No, the metric system doesn’t go to 11.

While GorT will grant Dr. J the evil that is (was) Esperanto, GorT will take a bit of umbrage with his poke at soccer and the metric system. 

GorT is an engineer and things need to make sense.  So instead of measuring things based on body parts including the length of the forearm from the middle fingertip to the elbow, horses, plant seeds (barley in particular) and so on is a bit arbitrary.  While there might be have been a bit of a lefty push for the United States to convert over the years, it really would make some sense.  Heck, one could revive it as a push to focus on STEM areas where the metric system dominates.  Even NASA lost one of the Mars landers likely due to two separate teams using different measurement systems.  Who the hell measures spacecraft and associated measurements in the English measurement system?

The real issue at hand is the royal pain in the ass that it would be to try to convert the nation to the metric system.  It would be incredibly hard and cost a pretty penny.  So while I’d be in favor of it, it is not something I’d push strongly for us to undertake.

And soccer’s real tragic flaw is the subjective nature of player contact fouls and flopping.  One could argue that both of these happen in American football and Basketball.  The NBA is actually trying to deal with it and has a game flow that makes such calls more easily than soccer.  Football even has the ability to somewhat govern this through the use of penalties during a play.  Soccer creates a case where a stoppage needs to happen purely based on what could be, and many times is, a flop.

It’ll be interesting to see the result of this study funded by Mark Cuban after it runs its 18-month course.  In the mean time, try to get past the flopping issue on soccer and really take some time to watch a game.  It is a great sport…when played honestly.

GorT

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