White makes right (apparently).
Here, hold this while I go kick something.

First, I said last ten years. Spain won two european championships and a WC between 2008 and 2012. Within the last ten years.
Two, and again, i’m not making excuses for Messi. He hasn’t won the world cup. Because of that he’s not the GOAT. I’ve acknowledged this. Argentinians have reason to be disappointed.
That…

I don’t think I’m making excuses. Messi has under performed in cup play for his country. Or his team has under performed and as the best player on the team you can saddle him with that failure. He will likely never surpass Pele or Maradonna as the GOAT if he doesn’t hoist the world cup. That doesn’t, in my view,…

The most dominant teams of the last decade have been Germany and Spain. Notably many/most of their players suit up for one of two teams in their domestic leagues: Bayern/Dortmund and Barca/Real Madrid.
You wrote: “if that was the case then we would see countries where most players not only play in the same club but…

I don’t disagree.

You missed my point. The caliber of players is not the issue. It’s the caliber of the teams. Simply by spending more time playing together and perfecting tactics, top club teams are better TEAMS than top national teams.

The caliber of play in the Champions League far outstrips that of the World Cup. National teams simply do not have enough time with each other to pick up the sixth sense so critical for peak attacking and defending. I’d argue this is why Spain and Germany have dominated of late, because so many of their players play…

Who said comment sections were only for trolls? There are some horrible people lurking in these sections, so I totally get it. Have a good one.

Hmmm. Reread my comment, and it looks like I didn’t mention my feelings once. Not sure what you interpreted as me being protective of my white fee-fees, but perhaps it was the line “...so stop complaining so much.” Just to be clear, I was attributing that line to reactionary white folk who try to silence POC by…

Let me whitesplain something to you (which is really just a way of saying I know you know you don’t have to listen to me): White folk don’t think everything black people do is racist...they think black folk think everything they do is racist so when they get the opportunity to pull their own triple-laminated race…

We’re still pleased as punch we won the world series three times recently. Vogie was part of that. Shoot...we brought back Sandoval for the same reason. Let us revel in what once was a team we could be proud of.

Typically editors write the headlines...to get clicks. Writers write the article itself.

Nope.
Don’t worry so much about her behavior. Worry about your own (like you want her to do).
Hence, Don’t Be An Asshole and you’re all good.

yes. The last thing black folk in America need to be doing is following the lead of the lunatic fringe of white people. Cops are dangerous, playing esoteric legal word games with them is neither a good survival strategy nor a good way to stay the hell out of a legal fees/jail cells. Also, your god ain’t got no damn…

Wanted to not respond to this...but couldn’t hold back. This is exactly my point - if anyone feels that the person they’re engaging with would succumb to pressure to have sex, then they shouldn’t have sex with that person because they’re likely “not mature” enough to have sex.
You can’t own the choices you make if…

If you lived in the city you wouldn’t hate corner stores. You’d know the folk who work there. You’d be able to ask them to stock products you want to buy. You’d drop in on the regular for a host of items. Your dog, like mine, would get a treat every time you do. In fact, your dog would want try to drag you in every…

Agree. Midfield depth will be critical as all three will need the occasional breather. Will be interesting to see how that’s managed.
As to Suarez, I’m gonna believe that the international break and travel are part of the trouble. He’s always been a bit bull in the china shop compared to Messi and Neymar but when he’s…

It also seems that the team’s commitment (and Messi’s in particular) is back up to champion level. They’ve returned to a more tiki-taka style (including aggressively winning the ball back) and seem less willing to rely on the front line for all their oomph. I’d place much of this on Valverde getting the team on the…

Bukowski’d be like “You want to steal my wino culture? You can have it, you fuckin’ sissy Canuck”

Spent a few months doing ride alongs with these good folk. I even applied to become an ACC Officer. But i hit a ridiculous HR snafu in the application process and the dream died. Honestly, I wasn’t too broken up about because the job is very hard and I’m pretty sure I would have had PTSD within 6 months. Lots of…