Thor Sanchez

As I go on it all fades away except for the soccer.

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@flameosumeet You could have supported the Fusion, or the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers, or either iteration of Miami FC.

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@ArthuronSports @lazydays1970 @JacobBSpeaks @JustBB_Media @SRJ7 @BNightengale Well of course now. The Majors have spent over a century ensuring all the players in lower level leagues are owned by MLB teams. So they don't have real seasons or supporters, and can't be real competition.

The ultimate in monopoly end-stage capitalism.

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@YankeesFiles That's why Americans are buying foreign soccer teams. They're not scarce, there are hundreds of potential top-level teams with rabid fans.

Because they have a league model that doesn't rely on billionaire oligarchs graciously letting them have a team, as long as it's profitable

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@southevropa @kayrrot @ChelsElaina Roughly a third of the 330 million Americans watch or play soccer.

That means more Americans are interested in soccer than there are people in the UK, France, or Germany.

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@BigDawgMiz16 @2003MUFC @asap_1905 @_kjs1874 How many MLS games have you been to? Did you hang out with the supporters groups?

Yes, DC United is a so-so franchise of a sketchy league, but Barra Brava, Screaming Eagles, El Norte... there in force every game. Even US Open Cup matches on freezing Tuesdays in March.

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@hallofgoodpod He's not talked about more because it's a world of guys throwing 103 with 13 K/9 and Johnson was more of a workmanlike closer who had two really good years. 5.4 and 7.2 K/9 those years.

Then he kind of melted down so O's fans' last memories of him weren't great.

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@typesfast The airport in Des Moines, Iowa didn't even pass 4th grade math.

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@YahooSchwab @NFLosophy Imagine graduating with honors from MIT and instead of a lucrative job with a big company you have to work for this other engineering firm struggling in Milwaukee because there's an engineer draft.

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@TBucsFan62 @NFLosophy But the NFL has a monopoly on non-college American football. The player's only real option is to quit his career. Maybe go to the CFL, but they probably have a deal with the NFL to not sign people already under contract.

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@NCSTl_ You could lower rosters and slowly limit pitchers on roster to eight or nine. Then limit minor league transfers. And ban position players pitching.

Pitchers can throw 300+ innings. But not in a world with essentially no limits on pitchers. So teams throw them at 125% effort.

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@soccerreform You're asking American soccer fans to just not have a local side to root for as a protest against The Man.

Good luck with that.

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@Oasistour2025 @creativeburne No, it's more like $800k.

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@ryanthomastake Would prefer a different model where every town and city already has a team, and the fans are actually supporters with a say in how things are run. So there's no real concept of some billionaire extorting tax money or they'll steal the team.

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@marqbox_ @CoachDavidKlein @SanzeriBaseball @MPLegends That's basically all pitching strategy until about 40-50 years ago. Everyone knew real men completed every start, and the only way to do that was to pace. Pacing was saving your best stuff for the handful of most important moments in a game. Nobody ever threw 350 innings at 125%.

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@himbopresident Ha, my successful Euro team is Spurs. Also support 1860 München, of the multiple relegations.

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@FutureJetsOC @strawsinanapple @himbopresident Have been a 1860 München supporter from Maryland for 25 years. They were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga in 2005, Regionalliga then 3. Liga a decade ago.

I'm well acquainted with how to get Bavarian public TV with a VPN, and have "watched" a relegation playoff on FotMob.

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@jc_bradbury I think its useful to bring up in a country where most people have no idea it exists elsewhere, it works, and it's a good alternative to our Stockholm Syndrome model of billionaires graciously giving us a team while it's profitable and the fans vigorously defending.

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@jmert14 @MLB The large market argument is "if you buy a small market team you just have to subsidize payroll out of your own pocket forever. While in NY/LA the team is a money printing machine."

They think it's reasonable for the Pirates to always operate at a loss to compete.

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@jonsthreecents @jmert14 @MLB Weird how in the rest of the world they've figured out a way for every town and city to have a soccer team (or three or 12) and support them.

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@ApatheticNo @boondockmillion @Milajoy 😂🤣😅