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Okay, the U.S. stays isolated from the world when it comes to soccer because the U.S. has far better sports to watch. Football, Baseball and Basketball. Soccer is a dreadful sport to watch. Soccer is very fun to play, maybe the funnest, but to watch there just isn't any scoring. I'm sorry, but soccer is dreadful to watch. I loved playing soccer, but to watch a 0-0 tie is ridiculous and pointless. Watching soccer sometimes I feel as if the players should pay me money to watch them not score goals. I actually feel bad for them, as if I pity them.

Now, I do love the fact and hold soccer in high regard that it has kept with tradition and not given into the concept that higher scoring equals more money, etc, etc, and hasn't changed it's rules dramatically. The athletes are tremendous. But, the fact remains soccer is a bore to watch. Soccer is big in the world because it is simple. It is one ball being kicked around at two goals. Also, the game is historically old. It's been around for a long, long time. I don't care what anyone says, there simply is not that much strategy involved. It's easy to see the teams that will win have the speedier strikers, and that's that. I have more fun watching the crowds of a soccer match than I do of the game itself.

World Cup soccer is what I like to watch when I watch soccer. It's actually the only soccer I watch. I think this epitomizes soccer's popularity. You get drunk and drugged up crowds living and dying for their countries' teams. It's really fun to witness, but sad at the same time. I believe this fanaticism is deeply based in nationalism that borders on hidden hatred. England versus France for example. Ireland versus England, etc. How many clips do I have to see of latin people beating the hell out of each other or tearing down a retaining wall before I say, this is just idiotic. America will never join the rest of the world and shouldn't, in following soccer hugely.

I think why American sports like basketball are gaining popularity in other countries is two fold. One, these sports offer more scoring, people get more involvement that shows something and more fulfillment I think. Also, marketing. The U.S. companies have pushed basketball, baseball and football so much that it would be impossible for these countries to ignore the sports. I personally think the globalization of our sports is good, but sickening at the same time as the end game is to make money for greedy companies.

I could personally care less how the U.S. ever does with soccer, however, I will always support the team we send out. I think the U.S. is fine with what it has done and hopefully one day we can with the World Cup. Cricket......maybe if baseball, basketball and football get outlawed, we might start getting cricket worthy with the rest of the world, but can't see it happening right now.

Yes. The answer to this is yes. Our entire society is brainwashed into spending money on things they don't need. The athletes will continue to be greedy and demand salaries that will support their insatiable appetites for toys, houses, hunting trips, sports cars, etc. Money has become more important than the game itself. This is so sad, pathetic and has screwed common sports fans beyond anything I could possibly say. Why should some NBA guy have 3 Escalades and a fan have to pay $80 for an average seat to watch a sub par crappy game?

The solution is to not cap salaries, but set a different structure. The players have to unlearn what their greedy snake-in-the-ear sports agents have hissed to them, and understand that they are way overpaid right now and have destroyed sports. If any of you reading this don't believe that sports have been destroyed, please respond, I want to hear and will explain my case.

My solution, and this is just one example is pretty good. All rookies make the same money. Let's say NFL for example. $500,000. You might say, well this is America, you can't do that. Well, don't business industries pretty much set what a first time worker can make? And don't you bet if high paid first year workers in law for example were destroying the entire law community, don't you think they would act on stopping it? Of course they would. High salaries have screwed all sports up, and if you dont' believe me, ask what a Dodger fan used to pay for box seats for the past 50 years behind the dug out and what they had to pay this year. Ask a NY Giants ticket season holder and ask how much he or she's has been cleaned out for. It's unreal. Anyway, so rookies make $500,000. Then in the second year, the sophomore's make $1,000,000.

At this point, you are saying, well what are the guys playing for then? Listen dumbshit, they are playing to help their teams win games, the team that pays them a ton of money to play a friggin' game!!!! Whether it be in practice or in the game they better bust their asses!! Get real! So then in the 3rd year they go to arbitration and sign a 5-year deal based on their first two years. A five year deal would be like the following. In arbitration it would be decided if a guy was a 1 star, a 2 star, a 3 star, a 4 star or a 5 star guy. Each star category would have criteria to base it upon. Then, within the star category, there is a low dollar and high dollar amount that can be heckled over. If a guy wants to, he can opt out and not sign, however, he's out of the league for 1 year minimium for being an asshole. Remember, you who are reading this and find it crazy, your ticket price is paying for a punk sports-agent lawyer to vacation half the days out of the year!!!

So there you have it, guys get paid for what they fucking do, not for how a big college drummed up a guy or a soft college schedule made huge numbers for the guy or some freak incident in the combine happened.