Cool, two extreme cases in a few decades. This happens on a weekly basis in MLB.

Sick burn bro

Huh? What does the CL Quarterfinal have to do with relegation? I love promotion and relegation (and am very sad that American sports don’t do it), but to think that that makes soccer somehow not about entertainment is pretty dumb.

Even the commentators had to see it from a couple angles and talk it out to confirm it. I bet a lot of those fans were drunk and mad enough not to have that presence of mind to take the time to work it out.

WAAAAAAAAAAH He hit a home run and was happy and I was sad but then he released his bat in an offensive way that seriously hurt my fee fees WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I have to hit him and make him feel bad because he made me feel bad WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I’ve never seen those happen and then benches clear. It’s rare to even see a cheap shot hit after that, which is a pretty good equivalent to plunking. Not a good analogy, but thanks for trying!

But all the money comes from entertainment channels, not athletic achievement channels. People buy tickets and pay for cable packages and ads to be entertained, not to quantifiably assess the quality of play. The offsides rule itself is a great example, it exists not to make play more fair but to make it more…

You’d have to be prepared to be reprimanded by the very serious Code Enforcers for such indecorous behavior! They might mill around on a baseball field and jaw at you! Beware!

Prove me wrong

At least the other one is reasonable: “Why don’t you just get him out?”. I don’t understand why baseball is the only sport where the other opponents doing well is offensive rather than motivation to do better.

In what possible sense is the offsides rule vague?

You’re gonna have a hard time finding anyone who thinks penalties are better than away goals. Penalties are the worst, and rarely feel legitimate. Away goals are unsatisfying, which is fine for a 3rd level tiebreaker.

I guess it depends on what you think of as a problem. This isn’t a problem of getting correct decisions, but it does create a problem with the spectator experience. Consider the experience of the tens of thousands of people in the stands who could maybe see a replay but presumably didn’t get a verbal explanation of…

Good point about how parents jump into this without being asked. There’s a lot of blame heaped on young adults for their crazy parents.

That kid may have come from a house with no canned food, only fresh organic produce, which would make those parents doubly insufferable.

I was thinking more of people that don’t successfully file their returns at all or make such serious mistakes or omissions that they’re facing incorrect tax bills that they can’t pay. In those cases, they’re more likely to keep more of their own money if they’re not relying on tax refunds. I’m talking about people…

I think what you don’t understand is how bad a lot of people are at correctly filing their returns. People with limited financial (or general) literacy and resources are the first to lose out on their own money if getting it is dependent on proper documentation.

Thanks for proving me right so quickly and efficiently. That was kind of you!

It’s not pearl-clutching to want to watch people actually play hockey instead of prowl for cheap shots and pander to the consensus worst fans in American sports. That was the kind of lazy hockey that is on the decline as people are realizing they wanted to see more talent and less dick wagging. And get off your…

Omar and AOC can’t “tone down their rhetoric.” If they talked about liking sandwiches, these people would report that as advocating “sharia dietary law” and “socialized lunch,” respectively.