First off the entire world besides America calls it football not soccer. Second, take your xenophobia somewhere else.

D.C. United drops upwards of $3.5 million plus a seven-figure salary to sign Paul Arriola today. LA drops $8 million to bring Carlos Vela to an expansion team. Dom Dwyer gets sold (between two MLS teams!) two weeks ago for $1.5 million.

“MLS sucks because all the players are bad”

I wish they would have found a way to make Euron as scary as he was in the books, even if we did have to cut a lot of the more outlandish stuff. In addition to being what Bran and Dany are pushing against, I think he helps to set the stakes of a world where evil wins. It’s not just emptiness, it’s utter horror. We…

It has been widely reported that the distribution of free tickets has declined to a huge degree over the course of MLS’s history. I’m not going to look that up for you.

“allegedly growing in popularity”

This injury means Liverpool will finish between 3rd and 5th. Had he stayed healthy, they’d have finished between 3rd and 5th.

He seems like a miserable person. At least where (American) soccer is concerned. Which makes his position seem really odd.

Seriously, can’t Deadspin find one soccer writer who doesn’t write like he’s one whiskey away from ending it all to spite the bartender?

Ah, the old “the MLS sucks because it doesn’t have relegation” argument. How on earth does the lack of relegation hold back the MLS or the national team? I don’t think that relegating, say, Chicago and Houston after last season and promoting Sacramento and Red Bulls II is suddenly going to make them both better.

And how many words would this chamaco write if the US had lost?

So, Neymar to Merseyside then. That should shake up the Premier League race.

Racism? At an Indians game?

Pulisic’s Pitch Performance Positively Proficient

Nothing makes me happier than watching Fed say fuck you to age and kick ass. His first two sets today were a straight up lesson in grass tennis. And then that tie break! He was down 3-0!

Is it just me, or is Melky applauding Freeland right at the end of the last clip? I want to believe that’s the case, because that’d be a good way to start the week.

This country is as divided as it’s ever been, excluding all those other years where there was actual Civil War and National Guard troops having to enforce integration decrees and nationwide rioting after the assassination of major public figures and Tories against Rebels and that time they ran in Army tanks to bust up…

Very true. It still is a bit jarring that Rodgers took less guaranteed money than Timofey Mozgov.

I keep telling people looking for new TVs to get one with good HDR instead of just focusing on the 4K feature. Seeing things in 4k vs 1080p can be a marginal improvement, HDR vs standard is often night and day.

Back-to-back World Cups in Russia and Qatar really do make the whole anti-racism/discrimination posturing look empty and hypocritical.