At least all those people who decided to skip voting in 2016 because Hillary wasn’t inspiring have that sweet, sweet moral high ground to hang out on.

what I find most amusing is not just people arbitrarily picking a team to root for but people arbitrarily picking a team to hate. At least I can say I hate the Seattle Sounders because I’m a Timbers fan and live in Portland and think Sounders fans are dbags. But people ripping “Gooners” who have ever actually met an…

Unpopular opinion: people should support whatever team they want to support, because sports fandom is supposed to be fun. And it’s okay to support a team because a famous player plays for that team.

Americans who have never lived in Europe (and studying abroad doesn’t count) and who claim allegiance to a European club soccer team are the lamest idiots in sports fandom, which is saying a lot.

Honestly, this article makes me really like Carlos Vela. He spent a long time in Europe, played for some big clubs, had some success, and apparently never seemed to really give much of a shit or like it all that much. Now he makes a lot of money, plays relatively low stakes soccer where he’s the best guy on the field…

Promotion and relegation will not work in the US with US sports fans.  It’s a non-starter.  European clubs can survive with it because they have a 100 year head start to have built up rabid fanbases.  An MLS team being relegated would be the death of that club.  To suggest otherwise is to admit your ignorance of the…

It holds a lot of water if you’ve actually watched any USL rather than just posturing. USL play is not close enough to MLS level. Either are USL budgets, or stadiums, or marketing, or anything else. Most USL teams have small and currently weak academies, which is pushing them further behind MLS teams, and there’s no…

That’s a great vision and I’m very down but has MLS given any hint that that’s the plan?

I’ve always suspected that the long game is to expand up to forty teams, and then split them in two and institute pro/rel. Then you’ve got two full leagues of MLS-approved cities/stadiums/owners, no partnership with USL or whatever necessary and no worries that, say, NYCFC will find itself playing away matches at a…

If you knew a single thing about American soccer you’d know how unready the USL is for pro/rel. This is just eurosnob puffery. 

We’re past the point where Pro-Rel as we know it, is even worth going for. No American ownership group will even consider it. If there will be any pro-rel, it will need to be creative. Kind of how latin american leagues developed thier own system of an Apertura/Clausura split season.

Jesus Christ can Deadspin please find someone else to talk about MLS? Someone who acknowledges the domestic league doesn’t have a 100 year headstart? Someone who has the self-awareness to recognize whining about rich people starting teams in MLS while pumping up the euro leagues is a trash take? Sorry the MLS isn’t…

If only there was a rule that existed that Vlad Jr. could only bat in games, while working on his fielding and physical aspects.

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I think that for American soccer, sending a percentage of talented young players to Europe while at the same time taking in a percentage of older Euro stars like Rooney and Zlatan is an ok place to be.

Counterpoint: the White Sox have one of the best minor league systems in baseball and he can reasonably expect to be part of something big 2 or 3 years from now.

Also, why should I be upset that a superstar player goes to a team that isn’t the Yankees, Red Sox, or Dodgers?  More superstars to teams outside top 10 in payroll, please.

I think simply calling the White Sox a team that finished 4th in the AL Central last season is intentionally misleading. They’re in the middle of a clear, planned rebuild with some exciting prospects and should be much better pretty soon with or without Machado.

It’d almost be like saying it was a shame that Jon Lester…

I’m not even a huge fan of MLS, but mannnn, fuck off with the tone of this article.

And now Quebec City gets to join Kansas City and Hamilton, ON. holding on to their dicks after building an NHL Arena with the “you’ll get a team” carrot dangling and getting left in the cold.