Man, when you said wild, I was expecting the comments to be some outside the box crazy shit instead of boilerplate bigotry. But you literally meant wild, as in an incoherent form of human language. So that was a nice surprise, I guess

I’m not talking about it as an achievement, I’m talking about it as an example of results that diverge from expectations. The US went on a Cinderella run, but the clock struck midnight on them one half too early and normality came back to get them. Portugal got to wear their glass slipper all the way to the end.

The US was one half away from winning the Confederations Cup, and beating two teams who are better than any team Portugal had to face in this tournament to do it. That tournament didn’t matter as much as this one did, but those were two very good teams who were definitely trying to win.

My bad, I confused the Croatia Portugal game with the last group stage game I guess.

The US really could have, if only because, as Portugal pretty much displayed, if God decides you are going to win a tournament, you’re going to win a tournament. Portugal was terrible in the group stage and should (and would) have been eliminated in any normal tournament. They played the easiest possible teams on…

So let me get this straight ... you think the rise in black crime over the past 50 years has nothing to do with all the ways black people were neglected and abused by the state in the centuries prior (to say nothing of practices like red-lining and mandatory minimums that continued on well past the 1960s), and that…

Society has said that black lives don’t matter, for the last 500 years. Slavery. Jim Crow. Lynchings. Countless other forms of oppression that have permeating through to today and molded the world in which,as you seem to enjoy pointing out, it statistically makes sense that black people are killed in a higher % by…

“only black lives matter” ... that’s a pretty important word you added there.

It is prejudice though, because there is no other league in the world that inspires managers to specifically say “Yeah, the league he plays in is why I didn’t take him.”

Not all those players were drafted by the team they are playing for though, which is relevant.