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A.J. Barnold

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Senior Performance Analyst @bayfc.com. Formerly @uswnt.ussoccer.com - 2019 #FIFAWWC Champions ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟, 2020 Olympic 🥉. Views are my own. He/him.

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Claire Hutton is already cooking for @bayfc.com 😮‍💨

15.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 66    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 5
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Bay FC Acquires Midfielder Claire Hutton in Intra-League Transfer with Kansas City Current | Bay FC Bay FC announced today the club has acquired midfielder Claire Hutton from the Kansas City Current in exchange for $1.1 Million in intra-league transfer funds.

JUST ANNOUNCED 🚨 #BayFC has acquired 2025 Midfielder of the Year Nominee and @uswnt.ussoccer.com standout, Claire Hutton, from the Kansas City Current.

The 2025 @nwslsoccer.com Best XI First Team selection will join the club in a historic transfer.

Details: bit.ly/4qHjFnW

11.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 54    🔁 19    💬 7    📌 4

The 3 year old heard “AJ Barnold” scored the touchdown (Barner).

09.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

09.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 8589    🔁 1813    💬 30    📌 96

MAHA shelled out a ton of money for a post-halftime ad slot… when their audience is probably not watching??

09.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 1 year old clapping during American Idiot. Teaching her well in a couple ways.

08.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

And the women’s team:
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)

08.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 355    🔁 133    💬 5    📌 3

The behavior typical of every FIFA Peace Prize winner.

07.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 278    🔁 36    💬 7    📌 1

I just want all of you to be proud of me for staying out of the "Trinity Rodman is Greenland" discourse.

30.01.2026 04:12 — 👍 75    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 — 👍 24964    🔁 12907    💬 200    📌 449

Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing

24.01.2026 16:40 — 👍 1026    🔁 353    💬 2    📌 8

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

24.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 4008    🔁 1070    💬 90    📌 56

Fernando Mendoza still creating his Heisman Moments in mid-January 🤯

20.01.2026 03:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're calling your competiton a "cup" then you need to be able to drink out of the trophy, I'm sorry but those are the rules. Vases are vases, plates are plates, shields are shields, cups should be cups.

19.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 196    🔁 38    💬 11    📌 2
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Soccer is back in season 🌺

Tickets go on sale 2/3.

bayfc.com/tickets/sing...

15.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 26    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 2
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A new season is blooming! 🌺
The 2026 @nwslsoccer.com schedule is live.

bayfc.com/schedule/

15.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 8

Trying to watch the AFCON semi but my eyes are broken from the red vs green.

14.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gonna blame this for how my body feels when I wake up and not the fact that I am old.

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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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This is Georgie. He heard sirens outside his window. Thought he would show them how it's done. 14/10 excellent vibrato Georgie (TT: georgietheboxr)

06.01.2026 23:34 — 👍 4710    🔁 578    💬 137    📌 81
Blaze and the Monster Machines title slide that reads “AJ to the Rescue”

Blaze and the Monster Machines title slide that reads “AJ to the Rescue”

Shoutout to my son’s new favorite show (Blaze) for this masterpiece of a title slide that I will be spamming my coworkers with for the foreseeable future.

31.12.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Foul goal is “ball don’t lie” in response to the Spurs fans booing people for the crime of… getting absolutely bladed?

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I’m just hoping I qualify for the new High Impact Player rule.

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Having coached Sam when he was a U14… can confirm the lore goes back a long way.

17.12.2025 01:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a reminder I guess

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I feel this deeply having attended those RFK games as a kid. And Olympic games, and WWC games.

03.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pep Lijnders wearing the PG jacket hoping no one realizes he's the "other" Pep?

02.12.2025 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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