The World Cup is about two things: Secondarily (a quite distant 2nd), it’s about watching men with incredible skill use said skill to control a ball into an opponent’s goal. Mostly, however, it’s about paying very, very, very close attention to where dudes are standing. That’s most of it.
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Pragmatic Idealist. Chances are I’m just as wrong as you are, and you’re more wrong than you’ll ever accept.
World: Soccer popularity is at an all-time high in the US. This tournament has them craving more! FIFA: Sorry. We can fix that real quick.
That was just further evidence that most offsides is generally fucking stupid. There’s preventing cherry-picking, and then there’s just the ball LITERALLY BOUNCING AROUND OFF OPPONENTS IN THE BOX. HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S STUPID.
The Padres are one of the worst teams in baseball. If one could make money feeling smug, Mike Shildt would be getting so rich.
Once there was this guy named Howard Dean who was instantly adjudicated unfit for the presidency because he yelled, “Yeah!” kinda weird. I’m literally talking about the exact same “office of the president” that exists today. Not a different country or anything.
More back-to-back games where the $ I paid @mlb & @padres goes down the drain. Hope some more MLB apologists think I’m irritated because I don’t know how broadcast rights work, and not because ripping people off is a FUCKING STUPID WAY TO DO BUSINESS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR FANS #cancelthe27season
Third straight day the @padres are blacked out on the @mlb plan I bought so I could watch their games. The league-destroying lockout/strike cannot come soon enough. With any luck, the whole thing will collapse and we can start again without the bull$#it.
Really, it nice to think about how ridiculously good the Padres record is when you also think about how they have to run Wandy Peralta out there.
I’m pretending it’s the *other* José Feliciano that just bought the Padres, and I’m never going to get tired of this bit.
There should be an MLB rule addendum for ABS… if you challenge a strike and it’s not even close to the edge, like 3” or more from any edge, you lose your next game’s challenges.
Wave going on behind the plate at Petco as the Padres’ Adam is PITCHING is infuriating. Embarrassing fanbase.
Mullin’s plant food ended up 3 feet from where he planted it when he was trapped. 🤣 Refs not great. Illinois worse. Only needed to make layups to win by 20. UConn going to the final.
I can only assume these atrocious calls favoring UCF are because the refs hate Mick Cronin as much as the rest of us.
Really wanted Tatís vs Miller at the end, but watching people pretend the Dominican “deserved” to win because of a bad call to end the game is also entertaining, I guess.
Just leaving Boyd out there. Didn’t realize DeRosa was Mexican. 🤔
The WBC isn’t the MLB, right? They don’t have to parrot the bullsh!t talking point that even though the Pirates literally make a fraction of the money large market teams make, they should just spend the same, right? ONLY the billionaires in large markets should get to do it for profit!
Ref show at New Mexico. 🙄 Lobos lose control to out of bounds? Lobos ball. Two players get hands on a jump ball? Aztecs foul. I know the New Pac12 is just the “MWC Plus,” but the fuck the former Mountain West forever. Good riddance.
20 min into 1st 2026 SDFC game, and it’s 20 min more than I watched all last year. Kudos to Apple and MLS for figuring out what MLB can’t: make it easy to watch and people will. And people watching might become invested.
Me: “They don’t have the votes against Rob. He already won the battle against Natalie. They should just vote her out to confirm it’s Rob, and take him out at the fire.” Tara: “I’m confused and…” Natalie: *immediately goes full psycho* Tara: “Okay, not confused anymore.” #TheTraitorsUS
Florida Gators should get Olivier Rioux some minutes while A&M is still playing hard. Let him get a taste of non-mop up duty.
I literally have been team stop bullying that man and I'm still ten toes down there
You just know that any person who would back Dorinda over Ron Funches is a shitty fucking human, guaranteed.
Been a fan of @ronfunches.bsky.social since the OG @midnight. Love that he was true to himself and was the *actual* best looking, dopest, faithfulest faithful to the last. 🍻👑
Refs hand GCU a win and these FS1 dipshits just talking to Williams like he did something. What a scam.
The only thing I hate more than everything Kalshi represents is their commercials.
Lot of people blaming the refs for defensive backs not playing the ball and then tackling dudes before the ball even arrives. Wild. Josh Allen missing Kincaid to win in regulation or throwing 4 picks also the referees’ fault.
🕯️ 🕯 pls 🕯 🕯 Salem 🕯 witches 🕯 protect the only 🕯 real one on Traitors: 🕯 Ron 🕯 🕯️ Funches🕯 🕯
Just imagining the manufactured outrage if a G5 team was involved in the end of a game that stupid.