I think this entire conversation would benefit if people took a step back and asked themselves how much of the anger and disgust they’re feeling about this comes from the viscerally unpleasant experience of watching such an awful thing happen a major, sympathetic character with whom the audience has formed a bond over…
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Can we stop pretending that the pressure not to do stuff like this is coming from fans? Even the dreaded BFIB? I’ve met all kinds of moronic, hidebound, hopelessly infantile baseball fans over the years, but I’ve never met another human being who gives two shits about bat flips. A very loud, very small minority of…
*prints this comment out, crumples it up into a ball, cooks it in a spoon and injects it into forearm*
Has there ever been a sports labor dispute that ended in a clear, unequivocal victory for players? (Excluding those that have gone to trial, I guess.) Because if you're grading on a curve, this seems like as good a deal as the MLSPU could have hoped for.
Single-entity is worth criticizing but Toronto is an odd basis for that criticism; without single-entity, it would be much, much easier for Toronto to buy its way to the top, which is the thing this article wants us to be scandalized about.
Man, that Gaza bridge fuckup was just all-time. A lot of these are relatively understandable errors of fact or failures to do due diligence on viral hoaxes. But to have your "World Correspondent" betray such a ludicrous lack of understanding about the basic geography and politics of Israel-Palestine... I don't know…
This is important and heartbreaking and powerfully written, obviously, but I think most people who write or say something like "the justice system is broken" mean "broken" with respect to a higher moral order, and not necessarily "broken" with respect to the values and aims of the state. Maybe I'm wrong about that, or…