Holy shit, you actually get paid to write about soccer, presumably? And you wrote this? Jesus Christ. I picked the wrong profession.

Well, see ya. Consider yourself un-guilted.

Best live sporting experience of my life was going to a Philadelphia Union game against the Galaxy. Beckham takes a corner kick near The River End and is getting endless amounts of grief. Kick goes up, ball gets headed into goal. Beckham turns to the Sons of Ben and mouths a "OH, POOR BABY" at them. Everyone…

This is, by far, the most stupid article I have read in a while on deadspin. What a fucking joke. Any idiot can write this. Not every league in the world is top flight. And the level of play in MLS has increased since the early days.

Sneijderman gets it. Also, as you and I would certainly agree, being a fan of a specific European powerhouse and your local MLS team are not mutually exclusive.

But, being serious, the premise of this article, to me at least, is flawed. And yes, I realize the hook is firmly in my cheek, but still.

Hi Billy, cool article, bro! Let me tell you what I tell my undergrad students: sarcasm and skepticism are not replacements for having an intellectual thought. Better luck next time!

There's a ton I don't like about MLS. But I'm still a fan of my local team.

And fuck all those people who actually liked NFL Europe and attended games because it was the closest they could get to live high-level football. What a bunch of dipshits.

Okay. You're just trolling at this point. That's cool.

This is exactly why I can't stand college football. Refuse to watch it. The route running? Puhlease. Watching a far superior Jaguars/Browns game in December is where you'll find me.

I was a commenter. I also pestered Craggs a lot over email. I gave him shit about seeming to cut Grantland Rice some slack for his racism, and also about giving a commenting star (remember those dumb things?) to some guy who didn't deserve it, and also I ranted at great length in a noteworthy Gawker thread about the…

I get people telling me that there are better ways to do this or that food thing all the time (I mean all the time, because I don't know shit), and I generally appreciate that. The frothing vituperation, the snide dismissal from turds who clearly didn't even bother reading, that kind of crap is pretty easy to…

Pitino: Tupac is not walking through that door!

Hate to ruin the magic for anyone who's excited/happy for this guy's "luck," but how hard is it to fathom that the admittedly awesome commercial was just a means to get everyone psyched about the at-that-time-unannounced-but-already-in-place reality show?

If you liked it then you should have put a cap on it.

The distinction as I understand it is between striker and forward. A striker is almost always thought of as the center forward/number 9. But a forward can be a wide player. For instance, in a 4-3-3, you play with three forwards, one center forward/striker and two wingers/wide forwards. So Neymar is not a striker and…

"Fernando Torres, once the surefire heir apparent to Villa" - You have this the other way around, while Villa did score more goals, Torres was always the bigger and better player. Take a look back at at Euro '04 &'08, and the 06 World Cup, not to mention Torres was at one point one of the top 3 players in the world.

Good grief!