Coffee and TV

All aboard the FCD hype train. Choo Choo.

Which makes me wonder why he's playing guys like Dempsey and Beckerman. Guys who are going to be too old come 2018. Does he take them into the qualifiers as well, or does really focus on putting together a squad for the long-term?

Also to touch more on Klins' lineups there's this. https://twitter.com/NAGower/status/624238028005974016

I'm not sold on Mix at all. He had an awful match against Haiti, and wasn't much better in his other appearances. I don't blame MLS, but ever since Mix came to NYCFC he seems to have regressed. And like CBL said, its silly to think a semi-final exit in the Gold Cup is some sort of rock bottom. Mexico lost the semi in 2013 against Panama (and should have again yesterday) and they got their act together in time for the World Cup the next year. Jamaica has played well and even gave Argentina fits in the Copa America, and the US just had some bad play. Qualifiers start soon and we'll be alright.

Oh

Geez. And I thought I really liked Blue Bell.

Calling it now, nothing will top the new Tame Impala this year. I had some doubt after the singles had the band going in a new direction, but it's superb. Absolutely wonderful.

I like where this is going

Anyone know if there's any promo code for the Alumni night tickets this Saturday? It's the only time the Padres will be in town this year for me.

Gold Cup opener tonight in Frisco. Be there or be square. AO will be rockin it.

LOLKAY

First Baptist Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress on the marriage equality verdict: “the most landmark blunder in the history of the United States Supreme Court.” Yeah Dred Scott, Plessy v Ferguson....who are they? Definitely no worse than a couple of dudes getting hitched. This is why church membership is declining rapidly nationwide.

Many Arab countries do the same, and they're all allies....so I guess it's just an anti-Obama thing, right?

But you're cool if he were to be fired for being gay though, right?

Yep, just your opinion.

And this is right here is why NPR and PBS still need to exist.

​Not sure, but I highly doubt it'll be turf. They'll figure out a way to get in grass. Assuming it'll still be played in Russia...

​ The Men's World Cup would have never been played on turf like this. Sure teams in Sweden and Canada and Russia play their club games on it, but they wouldn't dare doing it for the Men's World Cup.

​Yeah and I'm not advocating defaulting, people are making the choice. But there is an entire generation of kids who were brought up that had it hammered into their brains that the only way to get a decent job was to go to college and take those loans with the promise that everything would pan out okay. Truth is for a lot of kids, the jobs simply aren't there. And that's fine if you wanna say "hey not my problem they made bad financial decisions" but in the bigger picture it's everyone's problem. Coming out of school being weighed down by debt means graduates are pushing so much of their earnings towards paying it down that they're not contributing to the economy; they're not buying houses, or having kids, or making purchases that that demographic would have made in the past.

​I think some of the older graduates on here simply don't realize how much tuition has increased relative to inflation. I remember reading an article about a year ago that in 1979 you could work a full time minimum wage job in the summer and that would cover all your tuition expenses for that school year. 10 weeks at a full time job at minimum wage = no student loans for tuition. I remember when I first started at UNT in the fall of 2001 when my parents could help me out. My stepdad practically lost his mind when he found out how much my residential parking sticker was ($165 I think). I remember him stating that his UT Tyler parking pass in the late 80's was only $25.

Racked up about 35k in my years at UNT. I whittled that down to 22k over the course of about 7 years, but since my divorce about a year ago it's been impossible to pay anything close to what I was. 8 years out of school and I'm finally reaching the level of salary I need to make sustainable payments on them. Now it just kinda feels like an extra car payment I guess, with much higher interest.... Had I not had kids though I wouldn't have needed to take out so much, and I probably would have been close to paying them off by now.

​Disappointing but I think the Gold Cup break will work in our favor a little bit. At least this time we looked like we belonged on the same pitch as our opponents. I don't know if that says something about us, or San Jose though. The first red card on Sherrod was absolute garbage, and the one on Watson was pretty harsh. It's a shame that's what dictated the game more than the play itself. Gotta get Castillo back in the lineup though. Really hurts without him.

​Just that ping in general. No reason they can't use wooden.

OH GODDDDDDDDD KILL IT WITH FIIIIRRRREEEE

DBU's field is a joke. Turf batter's boxes should be illegal. Also aluminum bats suck.