Your attitude will certainly go a long way towards fixing the issues at hand.  Very productive.

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They call it stormy Monday,

Both are real-time reflex and skill based competitions in which strategy, teamwork and individual skill all meet to see which team can accomplish an arbitrary goal within an arbitary set of rules more completely within an arbitrary time limit.

The premise of these kind of articles always involves some level of obtuseness from the writer, as if they are incapable of understanding why people might root or cheer for something, anything really. It’s a pretty basic emotion and feeling, and one has to go out of there way to claim they don’t understand this basic…

This article comes across as unbelievably patronizing and you successfully push people who like sports into a box with every possible bad stereotype connected to “jocks”.

Hasn’t this type of article become cliche yet? I don’t understand why people get emotionally invested in X. Then oh wait I’ve found X to get emotionally invested it and now I understand that people are irrational and searching for any type of connection.

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Dead serious, it’s really nice to have a story that’s just, “omg, this game was fun as hell.” Maybe not all the time, but right now, especially with all the snark towards the Warriors and the unending bullshit with refs and players being dicks, it’s nice to be reminded why sports are just fun as hell sometimes.

I can’t possibly imagine giving enough of a shit about video games to have this hot take.

I’m the kind of player who would have sent spikes at his face and just gotten a red card rather than conceding that goal.

Hmm . . . I agree that Real Madrid are in shambles, but I think your analysis is off in key areas.

You forgot to include the picture Erik sent of him in Vegas ten years ago:

unlike other high profile managers who blame the players.

Surprising, usually he just spins away from pressure.

I assume you’ve had this story written for like two months and were waiting for something like the loss yesterday before updating standings and posting it? I approve.

Reached for comment on the Haisley article, Real Madrid was heard to exclaim:

Last year Real eeked out some close wins when they were probably the lesser team both in La Liga and in Champions League. This year they’ve lost those close matches because they can’t score. Performance-wise they don’t look markedly different other than not getting the late winner from Ramos, Marcelo or Ronaldo.

Zizou is not a good manager, regardless of the titles. This team has benefited from a lot of good fortune over the past three years. The “draws” in the CL have been a joke and their opponents in the finals were even worse. Over the last three seasons there were a lot of goals scored in added time to gain 1 or 3…

Can Deadspin put a word limit on Billy’s articles?