Well of course it sucks in the moment. My whole point is that those real, genuine, in-the-moment feelings—good or bad—are a big part of what makes sports fun to watch for me, not any particular outcome. Am I happy when my team wins? Of course! Am I pissed off when they get screwed by a bad call? Absolutely! But in the…

No, and normally I find Billy to be just as much of annoying, over-writing twit as most everyone else. I just happen to agree with him on this one.

I think you’re missing the point...the in-the-moment crushing disappointment counts just as much as the elation.

I think he’s saying that the emotional connection component to sports is more important than the outcomes, which is part of my point as well.

Yes. Exactly. It’s sports. It’s entertainment. Entertain me to the max, give me the genuine realtime drama with all its joy and disappointments. The results are ultimately inconsequential.

It’s hard to argue with such a thoughtful and well reasoned response.

No I wouldn’t it rather be right. See my other reply for the reasons why. To me, sports fandom is about emotions, not correct results. It’s not a courtroom, it’s entertainment.

Instead, it ruined one of the greatest moments in CL history. I’m not a fan of either team, so I don’t care about the result either way. But I am certainly a fan of teams that have been screwed, in the biggest possible moments, by officials’ blown calls. And you know what? Those blown calls are *part of team lore*.…

VAR, and all video replay review, is awful. The only technological assistance that actually makes any sense, because it is instantaneous, are the Hawkeye system in tennis that calls balls hit out of bounds, and the wristband alert system in soccer that alerts the referee when the ball has crossed into the goal.…

Yes, in my state (and I assume most others) “messing with client funds” is one of the few things that is pretty much an automatic disbarment.

Of course it’s politically viable. You get the banks on board (lending money for the project), the road developers, the construction companies, and the unions because it’s 3-plus years of guaranteed steady employment. The key problem with mass transit is that “the masses” (aka the poors) will use it.

If Putin vouches for him, no way he’ll be deported.

Not being able to say is not the same thing as not knowing who did it, and therefore, being able to ascertain their intent. 

All of us, every single one, have some degree of racial prejudice in us. Unless you were raised in some sort of laboratory setting, you can’t help it, you absorb it from those around you and the general culture. It’s the ability to recognize that, and then not act on those prejudices (by, for instance, not making…

Crops are the things that are growing in the fields. They cannot be “moved” with advance notice of flooding. The stuff that is in the flooded storage silos is not “crops.” It is grain, which has been harvested.

In an otherwise healthy and loving relationship, my girlfriend does one thing that drives me absolutely BATSHIT. She calls me when she’s leaving work, and proceeds to talk to me on the phone for the entirety of her 10-minute drive. My God, woman, save it and we can have this conversation in person in ten minutes, why…

I think you’ve got it backwards...Trump (and his team) were the ones who were constantly shouting “no collusion! no collusion!” for precisely the reasons you cite. They successfully changed the narrative (because Democrats are mind-bogglingly awful at coordinated communications strategy).

I saw some genius the other day who paid extra money to have a personalized plate that said MURANO on their Nissan Murano.

I do it for extra cash to pay for fun stuff. I would never, ever, do it for a living.

As a middle-aged guy with a goatee, I resemble this remark