I'd love a smart person who is actually knowledgeable about this to comment. I bet this is the Chinese communist version of PR. I doubt one heck maybe even fifty of these could have a beneficial impact, especially considering that they're not trying to remove static pollution, to say nothing of the fact that "acid…

*super telephoto*

The distinction between a lens than can change a focal length and a lens with a long focal length is important. You can have a ultra-wide angle zoom lens that does not have the compression effect mentioned (precisely the opposite in fact).

No, not semantics. An ultrawide 11-16mm is a zoom lens but definitely doesn't flatten things out the way a telephoto would, with or without zoom.

Pedantics.

no a lens with a zoom and a telephoto lens are two different things. Not even remotely asemantics thing.

"Zoom lenses" - the word you're looking for is telephoto lenses.

"It's hit the ball in the goal..."

Oh my, so you were serious. You truly are biased if you think that baseball has the top 1% of athletes.

Because swinging a stick and running to a square on a patch of dirt or catching a ball in an oven mitt requires skill. That's the funniest joke I've heard in a long while.

"Dynamo" is worse than Real Salt Lake, because it's using Soviet terminology.

Dynamo is derivative, isn't it? Dynamo Kiev and Dynamo Moscow are some of the most famous soccer teams in the world...

I didn't realize North America was the entire world.

You don't like it and that makes it suck, thanks, got it. Let's all go home people!

Because it stinks of arrogance as you assume and put across the image in a lot of your sports that you guys are automatically the best country. And I'm sorry you don't have to call it the 'World Series' when you quite easily call it the 'North American Championship' or 'North American Series' (there we go I fixed the…

How arrogant is it to call it the World Series when the US is the only participant? It's stupid, which is why it gets shit on.

No one wants to watch MLS because they aren't good, why would you think anyone would want to watch teams that are significantly worse than that.

i'm portuguese (as football-dependent a country can be) and most of us want instant replays as well. or, at the very least, the punishing of divers after the match. most football-loving countries want change as well, because officiating is way too crappy way too often.

a change that's not so popular, but would be most…

MLS tried to do the American team name thing at the start, and we got the Tampa Bay Xtreme Nacho Cheeze Ninjas.

What? Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake don't just roll off the tongue?