I don’t disagree, and in fact I specifically pointed out that I support the decision to expand the field.

You’re misunderstanding where the drama comes from. Occasionally you get something crazy like the Brazil-Germany blowout (in the semi-final, no less) or France/Spain’s precipitous drops of 2010 and 2014, but more often, it’s from the bubble teams in each group: the #2 and #3 teams who have to scratch and claw for…

I disagree that this Cup has been “great,” and I doubt that 2019 will be that great either.

Is Kotaku getting a percentage of sales, or something?

Fabregas did it better.

It’s not that strange... The story broke just before midnight EDT:

Sheed

OK, no more of Leslie posting on Adequate Man. Pedicures, Rosé, climate-deaf proclamations about sandals, and dishonorable treatment of company softball? This isn’t “Hopelessly Effeminate Man.” The Adequate Man need not be a pillar of masculinity, nor on the bleeding edge of any trend. He simply needs to be thoroughly…

Michael Rapaport.

by the time he was eligible to vote was already being hailed as the successor to quite possibly the greatest basketball player of all time

Any multiplayer capabilities?

I assume because that person from Chicago is capable of looking up crime statistics and seeing that, as bad as Chicago is, Rio is still significantly worse. Also, that person has probably noticed that Lake Michigan isn’t filled with untreated sewage and human refuse.

That is not how the Patriot Act works, even its new surveillance-limited form.

Sorry, I can’t concentrate on your hackneyed metaphorical equivalency when I’m distracted by the bay full of infectious human waste that Rio will be hosting a number of aquatic events in.

Thanks for that hot take in defense of a literal shithole.

No, I’m saying it was an incredibly useless chip either way, since the DOJ wasn’t going to ignore Blatter’s involvement if they found evidence of it. But given that one scenario was to run away from a dumpster fire leaving your fingerprints behind, and the other was the stand next to the dumpster fire with a can of…

No, Rio is a literal shithole.

You are completely mistaken as to the value of that chip.

So the case that’s mounting against Sepp Blatter must be much stronger than we initially suspected, even after the Valcke email. The only reason he wouldn’t resign is to keep FIFA’s giant bureaucracy in play as a shield for himself.

God, this match fell apart around 80’