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@MooncatMaxxi @AlexStepherylh @nonregemesse I think it means the nightmare is that those people actually believe they have good intentions, which is insane. Those gov officials truly believe they are "the good guys."

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@AlexStepherylh @nonregemesse Correct, he actually said that what these people thought was well intentioned is a literal nightmare. The problem is so many people don't read and immediately react without looking at what the sentence says.

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@TokeTheilade yup.. the ball moves faster than any person.

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@SteveOnSpeed No/Yes

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@akafaceUS no one plays baseball anymore

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@therealwildcur Soccer is our 3rd most popular sport already by multiple metrics, so we cant blame what we used to.

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@holland_tom @TheRestHistory Great episode, and people complaining are assuming what the conclusions will be without bothering to hear it.

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@HendrickD82 @TheRecoveringP1 Exactly, its already 3rd and reality is at least half of the basketball kids and more than half of the american football kids 100% would not be soccer players due to body type (too tall/heavy/both). We def would improve with bigger player pool but thats not our biggest issue.

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@StanUsmnt Kobe Bryant called this years before his passing and he’s been proven right

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@KylePagan_ To actually win? 20 years or so most likely.

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@BowTiedCrow this is prob wrong bc the soccers specific requirements dont match up with saquon barkley's attributes. If everyone played soccer, different people from our expanded pool would become the 'elite' soccer players. It wouldnt be slotting in NBA/NFL guys whose bodies wouldnt work.

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@Jwiesel13 The problem is that the NFL & NBA guys are not the athletes we would actually need playing soccer. Too big, too tall, wrong attributes. Athleticism 100% matters, but what makes those guys good at those sports is not what is needed.

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@HedgeDirty About 9-10 at the latest?

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@TimmShoup @aakashgupta There is an element of this. We think abot the kids who make it and become athletes with contracts and teams sell for $$$. Consider what happens to the kids who dont make pro though. Education deprioritized, washed athlete. Read the book "No Hunger in Paradise"

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@emiweelee @WhatThewhat35 They do because of Title IX. Soccer gets 14/team and spread across 28 player rosters. They sometimes finagle things with in state tuitions and add in merit.

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@justin_1455 its already surpassed baseball. Also the US demographics are changing in its favor, slowly but surely.

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@SeatXparency @DaxMcCarty11 he slipped and fell, not even close to a foul

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@espn700jeremy @FiredUpCoug demographics changing will factor eventually

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@FiredUpCoug It will happen overt the course of time. Demographic change will be an enormous factor. Right now its held back by a combination of play pool limitation, gatekeeping and just lack of understanding what makes players better. Prob take decades more.

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@FiSurgi It is also because we have labor laws and dont allow clubs to own youth players and sell their rights to other clubs. Without those payments to cover the cost of the academies, something has to pay for it and that becomes either the government, the club at loss, or the parents.