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@adejax7 @herculezg The team is performed very well playing in a back three.

@herculezg Completely understand the question of "why are you experimenting..." But if the previous lineups, specifically the backline, have proven unsuccessful then why NOT see what CAN work? It's not ideal to stick with something just because and especially if it's clearly not working.

This is the starting XI that the pregame show (TNT, the USMNT partner) just displayed. Why are you experimenting in your final game before announcing the World Cup roster? It seems like this cycle has been a waste in terms of preparation. No matter the outcome tonight.

@RepFine Disgusting You fat pig

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.

@pricedliberty @JeromeAdamsMD West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and a few other red states are not far behind.

Today’s American History Lesson: Puerto Rico has been part of the U.S. since 1898, and Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917 🇵🇷 🇺🇸 We’ve cheered many non-Americans at the #SuperBowl. Bad Bunny isn’t one of them. 🏈 🎤

@nicolafiore @mrdavidduff @JeromeAdamsMD celebrating lgbtq is an issue?

@mrdavidduff @JeromeAdamsMD ❄️

@ThisActorLife @JeromeAdamsMD "We"

@JeromeAdamsMD It's not about citizenship. The NFL is an American sports organization where they play American Football, predominantly in America. We prefer the halftime show be performed in English, the language of our nation. Kudos to him for wearing a suit in a clip I saw on X. But English.

@SVMovingOn @JeromeAdamsMD Their*. You’re not exactly Chaucer yourself by the way.

@JeromeAdamsMD Guess - what - there songs are in English for the most part. Big difference.

@QuakesNationBA Who have we brought in this year?

One of the best aspects of Bruce Arena’s tenure thus far has been his transfer strategy. Bringing in seasoned #MLS players gives the team a floor it lacked in seasons past. #Quakes74 basportsnation.com/2026/01/26/dev…

@SecRubio Ridiculous

President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace. It's time our State Department display that.

@SJEarthquakes @opencup Damn well better!

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙥 🏆 🗞️ | #Quakes74 to Compete in 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. @OpenCup

@tomdierberger How on earth did the Warriors trade of Robert Parish and Kevin McHale to the Celtics for Joe Barry Caroll not make your list of top five worst NBA trades of all time? TWO hall of fame players who won three NBA finals for a spectacular bust. How is it not first!?!?

@d_G_OAT @the_Lawrenz Yeah, and kind of lightly. Harsh red card.

@the_Lawrenz He slapped his teammate!

Weirdest red card ever.

@tommyknoll @tombogert @PaulTenorio The problem is playing in Miami, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Nashville etc in the summers sucks too.

@tombogert @PaulTenorio MLS continuing to make horrible moves. Imagine playing in Minnesota, Chicago, Philadelphia, NY-metro - anywhere north of I-70, in January?

Sources: MLS owners are expected to vote on flipping to fall-spring calendar at Thursday's BOG meeting. Could happen as soon as 2027. Also: Changes to competition format expected too, including single league table + divisions. w/ @PaulTenorio nytimes.com/athletic/68011…

@tombogert Bummer

🇦🇷 Sources: San Jose Earthquakes star Cristian Espinoza is a free agent, as club didn't pick up his 2026 option before contract's deadline passed. Quakes made a new contract offer to Espinoza, who prefers to stay in MLS but is open abroad too. nytimes.com/athletic/68011…

@EricWynalda @tatum_wynalda Congrats to your daughter.

So many emotions here So proud of @tatum_wynalda Scored the game winner today to go back to back WCC champs Way to go Tate!!

@darrendstone @EricWynalda @tatum_wynalda Yeah, and it has to be one of the best venues in all of college soccer. usfdons.com/facilities/neg…

@EricWynalda @tatum_wynalda SF?

@Nate_Luxite @sden92 @maddenifico Thank god. Stay in your loser ass country.

"A man ran to the Broadview ICE facility today searching for his wife of five years. They were following the legal process, showing up for her court case, when ICE took her to another room and disappeared her. He tracked her phone to Broadview where the signal cut off. Police told him to just look up her name online. He sat in a parking lot weeping, confused, with no answers." 🥹😭👇

@DougSchneeberg @AlexiLalas I thought the world of Cherundolo. The peak of his USA career was the 2010 World Cup in which he played every minute. Here's the lineup for our pinnacle game there, in which he was solid but not a star. 12 of the 14 US players were developed in MLS (other was Jay DeMerit).

If speaking directly for US players, Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey in the past. It will be interesting to see where a Cremaschi ends up or how Cavan Sullivan shakes out in a couple of years when he can officially transfer. Though, an argument can be made that MLS is developing young players for other national teams as well. (Ian Fray for example). What I find interesting is a player like Steve Cherundolo that bypassed MLS in its infancy and only played a couple of years in college at Portland. He managed to get onto a 2nd tier Bundesliga team and earn promotion at Hannover 96. He earned 302 appearances at right back. I think he is still the club's all-time appearance leader and one of about 17 non-German players to have 300 or more Bundesliga appearances. Now, I would say world class player due to the limited amount of professional players playing regularly at that position in a top league. But, others seem to require that the player has to be on a team that finishes near the top of a table, plays in other comps, and scores a lot of goals. Curious if there is a consistent metric.

WTF?! To various degrees, MLS has helped develop likes of Adams, McKennie, Reyna, Turner, Richards, Freese, Luna, Ream, Weah, Robinson, Pepi, Zimmerman, Zendejas, Yedlin, Aaronson, Morris, Nagbe, and 100s more. MLS has undeniably been net positive to 🇺🇸⚽️player development.

@BernardoControl @AlexiLalas Really? Because it seems to me that any list of the best players to ever come out of the US would include Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, Eddie Pope, DaMarcus Beasley, Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra, Typer Adams etc.

@AlexiLalas how many americans go on to have legitimately top level careers that come out of MLS? The technical quality in the MLS is not of a high enough level to produce world class footballers. Most of the players who have gone on to have good careers develop elsewhere.

@elmston @NSRURU @AlexiLalas

@NSRURU @AlexiLalas Ah yes the I like pancakes post / “so you hate waffles” reply Bluecheck standard 👍

@elonmusk Imagine some asshole cutting off USAID to save $20-30 billion at the cost of 600,000 lives already and then getting his cronies to give him a $1 trillion pay package. #$1,000,000,000,000

The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy. No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.