Mike Crugnola

can you imagine if riqui came to austin and was teammates with guilherme biro 🤣

A black t-shirt with white type, a photo of socialist Eugene V. Debs speaking, the shirt features his quote "while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" at the bottom it says "Haymarket Books"

heard y’all like Eugene V. Debs www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2347-e...

Rome knows how to party

Predicted lineup and formation vs LAFC tomorrow night.

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

JUST LIKE WE WANTED ALL ALONG. ILIE HAS NEVER LOST AGAINST A FORMER CLUB WE'RE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE.

Ted rules, at least there I know he'll know what's up AND I'll have committed to a home feed 🤣

Disliked: this commentary team. They're so annoyingly pro-SJ and embarrassing.

a white wolf is sitting in the snow with its mouth open . Alt: a white wolf is sitting in the snow with its mouth open howling: AWOOOOOOOOO

Liked:

This, hands down.

Eastern Conference (+Seattle) Decision Day was WILD.

Awesome. Stoked for the second half of the night.

excellent work! your friends with weird podcasts appreciate the effort, i'm sure. (signed, someone with a couple VERY niche shows in his history.)

Hallmarked Up! Comedy Podcast · We rewrite the Countdown to Christmas Hallmark movies for today's modern woman. Because, love them or hate them, we can all agree that the storylines defy probability the way the ging...

I could not find it on the fly! Everyone go listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

DUDE hell yeah, I'm so glad y'all are involved lfg lfg

Thank you, we think so too! The vibes would be

✨ I M M A C U L A T E ✨

That's basically what Gass was saying, that dude is absolutely ELECTRIC!

YouTube video by NPR Music T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

+my thoughts on this week's Happy Hour:

1) This CRUSHES & is 10 years old? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjX...
2) @empiregass.bsky.social how dare you not drop your friend's Hallmark Movie Podcast link in the show notes?!
3) Lacey Chabert would go blonde for the shot at playing you, Suse. (Suz? Sooz?)

hey @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social - what's the best way to get @susannahfuller.bsky.social to chat on @swoontower.bsky.social with @crugglez.bsky.social and me?

We met y'all super briefly (and barely held it together, playing it cool!) when you were in town for All-Star Weekend!

i was not prepared for what it was, not least bc everyone is hitting a wildly different beat here

need to get that bag while they can. Do I wish leagues/countries had retirement structures and social services so players didn't have to? OR, that soccer was big enough here that they could just get paid enough to take care of the second half of their lives? Hell yeah.

Absolutely agree that like, IDEALLY, players wouldn't also have to spend their time doing self-promo through this stuff and their play on the field could be enough, but I'm in that "gross this is reality" phase of my journey where like, player careers are short, lives are long, and these folks...

I know there's a globally different perspective re: media access but that's also true of the external financial opportunities afforded soccer players in other leagues across the world. they don't always need to market themselves to their communities the way MLS players do to make those connections.

Would love to hear the @mlspa.bsky.social perspective on this - the "giving players a bigger platform to provide visibility and garner more followers/endorsement opportunities" angle is one I hadn't recognized. At the same time @bradstuver.com is our most popular & most visible player, so it tracks?

We had to buy replacements because we were out of town in July when this was originally scheduled, so we sold ours! 🤣

@losverdesatx.bsky.social has a "Full 90 Club" for local spots that commit to showing the match with sound and everything - looks like the south members are Lustre Pearl South and Meanwhile Brewing!

www.losverdesatx.org/events

Hey @travishelwig.bsky.social / @darrendmiller.bsky.social / @hafosafo.bsky.social will y'all sign this for me after we win tonight?

The greatest team in the world sweeps LAFC tonight.

#AustinFC

100% agreed. I was mostly trying to say "I don't think this is a coach being a total piece of misogynist shit" like he was Claudio Reyna or something 🤣

I understand where you're coming from on this, but your perspective definitely proves his point. If the game was allowed to be SO physical in the Twin Cities (and the rest of the cup run TBH - Desler's high challenge in SJ for example), calling it so differently for the Final is a big departure.