Honestly, if we had lost to Mexico, you might have a point. Mexico is a large country with well developed football leagues and tens of millions of fans to support them. But we are talking about losing to a country that has less than 1/2% of America’s population. Our Immigrant population has more Soccer fans than…

Oof, terrible take. You’re asking why a league that should be much better needs to fire the people in charge of its underachievement? The answer’s right there

It’s not just that Johnson wasn’t in the starting lineup...he wasn’t even named to the fucking TEAM!

Really? The US just failed to qualify for the World Cup. Just because those institutions are in place doesn’t mean much if they never culminate in anything meaningful. All you have to do is look at the ages of the starting roster during qualifications to understand where the problem rests.

The thing that is so infuriating about Gulati’s “you don’t make wholesale changes based off a ball being 2 inches either way” is that he is right, but in the wrong direction.

Kilometers, most likely.

They named him Jagr

If you’re 18 and currently wearing a Dead Kennedys t-shirt: never mind, you’ll probably grow up one day.

Benoit’s premise is what’s flawed. Even a truly bad NFL team is fairly competent on many plays. It’s not like a team, even one that goes 1-15, resembles a fiery clown car on every play.

The thing I got out of it was, the one specific incident led to the investigation, but that was deemed unfit for charges. however, she allegedly claimed issues of past abuse. So, without good evidence of that, but also to make a “stand” on domestic violence issue, this was sort of a lifetime achievement suspension.

Holy shit, how could you not print the full quote from Gleason re: bittersweet goodbyes?!?

We’ve reached Peak Fantasy when the anti-fantasy-sports takes are worse than listening to someone talk about their fantasy team. Jesus Christ, that was a death march in text form.

Trying to diagnose head trauma in Eli Manning is a losing battle.

I am legitimately fearful for Eli’s well-being.

Holy shit this weakass o-line against the hurricane that is the Broncos line.

Knowing that one takes place before the other is good enough for me.

Counterpoint: As long as you can more or less buy into the overarching interconnected-ness, I don’t want Marvel planning each event across 12 films down to the second. That path leads to putting an emphasis on the logistics rather than the story of each film by itself. The MCU has worked largely because they’ve…

This seems kind of like a non-problem to me. In fact, it never even occurred to me that it might be a problem until reading this. The movies happened in the order they were released. Directors throwing in a random year reference that they almost certainly didn’t coordinate with anyone else isn’t grounds for saying…

Exactly. I understand the desire to explore all the details of these things but after a while you run up against the law of diminishing returns for your effort. Sometimes it’s just better to zoom out and enjoy the larger picture.