The future is in the past. Working on content, @prizepicks & @prizeplaybook. Will skip the social function to watch the game.
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Jun 15
bro i was reading this like
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Christian Hardy retweeted
Jun 12
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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Christian Hardy retweeted
Jun 13
Just for perspective, any win at the World Cup is rare for the USA. Tonight was only their 8th World Cup win since 1930.
Community note
The USMNT had 9 World Cup wins before this match, making it their 10th since 1930, not 8th. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St… fifa.com/en/tournaments…
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Christian Hardy retweeted
Jun 13
Mauricio Pochettino’s USA
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Jun 12
WHAT??? There's no way. I can't believe this. FIFA would not do this. Unbelievable accusation.
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Jun 12
brother HUH?
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insane gaslighting
Jun 12
Official attendance figures reflect the number of tickets scanned and spectators present within the stadium footprint, rather than visual assessments of seating occupancy at any given moment during the match. FIFA works closely with stadium authorities and ticketing teams to ensure all published figures are based on verified operational data.
Please note that, during last night’s match in Guadalajara, several ticketed fans could be seen standing in concourses rather than staying in their assigned seats throughout the match.
Community note
Photos from the match show thousands of empty seats throughout the stadium, contradicting the claim of only several fans in concourses. nytimes.com/athletic/73524… yahoo.com/news/world/art…
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Christian Hardy retweeted
Jun 10
DUDE LMAO THIS IS A GAS STATION😭😭😭
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I can't believe this bro
You take De'Aaron Fox's brain and put it in a bird he's gonna bark
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Jun 8
I feel so bad for Knicks fans, esp for ones who still live in NYC. What a buzzkill
Jun 8
NYPD announces that, starting at 4pm today:
“Vehicular and pedestrian traffic will be closed from West 30th Street to West 35th Street between 6th Avenue and 8th Avenue.
No one will be allowed inside the secure area unless you have a ticket to the game, a train ticket, are going to a business inside the area, have credentials, or have some other authorized reason to be there.”
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Jun 8
Brother
Current weather forecast for Sunday in DC.
From AccuWeather.
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Jun 6
the event time to what? daylight hours?
at that point they shouldnt even be sanctioned
🚨 Ojo a esto:
⛈️ A día de hoy, hay un 69% de posibilidades de que llueva el domingo 14 de junio… ¡¡Y un 39% de probabilidad de tormenta eléctrica!!
❌Dana White dijo que sólo se cancelará el evento si hay rayos
Como excepción en esta cartelera, la UFC podrá mover el evento de hora para intentar evitar cualquier contratiempo..
Dioses de las MMA, no nos hagáis esto 😭
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Jun 6
just realized the prelims start at 4 pm ET 😭 rip to those fighters
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Christian Hardy retweeted
Jun 6
UFC Vegas 118 main card preview at @PrizePlaybook is up!
Here are picks and predictions for tonight's action: prizepicks.com/playbook-arti…
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Jun 5
“Welcome in to Sunday Night Football, where we’ll see the Green Bay Packers visiting the Indiana Bears in beautiful Hammond, Indiana”
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