Ms. Maestri,
I am afraid you entirely misread Professor Webb's intentions in the article "How Soccer is Ruining America". Webb was not trying to ridicule the sport. His point in writing this article was to ridicule anyone who actually believes that about soccer. At the end of the article, Webb reveals he has three children who play soccer. He then goes on to describe how soccer is beneficial: "Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game." He clearly doesn't agree with any of his previous statements, therefore proving that the whole article is how the world sees soccer, not his view of soccer.
As for your statement "Your entire argument in this section was nothing more than an opportunity for you to use some (what you probably thought were hilariously brilliant and cute) metaphors about the sport you actually do like, baseball.", his use of metaphors were only to glorify baseball. You automatically jumped to the conclusion that this means he thinks soccer is a worse sport than baseball. Referring to my previous argument, he proves in the end that he doesn't think less of soccer, than he does of any other sport, he actually believes the opposite: "baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills." Also, did you ever think that Webb may have wanted to sound "hilariously brilliant and cute"? He may have actually been joking, but that didn't seem to have ever occurred to you.
All in all, maybe you are the true "I.I.A." if you didn't realize his article was written as a humorous satire. Because "everyone has their own opinion", then we can respect the fact that you just didn't think it was funny.
Group members: Gabrielle Langlois, Rachel Werner, Micaela Strickland, Natalie Dickman
I am afraid you entirely misread Professor Webb's intentions in the article "How Soccer is Ruining America". Webb was not trying to ridicule the sport. His point in writing this article was to ridicule anyone who actually believes that about soccer. At the end of the article, Webb reveals he has three children who play soccer. He then goes on to describe how soccer is beneficial: "Soccer is the perfect antidote to television and video games. It forces kids to run and run, and everyone can play their role, no matter how minor or irrelevant to the game." He clearly doesn't agree with any of his previous statements, therefore proving that the whole article is how the world sees soccer, not his view of soccer.
As for your statement "Your entire argument in this section was nothing more than an opportunity for you to use some (what you probably thought were hilariously brilliant and cute) metaphors about the sport you actually do like, baseball.", his use of metaphors were only to glorify baseball. You automatically jumped to the conclusion that this means he thinks soccer is a worse sport than baseball. Referring to my previous argument, he proves in the end that he doesn't think less of soccer, than he does of any other sport, he actually believes the opposite: "baseball is too intimidating, football too brutal, and basketball takes too much time to develop the required skills." Also, did you ever think that Webb may have wanted to sound "hilariously brilliant and cute"? He may have actually been joking, but that didn't seem to have ever occurred to you.
All in all, maybe you are the true "I.I.A." if you didn't realize his article was written as a humorous satire. Because "everyone has their own opinion", then we can respect the fact that you just didn't think it was funny.
Group members: Gabrielle Langlois, Rachel Werner, Micaela Strickland, Natalie Dickman