You know, I really like this establishment, how rowdy and eclectic it can be, I enjoy stopping by for a drink regularly, but the rotten family that owns it, the glowering matron who eyes the till in the gift shop and glares at everyone to see if they’re stealing, who tries to play her own music, I’m not crazy about…

Did you dismiss my response, where I held up the harsh light of rigourous mathematics and pure logic to your feeble arguments and revealed them to be transparently thin? And did you do so so you could have the last word?

It’s disingenuous to say a disrupted celebration is not a celebration.

Again, as a dispossessed fan of the San Diego Chargers, I don’t understand all the derision at the Packers’ ownership structure. If I could have paid $5oo to get a framed certificate of 1/500 000 ownership of the Chargers (“Non-negotiable!”) and an owner’s t-shirt, I would have gladly paid it.  And I’d still have my…

The pizza delivery guy and his client hit it off.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/economists-criminals-are-short-fat/340844/

Yeah, but he got suspended when He cheated.

Nah, I’m pretty sure that the cobbled together aborted celebration + resumption of celebration =/= 2 celebrations.

A big part of the enjoyment of sports is the spontaneous explosions of joy, the jubilation, the jumping off the couch and hugging your cousin that you can’t stand and whooping it up and yelling “Did you see that?”. Now, sure, a replay review can right some wrongs and go the way of your team, so it can add to your…

It looks like I kicked my NFL habit in the nick of time. Thank you Rot in hell, Spanos clan.

Roth, Burneko, Drew and the other idiots can have jobs and secure them by keeping their nose to the grindstone.  Or, or, they could also own the means of production.  Which they kind of do, really.  They are actually making the widgets.

Fine. In my reason nobody cares about, we don’t count plus or minus or grit or pugnacious puck battles, just points, with bonuses for PP and shorthanded points, so giddyup Erik, let the likes of Pickles stay at home and defend.

I’m confident that when you don’t hide it it’s not stalking. I have a raft of persuasive arguments I’ll use the next time Judge Walker and I have a talk.

Well, I was going to say Canadiens-Nordiques maybe, but okay, sure...

Hell, I’d subscribe, even...

Thanks for a great article David. I don’t read about or even care about baseball since they stole my Expos, don’t watch, don’t know anything really, but this was a great exposition, if you’ll allow me the expression, of the commodification of a sport, of the inevitable result of skyrocketing revenue and property…

That natural rivalry would be a great boost to the effort of growing the game.  There’d be a way to cultivate this by importing coaches from France and England too, to inject a bit of colonial war aspect.

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