I know that NFL fandom can be toxic and bad, but the fans of some of the European soccer leagues ... oof. Those dudes are very much not to be fucked with. They’ll show up at your house.

I missed Drew.

Counterpoint on Infinity War: 10 years of world-building culminated in the complete elimination of any stakes to anything that happens to anybody in this universe.

Caps fan here.

Every comic book movie, more or less, goes like this:

Sort of like when he unilaterally decided that Peyton Manning was “The Sheriff” 16 seasons into his career.

Assuming it’s a job he would want or accept, wouldn’t the Portuguese National Team be a really good fit? Being solidly organized goes a long way in international soccer and he should be able to get his teams to play in an organized way. More importantly, his players would spend two weeks with him and then get the hell…

It’s not exactly the same thing, because Vegas was a roster put together of NHL players. If you were to hold a Premier League Expansion Draft applying similar rules to the one the NHL used for Vegas, the resulting team would be significantly better than Atlanta United.

This is why the Berhalter hire was so uninspiring. For the first time ever, it actually seems like the US has 4-5 very young players who could be the spine of a genuinely good national team that could actually make some noise at a major tournament if they get a few fortunate draws and bounces. And who did they…

His Twitter feed is about to become him saying, “The line in the _____ v. _____ game just moved because that’s what the market dictated,” over and over again, thinking this is an extremely insightful observation.

>99% of the country had never even heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before she won her primary...

I never understood why Tim Miller needed to be involved in Crooked Media, which, full disclosure, I’m a big fan of. It really just seemed to me like it was giving Miller a platform to pretend that American Conservatism is something other than what it actually is. Those three dudes shouldn’t escape criticism for that.

“Isn’t it interesting how all the politicians had statements at the same time ...?”

Isn’t an alternate interpretation of the decisions cited in this article that they were the wrong ones and Cora lucked out?

What’s funny is that is hard to overstate just how against adding Wayne Rooney most of DC United’s core supporters were.

Filip Forsberg for Martin Erat was the moment I was officially out on McPhee. Think about the 15-16 Caps and 16-17 Caps with Filip Forsberg in the fold.

“Analytics aren’t good in small samples” is an oft-voiced complaint among members of a certain subset of baseball fandom and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

“Unwritten rules” professional athletes are the worst professional athletes. And what a guy to take up the mantle of classy conduct on the ice...

This story is pretty much Burn After Reading: Boston Sports Fan edition.

Not related to the game itself, but I really hope that B/R broadcast gets flamed the way it ought to so they can reevaluate and fix it. What the hell was Steve Nash doing there?