Lou Pai

And you don’t want no trouble
And you don’t want no trouble

Adam Smith

It just makes for a bunch more difficult grind. You can’t take a game off. The depth of the elite teams is down and it’s a dogfight every week. There isn’t a justifiable reason to say the coaching is meaningfully worse in the SEC either.

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Oh no, Americans used their right to vote for who they wanted to represent them.

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Did you say the same thing in November 2024 after the popular vote got fully tabulated mate?

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Looks like the selective outrage and political theater to get you all worked up is working.

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Haha ok. Here are a few things that have come to light about Fauci since COVID:

- Sent taxpayer funds to the Wuhan lab where Gain of Function research was known to be happening. In early February 2020, was frantically trying to figure out if there was a connection to their funding. Then lied under oath to Congress and the American people in 2021 that we had been funding gain of function research on bat viruses for years
- Knew in early January 2020 that the lab leak theory was at least plausible, yet coordinated and led an effort to defame scientists who thought it was possible
- Claims to not have been involved with state and local shutdowns, yet his email history suggests he was directly advocating to blue state governors and mayors to shut down
- Knew cloth masks were useless early on and publicly acknowledged as much but when he realized the value as religious iconography, pushed for them and even wore double masks on occasion lmao
- Continually lied about the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines
- Had his staff apply for $900k in various awards and prizes during the pandemic, a federal crime
- Overall just being a narcissistic loser giddy over his interactions with celebrities and fantasizing about being depicted in a movie, posing for cringey photo shoots all while havoc was being wrought on our society

Or how about the GOP base stops voting in shitty candidates with horrible baggage?

My guess is that this will mirror 2018 and Paxton will narrowly win, by less than 2%. There is actually a decent chance Talarico wins, it’s practically a coinflip in the betting markets. Which is a complete joke because Cornyn would have won by double digits and not burnt through GOP money that can be used elsewhere. This is another Herschel Walker / Dr Oz type of situation. And the base continues to step on rakes because they are retarded.

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It would be some random guy who maxed out as a small D1 receiver or SG who is 6’1” - 6’3 190lbs of muscle, we wouldn’t do well with a bunch of 6’7 dudes out there who can’t cut and change direction the way the smaller guys can.

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This is correct. Height above a certain point is a disadvantage for about 80% of soccer. Jumping also doesn’t matter that much. Even straight line sprint speed is not that important because the ball travels twice as fast as a player.

Technique and skill are way way more important. It’s nice to have athleticism obviously but that has never been USMNT’s problem. That is why focusing on LeBron or Julio Jones is beside the point.

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He’s already just an average striker in Ligue 1

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Dating back to February 21, he scored in eight consecutive league games (including 10 goal contributions in his last 10 club games). This tied with the 2025–26 top five European league season record goalscoring streak shared only by Kylian Mbappé at Real Madrid (eight goals).[49] Balogun's streak was also one goal away from the 21st-century Ligue 1 goalscoring streak record.[50] Balogun finished the 2025–26 season as Monaco's top scorer with 19 goals and four assists in all competitions, and the league's fourth top scorer with 13 goals.[51] For his season performances, he was named the 2025–26 Monaco Player of the Season.[49]

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Tonight was astonishingly bad so I choose to find something positive to focus on.

One of the more disappointing aspects about tonight is we don’t get to see Balogun play any more with this group in this tournament because the rest of the team outside of Tillman let him down. He is quickly becoming a world class striker and about to get picked up by an elite club. He didn’t score tonight but he has been the best striker in the tournament other than Haaland and Kane. Don’t follow Ligue Une at all because it sucks so I actually didn’t realize just how good he was until this tournament. He is basically good at everything you need in a forward and he has no weaknesses. The U.S. has never had a true striker of this caliber and it should be fun to follow and watch him wherever he ends up.