MLS does (or at least did, I don’t follow it) have an authoritative stadium timer and, well, I don’t think you can say it really mattered to popularity. And, really, let’s be honest: if someone has no interest in watching soccer, the lack of an authoritative timer isn’t the reason they’re not watching. Fixing the…

Obviously it doesn’t harm the game, otherwise they would have changed it. The only people complaining about it are people that wouldn’t be watching it otherwise.

Because it’s simple to ask the ref how much time he’s got, and the ref generally doesn’t blow the whistle in the middle of an active play (something it shares with rugby, and y’know, american football). It doesn’t matter that you don’t know exactly how many seconds you have because you know that the whistle isn’t…

Extra time is just an illusion caused by the stadium clock not being synced to the ref’s watch. A game is always 90 minutes by the ref’s watch.

If you encounter a white person wearing wraparound sunglasses, just sit down and wait for the police, bruh, because you can bet they are on the way. Maybe it’s the way the tint polarizes the sun, allowing the infrared rays to hit the racism sector of their cerebral cortex.

Shots on goal isn’t directly correlated with positive play you want to reward. One team takes ten shots from 40 yards out and one happens to find its way in, while the other team takes two shots from close in, one miraculously saved by the keeper and the other a beautiful header off a corner: is the 10-shot team…

It’s better than drawing lots

I mean, in this case you could say that if the game is tied then we play extra time and shootout, but it’s a pretty narrow and specific case and it’s best that ties are broken the same way no matter the situation.

Counterpoint: an indicator based on play on the field is always better than drawing lots. Sure cards can be somewhat arbitrary, but the game itself is often pretty damn arbitrary.

The problem is if the margin of error between a good shot and a bad shot is too fine, and if the consequences of a bad shot are too harsh, then it becomes “unfair” because results become too nondeterministic. Yes, there’s an inherent randomness to each shot, but the fairness of a course is a measure of how harsh the…

Need to mic up officials more often. Defusing tension is pretty much the number one job of a ref, and it’s great to hear that sausage being made in their mundane interactions with the players and coaches.

Do Mexico and Canada also get automatic bids, or they still getting screwed by US?

I eagerly anticipate our return to form next year in game 7 vs the Pens

It does seem like we’re reaching a breaking point were the investment costs of sustainability are making financial sense. See also: Apple investing in a more efficient aluminium smelting process that the smelter had been sitting on because the implementation costs weren’t yet favorable to the production savings.

I saw a few times a guy playing AAA ball named BROCK PETERSON. It’s not a particularly great name, but BROCK PETERSON is undoubtedly a perfect baseball name. Whenever BROCK PETERSON came to the plate I felt a great sense of baseballality wash over me, all while being mildly perturbed that the PA man wasn’t saying…

So do we have any irony over Alito and Thomas and Gorsuch writing and joining an opinion that sounds a lot like looking into the legislative history? Or is there some other foundation for the “if not A then B wouldn’t happen” reasoning?

Yeah I was actually shocked when I did that the first time (the previous game had nothing of the sort). The unfortunate pitcher got a contusion, lost like half of his stats, and was pulled a few hits later.

Depends on the game. I think(?) any game that comes from Steam will stream, but the way the stream is captured is not universally supported. Like, last I heard, it’s not compatible with Overwatch

Wait, there’s hockey to play after the Penguins? Who forgot to tell me?

Holy shit it wasn’t a dream they actually did it