No I am definitely culpable. Conflicted might be a better word, because you’re right that I am a huge fan and therefore contribute in some way to it all. And inflated income and income inequality is a problem across all big businesses, not just unique to sports. But that’s a whole different issue than soccer transfer…

In a country (and countries in Europe) where tens of millions of people don’t have basic healthcare and struggle to feed their kids on a daily basis, I feel embarrassed that people are paid $70,000 every single day to play a game. Maybe embarrassed wasn’t the best word, just the one that came out first. It’s hard to…

It’s not that it would be physically impossible to watch, but I think most people would be infinitely less inclined. If you didn’t know any of his teammates, or the players he was playing against, the games were being played at 2 AM, and you had to watch on a bad stream on your computer...that’s tough. I remember…

How it works: 11 players, field, goals, ball. Played my whole life, follow leagues in Europe somewhat closely. The transfer system doesn’t boggle my mind, I understand it quite well. But most Americans don’t, because it’s so different. That was my only point.

I don’t disagree at all, it makes 0 sense in a lot of ways. I wasn’t making it out to be that one is better than the other, just that to an American, the structure of soccer’s player movements is incredibly confusing and hard to grasp.

Their structure is not obvious at all to an American. Transfer windows and the concept of buying players who are still on contract, from different countries/leagues/continents—that’s a drastic change from the structure here. I’m not saying it’s better or worse. Just part of why Americans won’t ever fully get on board…

$25,550,000 to be exact. And yeah, there’s probably 10-15 in the “Big Four” that make that in salary. That is, as I said, an embarrassment.

Yeah, this is another reason Americans will never get all the way into soccer. The structure of professional leagues just make no sense (and this is coming from a decent soccer fan who played the game his whole life).

Good.

Very true. It also meant political insiders—most of his appointees now are financial elites, but not political ones. A lot of Trump supporters probably like that “innovative” business people are going to come in and shake things up.

This is a terrible proposal because it eliminates anyone who has young children, aka most younger parents. If you’re 45 with a few young kids and looking ahead towards putting them through college, you can’t afford to do this. It would end up just putting more old people into office.

“He probably hangs a fucking oatmeal can from the ceiling or something”

You mean your cat does the same for you.

Awesome, thanks for posting. One of the coolest hockey sequences ever.

Boooooo

Lukas Graham is good.

With guys like Rovell and Bayless out there, Danny Kannell is probably the most overlooked idiot in media.

Kind of pointless. McCaffrey was getting picked in the 3rd round by the Patriots either way.

This is not a Bad Tweet, this is funny as hell

Yeah a lot of people say this (especially those from the undisputed areas of the midwest). But does it have to broken down by state? Like, Virginia is impossible to characterize as just one. Alexandria is certainly not “the south”, but Lynchburg for sure is.