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ValJamesDuex
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Up there with Pele & Beckham
I wonder if he will get a team eventually as well like Becks ?
ps If you want to see him in Toronto, NY, NJ, Columbus, Cinci, Nashville, Philly, Chicago, etc I would get on it and immediately order ticks right now!
I'd wager he's above those two for growth of the game/league in N. America, solely due to streaming. As long as they don't try to double the season pass price or something stupid, viewership, and ad dollars, should skyrocket.
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Looks like team ownership (along with revenue sharing) is another part of the deal, not sure there is another sports league in the world than can offer that ?
Sources: Inter Miami favourites to land Messi
MLS club Inter Miami CF have emerged as the front-runner to sign Lionel Messi, sources have told ESPN.
I think Pele helped the rebirth in the NASL days, Beckham was more of a icon. I think the mls vacation days are well over now.
It's a nice middle finger to sports laundering especially after what happened with the PGA this week.
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I'm not much of a soccer fan, but Messi is a much better player than Beckham, no? Pele, on the other hand, may be slightly ahead of him, but is there a conversation to be had that Messi=Pele?
I have a few friends who watch soccer, and their general consensus seems to be the Messi>Rinaldo and that Messi is one of the best ever...if not the best, but maybe that's recency bias.
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Messi has been a much better player than Beckham was. But, they also played two very different roles.
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Yes, Beckham was more of a icon, ambassador for the game at that stage. He certainly filled stadiums, most MLS clubs had to move matches vs LA Galaxy to NFL stadiums if they could to accomodate ticket sales and sold them out. Messi will have the same effect. Messi is considered one of the best players of all time, his nickname is The Goat btw.
Along with revenue sharing from Apple there is team ownership in his deal.
Most are saying he will make his debut in August, his PSG contract ends June 30.
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Now we know how the dinosaurs died ?
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Mike McDermott
blah blah blah
I found these yesterday of NYC and I was like
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The Tambora (Indonesia, ~2000 miles north of Perth, Australia) volcanic eruption April through June of 1815 ejected ~25 cubic miles of rock, dust, ash, etc. as high as 12 miles to the stratosphere. Although (for whatever reasons) the Southern Hemisphere was not as dramatically impacted, the following year, 1816, in the Northern Hemisphere was known as "the year without a summer" due to the blanketing effect and sunlight scattering of particles (visible wavelength range of ~0.4-0.7 micons or 400-700 nanometers, infrared range of sunlight heating is longer, out to low single-digit microns), and the cloud seeding effects. Rains, cold temperatures, late frosts, freak frosts and snows, etc. all resulting in crop failures, insufficient food, and had a residual effect spurring population migration in North America and Europe.
From a couple scholarly articles (geology / volcanology) on Tambora, and making some assumptions about fraction of the burned Canadian acreage whigh is vegetated, average height of trees, the percentage of the particle size distribution of the wildfire ash which is in a comparable light scattering range, and comparing it to the Tambora eruption, I conclude the current wildfires are on par or larger than the Tambora event. Of course, I could have made a math error. (I also haven't cross-checked the 2019-20 Australian wildfires to see if there is data / refereed journal articles on that event, and/or whether there were global weather events attributed to that Australian event in succeeding years.)
the tl;dr version:
1. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
2. The size scale of this wildfire, previous US California & Western wildfires, 2019-20 Australian wildfires, etc., could be compared to the 1815 Tambora, Indonesia volcanic eruption which had a global climate impact over the succeeding year-plus.
From a couple scholarly articles (geology / volcanology) on Tambora, and making some assumptions about fraction of the burned Canadian acreage whigh is vegetated, average height of trees, the percentage of the particle size distribution of the wildfire ash which is in a comparable light scattering range, and comparing it to the Tambora eruption, I conclude the current wildfires are on par or larger than the Tambora event. Of course, I could have made a math error. (I also haven't cross-checked the 2019-20 Australian wildfires to see if there is data / refereed journal articles on that event, and/or whether there were global weather events attributed to that Australian event in succeeding years.)
the tl;dr version:
1. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
2. The size scale of this wildfire, previous US California & Western wildfires, 2019-20 Australian wildfires, etc., could be compared to the 1815 Tambora, Indonesia volcanic eruption which had a global climate impact over the succeeding year-plus.
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Bladerunner 2049 Mike...
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It was a super cool world, shame what we did to it.
Like.. the frequency of these events is not gonna decrease. A certain economic/social model has f***ed it all in a mere 300 years.
I just hope the survivors of the coming mad max-esque world prioritize sustainability over growth.
Like.. the frequency of these events is not gonna decrease. A certain economic/social model has f***ed it all in a mere 300 years.
I just hope the survivors of the coming mad max-esque world prioritize sustainability over growth.
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So, when was East Amherst ceded to Canada?
Always thought he had dual citizenship and that's why he was on the Canadian team in 2018.
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