So the latest USMNT training camp roster for October is out. Steffen is back in the mix although he has an awful "goals prevented" stat-line. No Reyna, Adams, Dest, or Chris Richards who are all nursing injuries. Pochettino has mentioned that it will be hard for players to be part of the squad if they're not getting regular minutes at their clubs...seemed like a dig at Matt Turner and Ethan Horvath who are both riding the pine. Turner essentially needs to come back to MLS (and New England) where he can start and get regular minutes. He's not even playing at Crystal Palace right now and they're dreadful.

Saw an article on ESPN about P0chettino and what he's looking to do in formation and how he attacks. 4-2-3-1, high press and fullbacks will move high up to support the attack. But he's also intent on playing out of the back and that will be an Achilles until Adams returns. Our CBs are not designed for that and none of our GKs can really play that style effectively. 2 games this month vs Panama and Mexico. Will be glad if we see an improvement in attitude towards friendlies and we come out focused and ready to play. We have thrown these games away under Berhalter and it leads to not being able to be ready intensity wise at opening kick for meaningful games.

I think we will struggle in these games without 2 of the 3 main MFs being involved. Does Pulisic run the 11 alongside Balogun or Sargent or does he drop into the MF with McKennie to trigger and Weah and Balogun run the Fs in this formation?

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Just as long as the ****ing Yankees don't win

Can't afford a loss in that tourney

aTUfan said:

name a successful left lead State or City: low crime, low taxes, livability.

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It’s funny, just as we know the common denominators of all left leaning policy, the same is true for demographics across countries worldwide. Some races score better on tests depending on subject matter. The same is true in behavioral patterns, too.

Given the lies of modern mainstream media, & the lack of physical artifacts (like ships) to prove it to be true, as well as everything you know about whites & backs today, do you believe whites ever enslaved blacks & that blacks allowed it?

Really? You do?

I absolutely do not.

Similar to the lack of slave ship artifacts anomaly, there’s also the issue of which race is actually most racist in the USA. For example, over 90% of hate crimes reported are hoaxes. In a similar distribution, of violent crime between whites & blacks, over 93% of it is committed by one of the groups against the other (the victim is white in over 93% of all interracial violent crime between whites & blacks in USA.)

I’ve shared this w/ close friends & family of mine (both of which contain whites & blacks, fam mostly white & friends mostly black by happenstance of who my friends & family are) & they all describe experiencing a similar feeling of discontent & conflict when taught history about ancient Egyptians building the pyramids as they did when taught about colonial whites enslaving blacks.

The truth is, it’s highly unlikely either actually happened.

lawpoke87 said:

I had thought as long as we don’t play more than 3 games at the BOK during the 2027-2028 then we would be eligible to play there ?

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Yep, as long as we aren’t the named host we can be assigned to that sub-regional.

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This is a conflict between Iran and Israel, plain and simple.

If not for Iran there would be a broader settlement between Israel and the Arabs.

If not for Iran, there would be no Hezbollah. Assad would have fallen in Syria.

Iran is the worst. Israel demeans the Palestinians who are largely stateless people and creates facts on the ground to lay claim to others' land.

But Iran gives them excuses for doing those things. Iran is the worst actor in the region.

I say this as someone who has family just a couple of miles from where Israel dropped their bunker busters to kill Nasrallah last week.

Royals beat Orioles first two games and win the best of three Wild Card series.
We only won 56 games last season. Won 86 game's this season.
Quite a turnaround.

Pitching and defense carrying them. If bats wake up, look out.

Royals off season moves along with more smart moves in July and August, result in making the Wild Card series.

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Poor Royals, stuck in the cellar again.

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Wrong.
Astros still playing?

I.I. said:

They will have to send us to another site since we can’t play at home. That’s always frustrating to be playing a long way from home and the tournament also in Tulsa.

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We are not hosting right? Why would it be considered a home court?

Cannot believe that I am writing this like it is 1994 and not 2024.

I.I. said:

They will have to send us to another site since we can’t play at home. That’s always frustrating to be playing a long way from home and the tournament also in Tulsa.

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I had thought as long as we don’t play more than 3 games at the BOK during the 2027-2028 then we would be eligible to play there ?

They will have to send us to another site since we can’t play at home. That’s always frustrating to be playing a long way from home and the tournament also in Tulsa.

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astonmartin708 said:

Intramurals or D2 / D3 are now the purest form of what college football was supposed to be. Wish they had some inter-school games between the best actual non-scholarship students at major universities.

I want a rule where the coach has to be a student and they can’t coach more than 4 years.

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And the refs can't get paid more than $30 per game.

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astonmartin708 said:

This really seems like a scheduling failure by the staff. I know people like to talk about how hard scheduling has gotten in general, but 200+ teams were able to get their early tournaments nailed down before us. Thats on the staff.

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The timing is less concerning than the quality of opponents.

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lawpoke87 said:

Disappointing field imo. 4 of those 5 teams had a NET south of 200 last season. Detroit was 1-31.

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This really seems like a scheduling failure by the staff. I know people like to talk about how hard scheduling has gotten in general, but 200+ teams were able to get their early tournaments nailed down before us. Thats on the staff.