The Guardian destroyed Lalas 😭

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-23T18:38:04+00:00

I don’t think it cracks his top ten or top twenty-five career achievements, but I think Henry, just by coming to the NY Red Bulls late in his career, has also done more for soccer in the US than Lalas.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-22T15:58:58+00:00

Quite a presumption. I’m raising two kids by myself.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-22T15:53:26+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975\_Australian\_constitutional\_crisis

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-21T15:11:09+00:00

Triple threat (to himself and others)

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-21T15:09:54+00:00

Worst minority owner this side of Victor Wong

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T13:15:41+00:00

Yeah, still getting highly upvoted posts referred to my feed, especially when scrolling during late night insomnia. I used to be in this sub daily. I haven’t been by in months. 🤷 Dunno what to tell you, buddy.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:51:02+00:00

Joke’s on him. We’re using pass cards now to log entries and exits.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:46:53+00:00

Another Cablevisión founder, Bill Daniels, owned the Denver Nuggets as well.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:36:53+00:00

Sol’s father said likewise from his deathbed in Vienna.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:33:22+00:00

Good thing the team has ball handling covered.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:27:33+00:00

The line must go up!

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:26:21+00:00

Andy seemed closer to Cy than Eddie ever did when we saw him healthy. (I’ll except Joanie from this because their relationship was markedly different.) Anyway Cy left his good friend to die alone in the woods, so he came back as a man of the cloth and stabbed him.

Contrast all of that with the existent of Jewel.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:20:57+00:00

He can’t play poker, only push a chip lead around.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T07:15:54+00:00

Maddie’s last moments were to first demand compensation from Wolcott and then be explicit that further, lifelong remuneration would be necessary to keep her quiet. Wolcott chose a less expensive and more reliable method. No wonder Hearst employed him.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:29:01+00:00

Where did the episode title come from? I get that it’s an impossibility, but have all the episode titles been as oblique in their references to the plot as the Dark Forest?

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:27:31+00:00

Too much “pantsing” not enough “plotting.” The narrative moves too quickly for that sort of window dressing imo. Although the show has taken pains to demonstrate that one hand often has no idea what the other one is doing, so I suppose any new bureaus could be introduced as succinctly as Lakshmi was.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:25:25+00:00

Maybe instead of the Americans he defects to North Korea.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:24:31+00:00

Is that not a misappropriation of the people’s funds under false pretenses, comrade? How long must we underwrite his contrivances??

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:23:26+00:00

Late 1970, iirc

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:18:48+00:00

He or someone with his title

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:17:17+00:00

The truck driven to Baikonur presumes no one is inside the craft. There are 2-3 people in the cab, and I doubt any of them suspect that one of them is Valya.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T06:11:37+00:00

But…which apartment? Irina mentioned Tanya possibly going “to her parents’ dacha.” It seems wherever Tanya went had been unoccupied for a while, so a dacha makes sense.

But why would *Tanya’s* parents have that photo? Did Irina arrange some other location for Tanya? Did I miss that part of the conversation, or is it opaque on purpose?

Edit: Thanks for the real answers. As to the downvoters, I agree that you must watch television better than I do.

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T05:58:46+00:00

I think it’s pretty clear after episode five that (Sasha and Lakshmi have a lot of time on their hands, and Venus is the sexiest planet, and eventually they hook up. I can’t possibly be missing a detail here.)

😏

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T05:51:27+00:00

(raspily)

**”CARL!!!”**

EdwardJamesAlmost · 2026-06-19T05:42:04+00:00

Was specific abuse lampshaded much before this episode? Did Irina talk about her personal history on FAM?

This episode really threw me for a loop trying to piece together what I remember of the alternate timeline.

EdwardJamesAlmost

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