Matt Barger
Matt Barger
@mattbarger.bsky.social
Data scientist. Anti-fascist. Soccer fan. Disappointed Keynesian. Sometimes writer for American Soccer Analysis
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1. Ronin is a fantastic movie. 2. I remember they were celebrating this aspect on the release 3. How did no one die?
watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."
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I really like the logic behind this. Simple and effective.
Goofing around with a metric on players who are good at receiving the ball and able to turn and play forward (and passers who enable it). Here's my first simple pass, just forward pass (>5m and < 45 degrees from center) + forward action. There's too many wide players so I gotta play with it.
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Same with this response. It's a very dumb response to anyone who isn't conservative. But this is probably the central source of conservative rage nowadays. They feel like they have to disavow themselves to fit someone else's world. And, again, the conservatives' dissonance on this is preposterous.
Mike Collins makes apologies for white nationalists like his son in law: "These people feel like they've been forgotten. And they're just lashing out."
For anyone (everyone here) who calls this an own: Check the responses to this exact post on Twitter. The audience Ossoff is trying to reach with this expects Collins to saying this, and the audience Collins is representing feels that Collins is oppressed; he can't say their true answer.
OSSOFF: You didn't answer earlier. Answer now. Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election? MIKE COLLINS: You know, the 2020 election. Everybody has seen my views on that OSSOFF: What are they? COLLINS: There was a lot of doubt in that election OSSOFF: I didn't hear an answer
I'm mostly surprised by how negligible the schedule change is because the season runs so long. We're basically trading a couple weeks of summer for a couple weeks of winter. Unofficial Apertura/Clausura, here we come.
Been a lot of chatter about how the upcoming MLS schedule change is going to affect play on the field. @kierdoyle.bsky.social decided to look exactly how. www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/10...
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Also this goal comes off a Spain goal kick, where they do the thing I'd like to see teams do more often: if they press you with 5 and leave 3-4 back, they've got 1-2 players covering a huge gap between those lines. Just dink it in between, go win a 1v1, and you have instant transition.
I think PTJ is the best shot-stopper the USWNT has, but that goal laid bare a real issue: she panics with the ball at her feet too often. Is it a perfect pass back from Fox? No, but there's plenty of time to let it run to her left and clear it, or even open her hips and take a touch away from goal