Christian McDonald

@LosNerdesVerdes I'd still love to talk about this and other soccer nerd stuff. Please DM me.

@LosNerdesVerdes Thanks for this great take and for the shoutout about the data. I'd love to talk with y'all about your work. Also, I've updated github.com/utdata/mls-sal… with early 2024 release.

1/ Between the news that #AustinFC are moving on from Rigoni and the MLS PA’s 2024 salary guide release, we took a look at league trends and explored how important it is for a club to get their DP signings right. (With some big help from @crit on compiling the data) #SJvsATX

@jswatz @EvilMopacATX

@EvilMopacATX It’s nobody’s favorite, but I was pleased to find that Mod Pizza keeps anchovies handy.

It's time for my yearly experiment in dividing the city into several dug-in camps where people are 100% willing to die on a hill 🍕What's the best Pizza in Austin?🍕 Any location. All price points eligible. No holds barred.

@lmcgaughy @IRE_NICAR Can’t go and sad about it … until I remember why … we’ll be hiking Scotland!

Roll call: Who's going to @IRE_NICAR? 👋

So which global superstar did Texas book? Wrong answers only.

@philwest @Goodman @LosNerdesVerdes @WeAreAustinTV OK, this is fixed. I also added a page where you can see and search the data. FYI, I also have a salary study from last season: utdata.github.io/mls-salaries/. Nothing earth shattering ... just me exploring R skills with data of interest,

@crit @Goodman @LosNerdesVerdes @WeAreAustinTV Looks really good ... if you do a sort by roster designation, you'll see a stray | by a U22 designated player at the top, but otherwise, it reveals DPs first in a list you can then secondarily sort by team, which is muy helpful

MLS Team Roster Profiles came out earlier this week. The versions I saw were PDFs, so I made a little project to turn them into data. I used Pinpoint and R. Roster profiles and designations on two files. utdata.github.io/mls-roster-pro…

@Goodman @Goodman here is first stab at turning those roster profiles into data: utdata.github.io/rwd-mls-player… I know I have some issues with the player slots data and need to check to make sure main rosters are good, too.

@Goodman Beautiful… I’ll try to make those into data here in a bit.

MLS today released full roster profiles for every club as of May 1, giving unprecedented detail and clarity to each team's squad construction. Here's #AustinFC's:

@jayrosen_nyu Under Fire is the movie that got me thinking about journalism. imdb.com/title/tt008651…

Fall semester 2024 I am teaching a course I have not taught before. It's a seminar for First Year students at NYU. The title: "The figure of the journalist in Hollywood film." Feel free to send me your favorite journalism movies. Especially any you think I may not know about.

@sarah_h_cohen @Cronkite_ASU Aww. Best to you and your Saturdays.

It's the last day of class at @Cronkite_ASU -- and the last forever for me! Looking forward to the every-day-is- Saturday life and going home, but will miss the remarkable students I've had the privilege to mentor & my incomparable colleagues -30-

Going to #NICAR24? There are still seats available in my Upping your Excel Game class Friday afternoon. Pre-reg/extra fee but soooo worth it! I've been teaching this for almost 20 years & it never fails to blow people away. #2004" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">schedules.ire.org/nicar-2024/ind…

@ChrisBils I can’t recall a specific story, but I sure would welcome you back to covering Austin FC.

Been digging through my clips lately for writing samples, but I realized that I often view my own work with biases. So, I’m asking a selfish question: What’s your favorite piece that I wrote, or one that you happen to remember for whatever reason?

@_dannydavis @JasonEmbry @kherman @cgrisales @LCopelin @garysusswein

@crit @JasonEmbry @kherman @cgrisales @LCopelin @garysusswein I was still in college in 2006. I didn’t attempt to burn that league to the ground until 2008 or 2009.

The last time @cgrisales witnessed fighting like that it was in 2006 in our @statesman fantasy football league.

@JasonEmbry @kherman @cgrisales @LCopelin @_dannydavis @garysusswein It was indeed ugly.

@kherman @cgrisales I believe @LCopelin was McCarthy and @_dannydavis was the other guy. Do I have that right @garysusswein?

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