You could argue that it took Chelsea's iron grip on English football to make Manchester United popular among the masses, although for some neutrals it was like choosing between two 'evil empires'.These two sides can each make a claim to being the New York Yankees of England, though the analogy clearly fits better for Manchester United. On a related note, it has also been said that "rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for General Motors" (or, formerly, for U.S. Steel, or perhaps today the best analogy would be like "rooting for Microsoft"). Anyway, the GM analogy may take on a slightly new meaning in light of the news in Ryan's original test post.
But, regardless, Man U, Chelsea, and the Yankees all stink. I have considerable empirical evidence and extensive theoretical argumentation to support these propositions if you wish to hear them.
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Derek Jeter and 26 World Series Championships say otherwise.
This has absolutely nothing to do with your post, so I apologize for the randomness, but I do have a question that possibly we can talk about it in class. This weekend I was talking to my parents about the World Bank and they were sharing their (quite negative) thoughts about it. They seem to really mistrust the bank and they think its only a way to further take advantage of low-income countries with little emphasis on values/ rights and pure emphasis on profits. To an extent I agree and for some reason those thoughts have affected the way in which I have read about the IMF. Already I seem to mistrust the IMF. I know that it has alot of member countries, 185, but the US has by far the most votes followed only by Japan with about a third of the US, how is the US using this power? Would you say that the IMF has been successful in its aims of "crises resolution" and that it has a track record of acting in the best interest of low-income countries or are we looking at more morality issues as with the WTO and the World Bank?
The comment was far LESS random than the post itself, of course... :)
We'll discuss. Perhaps today, perhaps on a future day, depending on how things go -- but don't let us forget this question.
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