One thing I can’t figure out- shouldn’t the players take shorter contracts that are fully guaranteed instead of these longer contracts that are huge on paper but only have the front years guaranteed and the last 3 years or so are at the whim of the team since they can be cut without consequence? Why give teams that…

I’m the same....very, very worried about ever ballooning deficits and unchecked gov’t spending combined with this insane desire to bring taxes to zero. Some day it will blow EVERYTHING up.

Just a question, not Trump support, but is what you listed really any different than it’s been for the last 18 years? You could apply all of those statements to every POTUS less Clinton and probably be right for the past 30 years, no?

that would have won them the game...probably.

That was all I could think about....only kids would get those seats? Only ones nimble enough this day and age.

That’s what friendship is all about in adulthood. You have to have the circle who is willing to admit to the struggles, not the ones who are act like everything is rainbows and unicorns all the time.

“Not from you, Lenny” - Anybody following his bankruptcy case

You think jail will be significantly worse for this guy than his regular life? I would venture a no on that....so what’s the point? If the downside isn’t that bad, what are we doing?

He also worked extremely hard to be very good at a very popular sport. I’m sure if ping pong commanded the types of salaries that playing in La Liga does, he would have dedicated himself to that and probably been one of the best....the guy is an athletic freak, he could probably be fantastic and ANY sport he wanted to…

Not if they are replaced with automation or other people willing to do the work for the same pay....

“It wasn’t even that they couldn’t get shots at the Croatian goal in the second half, it didn’t feel like that they were even trying at times. They would get the ball to the Croatian side and just decide to play for time...”

Hopefully none of the above unless they sell Bale first. If they keep the current squad and slot him in, they won’t miss a beat....if he can stay healthy, that is. The ultra focus on CR7 hurt the team in my opinion.

And RM made the smart move letting him go now....I have a weird feeling that Bale is going to set the league on fire next season.

I’m not sure it’s arrogance as an over reliance on possession as a form of defense. They can’t score if they don’t have the ball.....unfortunately, the other part of that is you have to score occasionally too.

I’m afraid to ask what “only the best” means in this context....asparagus buffet?

No, no...you see, in Spain, the only way to score is if you can walk the ball across the goal line. Taking a shot from anywhere outside of 1 yard is considered unsportsmanlike so they never, ever, do it. It’s just poor form to do it any other way....also, less than 1,000 passes a game is grounds for immediate…

For Spanish futból, Marca is the one I would recommend. They have an english version of the site: http://www.marca.com/en/

it’s because tiki taka is the only they know...they have no plan B for when it fails and it’s starting to fail often as teams understand that parking the bus and compressing the middle renders it useless. 

Because those countries are not socialist....the nordic countries that everyone loves are free market countries. Socialist countries are NOT free market nor do they protect property rights and the rights to own companies privately. People have no idea what socialism truly is ...

It’s not a flat out lie and it’s not republican propaganda....SS isn’t really a tax as you’re supposed to get out of it what you put into it directly and I would argue most recipients (currently) get MORE out of it than they’ve put into the system. Anyone under the age of 45 is likely to never see a dime of that money…