I had always hoped that here at the end, that CC would come home to Cle for one more year on the mound.  I wish we had a team that would make that worth it.  One where he could win one more ring.  I think the Yankees will give that to him this year...and I will miss him when he’s gone.

So you’re saying you’re not a Manfred man?

The fact the USWNT gets beat by a boys FC Dallas U15 team they practice against shows you where the “talent” or as the writer says “excellence” gap is. There is a lot to unpack in this equal pay argument.

The women’s team making more money for FIFA than the men’s team is, unfortunately, a US specific issue, mostly due to football (NOT SOCCER!!) not being very popular in the US. FIFA sits on the biggest sporting event in the world, which is a money-making scheme and pretty much dominated by the HUGE businesses that are…

But as with the article you are taking one figure and comparing it to another .

“Pointing out that the women’s team not only has more success but also brings in more money is an important point in dismantling the ability to rationalize inequity.”

But they are more successful because they don’t play men. Comparing success when one team plays the best soccer players in the world and the other plays women who can’t beat regional boys u15 teams. It undermines the argument of equal pay for equal talent.

You are arguing that the World Cup payouts should be more equal. Or at least someone should be taken to task for not doing so.

I think overall the “equal pay” argument for the women’s soccer team is hurtful to the equal pay movement in large. The latter is based on equal skill, the former is based on a nebulous “fairness” argument. A woman associate lawyer can be just as good of a lawyer on average as a man lawyer. That is not the case for…

I posted this in another thread:

There are a number of entities who pay women soccer players, and they’re being conflated in discussions of equal pay. One is FIFA, who runs the World Cup and awards a prize purse to competitors and winners. There’s also U.S. Soccer, who pays both the men’s and women’s national teams their salaries and bonuses. Then…

The other plausible explanation...the women agreed to the terms under their CBA.

One of the issues that I have trouble getting past is that they recently signed a CBA agreeing to the terms that they now (correctly) find unjust.

You think Gwyneth would be interested in a $50 crystal?

President Trump has requested that all current US Navy frigates be upgraded or replaced by frignines.

Goodwin’s Law, and I don’t even care:

If you think that is mediocre white male territory I honestly feel like you don’t know very many white people. Like, I’m really not sure why we are suddenly so invested in downplaying people’s accomplishments and ignoring actual experience running businesses, good education, etc just because someone looks like our…

I’m gonna use this post to complain about the continued butchering of the Kinja web pages because there is really no other place to complain about them. To the designers; YOUR WEB SITES SUCK. Why do you insist on making it harder for people to use your sites? Over the past year it has become harder and harder to…

I have wanted her to run for president since about 2013. She isn’t perfect (no one, especially a politician is) but damn is she so fucking smart and no nonsense. Her policies are clear, they help those who need help the most and they make so much fucking sense. She also speaks very well and generally does well on the…

What happened to a lot of the other comments in this thread!?