You can't scare me, I'm stickin' to the Union
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You can't scare me, I'm stickin' to the Union
Now that America's social problems have finally been solved and the first buds are showing up on the trees, we can finally turn our attention to the thing that matters most in life, which is sports. Amd what a grand and glorious day it is -- the long-awaited regular-season debut of the Philadelphia Union, on the road to their first couple of games at the Linc and then a season of expected sellouts in their new soccer palace by the Delaware. For soccer fans here in Philadelphia, this day it is a little bit like the signing of health care reform, a moment that was literally years and years in the making. Congrats to the Sons of Ben, the finest sports phanatics in this city of fan-champions.
And a wag of the finger to the Philadelphia Eagles, who having failed to deny the supremacy of the Phillies, are now taking to knocking the Union off the back page by trading McNabb. But then I couldn't loathe that team's management any more than I do already.
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"..this day it is a little bit like the signing of health care reform." Let me practice a future conversation with my daughter. " I'm sorry your prospects for a better life aren't as good as they were when I was your age, but you can blame that on the Philadelphia Union."— jmc
Talk about out of touch Will. You claim that America has long awaited healthcare, when at best its 50/50 people for and against it. And you claim the long awaited day soccer comes to Philly? Really? If you ask people what sport they would prefer to watch football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and golf would all rank well ahead of soccer. I dont think too many people have long awaited soccer in Philly. Really, you should just move to Europe with your love of socialized medicine, government meddling with the daily lives of people, and soccer.— Greg S- Chester is not Philadelphia— Molly
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- Meanwhile, Richard "grade schol" Saunders was out playing football and kick boxing while his classmates were learning spelling. Actually, I wish I had learned to play soccer when I was in, um, school. I actually was a football player at my ultra-left-wing elite socialist academy HS.— will
- You know why so many kids play soccer? ...So they don't have to watch it.— pj katauskas
- I'm just a poor country boy. No football, basketball or soccer. They're just for city kids - we spent our time doin' chores.— Mark Glaeser
- Greg, it's more than 50% who have awaited health care reform. Closer to 80% actually. Just because not everyone likes this bill, don't confuse it with everyone agreeing with conservatives. Also, it's not easy to move to Europe. The U.S. doesn't want to let go of their citizens easily and the Europeans don't want ignorant Americans coming over to exploit their better quality of life. jmc, I've already taught my son that the Republicans are to blame for most of the problems in this country, so we'll even out.— HandNik
- Hmm, brainwashing, eh, HandNik. Too bad your son isn't being allowed to think for himself. But that's the good old D way, of course.— pj katauskas
Will, I don't really think it took the Eagles thinking about trading 5 to knock soccer off the back page. If not for the Eagles, Myers facing the Phillies in Clearwater, the 3rd round of the NCAA tournament, or just about any other sports story (not involving the Sixers) would have done the trick.— bird11- "and the Europeans don't want ignorant Americans coming over to exploit their better quality of life." Yeah, nothing better than an aging population, low growth rates, a currency plagued by sovereign debt fears, and chronic unemployment. Those enlightened Euros.— RG
- Reason 1,592 not to trust the CBO scores.: In regards to SS: "This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, an important threshold it was not expected to cross until at least 2016, according to the Congressional Budget Office." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36028908/ns/business-the_new_york_times/— RG
- HandNik, Europe didn't seem to have a problem welcoming Ira Einhorn or Roman Polansky and they seem to actually want Mumia, why wouldn't they take Will Bunch????— bird11
- That was pretty funny Will. I do not believe you "play" kick boxing though............Will- pretend this Obama admin was republican and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were republican- what would you write??......and imagine a republican saying "We don't play by no rules, we make them up as we go." What would you blog? (Besides the horrific trashing of the English language)— Manny Trillo
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