It's perfect.

If you want to keep fooling us into thinking that your continuous string of injuries are not going to permanently cripple your career, then you should really consider taking some notes here, Derrick. Mr. Clowney gets an A+ for converting "The Dog Ate My Homework".

I think it's understandable. The Colts were only a game away from the Super Bowl last year, and having a decent running back would have changed a whole lot of dynamics for them. He's not going to wind up on one of the favored teams to win it all, but a few bounces here and there and one more beard-on-fire game from…

Are they worried they'll be slowly enveloped turned into a vagina?

So if Lenin wins, does that mean that pragmatic privatization wins out in the end only to be snuffed out by Stalin when he wins it next year?

Except stock options are liquid assets that can be sold when they are in the money for a profit.

Except you're making the 5 year assumption. Every year you own it longer, the economics of a lease become more and more laughable.

I think leasing only beats buying a new car over the long run if

FUCK BITCHES END HATE!

It reminds me of a scene in one of the old Adventures of Han Solo books, where Han and Chewie have been using a fluidics system for some part of the Millenium Falcon, and they hated it. When they finally where able to scrounge up some real parts, Chewie ripped out the fluidic tubing and threw it as far as he could…

The first sentence of my statement is to point out that if the league is profitable but not super profitable, having other venues through which to make their investment in soccer as a whole more valuable, is a good thing. I made no effort to talk about how valuable the league itself, as compared to the other revenue…

No, my argument is that the owners having the ability to obscure how valuable the actual soccer league portion of their revenues are is not why the owners won the labor fight, because if the players had been willing to strike, then if the owners were actually faced with the prospect of losing real revenues, they…

I'd like them to so that we won't have to listen to years and years and years of stories about how whoever the Yankee captain is does or does not measure up to Jeter.

That gives the owners all sorts of leeway to make claims about revenue and profitability of "MLS".

Well, the MLS has been steadily growing in popularity under the existing model, so perhaps it could be argued that the phrase "Keep the League Mired in Mediocrity" is not truly an accurate one, seeing as the league was stteadily growing under an even harsher labor regime.

That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that if the MLS piece of the contract was simply deadweight, the owners could shut down the MLS and be perfectly fine, either now or at the expiration of the contract. The notion that the owners, and their broadcast affiliates, can't tease out which parts are how…

But if the MLS was hemorrhaging money and the SUM is making money, then what the owners would do is just shut the MLS down and continue to operate the SUM. The outside world may not be able to divine what the financial status of the MLS is, but I'm pretty sure the owners know exactly what kind of profit they are…

Telling someone they are wrong without telling them to go fuck themselves is not appeasement.

Perhaps, but I would argue that most professional sports have grown in a much similar manner. They all resisted free agency, they all fought pretty hard to avoid giving the union power, and they all enjoyed some degree of success at those things even as they grew in popularity.

Which, I don't think your last point is a bad thing. The more ways owners can monetize their investment in soccer as a whole, the more likely it is that they'll stay invested in it and other people will be attracted to it.