The AI on Threads has apparently decided that today, it’s time to blame women for women’s sports not being more popular.

By the corner of Paterson Plank Road and Washington Ave. FIFA had said that that entrance would be closed to pedestrians during the games, but there were definitely people who took Ubers to Paterson Plank and then walked in for the earlier games. Security is tighter today.

Comparing it to hockey helped me a bit. The rule in hockey is the puck needs to cross the blue line before the players on offense, basically. Soccer seems like the same concept, except the line moves when the other players move? I think?

Get one of the women's ones! It's the same logo, but with four stars above it because the women have won four World Cups.

Possibly the most American thing I've ever seen. Not just beef jerky, but a Beef Jerky Experience! Kosher now available. (And lots of people going to World Cup games at MetLife pass by this. It's also across the hall from a "shooting range" where you can use airsoft guns to shoot at targets.)

There are a bunch of brands that market to Jewish women with stuff like this.

Yeah, there have been a bunch of conversations where Americans say that some of the teams will have trouble adjusting to the heat and sun, and English people (and a few Germans and Dutch) respond, "Americans think they're the only ones who have heat. Nobody will have any problems." Meanwhile:

Cincinnati put all of that stuff right on the river, which on the one hand cuts off downtown from the river, but on the other hand, when the river floods, we just get flooded fields rather than flooded homes.

The hotel with the sign is the red pin. You can't walk to anywhere from there, but taxpayers aren't going to pay for a pedestrian bridge just to get hotel guests out of their highway island.

This is the current status. (Princeton Dinky is in a different part of the state, and doesn't use those tunnels.)

The area surrounding this stadium is actually very walkable -- it's just the stadium itself that kind of exists in its own vortex. And this hotel in particular is even worse -- it's the red pin surrounded by the loop of highways.

Not really -- the hotels are basically inside a loop surrounded by highways, south of the stadium. A pedestrian bridge will get you out of that. Walking from the city means approaching this from the north.

Zooming out a bit, you have this. Until 1910, the only way to reach NYC from this direction was by ferry. This whole setup worked great in the 1600s and 1700s when the major mode of transport was by water. Not so great in the 1800s when they had to figure out trains.

And baseball is right in a city neighborhood. The park just south of the stadium is the footprint of the original stadium. When it was torn down and the new one built, they planned that park so that kids playing baseball there could play exactly where the Yankees legends had played.

This isn't any kind of new revelation. One of the big fan accounts uses graphics like this, and we constantly have to explain to new fans that the official explanation is that it's not the mythological Sirens, because that's everyone's first assumption.

He arrives there along Washington Ave. The map on Google doesn't really show the extent of the water -- most of what's in between the little blue tendrils is swampland. The bridge heading southeast at the bottom is the most direct car route to NYC, but that goes through a two-mile tunnel.

These are the recent results. This is totally winnable.

This is the color they're using.

The leage already has way too many teams with colors in the blue/green spectrum -- that's probably the one set of colors that all the new teams will avoid. (New York is also turquoise, but I couldn't fit a fifth photo.)

This is where the problem is. All those lines spread out to the west, going all over NJ. But all of them go from NY Penn to Secaucus first, through a tunnel. And the only train to the stadium is that little purple "Meadowlands Limited Service" spur from Secaucus.

NYC does have stadiums and arenas with all of that. They're just not for football.

It is possible for one person to walk there. There is a way to do it without the highways. The issue is what will happen if a lot of people try to do it at once. Like, the first place I'd be concerned is the bridge. It's a mile and a half, and this wide.

This area was never walkable. It's a swamp, and two rivers. I generally agree that most places should be more walkable, but for this particular one, it's just not possible. (The stadium is behind the photographer, and NYC is at the far horizon.)

This isn't in a city. It was built to get the New York NFL teams to move to New Jersey. This is what a stadium in the city looks like.

Yeah, this is very common in northeastern cities, because of when the different sports really got popular. Baseball stadiums are great. Football are the worst of everything.

I looked up the actual rules on that one. I'd have to look at the video again, but from what I remember seeing, I wouldn't think this applies.

No idea if he could still skate by the time he was president (probably not), but Reagan did once know how to.

Pesach sameach!

From a video of a Montréal Victoire player from the US giving an interview in very basic halting French, where she says that she's learning because it's important to the fans. I'm kind of impressed that automatic translate figured out what "CH" meant.

They really lean into the nautical theme. When opposing players get sent to the penalty box, fans chant "To the brig!" And they did a giveaway with these hats.