u/Fluid-Decision6262

I feel like every Breaking Bad character, from the most to least "evil", had their fair share of less than proud moments on the show, whether it was done out of spite, self-interest or a pure power-trip.

For me, at least among the main characters:

Walt - poisoning a child just to manipulate Jesse into getting back on his side and save himself from Gus. For me, this was when I officially jumped off 'Team Walt' the first time watching the show

Jesse - joining a support group with the goal of selling his meth to the recovering addicts. I know a lot of Jesse's "bad" actions were done either out of self-preservation or from being manipulated by Walt but this was inexcusable and straight up evil (especially as a recovering addict himself)

Gus - ordering the killing of Tomas (the 11-year old kid who was recruited into the cartel and happened to be Andrea’s younger brother)

Hank - following Jesse into his house, without a warrant or going through due process, just to beat him unconscious out of an impulsive rage. In most circumstances, Hank's career as a DEA agent would've and probably should've ended right there

Skyler - slept with her boss while Walt is battling cancer. When it came to laundering Walt's money and cooking Ted's books, she was admittedly in a very difficult spot in both cases but she was clearly the one who initiated her affair with Ted

Mike - leading the cover up of Drew Sharpe's heinous murder to protect their operation. Tbh, while Mike is obviously a hitman and an aid to Gus/Walt's empires throughout the series, he's not as impulsive as the other main characters.

Saul - recommended Walt to send others to Belize whenever it looked like his empire could be at risk (including Hank, Jesse, Badger, and a few others)

If you walk around Toronto and the GTA, it's quite common to see people wearing Yankees, Dodgers and other baseball hats that are not the Blue Jays.

On the surface, it may seem a bit odd since Toronto has an MLB team but at the same time, it probably comes down to the fact that a lot of people in Toronto just liking wearing baseball hats for fashion purposes and don't actually follow the sport.

This is the definitely the case in Europe when I go there for travel as I see many people (particularly younger people under age 40) wearing Yankees hats but if you asked them about the Yankees they'd give you a puzzled stare and say they thought it was just a New York hat they saw celebrities wear.

What are your thoughts on this rather common phenomenon?

If you're even semi-aware of soccer/football in the last 20 years, the two players you hear all the time are Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, which is totally fair because they've been the 2 best players of their generation and are easily 2 of the greatest players to ever live.

However, in my opinion, there never should've been such a heated debate lasting over a decade because since day one, it's crystal clear that Messi is and always has been the better football player and as their careers progressed, this only become more obvious. The only reason why this became a rivalry was having the two best players in the world play for Real Madrid and FC Barcelona for nearly a decade of their primes was way too good of a storyline and global marketing opportunity for the media.

If we measure the two players in every way possible, Messi clears Ronaldo in virtually every aspect as a player to the point where there shouldn't be a serious debate.

In terms of team/individual accolades:

- Messi has won 46 career trophies in his professional career vs 35 by Ronaldo

- Messi has won the World Cup and 2 Copa Americas vs 1 Euro Cup and 0 World Cups by Ronaldo

- Messi has won Ballon D'Or for World's Best Player 8 times vs 5 times by Ronaldo

- Messi won the Golden Shoe 6 times vs 4 times by Ronaldo

- Messi won the Golden Ball in 2 World Cups and 2 Copa Americas vs Ronaldo who's never won a Golden Ball at a World Cup or Euro Cup

- Messi has been named to FIFA's starting XI 17 times vs 15 times by Ronaldo

- Messi has won La Liga Player of the Year 7 times vs 1 time by Ronaldo during the years they both played in La Liga together in their primes

- Messi was also La Liga's leading scorer 5 times vs 3 by Ronaldo during the years they both played in La Liga together in their primes

In terms of stats and attributes as an individual player, this is even more damning to this debate:

- Messi has scored 919 goals in 1196 games (0.77 goals/game) vs Ronaldo who's scored 976 goals in 1366 games (0.71 goals/game)

- Messi has dished out 418 career assists vs Ronaldo who's dished out 257 career assists

- Messi has completed 3425 successful dribbles in his career (4.6 per game) vs Ronaldo who've completed 1702 successful dribbles in his career (2.2 per game)

- Messi also has successfully completed an astounding 60% of his career dribble attempts vs Ronaldo who's only successfully completed 41% of his career dribble attempts

So overall, Messi has had a more successful career than Ronaldo in terms of winning more trophies, winning every trophy in the bag after the 2022 WC, and collecting more individual accolades at club and country level. The only argument Ronaldo has over Messi is being the greatest Champions League player of all time which I give him full credit for but in every other aspect, he's cleared by Messi.

As a player, Messi is the greatest triple threat we've ever seen as he is an equally prolific goal scorer as Ronaldo (with a higher goals/game ratio), but is also one of the greatest playmakers and dribblers of all time, whereas Ronaldo is undoubtedly a prolific goal scorer but is an above average passer and dribbler. In short, Ronaldo is one of the greatest goal scorers of all time while Messi is one of the greatest goal scorers, playmakers and dribblers of all time put into one.

Besides the major powers like the US and Russia who would be the obvious answers, which countries are known for being very good at both winter and summer sports?

With Norway and Canada's breakthrough performance at this year's World Cup (quarters for Norway and R16 for Canada; two countries historically more known for winter sports), I feel like both of them have to be among the front-runners for this question.

In summer sports, Norway has the world's best striker (Haaland), a 9x NY Marathon winner (Grete Waitz), the best middle distance runner in the world (Ingebrigtsen), one of the best hurdlers in the world (Warholm), a 3x grand slam finalist (Ruud), top 10 golfer in the world (Hovland), and the greatest chess player of all time if that counts too (Carlsen).

In winter sports, Norway needs no introduction as they regularly top the medal count at the Winter Olympics with some of the greatest winter athletes in the world in alpine skiing, biathlon, speed skating, and cross-country.

For Canadian summer sports, they have one of the world's best LBs (Davies), the b2b reigning NBA MVP (SGA), one of the greatest decathletes of all time (Warner), the world's best female swimmer (McIntosh), two top 10 players in men's/women's tennis (FAA and Mboko), one of the GOATs of women's football (Sinclair), two of the world's fastest men in their eras (Bailey and De Grasse), a former F1 world champion (Villeneuve), and a former Masters Champion (Weir). They also produced one of the most badass dudes of all time, Terry Fox.

In winter sports, the Canucks need no intro either as they're a modern powerhouse in the Winter games, especially in disciplines like ice hockey, curling, freestyle skiing, figure skating, and speed skating.

Historically though, I think neither of them can top Sweden as Sweden, especially in the late 20th century and into the early 2000s, was truly a global sporting powerhouse in several winter and summer sports.