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@AriWasserman Dude, you’re above posting rage bait. 😄

International soccer is like college football with the pageantry, passion and loyalty. International soccer is different from college football football because the games themselves suck.

@ShehanJeyarajah He’s a Barstool guy. Enough said… 😄

Sometimes I feel like my TV is showing something completely different than what yall are watching. That match was nuts

@2022WSCHAMPIONS @Dr_Pigskin Are the players boycotting the season over turf?

@KRod_505 @Dr_Pigskin The players who are getting injured more frequently on turf?

We’ve known this was coming for a long time but it’s just insane to see it actually play out. Rolling out the “red carpet” of natural grass for the World Cup only to immediately yank it away for the NFL season should be the straw that breaks the camel’s back #worththecost

@reformussoccer Nah. Garber is just the face man. The real problem is the billionaire owners who care more about the valuations of their franchises.

Don Garber is expected to retire in a few years. MLS should seriously consider commissioner candidates who understand that promotion and relegation is not a threat to soccer’s growth. It is the engine that fuels the growth and sustainability of the globe’s No. 1 sport and one of the forces that makes soccer so compelling. Here are five candidates worth considering: Christian Seifert: The former CEO of the German Football League spent nearly two decades overseeing the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. He helped build one of the world’s strongest and most commercially successful league systems while preserving promotion, relegation and the connection between divisions. Seifert would bring proven league-management experience, international credibility and a deep understanding of how an open system can coexist with financial stability. Michele Kang: Kang founded the healthcare technology company Cognosante and now leads Kynisca, a global organization dedicated to women’s soccer. Her portfolio includes the Washington Spirit, OL Lyonnes and London City Lionesses. London City earned promotion to the Women’s Super League in 2025, demonstrating how investment, ambition and sporting merit can elevate an independent club. Kang understands both American business and the competitive structure of international soccer. Peter Wilt: Few American soccer executives have a stronger record of supporting promotion and relegation. Wilt was the founding president and general manager of the Chicago Fire and helped launch the Chicago Red Stars, Indy Eleven, Forward Madison, Chicago House AC and other clubs. He also co-founded the National Independent Soccer Association to build connections among leagues through promotion and relegation. He would bring decades of American soccer experience and a genuine commitment to opening the pyramid. Shahid Khan: Khan is the founder and CEO of Flex-N-Gate, owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and owner of Fulham FC. During his ownership, Fulham has experienced relegation, fought its way back through the Championship and earned multiple promotions to the Premier League. Khan understands both the protected American franchise model and the risks and rewards of an open soccer system. That experience could help him explain to MLS owners how promotion and relegation can be introduced responsibly. Ryan Reynolds: @VancityReynolds is an actor, entrepreneur and co-owner of Wrexham AFC. Alongside @RMcElhenney, he helped transform a struggling lower-division club into a global phenomenon built around the drama, opportunity and consequences of promotion and relegation. Wrexham’s rise has shown that American audiences will embrace lower-division soccer when clubs have something meaningful to play for. Reynolds understands branding, storytelling, sponsorships, and how the open pyramid can turn a small-town local club into an international business and upend the structure of sports in America (and Canada). A dual citizen of the USA and Canada. Not every candidate on this list has publicly called for promotion and relegation in MLS. Peter Wilt has the clearest record of direct advocacy. But all five bring valuable experience that the next commissioner should have: building businesses, managing clubs or leagues, understanding open competition, and recognizing that sporting merit, promotion and relegation can create enormous commercial value for MLS and the entire soccer ecosystem. MLS does not need another commissioner whose primary mission is to protect the existing structure, like @thesoccerdon. It needs a leader capable of building the next stage of American soccer: more clubs, more markets, more investment, meaningful competition and a genuine pathway from the bottom of the pyramid to the top. Soccer can be America's #1 sport with the right leadership. While MLS may never touch these types of leaders, these folks would also be good candidates worth considering for President of @ussoccer, to replace Cindy Cone. #ProRelForUSA

@BayernAusBoston My mistake. Thanks. 👍🏽

@KRod_505 Nations League =/= Leagues Cup

I'm frankly puzzled what MLS was thinking with the post world cup schedule. You're dropping a new cohort of casual and curious fans into the middle of an active season for 2 weeks, then stopping it for the "Leagues Cup" then competing with gridiron for the rest of the year.

@BayernAusBoston Nope. CONCACAF runs Nations League. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF_…

@KRod_505 No, it's a gentleman's agreement between Liga MX and MLS. CONCACAF gives them CCC spots but outside of that isn't involved. Same as USCO

@soccerreform I thought it was USSF that granted D1 status. Which, if true, is a problem…

Why not? FIFA could give them a special “circus” sanction. They make up special rules for MLS all the time. Save D1 for the real open league. Stop letting the cartoon-cosplay-circus league dictate to everyone else. #ProRelForUSA

@Pennstatedanny @jjfuller72 Army and Navy are never making that move… sorry

@KRod_505 @jjfuller72 Probably for teams like Army and Navy for football and for Notre Dame for all other sports.

Interesting "adjustment" I've floated the idea before of "capping" conference size at 18 or 20 or so but not "freezing" the membership of the P4 schools to be locked in to where they are now. CFB has never seen these huge power conferences before (Big10 especially, with SEC following suit... and then Big12/ACC as well) and it's changed the whole landscape in mostly bad ways.

@ManagerTactical Raise quality of play. And winning against LigaMX. Concacaf Champions League isn’t prioritized enough. Show don’t tell. Stop telling people how great the league is and show it instead. Raise the level of competition.

The biggest challenge MLS has over the next 5-10 years to win over the millions of American 🇺🇸 soccer fans that don’t care about the league. The “sign a star” gimmick won’t work. They also won’t choose MLS in terms of quality when they have at least 5 other leagues with better quality on the field. That leaves MLS with bringing them in due to some personal connection, which is tough. You can’t say “support local” and force people to buy into a very “corporate league”. Liga Mx 🇲🇽 ain’t better than MLS but Mexican Americans have a personal connection to it, which is why it has more viewers than MLS in the 🇺🇸 So how does MLS solve this?

@aakashgupta For me, it’s one more World Cup game. I’m never gonna turn that down. And I low key wish the NCAA would bring back their third-place game. If it means more high level games, I’m all for it.

The NFL tried a third place game for 10 years. Vince Lombardi called it "the Shit Bowl, a losers' bowl for losers, a hinky-dink game held in a hinky-dink town." The league killed it in 1970, then got so embarrassed it retroactively reclassified all 10 games as exhibitions and erased them from the playoff record books. Here's the detail that should haunt FIFA: every single one of those games was played in Miami. And 56 years later, the World Cup's third place game kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium. In Miami. The loser bowl found its way home. The graveyard is crowded. The Euros abolished their third place game after 1980. The NCAA killed the Final Four consolation game in 1981. The NBA, NHL, and MLB never even attempted one. Every serious competition eventually reaches the same conclusion: you cannot ask elite athletes to perform three days after the worst night of their careers, for a medal no kid has ever dreamed about. The people forced to play it agree. Louis van Gaal, the night before coaching the Netherlands in one, called the fixture unfair and said it shouldn't exist. So why does FIFA keep it? Run the math. One more sold-out 65,000-seat stadium. One more global broadcast window on the tournament's final weekend. A $2 million prize gap between third and fourth to make it look competitive on paper. The game exists because heartbreak still sells tickets. Every league that ever tried a loser bowl killed it, and the NFL literally deleted the evidence. FIFA is the last one still charging admission.

@PaulPabst Yup. The bitting zinger can always wait until the game is over. Always.

Never, ever....prematurely tweet.

@RossDellenger @YahooSports Same energy… 😄

On a call with 25+ D1 commissioners today, Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell described “positive momentum” around the Senate bill after productive meetings with SEC/Big Ten and detailed bill revisions and an optimistic view of an impending floor vote, sources tell @YahooSports.

@PaulTassi Meh… let ‘em cook. 😄

The Odyssey is going to make a bunch of money, win a bunch of awards and millions of people will love it. Hating it sight unseen because you want to be part of an edgy antiwoke movement spamming buzzwords and slurs in comment threads is just a miserable way to live.

@atensnut Those are Irish colors. Are you self-deporting? 🤔

Just Do It ✔️

@howaboutafresca Dude, France and the USMNT aren’t remotely comparable. That’s why no one is blaming their youth development. Seriously unserious behavior out here. 😄

The France and USA World Cup losses have a ton in common: Flat play, nerves, weird fundamental issues. Any team can have a bad game at any time. No one is saying "Redo the French youth club league systems." You can feel better about the USMNT losing after today.

@beauhightowerdn Because that’s what Lobo Fan has done since Bob King won his first conference title… think big with nothing to justify it. 😄

Why is UNM Lobo basketball Twitter pretending we have the NIL money to be able to afford Donovan Dent?

@9mmballpoint I figure his first mistake was not slowly backing away after he took the first picture and exiting stage left.

Every serious wilderness survival guide has a whole chapter of detailed instructions on how to handle an aggressive bear encounter, then for bison/moose it's just "run, hide behind tree, pray"