Jeremiah Oshan
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I write and talk about the Sounders on @sounderatheart.com.
My understanding is that majority owner Adrian Hanauer will assume Weber’s responsibilities. Unclear if he’s ultimately planning to replace him with a team-president level hire.
Jeremiah Oshan@jeremiah.sounderatheart.com · 1h agoShit is about to get really interesting… www.sportico.com/personalitie...
Found someone who couldn’t handle the heat.
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Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 1h ago
Some have wondered if Larry Berg's LAFC ownership means he leans aggressively toward spending. Wrong way to look at it. What matters more is his approach to consensus building and decision making. Having MLS ready for summer 2027 is his first huge test. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
With new commissioner in place, MLS has one opportunity it cannot afford to miss
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Now he just needs to award 210 more World Cup finals to the other member countries and our boy Gianni's back in business
George Pearkes@peark.es · 5h agooh it's getting real *INFANTINO OFFERS MOROCCO WORLD CUP FINAL FOR SUPPORT: TIMES
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
Looks like Charlie gaffney may have been added to Leagues Cup roster. Love that for him.
Sounders FC@soundersfc.com · 18h agoMatchday -1 in Toluca 🫡
The horrendously corrupt head of FIFA that constantly pushes the boundaries of what’s acceptable and steamrolls everyone that doesn’t enthusiastically support him overplays his hand and gets vaporized by swift, relentless feedback. I wonder if there are any lessons here we could apply elsewhere.
It started on Substack. Now, @mattbrown.bsky.social's Extra Points is a niche digital publication that focuses on the economics of college sports. Getting here required switching to a platform that could grow and develop audience, while cutting costs. For Extra Points, Beehiiv was the right move.
To grow beyond a newsletter, switching to Beehiiv ‘was the right move’ for Extra Points
After getting started on Substack, learn why sports journalist Matt Brown moved his niche digital publication Extra Points to Beehiiv.
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A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Former Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, who lost her reelection bid by 34 points last year, absurdly calls for a recall of Mayor Katie Wilson
Not just in their MlS history … according to @frankmsounders.bsky.social they had never lost six straight in regulation going back to 1974.
Charles Boehm ⚽️@cboehm.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Seattle Sounders have lost 6 straight matches for the first time in their MLS existence, they seem to pick up another set of injuries every single game and next they have to play 3 Liga MX teams in 8 days, starting with North American champions Toluca @ 8,760 ft above sea level on Wednesday. 😬
It couldn't be clearer what's happening with local legacy media trashing Mayor Wilson: the reactionary centrist majority is about to melt away & they're trying to bake in a narrative that she has fucked up in some catastrophic--but also indefinable--way, to hamstring the coming progressive majority
The fact they're going full ragemonkey the week after the council majority just got their asses handed to them by Wilson on universal school meals is pretty telling. Tilting the scales, concocting a mirage of outraged consensus abt an absentee police chief who ran his dept like an honorary sinecure
NEW AUGUST EXTRA LIFE INCENTIVE: @kevinnewburn.bsky.social completed/donated the OG idea for the @sounderatheart.com mag cover art - Ghost Rider Andrew Thomas. This will be a "buy it now" incentive for 1 week (8/1-8/8), every $10 donated = 1 SuperMegaRaffle entry! MORE INFO: bit.ly/extralife-lp...
Danny Westneat joins the Seattle Times in full scale war against Mayor Katie Wilson, which is no surprise but another example of the Brandi Kruse-ification of local establishment media. They've gone from providing independent reporting and analysis to using their perches for a partisan agenda.
Seattle City Hall rarely runs smoothly. This week it hit new lows
The spectacle of the neophyte mayor and the frequent flyer police chief, both failing at their jobs when they were needed most, is not going to pass lightly.
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That is, uh, not great
Niko Moreno @elrolonw.bsky.social · 5d agoMore bad news for the #Sounders on the injury front: Yeimar Gómez Andrade could be out 4-6 weeks with a calf injury per Brian Schmetzer and Hassani Dotson picked up a hamstring injury that is still being assessed. Jordan Morris & Cristian Roldan still at least 3-4 weeks out.
We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
No juice council member wants you to know she thinks the police chief should show up to work but not all the time.
Chris Daniels@chrisdaniels.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW INTERVIEW: Seattle Councilmember Debora Juarez, a former Council President, slams Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, says she has lack of confidence in Mayor, questions why she would remove Chief during active Seattle Center murder investigation @komonews youtu.be/B7vmXiz6EDc?...
While an anti-trans rally outside barely drew a crowd, fans inside Climate Pledge Arena loudly rejected Sophie Cunningham’s hateful rhetoric. Seattle Storm Center Stefanie Dolson made it clear: Trans rights are human rights.
Anti-trans rally flops as Seattle Storm player wears ‘trans rights are human rights’ shirt
On Tuesday night, the Seattle Storm posted photos to Instagram showing Dolson wearing a “TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.”
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They dumb www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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So my kids and I tried to do the official World Cup Sticker Book, and I've got a bunch of duplicate player stickers. 1) Do any of you guys have interest in any of these? 2) If not, is eBay the move, or should I list them somewhere else? I don't really want to throw them out.
(man getting an 8-figure/year sinecure for life due to immense corruption, which will never be punished or reduced in any way if he just doesn't mess with it) Man I really gotta turn this corruption up to 11 l, because that won't backfire at all
Yes, it's renewal time. So why not wind the clock back to the pre-renewal days, when nascent Sounders fans were first-time season ticket shoppers. Why, Marty McFly could've taken his DeLorean back to '74 and bought out a whole section. #TBT
