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08-08-2023, 09:16 AM | #2 |
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Sadly athletes being radicalized is something we're going to have to put up with. Especially since owners won't put the kibosh on their employee's on-field, in uniform, actions. They can say what they want off the clock (if their contract doesn't have something covering things they can't do even "off the clock" personal conduct clause, or liking the wrong Tweet, and the team can deal with retaining the player later if the things they choose to do on their own time carries over and affects the team.
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08-08-2023, 09:39 AM | #3 | |
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08-08-2023, 08:59 AM | #4 |
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Of course women don't watch women's sports in large numbers. They don't want to pay for an inferior product any more than men do.
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08-08-2023, 09:31 AM | #5 | |
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MLS is an inferior product yet it's doing quite well with men and women. College sports especially outside big conferences is inferior. Minor league sports is inferior. Women's tennis is inferior. We watch inferior athleres all the time |
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08-08-2023, 09:56 AM | #6 | |
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And those inferior sports/athletes generally don't bring in as much revenue as their superior counterparts. |
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08-08-2023, 11:06 AM | #7 | |
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Equal pay on the surface is a crazy idea. But it's also not that simple. Growing women's soccer is good for both men and women, and now they get to jointly share in that growth. It brings in a lot of new fans and sponsors that are unique to women's instead of mens, and as the game grows it brings in more revenue to close the gap. The US is also a unique situation where the women (this year as an exception, of course) close the gap substantially when they play into the semis/finals where the men are typically bubble qualifiers. Men probably still deserve more pay but they are probabky on board with the idea that a strong men and women's sport is good for everyone. |
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08-08-2023, 12:01 PM | #8 | |
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08-08-2023, 11:00 AM | #9 | |
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The skills of women are not even remotely close. The same problem with women's basketball. That's not to say women sports can't be marketable. There's a reason why women's tennis has equal interest to men's tennis and why women's figure skating is more popular than the men's. Women fights are also popular in the UFC because a fight is a fight. |
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08-08-2023, 11:19 AM | #10 | |
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I don't see men avidly following NWSL for that reason, but half the country is female and you would expect there to be no trouble selling out a 10,000 seat venue night after night if women supported the women's game the way men support the men's game. |
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08-08-2023, 11:38 AM | #11 | |
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08-08-2023, 09:40 PM | #12 |
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The top 10 league thing is interesting. I think current MLS stacks up well against the likes of Brasileirao in Brazil, Argentine Primera, Liga MX, Eredivisie, Ukrainian Premier League, Portugal etc...
Some of those leagues have a team or two at the top which are hard to catch up with prestige\talent\money wise like Ajax but if you are putting two leagues top to bottom MLS play wise and look at attendance and attention MLS does just fine in that mix. |
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08-10-2023, 05:03 PM | #13 |
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At least one of the other national players hit the nail on the head today, paraphrasing here, but the one lady said the USNWT should have backed up all the pre-tournament talk on the pitch.
Very well said. Thang God the queen freak is gone... |
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08-10-2023, 06:35 PM | #14 | |
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08-10-2023, 06:59 PM | #15 |
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Why, Why, a soccer post on a "TRUE FOOTBALL MESSAGE BOARD." Go to Europe if you wish to dribble on this sport. I understand most of the world luvs it, but it boring, boring, boring.
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