I used to live in Cleveland and didn’t realize how much I missed their particular brand of delusion until you reminded me just now.

I don’t think that meant “playoff contention” but “title contention.”

Except that Serena (and every other female player) still gets paid substantially less than her male counterparts in non-major tournaments no matter what amount of interest she brings to the sport.

Umm...the worst NFL team could easily beat the best college football team yet college football still gets billions of dollars and billions of hours of coverage and nobody ever questions why top college coaches are paid comparably to NFL coaches even though they are coaching demonstrably worse players and teams.

Why on earth would you want to advance the game when you also think that men are biologically superior to women in athletics?

Um, no. Playing the Taiwanese women’s team is not the same job as playing the Mexican men’s team

Ignoring your broader trolliness, it’s useful to recognize that US Soccer’s mission is not the same as that of private club owners. They’re supposed to be representing American soccer at its highest levels in the world, not making as much money as an owner can squeeze out of a brand and municipality, which is the only…

Lebron James vs. Britney Griner is not remotely analogous to USWNT (world champions) vs. USMNT (not WC qualifiers). You wanna talk apples to apples, how about Serena Williams vs. whatever American man is kind of playing tennis today? Let’s talk comparing dominant, world champion women with men that are barely earning…

Short version of your bad take: “I don’t care about people in Calgary, so the only reason someone could possibly pretend to care about them is for cynical or otherwise bad reasons.”

It’s also interesting to see that their marketing department is apparently deeply involved in guerrilla social media outreach.

Not to mention that when a police officer is attacked in the course of a crime, it becomes a city-wide emergency where roads are shut down and hundreds of officers are called to deal with it. Something somewhat less than that happens when a black person is attacked in the course of a crime.

Agreed. Classic rock can be a good broad format, but it’s often policed by insecure old dudes who have invested their entire identity in that handful of overrated and overplayed 70s cockrock songs.

I didn’t say anything like that. I honestly can’t even see how you got that from what I wrote. I’m all for keeping “Oldies” as the 50s/60s. Let’s never make a liar of Richard Simmons. I’ve never heard anything else called oldies and I hope never to.

I wouldn’t say you’re yelling at clouds, but you are trying to create a complicated naming system that can easily be expressed as “I stopped liking new music when I turned 20,” or even more simply “I’m a normal guy.”

I’ve heard that, too, but that’s partly because so few people do it. You can’t do it every time or people figure it out.

Maybe they should do the Olympic soccer thing and field a under-24 team with a couple slots for older players.

Nice, I was looking for a new, succinct example to define “failing upward.”

Just like kicking it down the middle, it can be a great strategy but you look like a moron when it goes wrong.

Um, I hate to break it to you, but it is entirely possible to be rich and have terrible taste. Thousands of people are much, much richer than Michelle Obama and have demonstrated substantially worse taste than she has.

For ideas on what to do with this information.