We love her, but she has no chance to win, no.

1.) Is it even worth following you down this road of your own? You're now positing some alternate reality where the room and board for student football athletes is not included in their scholarships. And I assure you, it totally is.

You call that an ankle inj...oh jesus christ ahhhhh do NOT look closely at the ankle pics.

Are my Astros going to be in the playoffs? I haven't been watching the games.

So this is maybe the third time this rehashed moral argument is easily torpedoed, isn't it? And it's easily defeated for two reasons:

What argument? Captain Internet is just strawmanning useless garbage that nobody even said to him. "You have yet to justify why a player shouldn't be able to accept cash for his autographs..." and so on. Nobody even said a word about things like that, and so he's arguing dishonestly, and has been doing so from the…

Because winning a division composed of teams like Boston, Philadelphia, and Toronto, and winning one playoff series in three years, are not actually accomplishments.

Not even close. It means that a supernatural apparition grabbed Carmelo Anthony's smartphone, logged onto his Twitter account, and typed out these spoooooooky words.

I ain't 'fraid of no ghost-tweet.

I understand, comrade. People are making money OFF OF SPORTS! The gall of it!

Shitty reading skills, shitty understanding. Because as we've already established, going to college for free is utterly valueless, right? Hold on, as we've actually already established, the monetary value of a full athletic scholarship is greater than the median salary of men ages 18-24. And that's before we even…

It's not an "analogy," dummy. It's a larger appeal to the very real fact that no worker, regardless of how menial or glamorous their job may be, is paid more than the value of what they produce.

You're getting it twisted, comrade.

Wendel has sort of screeched to a halt on this, but if you wanted to posit some more reasonable reasons for paying student athletes other than that college football is popular and therefore makes money, then go for it.

Ima timeline this. You twice challenged me to provide reasons why this would be a bad idea, even after I had already provided those reasons. You never returned the favor, and have offered up nothing more than the same retold wispy verbiage about fairness and what seems fiscally "right" to you. You ask "What harm can…

Yes and no. I mean, division rivals often become division rivals because they're in the same division, right? And they're in the same division, more often than not, because of geographical location.

I absolutely just gave you some reasons why it would be a bad idea. Paying the players fosters further inequality within the teams themselves and across other sports, and gives the salaried players standing for lawsuits. That's two reasons right there. There are others. We aren't playing games here. This ain't…

Even Knicks-Heat was a good rivalry! Do you remember those old games, waking to John Tesh after a night of partying, and then watching those guys throw elbows through 48 minutes of game time?

I just DID tell you a few of the many reasons why it would be bad, in bullet points 2 and 3. And you have nothing to say to that, presumably? Or you didn't read it? Are you not even reading comments now? lol, it seems you're in some rhetorical NO YOU TELL ME holding pattern, where you don't even know that I've already…

Intriguing.