The option years must have meant something, as Beşiktaş paid at least $2.3 million to not make it an issue. 

Here is a picture of me with the Black Sea in the background, taken last fall in Batumi, Georgia.

I have a felling that if things came down to it, US labor laws would have something to do with it. Maybe not a lot, I will admit I don’t know.

OK, that sorta makes sense.

I am not so sure about that, but I will acknowledge that I didn’t include Larin’s Canadian-ness, you may very well be correct.

Fair enough, of course I do not know their internal thoughts, just commenting based on this single article.

So the player signs a contract under US Labor Laws (I presume) that indicate option years for the purpose of...?

If it came down to it, would FIFA rules/laws/whatever overrule US Labor Law? Doubtful. Maybe in other countries it might be different, I don’t know.

What am I missing here?

Shit like this makes me want to specifically go out to watch the Super Bowl, just so I can continue stuffing my maw with nachos, swill beer and roll my eyes at the dorks that actually stand for the anthem in a fucking bar.

That’s what you came up with? Besides “it’s always been that way so it should always stay that way” being a piss-poor argument, part of it isn’t necessarily fact to begin with.

Thank you for missing the point AND rebutting with the weakest argument ever.

You’ve said too much.

Usually once a day, with Irish Spring. That’s it.

Of all things, isn’t this like the least surprising thing ever?

Of all the things you could have written, this is what you came up with? Interesting. I guess these kind of articles always need someone to play the heel.

Every first down, the ball must be handled by at least 3 players (not counting the center).

Not thinking that adult strangers talking shit about kids is okay is suddenly a “left-wing feminist hot take” ???

I live in San Francisco, I have never been that one.

AMC’s concern, from what I understand, is that if MoviePass gets to big, MP can start demanding a cut of the admissions & concessions that MoviePass generates. AMC worries that if MoviePass gets too big, that they will have no choice but to play along, or risk losing audiences to theaters that will play along.