Herdman is no Special One when it comes to tactics, but as someone who works with the Canada Soccer program, he is a legit master motivator. Players LOVE him and obviously, will play their asses off for him, which was very evident at the game.

I’m going to go with “Billy just didn’t do any research” because I have to presume that otherwise he would necessarily be for anything MLS and USSF are against.

You are correct to some extent. I would say my biggest gripe with MOST of my fellow US Soccer fans is that they think talent, speed and potential is everything, and yet they still can’t figure out why countries like T&T for example who outplay our so called “talent”. Central American, Caribbean and now Canadian talent…

Canada rugby has gone to absolute shit any no one has any idea why. Well, we do. It’s the lack of money. Fuck this country is too big and has too few people. 

At the end of the day, the USMNT is worse than than its supporters think it is, so you get these flabbergasted “I can’t believe we lost to Canada....” takes. Believe it and get used to it. Pulisic ain’t Messi. Hell, he’s no Landon Donovan.

If you don’t follow rugby, well good because I don’t follow soccer, and we can lean on each other and cover the gaps, but the opposite process seems to be happening in rugby. The World Cup is going on right now, and Canada squeaked into the competition on its very last try, as the last-chance qualifier at a tournament…

I was at that game last night and not to toot our own horn (toot....toot....aboot)...

We’re talking about American sports teams and them being obscenely arrogant? I’m gonna call bull on you being Canadian and say that you’ve never even met an American.

You better check yourself snowman or well come up there and annex your asses, if we haven’t already.

+1 American Exceptionalism which is currently +1.32 Canadian...

This is probably the makings of Canada’s best team ever, or at least the best we’ve put together in a very long time. Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David are going to be fun to watch playing for Canada for the next decade. I only wish we had a time machine so we could bring back a younger version of Atiba Hutchinson to…

People overvalue their data about them and undervalue the services they use for free that collect the data. It’s the human way

The worst thing to happen to human existence is the ability to know what everyone thinks.

You have the internet, you are now expected to be well versed in literally every topic ever. This is a reasonable expectation because everyone has unlimited time and intelligence.

But if I log off, who will *I* tell to log off?

What’s funny about twitter is when people pile on to these idiots it shows up in your timeline 20 times regardless of whether you follow these idiots or not

This entire discourse has reeked of “everybody involved desperately needs to Log Off For Like Two Days” and truly, that’s what we should do. 

Utopian visions, like any other political theory, are 100% flawless and eminently workable and doable right up to the point where actual human beings become involved.

The Modern Internet As A Utopia was formulated on two points: That people would continue to act in good faith and that an influx of cash wouldn’t alter the structure in the same way it did more traditional media outlets.

Am I wrong to think that there’s a heavy dose of irony that this particular brand of lament is posted here on Deadspin, where many (most) times facts take a backseat to hot-takey opinions? This place is just as culpable in the death of traditional media as anywhere else. In fact - name me one outlet private or…