In the sense that most people don’t know all of its weird edge cases which, I dunno, seems more like a “them” problem.

The ref didn’t have to go to the monitor, presumably he disallowed the goal based only on what he heard on his headset from the VAR room.

Even if you don’t like baseball (I don’t, really, anymore) he still should be and frequently is.

This video and the top comments made me cry and I don’t regret admitting that.

Pretty sure he didn’t own the team, then (I think that was the somehow-even-worse Bruce Finestone.)

Honestly, you’re closer to right than the other dude.

Sorry. It just is. That is how success is measured in football

Atlanta gets:

Soccer still has its share of cynical fouls, though? Granted, a lot fewer than basketball (my perspective may be skewed because most of my basketball-watching takes place in the last 2-3 minutes of a game, where teams use intentional fouls as free timeouts) but still a fair number. Still, something like the advantage…

Not only do the analytics show that, an article explaining how this is working out was posted on this very website.

All the conventional wisdom about how a given number of WAR is worth a given salary is predicated on the idea that someone is willing to pay that much, not on the amount of value that those wins actually g…

Half your age plus 7, etc.

Everyone (not just you) who complains about adding a seventh seed making it easier to get to the playoffs is ignoring that the league will almost certainly have AT LEAST 28 teams within the next 5 years. So really it’ll probably be a wash at the end of the day.

I don’t hate Nash in the booth for a soccer game In Theory - he’s been a lifelong fan, played as a kid, owns parts of two teams, and post-retirement has been far more into soccer than basketball, plus his father and brother both played professionally, plus he’s famous enough generally in the US that it might draw some…

I, too, would be okay with Toronto making the final again (and maybe this time they can find people who can take penalties under pressure).

I am actually astonished he left that one off his list of jobs that interested Moyes, because there was certainly coverage at the time.

(realtalk he might not have been that bad a coach for you guys, a lot of USMNT fans have a somewhat exaggerated idea of the tier of manager they should be attracting.)

That isn’t SUPPOSED to happen until 2026, which the US will be hosting anyway (there are rumblings that FIFA will try and expand the 2022 tournament, which is just insane enough of an idea that I cannot definitively rule it out).

Apparently the Argentines have “neither the economic nor political support to put a sporting event and the social ties sports engender in healthy perspective” but what on earth is Billy’s excuse?

Revenue sharing from the top league to bolster lower tiers only works when the top league itself is making a ton of money (and it only works as long as teams in the top league are okay with that kind of revenue sharing,rather than, say, launching a breakway league with its own TV deal so they can see a higher…

To be fair, though, “cynical cash grab” is closer to the truth.

But whatever we tell ourselves to get through the day.

One thing that hasn’t made it into the coverage of this deal - is the overseas game the whole POINT of this, or is it just one part of a broader NA marketing deal (which, to be blunt, La Liga sorely needs to do better at to compete with the PL et. al) that has been hyper-magnified thanks to all the outrage?

just so the owners can get just a little richer.