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  1. Super last minute but I’m giving away my 2 tix that I bought a million years ago to Youth Lagoon at Antones tonight forgetting that my wife would be out of town this weekend and now I gotta be on full dad duty 😭

     

    should be an amazing show for all you anti-Wilco dads out there. Was really looking forward to it, his new album kicks ass.

     

    anyway, LMK and I’ll transfer em to you FREE FREE FREE

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  2. Finally getting to listen to the new album and holy shit it’s GASSSSSSS. Maybe the best since Trouble. Smoke Detector as the closer … damn they sound like Joy Division. Very very good.

  3. Oh also wanted to add that Cincinnati is a pretty cool place if you like that Midwest steel town aesthetic and culture, which I do. Seemed very Austin-y but with like 500,000 fewer people. The ease of moving through the city was awesome on such a busy weekend with Oktoberfest, FC Cincinnati, Homecoming, the Bengals, and it being a 70 degree weekend all going on. Unfortunately it’s in Ohio 🤷🏽‍♂️

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    Went to Homecoming this weekend in Cincy. The National played 5 hours of music over two nights including front to back nights of: Night 1) High Violet and N2) Trouble Will Find Me. Some glorious shit. Bonus: reunion sets by The Walkmen and possibly the final show by Pavement? It was their last show in the reunion tour at least.

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    Went to a fan meet up at Rhinegeist night before the fest and Scott Devendorf ended up showing up near the end of the night and handed out several cards for redemption the next day … I thought it’d be a print or something. But instead it was …
     

    A signed copy of their, at the time, unreleased surprise album Laugh Track. It’s out now on Spotify as if this morning and it’s pretty great. 
     

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  5. Grabbed 3 in what we know as the supporters section, row 4, for $100 ea including fees and taxes. Not terrible, but $30/per ticket in fees is assault and I should call the cops.

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  6. I think i heard somewhere, maybe Sirius FC, that they predict IM needs 23 points out of a possible 33 points (11 games) to make the playoffs. With fatigue being a factor (5 matches in the last 18 days, ), i think they'll fall short.  

    Then again, I've counted MIA with Messi out before to my peril.

  7. i really like Cremaschi, I know he's been called for youth duty for ARG but I wonder if he has any interest with the Nats.

     

    Ah, i see he's been called by both

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    International career[edit]

    Born in the United States, Cremaschi is of Argentine descent and is thus eligible to represent either country.[5] He was called up to the United States under-19s for their winning campaign at the Slovenia Nations Cup in September 2022.[6] He was called up to a training camp for the United States under-20s in October 2022 to prepare for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[7] On December 7, 2022, he was called up to the Argentina under-20s for a training camp in anticipation of the 2023 South American U-20 Championship.[8]

     

  8. this is on quality ass mf'in game. if MLS can elevate to this type of play on the regular, this league would be amazing, even for a selling/retirement league.

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  9. 11 hours ago, ztejas said:

     

    (Oh and keep Wolff - he knows what he's doing. Just get him a better team ffs)

    You CANNOT be serious. This clown had us playing a high backline with THREE defenders and all STL had to do was send a long ball 40 yards in the air like some 1990s scottish premier league team and have all three of their forwards run under it while cascante backpedals like an 85 year old man into his own net. Wolff got absolutely outclassed this game. STL high pressed us all game, took out our shitty midfield and then turn around and broke our lines like we were a squad of 6 year olds. Wolff set us up without a link up strategy KNOWING thats how STL plays. We started having stu STOP playing out of the back and just launching it 40 yards up the pitch ourselves, but stuver sucks ass with his feet so those either went out of bounds or again, past our missing MF. Wolff absolutely sucks and wouldn't last a minute if Rodo actually came from Manchester with his ball intact. Plus, he's the dipshit that signed all these spares. Fuck Wolff.

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  10. 1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

     

    That pay-to-play system limits the player pool through pure economics. It also has another downside: it elevates near-term success as a goal because parents (not other clubs) are the consumers. Even parents who truly value development want to see their kids play for a winning team (or mistake winning at the youth level for development). I’ve been there and I have to remind myself to separate the two issues. 

    Changing to the European model would require a massive cultural shift that is incompatible with the structure of American pro and collegiate sports league. We do not have the kind of open club system necessary to foster pervasive local academies. And even if we did, soccer just isn’t popular enough at the spectator level to support local minor clubs and academies of the European mold. That is especially true on the women’s side, unfortunately. 

    So I agree with alincoln. Our academies aren’t the solution. We need to find a way to incentivize local youth clubs to identify and develop talent above all else. But that’s easier said than done.

    I definitely care more about development then winning, but the clubs care primarily about winning bc thats how they keep their ECNL status. Lose too much and you get your credentials pulled. The club at my sons age has earned two ECNL teams, but they were worried about splitting the talent too much between north and south teams, so they shifted to one great and one really good team and practice in three locations per week. So, the American "winning culture" model is definitely encouraged by US Soccer and ECNL. MLS next might be a different story. I suspect it is because they are directly affiliated with a parent club. But talk about burn-out city with MLS next.

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  11. 15 hours ago, alincoln said:

    The reaction to this exit is hilariously overblown.  We got knocked out by a team we dominated that is now in the semis because almost our entire team was injured or returning from injury and an extremely weak coach.  Without injuries and with a real coach, our forwards would have consisted of Swanson (starting LW), Macario (starting 9/RW), Smith (starting 9/RW), Hatch, Rodman, Press and MAYBE Morgan.  Our MF would have consisted of Ertz, Lavelle, Sam Mewis and Horan and we would have played Sauerbrunn, Girma, Dunn and Fox in the back (our defense was actually statistically dominant).  There are plenty of other players in the pool that are young and highly skilled that dumbass Vlatko didn't bring in because he is too weak to move past the old guard who actually control the team (a HUGE issue the media is too weak to address). 

    The old guard were crucial parts of arguably the greatest women's team of all time but their primary concern is staying on the USWNT gravy train as opposed to the best interests of the team.  Rapinoe shouldn't have been anywhere near this team much less actually playing and everyone knew it . . .  Vlatko, her, the entire USWNT organization . . . but only she could remove herself from the team and she wasn't going to miss out on that sweet WC-related cash.  Her greed should tarnish her legacy a bit.

    The US development system will put us at a competitive disadvantage going forward but that was not the issue in this world cup.  England's bright young attacking talent (Alessia Russo) was developed at UNC in the US system.  That said, the European club system is going to get better and better while we are going to continue to rely on a MLS-lite academy system and the ECNL/Division 1 college development system.  Our elite players need to move to Europe and I expect that they will as the money gets better and better.  I'm not that concerned though because, unlike men, many of the best female athletes in the US play soccer and the coaching and development at the top 100 ECNL clubs in the country is good to elite.  Go watch Solar's U-12 team if you think we have weak coaching/tactics at the elite club level.  It's also ridiculously competitive with the best players/teams in the country regularly playing against the best.  The weakest players on the top teams are also getting weeded out annually at young ages.  If your daughter is an ELITE player in almost any city in the country, an ECNL club will almost definitely find you and try to make it work for you to play on their ECNL team.  That's reality. The media loves to claim that elite club soccer is an entirely white upper class environment which is inaccurate.  Here is a picture of the Solar (DFW's best ECNL program) U-16 2023 ECNL national champions:

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    This team is no exception.  There is a ridiculous amount of talent in the US women's game and the future is extremely bright if USSF gets its head out of its ass which is admittedly unlikely because it is primarily a political organization driven more by the greed of certain of its stakeholders that the best interests of US Soccer.

    Damn, Solar carries 19 girls (and two keepers) on their top team? That's crazy for playing time purposes, but maybe they've got something right because the training is where all the development is at anyway. 100% of those girls will at least play college even if they get Pulisic minutes for Solar U12. My son plays on the top ECNL team for his age for LSC (they went away from N/S teams to Red/Black) but I'm slightly concerned he won't be able to keep up the rigor before he gets to make a choice on his future with the sport. The women's developmental teams are still in good hands, IMO, even after the GA went away. American academies are really good for the women's game, better than the mens IMO.

  12. how do you not plop down the six bucks a month for peacock? Yeah, its a terrible interface and they need to also stream games that are live on network TV and they need a better toggling option between games, BUT ITS SIX BUCKS FOR THE PREM! 

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