HardyBoy

The reason the USA is not better at soccer is because it's pay to play and insanely expensive...it actually probably is the default sport in a lot of ways...it's just crazy expensive to play at the level needed to develop elite soccer players. Look at it this way...Josh Allen was basically almost completely missed as a prospect...he didn't go to a ton of football camps, which cost a crap ton of money and travel to attend...now imagine the entire system is designed so essentially only afluent kids can afford to play a sport (soccer) and the whole basis of the system is to make money per player. In Europe and other places, clubs that identify an elite player and develop them, are then able to either keep that player within their organization or they transfer that player to a different club and get a huge transfer fee that allows them to continue developing other players...to make money, in the usa the goal is to get players in the door...in other countries it is find unidentified players with elite potential and get them to be elite...the players identified as having that potential do not have to pay in other countries

Yeah, you forgot he had a 100% fumble rate at one point

Thank you! Didn't realize he was elevated for week 1!

Didn't he kick in game 1? Maybe they have to be on the roster at the start of week 1 and he signed that Thursday after the week started? It would make sense they waited to avoid the guarantee, but he played week 1...

Isn't Prater's contract fully guaranteed (he was on the roster week 1) with offset language...he could legit turn down any offers and come back on the bills practice squad and the only thing that changes is he wouldn't be actually kicking...now if you needed to go back to prater, then you either cut bass and get hit with all that dead cap and you likely lose him to waivers since it would be post trade deadline, but you could also elevate prater in the playoffs... Let me know if I have anything confused on how that stuff works

Ticketmaster and ticket brokers...the bills sell them tickets directly, I can almost guarantee that...they definitely get tickets to concerts directly

They're manipulating the supply by buying a whole bunch of tickets and then trickling their release and they also set the price. Like calling it basic economics tells me you've bought their narrative that it's fair competition...it's absolutely not

So I see you bought the narrative fully without actually thinking about it...

When they say hut, it's a run and if the say hut hut it's a pass

Epenessa looked like he was held multiple times fwiw...and then they called the hold on Dion...

Haha, old school country isnt the same as contemporary top 40 country at all...I just saw Sierra Ferrell in Raleigh Wednesday...my 4th or 5th time seeing her...she's incredible

Would they have to specify specifically if it was a high ankle sprain?

Literally my first thought and I'm so glad this was the second post!! Well done...Bill Burr McDermott is what I'm thinking...he's got McD's mouth or something

My comment was in reference to people saying that was just what happens normally at night games...which people do leave all the time to beat traffic...I dont think this was about... this is like someone going to a phish show, not liking the set list and being annoyed and then leaving before the encore when they normally stay and having them do some crazy rare thing or a super extended amazing set list where the first letter of each song spells some weird inside joke. And I've gotten stuck for hours after a Great Woods show outside of boston cause we parked in that back lot by accident, definitely should have left before that encore in retrospect, lol...and I heard traffic outside the stadium was exceptionally bad before the game too I'm not judging people, just saying that the people who are saying that people left early was just how people leave during night games all the time...nah that's not what it was, people were mad

It was a scoragami and no team has ever in history come back from a 15 pt deficit with whatever amount of time and won in regulation. Literally never happened before in history and the ravens also were the first team with i think it was 40 pts and more than 225 or whatever threshold of rushing yards that they met...but sure...

I don't think he was at all talking about fans that had to leave early for reasons unrelated to the score of the game in any way. Leaving a two score football game with almost half a quarter to go is kinda wild...like I didn't even consider turning the game off...if they had gone up to make it a three score game then sure, but it was a two possession game with plenty of time to get two possessions. That's who he's talking about...not the people that leave every game or concert before the end/encore to beat traffic...30% of the stadium does not do that unless it is a blowout and it just objectively wasn't a blowout at really any point in time...the bills had two three and outs back to back earlier in the game, why not the ravens?

Might have been why they didn't go for it there

Allen was out of the pocket, once a qb scrambles, illegal contact past five yards isn't a thing anymore... was a really good defensive play I texted people I almost thought Coleman should have stopped, but what if there was a tip... then there was a tip on that 4th down play and he made the catch... crazy!

I mean both my kids have high functioning autism and I likely have it too (undiagnosed) and I definitely have adhd that wasn't diagnoased until my last year of college and my wife has adhd and wasn't diagnosed until into her 30s. Getting diagnosed with that stuff, especially for women is really challenging, because a lot of the early research was done on disruptive boys in classrooms and girls on average don't present their symptoms that way... I'm also not gossiping, I'm highlighting the things that people make fun of Taylor Swift for are things that certainly are present in people with autism and neurodivergence more generally https://www.yourtango.com/self/signs-taylor-swift-may-be-autistic-or-neurodivergent

Haha, hold on let me go put on some top 40 country real quick...I need me some non-formulaic music and lyrics... Lol, that said, i don't disagree on Swift, though admittedly I don't know much about her lyrics and such, like I really can't speak to them being genuine. Of course I see a bunch of live music from bands like Phish and grateful dead tributes and Billy Strings and other jammy stuff...most of those bands don't have stylists and such driving narratives, but my guess is basically all music on popular radio these days does and I dont think Taylor swift is any more egregious in that compared to others, though she might be more successful...she also reportedly has autism, so some of the feeling that she lacks genuiness might be coming from that as opposed to her not actually being genuine, because honestly she does seem pretty genuine a lot of the time, just sometimes the non-verbal social cue type stuff feels a bit unexpected somehow

Oooh...can someone in here please tell me how I should be thankful for LiveNation and Ticketmaster?

Some of these movie commercials aren't exactly ideal for an 8 and 5 year old watching before 9pm I'm not usually too concerned with stuff like that, but some of these are decently scary for a 5 year old...

Oh get out of here with that...$522 can be used to get a really nice used guitar that you could have for the rest of your life and pass down to people. Plus the price of the sunday ticket in the rest of the world is a fraction of what we pay here. Please next tell me how the price of insulin or epi pens are no big deal because it's some much smaller amount when spread over a much longer time span...and ignore the fact that they are gouging people here when they aren't allowed to do it other places.

I'd be more curious as to why their customers decided to suddenly start stealing 20% of Hershey's chocolate bars...

I mean ensh$tification is a real thing...the issue is we're being turned into the product, not the consumer. They're also coming in, stealing the market by offering super low prices and getting rid of or buying up any competition that might exist and then once that is achieved, they jack up prices on customers and turn the customers into the product and then using excess cash for stock buy backs and then laying off employees This is a lot more nuanced of an issue than you're making it out to be...like there is a social contract aspect of this whole thing...like $20 for a cd back in the day, when the money mostly went to record companies and the musicians got saddled with signing bonus debt and loss of control of the master recordings (aka their music) Look at spotify...artist make like .0004 cents a stream or something insane like that, but the record labels still get a significantly larger piece per share.