It almost certainly is. It’s got all the advantages that made soccer popular except the framework for producing good international caliber players is already in the US (for a whole lot of reasons, we are probably at least one generation away from a contending USMNT).

Baseball is very much alive. Attendance trends are positive and younger fans and Hispanic fans are interested. Its future is bright. (The Jays became pretty good again recently - attendance in the city skyrocketed to be sold out almost every game.)

Not necessarily a wise bet: I really do think their fate is going to be much like boxing. A downsized sport with some teams contracting, pay-per-view events/lack of mainstream TV, and a niche group of players and audience, probably all concentracted in the Southeast.

Surgeons are mechanics, not mechanical engineers - understanding of the underlying systems is a plus but not necessarily essential. And like both their knowledge doesn’t necessarily carry over to anything else

Any consumer device with such a high “failure rate” would be perceived as faulty/broken/poorly made but we all know

Agreed on that last point: a Messi type player would’ve been sidelined and ran out of the North American soccer systems because he wouldn’t be able to run around his peers due to a growth spurt or w/e

... if I am reading this correctly is it possible for the US to have to play Syria in some sort of qualifying game?

The parents of “millenials” have long begun taking their kids out of it and having them play anything else. It’s going to become like boxing where only the American lumpenproletariat and poor internationals participate

Another thing the NFL could fix if it wanted by investing in a development league where proper pro offenses and blocking could be taught instead of just letting the NCAA do it and present Tim Fucking Tebow and Johnny Manziel as viable professional quarterbacks.

What’s the name of the book? Because some of those guys - Roger Stone - are back in the WH now

What’s the name of the book? Because some of those guys - Roger Stone - are back in the WH now

I’m a fan of Cardale Jones:

They’re used for that purpose like people use car horns for “indicating their presence”

It’s not a totally bad site but it is important to remember its... demographics. Recall it took shaming from SA + Gawker + mainstream media AND Conde Nast for them to realize that, no, having a jailbait reddit wasn’t okay. Remember its demographics on the general subreddits and you’ll be just fine, and stick to using…

He doesn’t do that sketch any more because ~certain people~ thought that was a license for them to be racist.

This really doesn’t deserve an effort post but..

It wasn’t ever mentioned, but the reason why Rick Smith is invincible is because he is literally McNair’s family: he’s the godfather of Cal McNair’s kids.

The ideological grandfather of libertarianism, Friedman, believed that the government shouldn’t intervene in segregated Southern states because “the market will sort things out”. Laffer was last seen running KS into the ground with Brownback to the point the Kansas Republicans disavowed him.

Seriously though. Why is it that Utah is the MLM capital of the United States? You already know.

Enjoy!