NASL and USL had both been classified as second division leagues. USL is a lot more integrated with MLS and has actually had some teams that were promoted as MLS expansion teams. Whatever reason US Soccer had for granting NASL a waiver has since gone away.

MLS is basically run as a Ponzi scheme, and these other leagues are aspiring to be as successful as them.

FC Cincinnati has a good thing going. They also do less than $1.2 million in revenue a year.

Well you do have the USL which has several successful teams, ie FC Cincinnati

Another fun fact: Goo Jesus was Peter North’s original stage name.

Probably already gets it

FFB and tampering rules are artificial constraints put in place to suppress salaries and little the power of the players. Nothing more, nothing less. So fuck the ethics argument regarding a fundamentally unethical system as a whole anyways.

I don’t think we’ll have to worry until Messi starts telling young men to pull up their pants or start talking about a Great Experiment where FC Barcelona tries to be a world class research university.

Better comparison might be you were the CEO of a company, tried your best but ended up screwing up against your stiffest competition, and instead of trying to do better and working harder you just up and quit leaving the employees of your former company out to dry and signing on with the competition.

While you make interesting points, one thing to remember first and foremost is that KD is a bitch.

The mouth said “run it up their donkey”, but the eyes say “go outside and cut your own switch”

I’m sick of the Arians in this country swinging their Johnsons around like their worldview is the only one that matters.

do you think if we did a Kickstarter to pay Maradona or Pele to talk shit about USMNT we could get an appropriate messenger?

Dude can’t win. He gets called a homer for not criticizing and when he does he hears this garbage.

Two Goofy Goals:

This is the single worst take in the history of language.

This is exactly right. Fall is absolutely the best season, especially in the south. It’s not too hot, you can actually open up your windows for the most part, and it’s not as muddy as spring.

I like to measure how long it takes a writer to describe the air as crisp when discussing the fall. You made it four words.

“BVB did not play like a team embroiled in a nine-figure transfer war with the biggest club in the world”

“See, pay-to-play youth soccer development works.”