Buckeye Fan 19

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England choose Hey Jude, Wonderwall and I cant remember the other.

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It’s a song called Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home), it’s sorta their unofficial fight song.

Dumbasses in the crowd have a classic WC quarterfinal matchup tied at 1-1 in stoppage time right in front of them and they’re trying to start the wave…

1) NBA has higher revenue. Duh.

However, the NBA salary cap is only 59% more than the NHL salary cap. But the highest NBA player makes 249% more than the highest NHL player. Reasons:

2a) The NBA has slightly smaller roster size (15 vs 23).

2b) The top guy on a basketball team is way more impactful on a team’s chances than the top guy on a hockey team (both due to how much playing time each have, and just the nature of the game). Even the 5th guy on a basketball team is probably more impactful than the 2nd or 3rd guy on a hockey team.

But there’s some point, probably around the 7th- or 8th-best on each team, where that flips. The 10th-best guy on a hockey team is way more impactful on a team’s championship chances than the 10th-best guy on a basketball team. The 17th-best guy on a hockey team is way more impactful on a team’s championship chances than the 13th-best guy on a basketball team.

Essentially, you need to have a more even distribution in salary throughout the roster to field a championship hockey team than a championship basketball team.

2c) NHL has a hard cap. NBA has exceptions with things like max contracts / Bird rights that essentially allow the top players to exceed the cap.

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The discussion is the celebration. Them trying to mock Trump during their celebration is them making the celebration political.

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It’s not political. They’re mocking the person they think unfairly (whether correct or not) used influence to try to change the outcome against them (unsuccessfully). It’s not a commentary about the Iranian war.

If Taylor Swift had been the one who called Infantino and was able to use her global celebrity status to convince him to reinstate Balogun, Belgium would have been blasting her music all over the locker room post-game in mocking fashion.

People always being up LeBron or Julio, and sure, there are probably some elite NFL/NBA guys who’d have been great soccer players…

But chances are, there are also even more G5 football players or mid-major basketball players, or even some minor-league baseball or hockey players who are great athletes who never gave soccer a chance, that, for whatever reason, genetics/disposition would’ve provided them the skill that would’ve turned them into world class soccer players. We’ll never even know their names, but if soccer was our #1 sport, they would’ve played it starting at 5 years old and been elite at it. I think that’s where a lot of the missing value is, not just the freakish NFL/NBA guys.

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If it was a bad call after an improper review, the remedy is to get rid of the red card and sentence to time served with the 30 minutes of 10 man soccer.

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That SHOULD be the way it’s handled…

Unfortunately, FIFA’s stupid and doesn’t have that ability / an appeals process in its code, so Article 27 (which by allows a suspension of the penalty) is the only remedy.

There should be like 7-8 minutes of stoppage time haha.

Dude didn’t even get touched. Classic Mexico. :lol:

Win-win outcome regardless, but I think I have to hope Mexico loses. Being eliminated from the WC in Azteca would be an all-timer.

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I got banned for nine months for posting a cartoon bear

This retard gets to make a trillion dumbfrick topics yearly

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My only explanation (same with Jerry) is it’s actually Chicken on fake/troll accounts to drive traffic (similar to Larry Leo).

Cannot possibly think of another reason why none of them have been banned.

The official scoring play summary of the play on MLB.com:

“Alejandro Osuna flies out to left fielder Cooper Ingle. Ezequiel Duran scores. Throwing error by left fielder Cooper Ingle.”

True, although maybe brain error would’ve been more accurate.