I can't even wrap my head around Garber's comments. Wouldn't it be undeniably bad for Dempsey or Bradley to sign for, say, Leicester City or Atalanta Bergamo? I feel that MLS soccer level is about there, if not below. Of course it would be better for both players to play for Tottenham, Roma, or any other top club.

The current situation in the MLS serves only the owners who are guaranteed that their team has a spot in the highest league.

Oh well, let's just be said it is not as stupid as this win-rugby-tickets-marriage.

Of course! But in-story was a huge discussion if it is a weird, wrong usage of gay marriage, hence my interest ^^

Hmm, that kind of reminds me of the marriage between Denny and Allan in the end of Boston Legal. Only this rugby story is a couple of magnitudes more stupid. Wonder what you think about the Boston Legal Marriage?

That is what I mean. They make it worse. Teams who get relegated have so much more money, they can outspend everyone else.

Fans actually hate it. Think FC United of Manchester. Or think Austria Salzburg, where the fans have re-founded the club after being bought by Red Bull.

Consider it is also going the way down. Relegated teams are fucked, financially, earning like nothing anymore. This is a huge problem, but they still get more money than the clubs who already were in the lower league. "Elevator team" is what the effect is called in German.

Last year's Barcelona? #Neymar

Oh come on. The "old system" is just as fucked up: The clubs owned by big spenders buy whomever they want (Chelsea, Monaco, PSG), while the fan-owned or association based clubs can either amass debts (Barcelona, Real Madrid, anyone?) or be outspent (think... really any German team, except Bayern who has incredible…

It doesn't have to do something with a social model, it's the idea to be as charitable as possible to your opponent, with the goal of 1) having a stronger claim to argue against, which is 2) more fun, 3) more of a challenge and 4) makes your own claims better.

How would it?

Lol that is not helpful. But as a general rule for continental Europe: The two-plug Euro plug will work, but if you got a three-plug thing, like a laptop charger, well, better look it up on Wikipedia.

This is actually philosophy's gold standard, where it is called the "Principle of Charity". You don't want to strawman your opponents argument, because first she can easily refute it and second it's less fun.

So you're basically telling us how to hack a Pi?

The Isar. It's the Isar, my friend. The river in Munich.

Ha, so after all it's the same as soccer in good ol' Europe. How often was the best player of the team I support bought by some other team. Hm. The first one I remember was bought by some Austrians and never played. The last one I remember went to Turkey because it was his last shot on earning millions.

Usually, I'd stand on your side here. But is the alternative really better?

I suggest this

Avatar. OK, it's a shitty movie, but in 3D, it's great! Like, OMG so great! Those visuals... I've not seen a movie since where 3D was seemingly incepted from beginning to end. Saw it later on TV, where it is just another half-computer generated crap movie.