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re: USMNT World Cup Roster in full

Posted by tigerfan88 on 5/23/26 at 2:07 pm to
Literally what are we going to do in midfield? Will one of the defenders or “attacking midfielders” play centrally?
Apparently pneumonia can also cause embolisms. Probably not a coincidence it happened in the simulator.
They often classify heart attacks as “severe illness” in initial reporting. So wouldn’t surprise me if they treat something similae the same way. “Severe illness” doesn’t really rule anything out other than it does point to a natural cause.
Sounds a lot like the Grant Wahl death a few years back which I think ended up being a heart aneurysm. Severe chest cold symptoms in the weeks leading up, steroid shot that alleviated symptoms. But then add the aneurysm like a week later and passed.

Who knows though, could be a bunch of things
It’s a fine line because Arteta’s commitment to physical dominance has been a huge asset the last few years.

Heard a stat that Arsenal outran the opposition in 35 of 37 league matches played, by far the highest in the league. Compared to Chelsea who has done that in a grand total of one match.

Hopefully Arteta can learn to balance even more of a fine line going forward, but overall his intensity is a significant net positive I think.
I’m sure they do have interest. There’s a lot of rich people out there who like sports and like golf and would be at the very least interested in potentially investing.

The issue is the massive gulf between what they burn through using their current model and what they’re aiming to raise by even their most optimistic projections. It would seem like the only way to make the money work is to cut salaries and purses by 90%. But the only reason any of the players play on LIV is because of the astronomical purses and salary. I just don’t understand how they’ll make that work and nothing from LIV has given any indication of how their new business model next year will run on 1/10th of their existing budget while simultaneously not losing any players or talent or broadcast/advertising (since they currently pay Fox to be broadcast as opposed to vice versa).
Nuclear golf is just an aggregator. They don’t report anything themselves they just link to everyone else (indiscriminately).

It’s a true report inasmuch as LIV told espn they have significant interest in as yet to be described business plan that will somehow work with only a $250m cash injection and then be profitable within two years.
The same reports say that they are “hopeful” they will get $250m for the next two years. Their current burn rate for two years is about $3 billion.

So even if they get the desired investment from new investors, it will be for a league somehow operating on a budget less than 10% of its current budget. Are they going to ask players to take a 90% pay cut and reduce purses by 90%?

That doesn’t even account for the fact that these new investors (if they exist) will want significantly more return on investment than PIF did given how much of PIF’s investment was driven by Yasir wanting to be an Augusta member and general sportswashing/nation state interests.
The (valid) criticism of Aronimink was that if you played really well you shot -2 and if you played below average you shot +1. Contrast that with Masters and British opens where you can shoot -5 or -6 if you’re on but can also easily shoot +4 if you’re off.

US open doesn’t typically give you the low scoring options, but if you’re off one day you can put up a +7 round easily.
I mean the Kroenke’s have found something the last ten years of so. Maybe Josh is a better sports mind than his dad and has gotten more involved. Idk.

But Nuggets, Rams, Avalanche and Arsenal have all been very successful the past ten years. Three of the four have won titles and the Avalanche are the favorite to win the Stanley cup this year.
99% of LSU fans want college sports to go back to the way it was in 2005. We didn’t open up Pandora’s box.

Blame the sportswriters and judges and everyone else who pushed to turn college sports into the Wild West with unlimited payments, vastly expanded eligibility, unlimited player movement.

Indiana won the cfb last year with an average team age older than Green Bay. Illinois made the final four with four euro league starters. If this is what is going to be rewarded why should LSU hurt themselves competitively to abide by arbitrary morals that no one else is abiding by
Goes to show that’s where the league is won. Arsenal were the best team against big six sides the three years before this but constantly tripped up against mid table teams
We don’t have a very technical possession based midfield as far as personnel, especially with Zubimendi falling off a cliff. He gave us that player in the first half of the season. Definitely need to address our technical quality in attack and midfield in the offseason and Mikel needs to refine some stuff tactically.

But also we just still aren’t a very good finishing team, should’ve been up 2/3-0 after the first 60 minutes and coasting. But getting that second goal just feels impossible for the team right now and then nerves kick in given the stakes.

Regardless none of that matters right now. This is how we can get win our last two games and win the double so just get it done

Wrong board. Don’t you know automation and AI is only going to be an issue for those namby pamby college educated white collar workers and those libtard Hollywood and media types?

They could never make robots that do the manual get your hands dirty trade work that real Americans do.
Started out the season like 4-12 in conference play and needed a late surge to even make a regional. Proceeded to not advance in the tournament.

That’s an incredibly mediocre season for a sec program, and a below average one for LSU.
Johnson has three bad seasons in 5. His two good seasons were historically good as far as winning titles (still has never contended for winning the SEC).

At a certain point that’s who he is. Most seasons were going to be hoping to scrape into the tournament. Once every few years he’ll manage to pull together an elite roster with hopefully the best non mlb pitcher in the world (bc that’s the only way he can build an elite team) and he has shown he’s a good postseason manager.
And if someone had said after 2014-2016 Les era in football that we’d have a coach who would deliver us the greatest season and team in college football history but we would crater off a cliff in the following two seasons we all would have taken it.

It doesn’t mean O was a good coach. Jay now has three bad teams out of 5 at LSU. At a certain point the highs become the aberration and the mediocrity the norm
God Rory is feeling himself. I love it. He’s positively chuffed as the lads would say
Neither does Wesley Bryan. Does Bryson want to be a rich man’s Wesley Bryan though?
The allure of YouTube golf is getting the sense that you’re basically a caddy for the player. You get to know what they’re thinking, why they’re hitting what they’re hitting, their reaction. You get a perfect view of every lie and every shot tracer and where every shot ends up.

You go watch Bryson in person at a 50,000 person event and you’ll be lucky to have 5-6 shots where you have a really good view. Definitely won’t have him narrating everything.

Not knocking YouTube golf, there’s a reason it’s popular. But it just doesn’t really translate to going to an event in person or even a normal tourney broadcast.
Bryson seems to have pivoted pretty hard from “I’m here to figure it out with LIV, let’s make it work” to talking in pretty decent detail about how he would get back on tour and why he should be allowed to.

It would be interesting to see what long term bumps he would give tv viewership and fan attendance if he did come back in some capacity. His YouTube fans don’t seem to be tuning into LIV events in any significant way. Maybe he does drive a lot of the in person attendance. But would he on the tour, especially after the initial interest in his return?