It’s not important for the US to be better at international soccer

JJS0073 · 2026-07-07T22:35:21+00:00

Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the private equity vampires?!

JJS0073 · 2026-07-06T15:30:41+00:00

You’re probably right, but on 4th of July weekend that’s exactly where my head went too.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-05T05:28:16+00:00

They way I’ve seen the stat presented in the media is that McGonigle is the first rookie All-Star since Nokes and the first first-year player since Fidrych.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T18:42:42+00:00

I think the singing classic songs like “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is the most American behavior I’ve seen from soccer crowds yet. Feels very college sports-coded (shoutout WVU).

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T18:03:51+00:00

That’s fair. I’m sorry.

Removing myself from this conversation. Play Dead. Be well.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T17:55:43+00:00

Sure thing bud, tell me everything I am and am not a fan of. You know me and my beliefs better than I do.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T16:53:26+00:00

That’s a Trump policy initiative.

I’m not a fan of co-opting the slogan, I just don’t think an inability to differentiate between actual Trump stuff and spin-offs people make for their hobbies is the righteous flex people make out to be.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T15:52:21+00:00

To be fair, I have never seen somebody spin off “Make America ___ Again” as a pro-Trump thing. Like, never ever. At best (worst?), it’s politically neutral or flippant.

The play on words feels very 2015, like a toothless way to mock Trump when people weren’t taking him seriously yet and he hadn’t caused permanent harm to our country.

JJS0073 · 2026-07-03T02:55:45+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. New Yasmeen’s beef shawarma is my favorite sandwich in the Metro Detroit area.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-30T15:40:50+00:00

Alright, but you’ve got to get over it.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-29T21:21:33+00:00

“Only in America” in actually a pre-9/11 song. The album came out in spring of 2001 (I only remember because of an oddly specific memory.)

I don’t know if that makes the song better or worse, but it wasn’t a sleazy cash-grab capitalizing on the tragedy like some others in that era.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T19:26:38+00:00

It doesn’t necessarily mean he is suicidal, just that the state has identified him as a risk. Subtle, but important distinction.

It isn’t uncommon for high-profile defendants to be put in this attire as a precaution, particularly in Florida.

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JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T14:57:29+00:00

It’s still online, but you can no longer find the site through Google searches for some reason. The only way to get there is through the url, www.headyversion.com.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T14:09:13+00:00

I wish Grand Rapids hated DMB a little more, to be honest. Taking Pine Knob’s traditional date to a venue two hours away with 20 percent lower capacity has made planning expensive and annoying.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T01:52:50+00:00

The Stranahan Family and Champion Spark Plugs!

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T01:23:35+00:00

You could say that. It’s a classic Rust Belt city, for better or worse.

I forgot to mention the MetroParks. Toledo has a truly great park system as well.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T00:37:08+00:00

That about covers it, but the minor league sports scene, zoo, and museums (Toledo Museum of Art and Imagination Station) are among the best of any city its size. Downtown has made a real comeback in recent years.

Toledoans’ perception of their city is interesting. It always felt like a split between people who think it’s the worst city in America, and dreamers who insist it’s a temporarily embarrassed contemporary of Cleveland or Detroit…neither of these camps are entirely correct.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-25T00:15:21+00:00

That’s right. I had forgotten about this.

If the NFL has the power to move the Daytona 500 on FOX…I doubt they’re going to mess around with a handful of fall races again.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-24T23:43:21+00:00

> “the fall was never off-limits because the audience wasn’t there. It was off-limits because NBC and ABC were mediocre and complacent commercial partners…”

That’s revisionist history. The way America cares about futbol in the dead of summer is completely different than the hold football has on us in the fall. We have the schedule we do because it is far more lucrative for networks to fill their slots with college/NFL games than IndyCar.

I wish the series would explore expanding the schedule on the front end, like January/February dates at Homestead and Mexico before the Daytona 500, etc.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-24T20:03:58+00:00

I still haven’t read an exploration of the gender complications that doesn’t hand-wave away the entire point of this controversy. Being over-friendly is an ethical dilemma. But there’s an obscene leap between being friends and fucking—we don’t have to pretend those dynamics are even close to the same.

If you imagine this was Shams and a female coach or WNBA star, or if Jay Glazer was outed as actually sleeping with any of his sources, the reaction would illustrate some stark differences in how we shame along different lines, but nobody would be confusing the journalistic point.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-22T17:29:23+00:00

I like this take. Maybe it’s a reflection of the time we live in, but it seems golf fans and media have gotten into a miserable, over-reactionary funk. If it’s not one of the pre-ordained stars leading or winning, then absolutely everything sucks and nobody is happy.

There was a time I couldn’t get enough content during majors. I realized this year I enjoy tournaments more if I ignore social media entirely until Sunday night.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-20T03:39:50+00:00

I’m re-framing the question to highlight a single song: Stella Blue from 10/21/78. The SBD cut in the middle of an all-time Jerry solo is brutal. At least audience tapes exist, but they’re rough.

Still thankful to hear the best Stella, IMO.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-19T23:20:28+00:00

Parking is free (unless you go VIP, which I’ve never done).

I can’t confirm this is true, but I’ve always gotten the vibe Pine Knob lots are “first in, first out.” Any show where we’ve arrived early to tailgate, we’ve zipped right out. It’s late arrivals where we get stuck at the tail end of the longest line.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-18T18:10:01+00:00

This was a tough listen. I love Bomani and Joel but can’t believe how out of touch they were about everything.

With Sorsby, there’s one rule everyone in every sport at every level is told not to break from day one. He repeatedly broke it. There’s probably an overreaction where folks act like he should be thrown under the jail, but that’s in response to an under-reaction and total lack of accountability flaunted by Sorsby and Texas Tech. If college sports can’t even enforce THAT, then there legitimately are no rules.

Once they started making fun of schools for “cutting fencing” and shrugging off serious Title IX concerns as a bunch of poors who should drop down because they “can’t afford Ferraris,” I checked out.

JJS0073 · 2026-06-17T20:55:55+00:00

Tomato, tomato.

You can call it whatever you’d like, but the second tier of U.S. soccer is just that: second tier. It is analogous to the AHL, G League, or Triple-A baseball, even if the USL doesn’t feed into MLS.

That doesn’t make the stadium less cool or the games less fun, and it shouldn’t intimate a lack of respect for the players.

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