Timbers, Politics, and Human Rights

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The playoffs are the best part of MLS.

Spoken like a bloody yank.

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Well, the playoffs are for a cup--the MLS cup.

And there is also silverware issued to the team with the best record--the Supporters Shield.

It sounds like your main beef is that people disagree with you on which is more important.

The rest of the world places the highest value on the 'table' or league placement.

Promotion and relegation feed into the this hierarchy or value system.

One off, every 4 years World Cups or Euro Cups eventually turn into playoffs after group play and take a month or so to complete.

Same goes for champions league or europa cup, the difference is these competitions span nearly an entire calendar year. They run concurrent with the 'league' play and avoid international fixtures as well.

It's nothing like the quick Month of elimination home and away games like the MLS wackadoo american single entity charade. errrr MLS CUP.

The World has it's way of doing it and like so many things so does America.

That's not a disagreement that's called a lack of understanding and appreciation by the myopic american sports person POV.

Apples and Oranges.

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The rest of the world places the highest value on the 'table' or league placement.

Promotion and relegation feed into the this hierarchy or value system.

One off, every 4 years World Cups or Euro Cups eventually turn into playoffs after group play and take a month or so to complete.

Same goes for champions league or europa cup, the difference is these competitions span nearly an entire calendar year. They run concurrent with the 'league' play and avoid international fixtures as well.

It's nothing like the quick Month of elimination home and away games like the MLS wackadoo american single entity charade. errrr MLS CUP.

The World has it's way of doing it and like so many things so does America.

That's not a disagreement that's called a lack of understanding and appreciation by the myopic american sports person POV.

Apples and Oranges.

Sigh.

Were I to make a list of the Top Things Wrong With American Soccer--the MLS Cup would not be on it.

(Pro/rel, or the lack thereof, would be).

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Sigh.

Were I to make a list of the Top Things Wrong With American Soccer--the MLS Cup would not be on it.

(Pro/rel, or the lack thereof, would be).

Einstein, the MLS cup is the end product of all Professional Soccer in the states and a singular microcosm example of exactly what's wrong with the American 'system'.

Sorry you couldn't deduce that. Good God.

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zlatan

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Einstein, the MLS cup is the end product of all Professional Soccer in the states and a singular microcosm example of exactly what's wrong with the American 'system'.

Sorry you couldn't deduce that. Good God.

And this is the part of the movie where Slim Pickens rides to kingdom come on the back of an H-bomb.

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And this is the part of the movie where Slim Pickens rides to kingdom come on the back of an H-bomb.

Woo-Hoo! Major Kong!

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The playoffs are the best part of MLS.

Of course. Without playoffs nobody would pay attention.

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Spoken like a bloody yank.

Back into the corner with your dunce cap billy. You have to stop eating paste sometime.

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Spoken like a bloody yank.

Anyone who says "bloody yank" in the US is a fake. Try again Austin Powers.

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Anyone who says "bloody yank" in the US is a fake. Try again Austin Powers.

Yeah baby

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from https://www.thenation.com/article/po...soccer-antifa/

Their political commitment—or lack thereof—was seen after the game when Merritt Paulson was spotted throwing a tantrum, blaming the protesting Timbers Army as responsible for the 2-1 loss. As Timbers fan Jeffrey Ball tweeted, “I was one that he was yelling at… I yelled ‘Merritt Fight for us!’ He said ‘You can yell Anti-Fascism all you want but you ****ed this team tonight!’”

Merritt Paulson is wrong. Regardless of the final score, the Portland Timbers and their fans stand as the big winners. They showed the city of Portland and the country that they will stand resolutely against fascism, efforts to divide the anti-fascist movement, and a president who equates such displays of unity in the face of racist violence with “terroristic” threats. This was a tremendous—and important—collision of sports and politics: a showcase of the power of dissent and solidarity. It was about restoring anti-fascism into the most public possible of public squares, and given recent events in Portland, it could not have been more welcome.

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Did Merritt’s daddy buy the Timbers for him? Did he ever achieved anything before daddy bought it for him?

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from https://www.thenation.com/article/po...soccer-antifa/

Their political commitment—or lack thereof—was seen after the game when Merritt Paulson was spotted throwing a tantrum, blaming the protesting Timbers Army as responsible for the 2-1 loss. As Timbers fan Jeffrey Ball tweeted, “I was one that he was yelling at… I yelled ‘Merritt Fight for us!’ He said ‘You can yell Anti-Fascism all you want but you ****ed this team tonight!’”

Merritt Paulson is wrong. Regardless of the final score, the Portland Timbers and their fans stand as the big winners. They showed the city of Portland and the country that they will stand resolutely against fascism, efforts to divide the anti-fascist movement, and a president who equates such displays of unity in the face of racist violence with “terroristic” threats. This was a tremendous—and important—collision of sports and politics: a showcase of the power of dissent and solidarity. It was about restoring anti-fascism into the most public possible of public squares, and given recent events in Portland, it could not have been more welcome.

The #TDS is strong.

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The #TDS is strong.

He literally tweeted it you cuck