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They probably haven't been paid for a while.

Maybe but I've been hearing this since 1982. Soccer is like running.... would people partake in it if they were prevented from telling you they partake in it? (I say that as someone who's main use of social media is to brag about my running)

Two cats. Every time this happens, it’s nap time for daddy because I don’t want to disturb them.

The greatest thread in at least 4 years. Included later on is a link to some channel they are on. It’s compromised.

When you are a nerd with small hands the tiny young girls are appealing balms to your lack of self-confidence.

Idiot parents will be in for a rude awakening in about 3-4 years. Officials are aging out and there won’t be any left.

Los Angeles not even in the top 10. Maybe they need another team?

I used to coach football, there were three leagues: under 8 to 10, 11 to 12, and 13 to 14. I would send a letter home with each kid at the start of the season, telling parents that they had to behave themselves at the games and not to respond to idiot parents on other teams. Also, I told them in that letter that if they were interested in coaching, come on out. So that they wouldn't be complaining about the coaches without getting called out on it. A friend of mine had a kid on the team one year and was sitting beside another dad at a game, and the other guy was complaining about play calling or something, and my friend turned to him and said "didn't you get the letter?" lol

It looks like something is happening in soccer until you realize it isn't.

One of my prized possessions.

silly guy

My girl Lilly.

You mean HIS reputation was ruined shortly after he put Sarah Palin on the ticket... right?

Take it off the table and then send assassins after Putin nonstop

I wonder whether a lot of the appeal of soccer, outside its simplicity, has to do with national pride. The World Cup is the biggest sports event in the world outside of the northern part of North America. It's a chance for little countries to upset big countries on the pitch. It's pretty thrilling from that perspective.

As a sports official, I won’t work youth baseball anymore for this same reason. I work college and semi-pro baseball, but won’t do travel baseball. I never worked basketball or soccer, but would be the same way. I will work youth football for select leagues, because if game admin does their job and keeps the parents in the bleachers, there is a degree of separation. After I was verbally accosted at the age of 14 by a 40-something 6’ tall dude in a muscle shirt while working a seven year old softball game, nah, I’m good. People can keep wondering why there is a massive officials shortage and why the officials who show up for those youth games suck though.

Going off of my 13 yo son and his athletic friends none of them play soccer (They all play Baseball,Football,Basketball). The idea they like to say is the non athletic kids play soccer, they are also the socially awkward kids playing soccer, I dunno.

Maybe soccer is like jazz. Jazz: It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. Soccer: It's not the plays that lead to a score, its about the plays the don't lead to a score?

She is the best cat I've ever owned. Loves people, plays fetch and is in charge of ushering us all off to bed at our designated bed times. The black one is the sweetest cat I've ever owned. Total lap cat. She's visually impaired but sees well enough to get around fine.

John Wilkes Booth had too high a shooting percentage to interest Troy Weaver.

I've been told I resemble Jim Carrey...

Soccer is a good first sport for kids to play because they can do it a younger age than most sports. The basic movements are easy to do. You can mix boys and girls and there isn't an advantage to one or the other. The equipment is cheaper.

hell of an effort. Love this team. love the future. Yzmeran.

no wonder you like baseball.

I can live with..... - pitch clocks, because the modern Jeter-ization of batting routines was getting ridiculous, and requiring pitchers to stay in for 3 batters eliminates the modern overutilization of relievers. I'm also interested in... - trying to limit the overshift, because it's reinforcing the current no-balls-in-play K-or-HR aspect of baseball which makes it more juvenile and boring IMHO. I don't like.... - the universal DH, but that battle was basically lost decades ago. I absolutely HATE.... - the extra-inning baserunner thing; it was just an abomination, and reeked of the little leagues. I am very frightened of.... - the further expansion of the playoffs seriously threatens to ruin the UNIQUE value of baseball as a marathon season, which reinforces it's un-clocked/timeless/eternal aspect. Bottom line: baseball can be rough, mean, dirty, and childish, just like any other sport, but I **really** cherish the grown-up and contemplative part of baseball, which no other sport can touch.

Yes, it did.

Trump Org accounting firm has bailed.

Baseball won't lose me over this, or over the lockout. The only way Baseball can lose me is through a game-fixing scandal. Were it to ever become clear that Baseball has fixed, or does fix, games for who cares what reason, that's the one way they can lose me. As far as diehards like me are concerned, since Baseball knows they can't lose us so easily, they know they can do basically anything they want to the game and we'll stick around. We might not be happy with the changes, but we'll still watch. That's why they call us "diehards". I don't think casual fans care enough about the game to get into a snit about dramatic changes like two-month playoffs or shortened seasons or things like that. Those things are an affront only to baseball history, which they have no sense of. I think a lot of them like baseball because of its romantic nature as America's summer pastime, so I think what puts those fans off is the very lockout we are experiencing, since it is undermining their romantic ideal about the game with business concerns they couldn't possibly care less about. I think those kinds of fans will peel off in great numbers if the season is severely shortened or canceled, just like they did after 1994-95. As for the gamblers, the constituency Baseball appears to be catering to the most anymore, they basically couldn't care less about the game except as a betting opportunity. They'll come to baseball to bet on it when it's available, and when it's not, they'll just go and bet on other things until it comes back. I suspect Baseball could reduce itself to nine rounds of Home Run Derby and they'd still come around to bet on it.

I'm the same way. I got Diego six weeks after Tony died. I won't wait to get another dog. My home is just too empty without one.

His “Sportswrap” on WJR in the early 80s was the very first sports talk show I was able to listen to. I believe it was an hour a night 5 nights per week. Very rare back then.