An objection often leveled at companies like Facebook is “if the product is free, you’re the product.” This isn’t much different, only the product is both the creators and the consumers of the same content.

There is already a professional team incorporated as Miami FC. They aren’t playing right now because NASL is collapsing, but they beat Beckham to it and he can’t just have the name now.

This is some sort of in-universe satire, right?

Barca won’t come because they’re afraid of their stalker Billy Haisley.

From what I’ve seen in social media, the objections are less NOLA and more white-NFL-fan based.

MLS is neither as bad as Deadspin tries to paint it sometimes nor as good as it wishes it was. I used to watch a lot of English Championship back when Fox Soccer / Fox Soccer Plus were a thing, and I think the talent levels are allllllllllmost there for the top half of the league. Plus it has a bit of extra allure for…

Oh, and additionally to my prior post, I already pay for an additional soccer package - MLS Direct Kick on my DirecTV service. I’m on my third season and love it, as someone who no longer lives where his preferred MLS team plays. Since I also support one of the bigger English teams, I’ll never have to give NBC a dime…

your ears will thank you for no longer subjecting them to anymore Warren Barton commentary.

Johnson County, Kansas: does this county run blue?

I’ll do you one better: “Impossible is nothing to interfere with.”

My team in my current league is typically the worst every season - we lucked into winning the post-season tournament in our spring session this year but before that we hadn’t even come close in the six or seven years the league had been running.

I’ve played co-ed soccer exclusively for most of the last 15 years in New England, the midwest, and the southeast; while it’s possible that as a guy I’m blind to some issues that I don’t know I’m blind to, my experiences are completely different. Maybe it’s the rules - all the leagues I’ve been in have been…

Looks like they shot the photo with an open aperture to get the most separation between her and the peons. Pretty much what you’re saying, to make sure that it looks like she’s not in the same room because she’s so much more important.

The money is slightly terrifying, and I hate that neither Karius nor Mignolet have come through so far as they both seem like good teammates (especially Migs, who comes off as wanting to be a Red for life), but I’m really excited to see what a Fabinho/Lovren/VvD/Alisson core might be able to do.

And what I love about this is that my wife abhors mayo in all its forms but will go to town on Cane’s sauce. She has no idea.

I once lived in central Illinois myself, and spent many an evening at Family Video - they displaced Blockbuster entirely in my town before I was out of high school. Still see them when we’re back there to visit, and I cracked up when I saw one in Stranger Things S2.

Agreed. I’ve been playing it down a bit with my friends due to my Liverpool bias, but I’ve been saying it since the end of their first group match. Firmino’s workrate over the course of their matches consistently opened up opportunities both for himself and for Neymar and Coutinho that never materialized with Jesus,…

I would have figured the French would consider that some kind of delicacy.

I lived in Westchester a long time ago and made the trip down for a few Liberty games back then - almost surely more than I did the Knicks, and I watched a lot more basketball then than I do now. I would have definitely gone to more had they been up there that long ago. Six minutes from my house!

I’m pushing 40 and I still don’t take PKs in my Sunday league due to a traumatic memory of blowing one in high school. Lead scorer of my team but I will not step to the spot. Drew is way off base with this take.