@JamesWAVL82 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Recency bias
“Who the hell is Kevin Frazier and what does he know about soccer? He’s the host of Entertainment Tonight”
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Mark Root
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@Markroot14 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda That is not unique to US Soccer, that’s a society problem.
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He didn’t want it
We’ll never know
He’s a could’ve , should’ve guy
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@EricWynalda As an American soccer player, how much higher could he have gone???? Played in the World Cup, played in Premier League, Bundesliga, etc As someone talking about soccer at the YOUTH level, he is a guy that made it to the top. He isn’t claiming to be the best.
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@JamesWAVL82 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Don’t forget Hugo and Tab. When US Soccer doesn’t like the message, they attack the messenger.
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@robertomorales5 Which one? Embolo going down without contact or rolling over 3 times screaming in pain?
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Uno de los mayores escándalos de la historia de los Mundiales
DAZN España@DAZN_ES
EMBOLO, COMPLETAMENTE DESTROZADO Y LLORANDO TRAS SER EXPULSADO POR SIMULACIÓN 🔥🔥🔥 EL VAR LLAMÓ AL ÁRBITRO Y, TRAS VER LA ACCIÓN, DECIDIÓ MOSTRARLE LA SEGUNDA AMARILLA #DAZNMundial
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@Markroot14 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Carlos being shit and Cindy not fixing everything doesn’t make Eric not a jerk that people don’t like to work with. Eric is still a jerk that people don’t like to work with. He’s found a good spot where can talk, get paid to talk, and not have to work with very many people.
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@Markroot14 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda I didn’t say they’d be driven away from youth soccer, they’d have been driven away from Eric. USSF prez doesn’t have subpoena power, and it can’t tell all these clubs and associations what to do. The person in that position has to bring people together, and Eric ain’t that guy.
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@jeremybalan @jclmorgan And any defending player who stands in the box before a penalty is taken.
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Start tossing out yellow cards for every dive and maybe that nonsense will stop.
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@joedratnol @THEChrisKessell Both FIFA and Christina Unkel both said it didn’t hit the wire. Case closed. 🤡😂
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Hot Take for you @THEChrisKessell :
I think the Norway controversy of the ball hitting the sky camera cable combined with the Croatia "hair hitting the ball" are 2 of the most interesting and controversial events in this World Cup.
Both of those events resulted in them losing.
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@JamesWAVL82 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Maybe, but performance on the field would be better. And, do we really want the people who would have been driven away to be involved? They’re still involved, right?
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@Markroot14 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Well that’s like saying Trump’s personality united the country. His combative personality would have driven people away from the negotiating table regardless of what his ideas are. Factionalism in US Soccer would only have gotten worse.
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@JamesWAVL82 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda “Because his combative personality” would have changed the status quo. It only happened one way.
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@Markroot14 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Wynalda didn’t not win that election because of one single other candidate. He didn’t win because his combative personality rubs people the wrong way. And that’s got nothing to do with the mess that is US Soccer governance structure.
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@jcchealsteal @DrDiGiorgio @robolivermd @awgaffney I’m guessing Medicare Contractor redundancy doesn’t count toward admin.
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@DrDiGiorgio @robolivermd @awgaffney Lol, sure. So every economist across the ideological spectrum is just wrong. Hell, they buried it in an appendix, but even the Koch-funded boyz at George Mason admitted M4A would cover everyone for less than the status quo, mostly due to admin savings. But keep entertaining us.
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My man @awgaffney just bludgeoning @DrDiGiorgio with receipts about insane US healthcare admin costs.
GOP-aligned docs are always “omg gummint bureaucracy!”
No.
Massive US health care bureaucratic waste is a function of private sector inefficiency, greed & political power.
Adam Gaffney@awgaffney
(1) The "high denominator" issue is irrelevant: if it were, Medicare Advantage (MA) would also have low overhead. It doesn't, it has overhead of ~12% — the same as other private insurers — vs. 2-3% in Traditional Medicare (TM) (2) The fact that TM can use existing machinery ...
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@JamesWAVL82 @joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda Because they put Martino in to split the vote. Was your State Association told to vote for him like ours was?
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@joedratnol @Gr8white13 @EricWynalda “Wasn’t allowed to?” There was an election, and he wasn’t close to being elected.
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@GetUpESPN @DanWetzel You might want to look at the 2018 election and the impact that it had(or didn’t have).
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"I think one of the things that a lot of Americans do is say, 'If only our greatest athletes played soccer.'"
@DanWetzel's thesis on why the United States' bigger issues continue to persist 👀
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@LakeShowFC @nweiser09 @KevinFrazier I bet you never had to drive through 3 states to play a team from an hour away.
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@nweiser09 @KevinFrazier I grew up in South Central Los Angeles. We had a local youth soccer league. No club system at all. We had a league tournament and a cup tournament every year with groups even. There was so much raw talent at that time, jam packed parks to see games every Saturday. Great times.
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"How can you be playing in southern California and there are no Latino kids? There is something weird going on. US soccer is gatekeeping. The best kids we have are not getting through." @KevinFrazier
Juan Arango@JuanG_Arango
For YEARS people in the US soccer media killed me for saying this. Now their mainstream is saying it. One paid a terrible price for speaking the truth, but the truth is finally out.
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@joematrix_truth @Four4three @dpshow @KevinFrazier ODP regionals was the most expensive tournament my daughter ever played in.
Unrelated, but here are 6 words that define the problem.
“You are not in our league”
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That’s possibly true. But the league can charge what they want. And there’s a lot more to the situation. Every MLS academy in the country is now free. No tuition, no pay to play, selection is based on talent, not the parent’s bank account. Thousands of kids currently train in that system for free.
U.S. Soccer’s id2 program is free and scouts nationally, ODP has open tryouts in every state.
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"You are part of the problem!"
– @KevinFrazier doesn't hold back on Alexi Lalas and U.S. Soccer 😳
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@joematrix_truth @Four4three @dpshow @KevinFrazier It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a result of the system.
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No, that’s not correct.
I can absolutely attack the “message”.
First, Kevin mentions an alleged personal anecdote which doesn’t reflect the broader situation.
And maybe he missed the demographics of the US team this year, but to claim there’s some wide conspiracy to keep certain people out of soccer in this country is just a legit brain dead take.
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@Markroot14 @joematrix_truth @dpshow @KevinFrazier Of course you haven't cause you're 12 years old. This conversation is for grown folks.
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@Four4three @joematrix_truth @dpshow @KevinFrazier Until yesterday, I had never heard of Kevin Frazier. After listening to him, there was no need to look him up.
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@Markroot14 @joematrix_truth @dpshow @KevinFrazier This is the post of the day! People like this always attack the person, cause they know they would get destroyed by talking about the topic at hand.
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@Markroot14 @dpshow @KevinFrazier Your logic is muddled. He doesn't know me, so when he said it he could not have been thinking about me understanding it.
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@joematrix_truth @dpshow @KevinFrazier Could be, but when people don’t like the message they go after the messenger. He’s not wrong here.
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@dpshow @KevinFrazier Kevin Frazier ditched real sports analysis for ET gossip rag duty, dude is a clown with zero credibility.
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@mrmikewinch @dpshow @KevinFrazier If he wanted you to understand it, he would have explained it better.
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@dpshow @KevinFrazier Kev, your nine-year-old is "playing @ the highest level"?I'm confused at this statement. And, to be clear, are you making the implication that US soccer is gatekeeping kids from "the hood" from making the national team? I'm trying to follow, but it's not coming together. Clarify?
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