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REAL SOCIEDAD WIN THEIR FOURTH COPA DEL REY TITLE AND QUALIFY FOR THE EUROPA LEAGUE 🏆

Pellegrino Matarazzo becomes the first-ever U.S, born manager to win a trophy in a top-five European league 🇺🇸

REAL SICKOSIODAD WIN THE COPA DEL RAY

Real Socidad won a fucking cup!!!!!!!!

🇺🇸 Pellegrino Matarazzo leads Real Sociedad to win the Copa del Rey!

Matarazzo took over Socieded midseason and they’ve been flying since. What a story for the trailblazing American manager

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

No better way to turbo charge the afternoon than when a buddy accidentally sends a chat meme to his wife.

Pure fucking chaos. There’s no amount of damage control that can save it.

For all the marbles, Man City vs Arsenal Match Preview This is most consequential match of Mikel Arteta's tenure at Arsenal and it will define if the fanbase is happy or if it will tear itself apart.

Previewing the Man City vs Arsenal match. I think that it is safe to say that this is the most consequential match that Arsenal have had under Arteta. www.cannonstats.com/p/for-all-th...

Very torn about City-Arsenal this weekend. On one hand, the lazy, monthslong "Is this where they collapse? What about now? What about now? Okay, what about now? ...NOW??" narrative was super annoying when Arsenal were clearly at a new level and clearly the best team on the planet for about 7 months.

Yeah, so when the team complains about “market size” it’s like… you have a massive area of PA not just Pittsburgh. The issue is a bad TV deal and structure and an owner who doesn’t want to invest nearly enough of his cash reserves in the team until he was bullied into it

Yea more from a tv coverage perspective, IE, the tv channel with the pirates is available in that area, therefore it could be on at bars, events etc.

Right, their owner’s spending income comes from the team and a ski report in West Virginia. It’s on him that he’d rather hoard that cash than spend it back into the team or build out a business development team to find more monetization paths.

Pittsburgh is 100% the worst case scenario of this, the Penguins are one of the "big spenders" in NHL, Steelers are "the Steelers," and yet the Pirates don't spend. Pittsburgh is bigger than Vegas! And they get all of Western and Central PA (including Penn State are!) as part of the "market"

THE SMALL MARKET NARRATIVE IS A LIE PUSHED BY OWNERS TO JUSTIFY LOW PAYROLL

THESE MARKETS HAVE NEVER BEEN SMALL

/capslocking in economist

It’s just sports gambling.

Reminds me of a clip from Brennan Lee Mulligan I think about at least once a day and use as an example to explain community and empathy. youtube.com/shorts/EaL6M...

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

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This is my genre I really enjoy public speaking and presenting. I always have done. Yet I am an absolutely useless networker. I cannot speak conversationally with people that I do not know or am not comfortable with v...

Really enjoyed this from @tim-stillman.bsky.social over at @arseblog.com. What makes football interesting for me (and lots of others) is that there is no "right" way to play, because you cannot solve this game. Arsenal can still win the league, with control.

arseblog.com/2026/04/this...

1) this newsletter slaps, subscribe
2) the tottenham section is well worth the read, including a great linkout to another great read that makes you realize Sp*rs have become the NY Jets if the NFL had any real consequences.

*chef's kiss*

Here's my generational thing: I don't actually notice Yankee Stadium being much different than any other major league ballpark.

Minor league ballparks though? Much quieter and more "natural" baseball sounds

Firestone Walker buying up one of the few good pilsner makers in Cali just to fire people and move the production to Paso Robles is some dogshit. They're gonna fuck it up so bad. Pilsners require a deft hand and FWs move is usually just to over hop and push abv. We'll see what happens

It feels like an AI/fancast script.

Oh my god the Pirates refuse to be boring

and in true pirates fashion, this game can't be easy

This Pirates team is definitely better than last year's team by a mile, but every game they're doing the thing where I start thinking they might just be very good.

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Yankees enter the game to Bad Bunny? Good for yall

bsky is one example, but it's just so obvious that unless you have a 1-1 connection with your consumer that follows over to the social platform, legacy social is literally screaming into the ether.

it's an incredibly terrifying proposition, but it's true, and working through this won't be fun

i cannot emphasize enough that media's social strategy and reliance on legacy platforms for *anything* is a sunk ship, and if you're not looking for audience elsewhere, you are in big trouble.

social can still be useful, but not on legacy algo derived platforms that AI is eating up