It’s funny to me that this guy equate soccer with socialism, considering soccer, at least in Europe, about as ruthlessly capitalistic as anything. No salary cap, little revenue sharing, etc.

Yeah that’s a terrible joke. A slightly more functional version of the joke would have been “I actually don’t know about going up 3-1, you saw what happened to the warriors 2 years ago.” Embiid’s was a mangled version of a not very good joke that he then way oversold. I could use less of this comedy in my life.

I get the love for Embiid, but his jokes are barely more creative than a Dwight Howard impersonation.

Because he said some things on social media and the first couple years of his career that the media liked. That's pretty much the whole story.

Concerned about maintaining a passionate fan base in a city or region with little to no professional soccer history?

“Concerned about maintaining a passionate fan base in a city or region with little to no professional soccer history?”

Once Dembele is fit and bored of Fortnite he will be the regular starter. He is simply the better player than Coutinho, both on the field and on Fortnite.

The puppy is great, but the best part is that the family didn’t bring him home till a few weeks into the season so they get to keep him for seven years instead of six.

You just gotta love this guy!

Good Lord, it’s like the Pelicans don’t want the Lakers to win a championship.

At this point, I can only believe it is trolling.

Sunk cost fallacy.

The guy goes “I demand you blow up this team midseason and wreck the future of the franchise by not being able to get close to fair value for me, because I demand to go right now during the season instead of after it” and the people responsible for the toxic environment are the executives who quite correctly told him…

Please put the entire text of your email in the subject line and nothing in the body, those are my favorite.

We as a society did this. We heap so much crap on any referee that gets a call wrong that these refs decided to replay every loose ball call they had the ability to review because they weren’t gonna catch crap for getting it wrong. And as a result, it swung one of the best national championship endings that I’ve ever…

It’s good that one of Deadspin’s soccer writers caught this. I have a feeling the other one missed it because he’s midway through a 5,000-word paean to Gerard Deulofeu after he did something good today.

Yo, I hear you BUT....What if the Joker was really all the friends we made along the way?

Im all for it. Just thought this was a rare opportunity to bring up the move Ladybugs.

What a coincidence: I also work “at the intersection of ethics, economics, and biology” (stealing pain pills from friends and relatives).