Uhtred

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And no one complained when they built that monstrosity of an african museum. Much less the fact that the Smithsonian has no museum dedicated to heritage Americans, chinese, native Americans, spanish Americans, etc

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A ton of people complained.

And there is a Native American museum. It’s decent. It has an amazing restaurant, actually. I recommend it if you’re ever visiting.

As someone who lives here, I do hate what’s been going on with the Kennedy Center. It just doesn’t make sense. My wife and I have been attending shows there for years. Why it was chosen as a political pawn is beyond me.

The rest of it… ugh. It’s all just noise.

Tough game today. Curious if Arteta will go with Bruno over MLS in midfield.

Brighton away is a difficult fixture. They score a lot, move the ball, and can be dangerous. At the same time, this is the type of game we might see Odegaard dominate in beautiful fashion.

They should move this game to Halloween weekend

I live in DC and take this route all the time. Acela is faster than NE Regional, but they're both great. just purchase your ticket based upon your preferred time.

Taking the train is so much better than flying into New York. You arrive in the heart of the city rather than 30-40 minutes outside of it. I'll never fly to NY again

Both of those are great.

Maydan is special. It just lost its Michelin star, but it's a fun, unique spot with tremendous food. The owner is hot as shite as well.

1789 is an old school fine dining spot in Georgetown. Makes you feel like you're brought back a few decades. Food is excellent.

The food scene in DC is incredible right now. I went to Albi the oher night - a Palestinian restaurant in Navy Yard that has a Michelin star. The NYT gave it four stars in a recent review, and it's the first time the NYT has given out anything more than three stars to a restaurant outside New York in decades. I will say, I really enjoyed it... however, I'm curious if politics may have been involved in such an outlier ranking by the NYT.

Moon Rabbit is a newish restaurant as well, located on the Wharf. The chef is Vietnamese but from Louisiana, and the cuisine blends the flavors of Vietnam and south Louisiana. Moon Rabbit was just ranked the No. 24 restaurant in North America in a recent publication.

The list of incredible restaurants here continues to grow. I'm doing my damnest to sample them all.

Let’s go back further to when we were in debt from the stadium and couldn’t pay our top players wages and they all left for United, City (who were funding wages with nonrev $$), and Barca.

I’m so glad those days are over

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what made everyone in here become Arsenal fans?

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I moved to London for grad school in 2007. I lived near Russell Square, where central London begins its merge into north London. I didn’t have a club I supported. I had barely even heard of most of the clubs.

All the people I met in the area were Arsenal fans and encouraged me to watch with them.

19 years later - I make it back to the Emirates every other year. I’ve loved this journey

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Doesn’t every team fly back to their base camp? England is stationed in Kansas City, for example. Germany is in North Carolina. It’s common practice for teams to fly back home after a game. So what’s the issue?

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Teams will spend the night and conduct their normal, routine recovery in the city of the match, and then fly back to their host city the following day.

For Iran, the players are forced to immediately return to Tijuana. And from Seattle, that’s about a 3-hour flight.

Athletes all have their routines. And it’s the post-game routine the Iran players are unable to conduct.

Their opponents have no restrictions.

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LOL you think your opinions validate your soccer IQ. On paper is irrelevant in international soccer and it’s precisely why we are traditionally a middle of the pack, solid team. We have had several “great” players on paper and it has translated to nothing during the only tournament that matters. Turkey being given a good chance of winning the pool is more of a reflection of the pool they are in and not of Turkey as a squad.

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Turkey isn’t just good on paper. They made it to quarters in the Euros two years ago and nearly beat the Netherlands. In fact, I think they were leading most of the game and ended up losing via an own goal. But that was an amazing game.

Overall, this was a pretty weak group, but not because of Turkey. Those dudes can ball.

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Means y’all are top heavy

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Underrated response. I laughed. Haha

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Looks like we sacked our head medical guy & team. Probably deserved after the last 2 seasons

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Good! The past two seasons have been horrific