Ah yes, the St. Louis Blues bandwagon, where fair-weather fans hitch their hopes and dreams every April, and then un-hitch those hopes and dreams later in April.

1. Fuck you 2. You are lactose intolerant and should stop eating dairy 3. See point 1

Frankly, I don’t understand why skeptics approach this issue from a “the answers are so complicated” point of view. The answers are not complicated:

The problem is that people use these questions (not saying this is what you’re doing) to put off addressing the core question in the first place. Once you decide to pay players, I suspect answers can be achieve pretty quickly. Will they be optimal? Probably not. But better than the status quo. So:

Yes, it’s not an easy issue, and these are all valid questions, but I hate when “pay the students” takes get hit with “well that’s complicated, so let’s just do nothing instead”. I know that’s not what you’re doing here, but that tactic is a favorite of people staunchly opposed to paying athletes—it’s inaction by…