American Rich Idiots! Throwing Good Money After Bad Since, Oh, We’ll Say, 1492.

I love that, indeed, it turns out that the White Sox “new Moneyball” of signing your brother-in-law, your best friend, your dentist, your caddy and three of your second cousins to the club doesn’t out-do simply paying the man his money.

“If only filthy-rich old racist white guys didn’t control the news to make it racist, that news wouldn’t make those rich old white guys racist!”

You don’t play for the fans, you play for the owners and... the Celtics ownership seems normal-rich-idiot stupid not cartoonish-rich-idiot-stupid like the Knicks so you go to Boston and deal with it.

Simmons knows that the people are being filmed for the porn and paid for it but he thinks they still like each other and aren’t faking it, in the same way that a naive child knows that professional wrestlers don’t actually cartoonishly hate each other like that and knows that part is a show but thinks the match…

I like how we’ve moved beyond the “Simmons saying stupid shit that he knows is stupid to get attention” phase and into the “Simmons saying stupid shit that he believes smart because he’s insulated from reality by his past success” phase.

The genius thing is, the MLB doesn’t even NEED direct collusion to depress the market anymore. As long as they let major market teams like the Mets and Marlins be owned by groups that can’t spend and as long as they leave a couple of small market teams like the Rays in a position where they’ll never be able to spend…

So we’ve all come to terms with the fact that “AAF” means “Ancillary As Fuck” right?

The only thing worse than millionaire players who actually generate all the income that the billionaire owners sit on their asses collecting their money developing Stockholm Syndrome identification with the asshole owners is the fans developing that same Stockholm Syndrome identification with the same asshole owners.…

Agreed. As awful as it would be for the Celtics to turn into a dynasty, the Celtics will have scads more than the Lakers to offer at the end of the season and everyone knows it.

I’m with “major league teams in Spring Training states” is a mistake, yeah. There’s too split of a fandom, it’s like the NFL in L.A. there’s too many choices to cheer for other teams unless they’re really really good most of the time.

I always enjoy when a league office has to bust out a round of The Lady Doth Protest Too Much.

The average Super Bowl pre-game show begins with an ad for the newest Marvel film and ends with an ad for that film’s sequel.

The Mets are going to start Todd “I Should’ve Retired Two Years Ago, Hey Have I Mentioned I’m From New Jersey?” Frasier at first for three weeks just to kick Peter Alonso’s service time down the line this April, so I feel this so much.

This is part of it but honestly, I think that on the grand scheme, baseball’s making itself culturally irrelevant far more by how it handles start times and media rights, even more than in how it exploits young players, driving them to basketball or football, but I do agree with you.

The guy clearly likes playing football more, the guy’s gonna make more money up front in football and the guy’s gonna start in the NFL as a 2nd string big leaguer, whereas if he goes into baseball, he’s gonna be reporting to the anonymity of the Arizona Rookie League in April with, at best, the hopes of being called…

If it hadn’t been Zelda-branded, it would’ve gone down as a really difficult but really rewarding cult classic for the NES. Sadly, too many people expected an upgraded version of the first game. Because, yeah, it was a hard game but everytime you progressed, you really felt like you earned it.

“Accidentally.” Jesus Christ, how stupid do you think Americans are...

You can’t convince me these guys aren’t plants by Russia Today in the left to make it look stupid/splinter off the fringe left to mop up the next election, Nader/Stein/Tusli-Gabbard style. I can’t believe people could be this dumb, even just as a money grab. This is weaponized self-parody.

Conversely, though, you can also look at this as the Western Conference flat-out giving up too. Maybe it’s not the Eastern Conference improving, maybe it’s more... everyone other than Golden State is now the Eastern Conference, everyone tanking to one degree or another until the Warriors either implode from egos or…