Patrick Doll

@ClayLaSoul @ElonsBlueCheck Yeah, that's all consistent with what I've been saying. We're in agreement on the facts here. I do appreciate your confirmation though.

@PatrickDoll @ElonsBlueCheck If you want to get in the weeds, I was an executive of the Nashville SC Supporters Trust, it held the stake in the club during the time in USL, and maintains the previous NFC IP through an agreement with NSC that supports the grassroots soccer in Nashville.

We *literally* started our own club from scratch. It’s now an MLS club. 🤷‍♂️

@ElonsBlueCheck @ClayLaSoul Even better. The trademark for "Nashville FC" is owned by Nashville SC Supporters Trust and was applied for in 2020 (4 years after the founding of Nashville SC as a USL franchise). It's trying to recreate a history of fan ownership, even though NFC/NSC are 2 different things.

@PatrickDoll @ClayLaSoul Wait so it’s not a fan own club but instead ip owned an llc in nyc?

@ClayLaSoul The franchise that joined USL has nothing in common with the amateur club. The former simply bought some trademarks from the latter. Different entities, owners, contracts. It's a marketing exercise for some. I don't blame the original members. They cashed out at the right time.

This might be the funniest “well, actually” reply I’ve gotten. Brother, they were an amateur team with an all volunteer staff and team. The only other “asset” is the membership, who voted by more than 90% to sell and join the USL. Either way, that’s not “air-dropping” a club.

@TheStevenWillis No, Nashville FC is dead and has been since 2016. The legacy of Nashville FC lives on as a handful of trademarks sold to a group of billionaires. Do try to keep up.

So what you are really saying is that Nashville FC managed to rise three levels in the US Soccer Sphere and have roots as an amateur club that the fans had say over the direction of its team and they chose to do whatever they could to reach the Top Division and did. Cool

@JohnnyInTheSun @nsc_ronan And the problem with that is... what? Some teams will flounder, but some will thrive. And new teams entirely will take the place of dead teams. Let the best survive.

@nsc_ronan I've seen it said before, and I'm not trying to beat a dead house, but teams will go bankrupt if pro/rel is brought to MLS. I truly wish that wasn't the case. I wish all of our sports had it here. It would make it much more exciting. It'll take a lot of change for it to work.

You want pro/rel in MLS? Alright here’s how it would probably happen Get to 40 teams by adding franchises in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Antonio, Indianapolis, Detroit, Louisville, and somewhere else east of the Mississippi Then, you play out a normal season 🧵

@caraathome OK, but this isn't new. This particular encampment will simply move to Craddock Park a block away. And when the City clears that encampment, they'll simply move back to the alley between Lemmon and Rawlins -- which is where they were for months prior to Salad & Go opening

The city has issued a notice to the property owner to clear the encampment. They have 7 days. If they don't do it, the city will clear it. If you care about the homeless, you wouldn't want them to live this way. If you care about our city, you wouldn't want us to tolerate this. Thank you to the nearby residents of D14 who called this in to 311 and the Emergency Management & Crisis Response team for going out over the holiday weekend to address this.

@TCEConstructors @aakashgupta Simply because there hasn't been an equivalent financial incentive for a women's academy at the club level. That has changed recently. But in the absence of club academies, the HS->college pipeline is better than nothing.

@aakashgupta Easy to blame the clubs but our women’s program grew in the same system - why is it they have so much success?

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year. That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer. FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset. US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records. So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros. Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability. Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business. They will not.

@sjkz @aakashgupta Colleges and high schools has been the pathway for decades. With few results to show for it in the men's game. The required coaching simply isn't there at either level. And even if it were available, waiting until a player turns 14 (for HS) or 18 (for college) is simply too late

Why does the US use the European club model and not force the game into the high schools and colleges? This is where athletes & fans are developed in the US - in schools. No American sports fan has interest in cheering for a club until the game is at the adult professional level. The professional leagues use the schools as farm systems, not clubs. I feel like Americans are using a foreign system that has reached its full potential: a mediocre fan base & decent talent, but nothing special. It would be as if we installed American football 🏈 in Germany with the American model and told the high schools and universities to carry the farm systems- it would fail. That’s the equivalent of what has been happening in America for 40 years. And that’s (partly) why the only superpower cannot compete in the world’s most popular sport. That, and we also have 3 other sports that consume our talent and calendar.

@melliehcee @NeSmith687 @RonDeSantis The Founders, in their wisdom, gave us a procedure to amend the Constitution when we deem it necessary. That's the extent of their involvement in this decision. Almost 100 years later, the victors of the Civil War used that exact process to ratify 14A. Not the Founders.

@NeSmith687 @RonDeSantis It's what we've built on for 250 years, of course "the Founders" will be referenced and can be at any time. Anything else, Einstein?

This was not a decision on procedural grounds (ie, POTUS can’t do this through executive order but Congress could legislate it); it is a substantive decision that says the 14th amendment requires citizenship for those born to, among others, birth tourists or those unlawfully present in the country. Will need either a constitutional amendment or a future court to overrule this. Anyway you slice it, the decision is a major defeat.

@A_Star_Official @JustinMacmahan You really don't have to be precise on VAR review. That was a choice that was made. VAR could simply be used to overturn a call on the pitch if it is irrefutable, instead of de novo. Here, original call was no offsides & goal. Is the goalscorer irrefutably offsides? I think not.

@JustinMacmahan The problem is that if you're going to apply VAR you have to be precise, because then if you allow even small 'offsides' then what amount would be the cut off? It would make things very murky

I know the soccer purists will come after me but this is the dumbest shit ever. At what point can we hold the defense accountable for guarding people? Offsides being applied this close to the goal is ridiculous

@DevinMBilski @tbflowers @JustinMacmahan @theoldzealand "Easy fix", except now you've turned soccer into ice hockey. As soon as the ball enters the box, someone will run directly at the GK and stand in front of them. That cannot possibly be a good outcome.

@tbflowers @JustinMacmahan @theoldzealand Easy fix, no offsides once the ball has entered the box

@AmyDesigns @RemakeApp @FreddyLA7 Ice wine in Niagara is the same as ice wine in Germany, down to the requirements of when it can be harvested. Niagara alone makes 80% of the world's ice wine in any given year, because the likes of Germany simply don't get cold enough winters anymore.

@RemakeApp @FreddyLA7 Germany is known for real “ice wine”, so Freddy may have had the real thing. It comes from grapes that are allowed to freeze on the vine before being harvested. However, I have no idea what the concoction is that Niagara calls “ice wine”.

I’m surprised. I thought it would just be the waterfalls, but the whole city is like one giant amusement park. There’s even a roller coaster on top of Burger King.

@andyroodub @ParkTheBus15 @GrayConnolly @NateSilver538 The Germans do, rather infamously. Arsenal and Chelsea become Arsenal London and Chelsea London. Ajax absolutely is Ajax Amsterdam. And Celtic is Celtic Glasgow

@ParkTheBus15 @GrayConnolly @NateSilver538 In Germany (well, Deutschland) the demonym is superfluous, you just say Bayern. Like nobody says Ajax Amsterdam or Glasgow Celtic.

Why Kiev, why Vienna, why Munich ... if you speak English, we have olde usages in English that are not bound by other's preferences or pretensions.

Wieso spielt Undav nicht von anfang an? #Deutschland2026

@RedPill8765309 @NateSilver538 That works, except for the groups of 5 issue. That would mean one team doesn't play on the last MD, which sets up the possibility of another West Germany-Austria 1982 farce.

@NateSilver538 I don't know why they don't just expand to 64 teams with this format. Or they should do 40 teams with 8 groups of 5 and top 2 advance in each group for a 16 team knockout stage.

Yeah, most of the matches have been pretty entertaining so far. And it's called the World Cup and it happens once every 4 years. I'd say the bigger issue is that 48 teams into 32 knockout slots is very generous.

@WUTangKids The free breakfast at a similar budget hotel in Europe would still be a decent breakfast though.

Come on man….thats some shit at a budget hotel with free breakfast 🤣….go to a local diner or a Waffle House and they’ll take care of you!

@thedailybeast So all international air traffic will be routed through DFW? Or is this Mullin's idea to make Oklahoma City a thriving international air hub, since he's from Oklahoma?

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says he is drawing up plans to stop international flights from landing in Democrat-run “sanctuary cities” just two weeks before the World Cup. thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-noe…

@dallasenfuego It's Leland Burk. What do you expect?

"It will be an enhanced experience for the neighborhood," Burk said. Yeah. My last colonoscopy was an “enhanced experience” too.

@DonHuffines And you do that by first amending the constitution. You're not very good at this whole "supreme law of the land" thing. Do better.

Thank you, President Trump, for attending this historic hearing. The children of American Citizens should come first. It’s time to end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.