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Image credit: xkcd To paraphrase one of the classic tweets that lives rent free in my head, I'm a modest blogger with modest goals: 1. To write a humorous blog on a semi-regular basis. 2. drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god. Unfortunately I've had to put the second goal on hold as a much, much more serious matter has come to my attention.  This all started because I was trying to find some statistics from Union Omaha before they played Tormenta last week. "Hmmmm," I thought to myself. "I'll just hop on over to their website and surely they'll have stats galore. A virtual smorgasbord of stats for me to peruse and enjoy at my leisure."  So I fired up the old internet machine and made my way to the Union Omaha page and.... well it's a nice website. But no stats to be found anywhere. At first, I thought it might be under the "Club" heading. There I was able to find the 2025 roster, but no player or team stats. None of t...

Photo Credit: Tormenta FC I going to apologize in advance, which is a weird thing to say about a written post that I can edit and write it exactly as I want it before anyone sees it.  Nevertheless, I'm going to apologize now as this will be a shorter post leading up to Tormenta's Second Round US Open Cup match tonight. And to make matters worse (well, maybe better depending on your thoughts on my writing), I'm going to miss tonight's game. Longtime readers ( Editor: Luke, this is only the second year you've written this blog. At best someone has been reading this for 15 months. I'm not sure you have longtime readers. Are you sure you want to leave this in?) Fine, readers from last year will recall that I missed every Tormenta Open Cup match because I decided to be a supportive parent and go to my oldest's soccer games or, in one case when he didn't have a game, was at the ER with him. Well, I lucked out with Tormenta's first Open Cup game as Statesbo...