Recent content by Ted Lange as your Bartender

Tonight you all get to experience life as a 2020’s Union fan! Congrats or sorry in advance

Yeah, White (and I suppose Steffen to a degree) is from of the old Union hub-and spoke “academy” model as White was more a PDA guy that was Union-adjacent, like FC Delco and some other local academies. The other 7 are from the current Union academy setup (Union youth teams, YSC high school etc).

Union academy represent! 7 players on the roster from YSC

Also busted out a rabona cross for the fun of it

I’m a few weeks late on this, but did anybody else happen to go to Coachella? Great time, not sure I need to do it again unless somebody really special plays there (like either a Daft Punk or White Stripes one-off reunion show). I got my fill of live acts for a little while, though I have more...

SEMICONDUCTOR, ELECTRONIC TARIFFS WILL COME IN A MONTH OR SO, LUTNICK SAYS It was fun while it lasted

Disagree. It SHOULD pale in comparison to a pandemic, but there’s no Fed bazooka coming to bail us out this time, at least not for another 1,000 SPX points minimum. They can’t roll this back easily without losing major face. So they won’t.

Annnnnd here comes the China retaliation tariffs.

It’s actually even worse than that because they only used trade deficits in GOODS, they ignored services, where the US runs huge surpluses against a lot of countries. There’s nothing that someone like Bangladesh or Lesotho can really do, they’re poor countries, they just can’t afford US goods...

This. We need to keep our DL powder dry for next year’s Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith extensions. I hate to see Williams go, but for the money he’ll likely get, I’ll take the compensatory 3rd and look to backfill him with either a high draft pick or a veteran on a prove it deal - have to...

Kind of. They used the 3rd round pick they got from the Colts in 2021 to trade back up in the 1st for Devonta Smith (after trading down from 6 to 12 with Miami and picking up an extra 1st in 2022) They then used the 1st from the Colts along with their own 1st to make a trade with the Saints to...

Sort of our version of the Herschel trade

KC reminded me a lot of us from last year. Stacking wins but doing so unconvincingly (the toenail out of bounds vs the Ravens, the late penalty vs the Bengals, the blocked FG vs Denver, the Raiders late botched snap, etc). They kept that ponzi going much longer than the eagles did, and you had...

So at one point late in the game my daughter was asking me why I wasn't yelling or excited more. And I was for sure early on. But by the end of the game I probably looked like Andy Dufresne (from the movie not the FBG haha) sitting on the roof in the shade with that grin watching the boys drink...

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