She realized that if it didn’t pass the Senate there was no fucking point at all? 

But what’s the alternative-- I mean if you’re a good but not elite player at 16 or 17 why on earth would you take the Euro model approach (for non-elites-- so no million-dollar bonus or anything) of say 15 grand a year and life in an academy over a college scholarship? 

To address this briefly-- it’s only partially true-- the great bulk of the athletes at the upper tiers of the Basketball and Football development systems aren’t transferable to Soccer and vice versa- it’s not like in an Argentina without futbol Messi is suddenly an NBA vet.  This isn’t to say it isn’t part of the…

So......how exactly do you “merge the resources”— because let’s be real honest- what the Euro’s are doing is basically the WNBA model where successful men’s clubs subsidize women’s teams and that’s not something transferable to the US.

Ehhh I actually think Tennis is a good example of where the Women’s Game is on the whole more entertaining-- if only because the men’s game has become increasingly serve dominated which robs viewers of rallies and the like where the great overall athleticism in the men’s game would be evident. 

So....what’s the solution that ignores the Blue Dogs and still gets a majority? 

Seriously, I’m completely open to the idea that moderates don’t work better in seemingly moderate districts but if anything 2018 seemed to disprove that contention and the linked article certainly doesn’t undercut those facts.

Congrats you’ve named 4 Dems on the progressive side, the problem is that Pelosi has to corral 235 Dems and she’s already on the left side of the caucus. 

Are you fucking insane, seriously- even if we didn’t learn this lesson in 2000, and weren’t reminded in 2016, how the hell could you think this now unless you actively support Trump? The Supreme Court alone is enough to go all in on voting for whatever Dem is nominated barring something insane happening, throw in…

Cool, cool run on “ban all guns” and you’ll see why “America doesn’t have a far left movement” -- hint- the electorate doesn’t support that. 

“There would be no insurance companies to refuse to cover essential health benefits”

I don’t think that’s the case with Acosta, if only because he was too low on the totem pole to even draw interest from Epstein prior to taking the case— I think Acosta’s generosity is probably more attributable to deference to power and pressure from above than an explicit quid pro quo or blackmail.

I am a bit shocked it doesn’t look like Bevin is in a tight race at the moment- Even Kansas had a backlash to going to hard to the right and being incompetent at it. 

I know it’s not super popular around here at times but maybe just maybe look at what gets Dems elected in Red-to-Purple states instead of asking them to go all AOC and lose by 30?

What’s always made Altidore so frustrating to watch is that all the pieces are often so evident but they so rarely all come together in the same match. 

This.  And it’s pretty much always been this way here-- look at the shift from Baseball and Boxing to Football and Basketball over the course of the 20th century-- it’s directly tied to this (it’s also an interesting look at the shift in disadvantaged populations-- early boxing and baseball had ton’s of first and…

Dempsey, man- if you could combine Jozy and Clint the US would have a complete forward. 

It’s changing but I think a big part of the problem is that soccer for a long time was a youth and then middle and upper middle class kids sport (like Baseball for the most part now)— basketball and football (in the south) were viewed as ways out; like Baseball in the first half of the 20th century)- it’s way too…

This. That said there are thousands of elite HS PGs who will never sniff a minute of college (much less professional) playing time who would have been interesting soccer players.

This is both true and untrue-- sub- 6' 3" men in the US probably aren’t going to make it in the NBA barring the kind of freakish athleticism and/or skill that makes it worthwhile to pursue-- those are the people we lose at the youth and post-youth level that other countries get.   Guys like Zion or Lebron would have…