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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 8h

It's almost as if I'm letting my MLS Season Pass lapse and laughing at all the ticket reps asking if I'm going to renew

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 8h

MLS got $2 billion (with a b) from the Apple deal, and they did not spend their money on actual people

Maybe it's time I gave up the league for good

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 11h

As someone whose time freelancing for MLSsoccer was a vital step in my career progression, and someone who generally gleans insight from the observations of others:

This sucks so hard.

MLS is using generative AI to write match recaps. Writers used to get paid freelance rates to do that. Hssssss.

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 11h

Like, I'm at work right now watching this out of the corner of my eye, but the REDBLACKS would give the Jets a panic attack and I cannot be more derogatory than this

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who says they'll never watch the CFL because they insist it's inferior football but then turns around and watches the New York Jets on purpose should be fed into a volcano

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 13h

Meanwhile the FO is trying to figure out why we're having generational turnover in the community, and they seem to think it's "team bad" but it's the deeper sense of "you keep promising you'll change but you're drunk again"

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, they reflect (fire everybody) but they don't LEARN

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 13h

gonna re-record Wood so that she actually does say "he dickmatized me" instead of her cowardly self-censorship

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 14h

Taylor Swift will make an exclusive announcement on GMA (Good Morning America) tomorrow, October 13th

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 13h

on the last point, I think it came down to us having already used our buyouts - I wanna say Birnbaum so that he could retire and come off the books was the big one.

We then used that money on Joon, which uh

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 14h

lol at rallying around the lone House Democrat to vote to keep this government open

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 14h

I'll ask my Polish friend.

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 14h

Related: my partner is determined to keep me away from a television during this game because we're both tired of me being Mad About Soccer

Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 15h

The Klichy Curse: a goblin so determined to make everything worse that he blew a hole in multiple teams

Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 22h

With the Galaxy’s win, next week’s Atlanta vs. D.C. trash can derby will determine who wins the 2025 Wooden Spoon.

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 15h

Deeply quotable movie but not in the modern way

*holding up a whole carafe of coffee* YES HAVE SOME has been my stress aesthetic my entire life

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Cosmo Clyde @yerboypdk.bsky.social · 2d

Well, on the one hand, I had to get up at GFY hours to be at work in case Donald Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize

On the other hand, no he didn't, and a Venezuelan woman did instead

So thanks for the $90

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Babs @fannyomaha.bsky.social · 5d

This is what some of y'all's mutual aid requests look like