (2) I think he would stammer as badly as he did in that Baier interview when the simple answer is “Of course.”

As far as getting rid of lifetime appointments, good luck getting an amendment to Article III passed..... I've never been fully down with the interpretation of "hold their office in good behavior" as granting lifetime tenure, but whatever. 236 years of interpreting that way is what it is.

What did he do?

Someone who knows way more about soccer than me said it was less about moving away from GB’s system and much more about putting people in the right position. The 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 aren’t that different and technically we were probably something more like 4-2-1-2-1. But it’s all fluid. The key is having the right people on the wings and in the center. Pulisic is a legend for us already, but plays best on the left. Weah needs to start. Gio should never come off the field when healthy and it’s a close game. Gregg could never figure it out because he didn’t know how to manage egos. And setting aside Gio’s tantrum, which is on him and he needs to learn from it, it has become apparent that GB was just plain wrong deciding Gio should come off the bench in November. So GB outsmarting himself tactically led to a crisis we didn’t need to have. Going forward, breaking up MMA is going to take some experienced ego management that I am not sure he has the stomach/intuition to handle correctly. We shall see.

Prior three posts all explain why this hire was indefensible 6 months in. You want to do it in February after Reyna stuff cooled down? Id bedisappointed but can live with it. Rehiring him now now is just dumb. Yeah some players are backing him but they were clearly ok moving on as well, or there would have been more of a groundswell immediately after the Reyna fiasco. We are stuck with, now, though. Maybe Gregg grows from this and he doesn’t get in the way over the next cycle. Beat Canada.

Loch Henry didn’t seem like. Slack Mirror but I liked it. Joan is Awful was classic Black Mirror. Awesome. Did not like Beyond the Sea. I don’t like most of the humorless episodes.

This. If Gio isn’t in the middle behind our 9 we are limiting this team. The only excuse, and it’s still a bad one because it’s still on the coach, is if the rest of the team hates Gio It’s been said multiple times, but seeing Weah and Balogun on right in a two man game with Pulisic free on left and Gio running the show is the best version of this team. By far. I get that it was just one game against a shitty Mexico team but it still wasn’t Grenada and it should have been 5-0. Put Adams back there destroying shit like he did for Leeds, with McKennie, Aaronson, and De La Torre (who I really like) off the bench in MF and we are super deep. If Pepe can become dangerous as well and not follow the Altidore path as most of our strikers seem to do and wow In next 3 years one or two of that ideal starting 11 will fall out of form/be hurt enough to not be playable. But then there are guys like Tillman and the guys on the under 20 team that will play themselves into spots. It’s fucking exciting, but the first time I see Gio on bench or in the right or left I’m going to know we’ve learned nothing.

I love McKennie and what he has meant but presuming Balogun is the real deal our best lineup is: Balogun Pulisic Reyna Weah Adams Musah Jedi Richards Robinson Dest Turner I will be flexible on back line if others have preferences and I really hope Scally becomes a force.

Unfortunately I think it’s fake news. One of the reporters in Mexico ran with that tweet and was flamed for reporting false info. Too bad. Imagine if TA was out there.

Starting tonight, we play our biggest rival in the final. Let’s move past El Tri. Canada is better than them now.

I pulled up ESPN here in Mexico and hit translate. It was awesome…. Some highlights: “Mexican ineffectiveness is a suicidal invitation for the adversary. And the United States wastes the 23rd. Christian Pulisic in the box, taking out his lapdog Edson Álvarez, but on the final shot, he sends it over.” “At 90 seconds into the second half, Mexico is violated again. Jesús Gallardo only sees Tim Weah's catalytic converter, who goes deep, after a play orchestrated from his field. Pulisic appears again in the center, with guards that are more distracted, coarser, more goofy and slow in head and foot. 2-0.” ”Mexico remained in the same line of shipwreck. The players tried to do individual feats, but without being trained for it. The United States felt more comfortable than ever in history against a Mexican team, to the point that they even seemed to feel sorry for them.”

That’s tongue and cheek partly because I love that gif. But I have no confidence Greg isn’t going to outsmart himself. Pepi isn’t a fan either. It’s such a tone deaf move by the Federation.

So hopefully Ferreira never gets meaningful USMNT time again tho, right?

Would be funny if Mexico can’t play in 2026 World Cup.

Dest got a red?

Aaronson’s a tough dude. Didn’t expect that out of him.

That has to be a card on 18

Putting Aaronson out there is likely to draw another red. He’s one to annoy the fuck out of someone.

Did El Puto just come out there?

Dest, tho