oh. my dude. yes.

Oh yeah. I remember her from the Sochi games. Though my favorite on that team was the woman with the glasses, Aleksandra Raeva.

Curling is enjoyable enough that I’d watch a giant octopus hurl the stones, but it doesn’t hurt that quite a few female curlers are easy on the eyes.

Not sure if you remember Anna Sidorova(she was mentioned in the article as losing out to the current Russia team), but she was incredible beautiful as well. If those two played doubles, I would have a hard time doing anything but “watching” curling.

I kept mixing up her name with the Russian figure skaters while I was texting a friend as we watched a livestream together (albeit in different countries) so we just kept screaming HOT RUSSIAN at each other. god, i can’t believe she’s married to her curling partner.

Cock Robbler, on the other hand, is the name of a homoerotic Hamburglar fan fiction series.

Well I know I for one am both looking forward to it and wishing for a swift death at this point. The abject shitshow this administration has been has sucked the enjoyment out of life. 2020 and/or Mueller can’t come quickly enough.

The don’t have to be good at it. Their supporters are fucking morons.

I am shocked that not only does everyone in this regime lie, but that—given how much practice they have with it—that they’re so poor at it.

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.

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…