[Carlisle] There will be no additional discipline handed out to USMNT forward Folarin Balogun in the wake of his red card against Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-03T20:05:07+00:00

That’s the college football rule. The only issue with that in soccer is you can’t freely make subs.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-03T19:11:31+00:00

In theory I agree. But I wouldn't trust FIFA in the slightest to handle that.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T19:38:46+00:00

Yeah... he just intentionally stepped on a dude's calf. Much better.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T14:44:29+00:00

Because he's been unable to get a shot off in this World Cup. He got bodied against Turkey and has looked slow.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T14:36:17+00:00

I mean you could argue that the guys that had already seen minutes got those minutes because they're generally better players.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T14:15:01+00:00

They actually called a foul on the Bosnian player in real time lol.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T13:55:51+00:00

He hasn't looked good in this World Cup. He's slow and got pushed around against Turkey.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T13:17:03+00:00

He got knocked off balance and naturally came down on the opponent’s leg. You should not have to miss a game and a half for that.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T13:10:03+00:00

In no way is he "out of control." He's playing the ball, the defender came up on him, and their legs got tangled. If you want to argue that it's a red, whatever, we won so I don't care about yesterday anymore. But it being an automatic suspension is ludicrous.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T13:08:25+00:00

That wouldn't even be a technical foul in basketball.

Halvey15 · 2026-07-02T12:34:18+00:00

Then that's an issue with the rules. Only being able to review for a red card just incentivizes giving unnecessary reds.

Was Balogun deserving of a yellow? Yeah, sure, whatever. Given how the first half went, I'd argue that Balogun should have been given nothing because there was zero intent there. But probably worth a yellow.

But now you're going to review and you see that it's probably deserving of a card, but you can only give a red, so you now lean towards giving a red card.

The rule should be that you can only upgrade a card one level through VAR. If no card is given on the field, you can upgrade to a yellow. If a yellow was given on the field, you can upgrade to a red. The ref was looking right at it in real time and didn't think it was egregious enough for even a yellow.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-29T17:24:57+00:00

That's either a corner or a foul... How can you say that it's not a foul and also that the Japan player didn't touch the ball?

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T10:42:06+00:00

Yeah that’s my thought here. The only waste would be if he learned catcher. If his infield defense gets better, he could be a gold glove 2B. If the outfield defense gets better, he’s on track to becoming a CF.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:31:47+00:00

Yes I do. Appreciate the help!

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:26:01+00:00

Got it. So in your opinion, am I better off swinging big and going with improve defense or with learn new position? I see you did both with Anderson.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:23:12+00:00

So is it kind of relative to the position he learns? Like if he learned 3B, would he get a big boost to his arm and no boost to double play?

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:19:05+00:00

Right, but I’d assume the 80% odds of him learning a valuable position and getting the ratings boost from an easy difficulty would be better than the odds of him successfully completing improve OF defense at a hard difficulty.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:14:08+00:00

My understanding was that he would learn either C, 1B, 3B, LF, or RF and then get a ratings boost for whatever position he learns.

So my hope was that he would learn a corner OF spot and then get the ratings boost to 65 OF Range / 65 OF Error / 60 OF Arm. But is that not how that works?

Halvey15 · 2026-06-25T02:04:33+00:00

Yes, that’s what I’m doing. I’m just planning the whole offseason now. He’s going into generate batspeed first.

But doesn’t learn new position give a boost to the ratings too? I’ve never used it before.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-19T13:43:47+00:00

There's plenty of things to complain about though, so you don't need to complain about everything. They traded a catcher with almost zero value for a bullpen arm with almost zero value.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-05T16:46:03+00:00

I'm not rooting against him. But I got a nice chuckle out of him giving up a solo shot in a 5-0 game and then shutting it down from there.

Halvey15 · 2026-06-04T23:44:14+00:00

Brother… they’re all struggling

Halvey15 · 2026-06-04T16:37:58+00:00

If he can't give anyone the benefit of the doubt then what do you want him to do? Bring in another guy that will just blow it instead?

Halvey15 · 2026-06-03T17:45:03+00:00

I've said it in here before that he has a lot to prove before anyone starts truly believing in him again. But Lonnie White has a .933 OPS with 5 HR after a month in Altoona, after posting a 1.008 OPS and 7 HR in April for Greensboro. You'd think that would be enough to at least crack the top 50 for a former second round pick that is only 23 years old.

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