Ken Callahan

FINAL: @RacingLouFC defeats the first place Portland Thorns, 3-1, at Lynn Family Stadium.

If they cut Social Security, I want every single penny they have taken from my paychecks since the very first day I ever started working.

I’m sorry but under no circumstance is the USMNT good enough to NOT bring a player who just started in the UCL semis to the World Cup. Roldan and Berhalter do not elevate this team enough to excuse him not going. Johnny Cardoso should be on the World Cup roster.

If Thomas Tuchel isn't the right cultural fit and the likes of Graham Potter and Liam Rosenior are, your culture is all kinds of wrong. Absolutely nothing will change unless the owners decide to give up on their pathetic failed experiment.

You should be into Pokemon cards either for playing or collecting because you like Pokemon in general or for other aspects such as the card art, an artist, a specific Pokemon, etc. The idea of a card only being worthy if it's a "hit" or "worth money" is a cancer to the hobby.

Real dogs are available at your local shelter for a small adoption fee and they dont require a cloud based subscription service or wifi for functionality!

Once you are dead from a vaccine preventable disease you cannot un-die from it. It's an irreversible thing.

This. Is. Gold 🤩

y’all had all them jokes about george floyd and trayvon martin tho learn to take a joke pussy

This lot came in to a club that was debt free, had been the most successful team in England for 20 years, had a manager who’d just won the Champions league & they said, nah we can do better, let’s copy the Brighton model, get their manager & all their directors 😂😂😂

These balloons. They blow them up and they light up at night with all these different designs and it's fucking crazy.

Dear @ebehdad RE: The Conflict of Perverse Incentives I want to be fair to you. You had less than a month to structure a complex billion pound transaction, so some mistakes were always going to happen. But the mistake I’m describing isn’t an execution error. It’s a conceptual flaw baked into the deal from day one, and it has permanently poisoned your strategic position. You built a structure with three stakeholder groups, and you only have a fiduciary duty to one of them. That was always going to end badly. Let me explain why. A man came to you and said he had £300m and wanted to buy a business for £4.2bn. Two of his mates would chip in £300m each. You lent him the rest. To their credit, they’ve been matching cash calls ever since. But here is what you actually agreed to: you needed Boehly’s money, which meant Boehly got something in return. What he got was influence over the sporting operation. And the first thing he did with it was sack Thomas Tuchel so he could have his dressing room access. That decision, made to protect your financial relationship with a co-investor who couldn’t actually afford the asset, is what set everything else in motion. Roman left you a blueprint. He won trophies, built a global brand, and maintained a fair value that always exceeded his cost basis. Central to that was Cobham. Fans across England sing “he’s one of our own” for a reason. That bond between a club and its homegrown players is not sentiment. It is enterprise value. You dismantled it. You sold the graduates and killed the pipeline, not because it made sporting sense, but because your financial model required short term asset monetisation over long term brand construction. You have now spent more on transfers than any ownership group in the history of football. Chelsea are currently 9th. Below Brentford. Below Brighton. That is the sporting output of your model, and those fans who sang “he’s one of our own” have noticed. Here is where your conceptual flaw becomes permanent. Boehly has £100m of interest accrued and payable to Ares. You have at least £600m sitting in the Cayman Islands, accruing and payable to COP III. Across the group the interest bill is approaching £400m this year. That means you have no choice but to run this club for one purpose: to make debt service payments. Managing a football club to pay interest has never worked in the history of this game unless you’re Manchester United. Your problem is that you don’t have their revenues. So you are flipping players to fund cash flow. There will be no properly experienced signings. No manager with real authority. No trophies. You’re caught in a sell-to-buy death spiral and fans have worked out exactly what is happening. If you’ve made it this far in my letter, this is the part I’d encourage you to sit up and focus on. You need the fans more than they need you. Every day more of them are learning what this structure actually means for the club they love, and they are making a rational decision: do not buy the brand of an owner who is just here to pay interest. Your perverse incentive is to balance the books, manage the asset, and extract the best possible valuation before the debt matures. Their perverse incentive is to make sure you never get there, because the only exit that actually serves their interests is Ares foreclosing and forcing a sale to someone who can run this club properly. Think about what that means. The fans who generate the revenue you need to service your debt are now rationally incentivised to undermine that revenue. You created a structure where your key stakeholder group is rooting for your creditor to take the club from you. That is not a communication problem or a PR problem. It is a structural conflict with no resolution inside your current ownership model. I’m not sure what the long term prognosis is for a business in that position. But I think you already know. Yours truly, bf

A moment the Ortiz brothers will never forget. ❤️

WATCH: Video of Cherie DeVaux, trainer of Golden Tempo, shows her reaction to winning the Kentucky Derby

Literally everyone: March Madness is perfect NCAA: let’s ruin it

Where was this energy when the White House was using Pokémon font and graphics for propaganda?

The taxes are NOT high enough lmao I’m sorry

Me, when the bartender pretends not to see that I need my 14th Miller High Life…

Here's 45 seconds of Facebook telling me the alleged WHCD shooter was a former staffer of literally almost every major collegiate and professional sports team

Hearing erika kirk say 'I just want to go home' doesn't move me because those were likely the last words of hundreds of school children who never made it home because unlike her they didn't have a security detail.