This also plays into some of the soccer media’s mentality that without the owners of the MLS Chick-Fil-A’s, we wouldn’t have a league. Okay, there are clubs throughout the country that could be invested in and developed.

Why on God’s Green Soccer Earth, do Sacramento and Cincinnati have to go through a process that…

The funny thing about pro/rel right is that the most popular league in the US right now — Liga MX — is actively discussing getting rid of pro/rel. They have a convoluted system that rarely sees a club go down as it is.

This a billion times. If I have to read anymore of the “European way sucks” when we back the “American way” of handing out “franchises” like they Chick-Fil-A’s because that’s how we do it in the NFL, NBA, etc.

Does anyone know how the NFL got started? Some clubs made, some didn’t. Wow, what a concept.

Also a great post. If a club in Sacramento is capable of producing the best soccer players in the country they should be able to make their way to the top and compete with San Jose or L.A. Why punish the clubs that do it right just to line the pockets of MLS owners?

Great post. This is it in a nutshell: “In the US, parents are the consumers of club services. In a real soccer country, clubs are the consumers of soccer talent. If we don’t ever flip the incentives, we’re gonna continue to be what we are.”

Lots of straw men. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone agitate to call it ‘football’. Switching the season to the international calendar is a no-brainer and will have to happen if we ever want to compete at an international level. But the main issue is that b/c MLS is a single entity there’s no financial incentive in…

Relegation isn’t the focal point, promotion is.

If soccer is being play by billions of people over the whole world way more than any western sport, for more than 120 years then Yes! We should emulate the best. The ones that have won all the world cups and all the world club cups. They play 10 months a year and have relegations because is the best way to select from…

• Promotion and relegation is literally a bylaw of the sport; MLS has been in violation since its inception.
  

There are so many wrong things with your paragraph, it’s hard to know where to begin.

The NBA isn’t trying to break into the upper echelon of professional basketball leagues which already consists of numerous far superior non-American leagues.

Pro/rel has its supporters and detractors, but one reason MLS is so resistant to it is because of its structure as a single entity, which it seems clear is…

U.S. Soccer, which most Americans seem to only get really focused on around the biggest tournaments, hence why the MLS continues to be a paltry distant cousin of the powerful European leagues, and even Central and South American leagues, is stuck at a crossroads at the moment that it is having a difficult - albeit not…

It’s not prudishness. Look at all the porn you want, all that’s being discussed is whether or not nudity adds anything to the story in exactly the same dissect any part of film. Adding lots of tits to The Thing would make it a worse product, adding lots of tits to Harold and Maude would make it a worse product.…

How so? I mean, in my real life, I see a lot of nudity watching TV, but that’s about it. I see my nude body, I see my husband’s nude body, but I can’t think of anybody else’s nude body I would see other than an actor’s. And I can’t think of anybody else likely to see my nude body, unless they are a medical…

Don’t Teal me what to do please.

The cucker becomes the cucked.

Cotton Hill ain’t no queer!

Mine moved. Just a smidge.

I actually bent the front rim on my motorcycle on 490 in Rochester. I was amazed I didn’t wreck. Said fuck it, moved to Phoenix. Ride every day here, and the roads are mostly glorious.

Pennsylvania’s gas tax has been going up gradually to find the crumbling roads over the last 5 years. Mainly bridges that need repaired. I have seen a slight improvement. Of course people flip out over the higher gas prices, and then blame the democratic governor in office. When actually the law went into effect under…