The MLS apologists are out in full force today. Why don’t you go back to celebrating making it out of group at the World Cup and telling fans of teams stuck outside of MLS to just get over it?

Because it wants to be Minor League Soccer, and MLS turning American soccer into baseball is a very bad thing for anyone who doesn’t want their club to be a farm team or for the USMNT to suck just so MLS owners can continue to control everything.

MLS stans have to be the most god awful fans in sports. Anyone tries to point out how fucked up things are and they are instantly dismissed as an arrogant snob, any expert or writer highlights something they would prefer be ignored is instantly discredited, any fan of an NASL or USL team that speaks up about how…

This ain’t 2002 anymore.

This ain’t 2002 anymore.

Maybe stop trying to cast anyone who is merely honest about MLS (and how it holds American soccer back) as an elitist snob.

Maybe stop trying to cast anyone who is merely honest about MLS (and how it holds American soccer back) as an…

Democrats are a right-wing party.

It’s an appropriate attitude considering he’s covering the miserable state of American soccer that most other people are perfectly fine pretending is A-OK.

Just once I want to get into these comment sections before the MLS stans shit it up getting all angry over someone writing the facts.

Guess what buddy: incentivizing the establishment of as many academies as possible and giving every club and their supporters a fair shake has nothing to do with “wanting to be like Europe”.

Haisley is right and you are wrong. As long as we continue to deliberately limit soccer investment in this country for the sake of MLS owners’ control rather incentivize investment across the board regardless of whether it fits into current MLS owners’ “expansion plans” and “territorial rights”, we will remain an…

This is the issue here and I hope Kotaku starts covering what happens when legions of players lose out because there’s no way to play themselves into the league.

It’s damn true.

I do think a kick out at four would have been appropriate here.

Now stop pretending Sanders supporters are only white and acknowledge he’d have won, and try again.

He showed up to a house on fire with a hose and the residents said they liked the warmth.

Wait. You actually thought that line was clever and not a laughable betrayal of the writer’s ignorance of the problem here?

He did. And if he had been, he would have won. But let’s keep whitewashing his supporters of color I guess.

You sure do seem pretty proud to have delivered us President Trump.

I still can’t believe smart, reasonable people are still arguing that Sanders lost on merit. “He couldn’t win old black people!” or “She won the primary by 4 million votes!!1!”. The same bullshit every time that deliberately ignores that OF COURSE, that’s how the system is designed, which is the fucking point.

No, see, why do what’s best for the USMNT and clubs stuck in minor leagues and supporters across the country and the development of American players and the health of the sport itself when we can do only what’s best for billionaires?