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It's the damn Brit shows via Prime that are getting me! BritBox, Acorn, Masterpiece Theater... I do snag my oldest daughters Hulu, and youngest daughters Disney (basic) and they use my NF and Prime. I've been thinking about threatening to take them both off the car insurance or make them cover the streaming stuff. Wife says I can't do that. Dammit

Did the J&J one shot, if for no other reason than to cut my potential side effects in half.

No kidding. I'm hoping both clubs will say, fuck it we're both here, let's play a couple.

Well between the 2,all 38 were available. My biggest knock with peacock was lack of halftime/post game studio stuff that NBCSN had. Where do I get my Rebecca Lowe fix??

That's should do it. Be hard to grab 2 more teams on very short notice.

He is already the best true winger on the squad, so he's an upgrade by definition. How much, we shall see, but I am cautiously optimistic.

I am going to be so bummed if this gets cancelled, I was looking forward to the trip and the matches, but it's looking shaky.

I presume he was meaning via a streaming app (which you can put on TV) vs a cable channel directly from your cable provider. My uneducated hunch, is NBCSN is being closed down to funnel money to Peacock. Greed/survivability, but the cord-cutters have flipped the cable subscription model on it's head. Still, NBC did better than ESPN (who is bleeding money). They have the rights to the FA Cup (and league) the last couple years, and did not put a SINGLE match on their cable outlets - everything was via ESPN+. Every round was available, which was good, but I hate the way they (and NBC) are doing it. I get it, but I don't like it. Instead of a $150 cable bill, at some point I'll have a $70 streaming service, and 10-12 $6/month subscriptions. It's already to the point in the US that it seems my apps have apps.

Could certainly be a factor. You would think it should apply somewhat to SoCal, AZ and SoFla as well? I believe there is a good bit of talent coming from/being developed in FL, but the current path does seem to routed through Texas to Europe.

I think you may have misunderstood - I'm not adding anything together, I'm just wondering what in the world is going on, and hoping for all I am worth that none of this actually occurred, for the sake of any/all of our players, and the other parties that may be involved. And on a much less relevant matter, wondering how the distractions affect our pre-season, especially with the Florida Cup looking at risk as it is.

Or does it mean that he is the 31 year old, not Gylfi?

Nationwide all in all, yeah - but you are spot on about Texas. Chris Richards is an example, the CB who is at Bayren Munich is actually from B'Ham, AL but moved to Texas and got in with FC Dallas before BM came calling.

Yes, but you know as well as I do that youth soccer in this country is more of a suburban babysitter then a path towards development. It's getting better, but miles to go.

While I would love to see us win it, I think any further wins are somewhat of a bonus. Outside of a few names, half of this team I had to look up and wasn't familiar with since almost all of the European players returned to their clubs after the Confederation Cup for a short rest before their preseason starts. This is actually a good opportunity for some of the smaller nations to win it, as they have most of the regular team. Not saying that we shouldn't be competing to win it, but we have an awful lot of young players playing together for the first time and some in difderent positions and while they are promising, they are just mostly very green internationally. This team is far closer to what our Olympic team should have looked like IMO, but there seems to be some pretty good young talent that could provide some good depth in the coming WC qualifiers.

It was odd to me last week when I was visiting Panama, we got an update saying Panama had been moved from Level 3 Advisory (risky) to Level 4 - Do Not Travel by the US CDC/State Department, due to increase crime and Covid cases. I'm reading about murders every day back home in Alabama, we have no mask restrictions in public anymore, and almost twice the deaths of Panama with a similar population, and a similar vax %. And I'm in Panama, where the entire country still has a 10pm curfew, everyone wears a mask outside their home, I had my temp checked every door I entered probably 70 times in a week....and I'm told it's too dangerous to be here?? It's safer in Alabama healthwise. Safe to travel to Chicago? What unelected public official makes the decisions? I'm just stunned that well over a year into this, those in charge are still so inconsistent and haven't seemed to learn shit. There is just too much political capital and money in this whole pandemic. Both sides of the isle are playing games with lives and money and I don't trust any of them. I got my vax, I wear a mask where I supposed to or personally choose to, but I swear this is going to be the biggest power/money grab of all time. That's not to say I think it's a hoax or anything crazy like that, but dammit man. Sorry, rant over, I'll mumble under my mask.

Damn Yanks. Oh, wait

I just got back from a week rambling 800 miles across Panama, and will do another 900 next weekend to Orlando and back. Ah well, do what ya gotta do! But I ain't doing shit in August!

No you're right, post was a little convoluted. Gonna be tough to raise money from players we would sell, as well as save money by cutting deadwood.

Anyone else going to be in Orlando for the game this coming Sunday?

I agree, but I mainly just meant in general, especially as it relates to the deadwood. Almost nobody outside of England has the money to take the wages let alone for a decent transfer fee.

It appears to me that about only clubs that are not in a money crunch from the start are EPL squads. That limits where we might be able to sell players, as well as who we would WANT to sell players to. I mean would we be will to sell a Richy or even a Moise to a rival we have to face and battle for table position?

You look at the ages, it's basically a a team that could have played in the Olympics

I missed the game traveling, but from the highlights it appears the last half of Hoppe's season at Schalke wasn't a fluke. Dike I absolutely like, he is a big boy up top

That's not as bad as having to drive on the left-hand side of the road...

Arsenal v Inter is 6pm eastern time, Everton to follow 8/830 I'd guess. So that's what, 1am UK time? Same start times for Wednesday games