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  1. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    Maybe this move means Derlis isn't coming over in this window.
  2. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    I also read that a couple teams, New England specifically, have multiple international spots. I think Vancouver (?) just bought an international spot from another club for 50K in allocation money, so that seems to be about the going rate. If they wanted to, they could probably pull that off...
  3. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    Victor Rodriguez was at training yesterday. It looks like even if Derlis falls through, we have another person who can play across the attacking band.
  4. Smelly McUgly

    EPL 2017/18 Season

    I'm incredibly excited. After coming in for the last two seasons after they started, this will be my first full season of the Premier League. Repping Newcastle United because of DeAndre Yedlin (and because after learning about their history, they appeal to me as a Seattle sports fan). They look...
  5. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    I'd agree except these guys are now signing La Liga rotational players for bench depth, so clearly they seem to be making signings with a deep CCL run in mind. If Gonzalez and Rodriguez both come through, that is clearly a sign that the brass isn't just saying things about elevating the club's...
  6. Smelly McUgly

    Sherman/Guarantees/CBA **long**

    I can't understand why, were I to pick a side, I would be on the team's side of this debate. What has the team ever done for me other than extort tax dollars from me for a stadium that they then price me out of (well, I can afford it, but at that cost, no thanks)? The people who have done...
  7. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    Of course, but the higher-ups are also talking about making the Sounders a world-class org, and winning the CCL and playing your Real Madrids and Barcas and Bayern Munichs at the Club World Cup is as world-class as it gets. The more tickets into the CCL we go after, the better, and that includes...
  8. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    I agree with you. I think they were underperforming in part. Morris had a nagging ankle injury and was in poor form for most of the year, which is a big part of why our attack fizzles. When he's not out there, or when he's out there injured, there's no direct play. When he's out there healthy...
  9. Smelly McUgly

    Seattle Sounders 2017 season thread

    Speaking from a place of inexperience, but it doesn't seem like the team was that incomplete at the start of the season. He went and got Bruin to play up top for when Morris was unavailable, which turned out to be a great trade for us. He got Shipp, and though that hasn't worked out as well, he...
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    Sherman/Guarantees/CBA **long**

    I think every league with a TV deal shares the revenue of that deal. There are also the parachute payments that relegated teams get, but that serves to (theoretically) help those relegated teams come back up more quickly - something that doesn't always happen. In other words, money matters...
  11. Smelly McUgly

    Sherman/Guarantees/CBA **long**

    (Yes, I know - this is more rare than it might be for a Green Bay or a Buffalo in the NFL, but money, while the most important aspect of winning a championship, isn't the only aspect.) (Also, Popeye said a few things re: parity and a smaller sample size of football games making our...
  12. Smelly McUgly

    Sherman/Guarantees/CBA **long**

    The Premier League and NBA are about as massive, business-wise, as the NFL, and they have no cap and a soft cap, respectively. I don't think parity is what makes the NFL popular. I think that there are a number of unique things specific to the United States that make the NFL popular. Parity is...
  13. Smelly McUgly

    Sherman/Guarantees/CBA **long**

    I don't think that the NFL is great because of parity. Actually, of all the leagues that I like better (NBA, Premier League, MLS), two of them have little parity at all. I also don't side with owners because I'm not really interested in helping owners control costs when those same owners...
  14. Smelly McUgly

    Richard Sherman: Players need to be willing to strike

    With all due respect, this sort of pocket-watching is really unseemly. If the make millions, but they generate billions, they should complain. Why is it greed to want to achieve your earning potential? No matter if you make fifteen bucks an hour, fifty bucks an hour, or five thousand bucks an...
  15. Smelly McUgly

    Richard Sherman: Players need to be willing to strike

    See, this is the issue: Instead of thinking, "Why don't I get more from my company for the value that I helped create," you think, "I didn't get as much money as I should have gotten from my company, so football players shouldn't either." No, you're both workers and you both generate profits...
  16. Smelly McUgly

    Richard Sherman: Players need to be willing to strike

    I wish the legions of sports fans who think that everyone needs to hear their moronic, ill-thought-out hawt taeks about the opinions of sports players would shut the hell up, but that's not going to happen, either, so I guess neither of us will be happy.
  17. Smelly McUgly

    Richard Sherman: Players need to be willing to strike

    I'm a teacher, and I'm not silly enough to think that I should make as much as an NFL player. Until I pack a stadium and my place of employment can sign a billion-dollar TV deal for people to watch me teach, I'm not worth that much in the free market. Americans love free markets until football...
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    Sorry for another Kaeperncick article MMQB nails it

    This is why I can't wait for the NFL to die: Two probably white old dudes posting about how Colin Kaepernick isn't a "real" black guy because he was adopted by white folks. The NFL's fan base is mostly old, privileged, militaristic guys passing judgment on the blackness that they think they...
  19. Smelly McUgly

    EPL '16/'17

    I don't know what to think. One one hand, Wenger won a trophy this year, and I wonder if maybe Gunners supporters are just overreacting and thinking that their undefeated season from fifteen years ago should be the norm. On the other hand, getting your behind handed to you in multiple CLs and...
  20. Smelly McUgly

    Gisele admits Brady gets concussions regularly

    It's truth, and you don't care either, or you wouldn't watch a sport that's guaranteed to cause brain damage.

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