Oh, absolutely, and sorry for the length; didn’t double check before posting, even though I noticed it running long!

Congratulations, Billy, you did something that I didn’t think was possible for a fan of an MLS 1.0 team - you made me take the side of Atlanta United on something.

I hate so much about the things you choose to be.

Like there are so many dumb and weird things about the MLS but the players are fine and winning is fun. Likewise, the cliches of MLS roster construction (over the hill Euros + Americans who will never try their luck overseas) belong to the white elephant teams that also never win anything.

My team is the team that got fucking thumped on Saturday but even then fuck this shit.

Now, young man, show us on this dolly where the MLS man hurt you...

You know he knows soccer because of the way he only refers to teams by things listed in the nickname section of their respective wiki pages.

Calling you a one-trick pony seems like an insult to ponies that at least have their one trick nailed down.

At least he kept it under 10,000 words this time.

Another variant of his only take, this time without any argument whatsoever.

Billy.... why are you the way that you are?

I’m not even a huge fan of MLS, but mannnn, fuck off with the tone of this article.

Look, I don’t think anyone is arguing that MLS is comparable to any of the big European leagues. There is no sense in shitting on fans celebrating success for their local team.

Har Har MLS is no premier league.

It’s hard to yell at people about going to the doctor when a huge reason a bunch of people don’t go is because they have shit-ass insurance, or they have good-ish insurance but everything is still stupidly expensive and the entire medical insurance industry is fucked.

My father, who is 78 and a Bill Buckley-style Republican, gets his coffee at a shop with a trans man working the register. My dad manages to call this man by his (masculine) name or “Sir” every morning. He has said he, “doesn’t really get it” but then he shrugs because why would he care? What’s it to him or Vlaming…

1. That’s not how “tolerance” works, you idiot.

Shit, sometimes your actions have consequences. And if the consequence is every so often having to acknowledge that what you did was wrong, and apologize? You’ve gotten off so easy. You’ve gotten off the easiest. It costs you nothing to occasionally go “yeah, damn. I hurt a lot of people. I’m sorry. I hope I can show…

When did he apologise? He explicitly refused to apologise when the Academy asked him to.

Furthermore, I personally don’t know people who were using homophobic slurs and making jokes about AIDs in ‘09, despite the whole ‘gays are people’ thing being in ‘flux’. Maybe you just hung around a lot of homophobes?