You can totally fudge balls and strikes, it happens daily.

I’m not engaging with your dumb analogy dude, it doesn’t fit the scenario that exists here. A fight promoter is not a homeowner trying to get his home remodeled. The products are not the same, the labor is not the same, the materials are not the same, and the risk that labor takes on the deal isn’t even remotely…

Amen dude. They never seem to bat an eyelash when management has all the leverage and makes labor eat shit, i.e. 98% of the time, but god forbid one of the proles get popular enough to push back and make their own demands!

Dana’s a dick because he’s Dana White, a man who makes his completely unearned living throwing dudes into the meat grinder that is mixed martial arts, discarding their carcasses when they are no longer profitable to him, and pocketing gobs of cash earned through their sacrifice. He is a dick who treats these…

Which one of them actually does the work that exposes them to pain and possible death, McGregor or White?

That’s a terrible analogy on so many levels, but yes, they can! Because signing an employment contract is not fucking indentured servitude, you fuckweasel.

It’s not just that he’s an unpleasant person, dude. It’s that he is a pimp who treats the people who actually do the work that makes him money like hoes. He is profiting off the pain and suffering of people many thousands of times more courageous and worthwhile than him, and he acts as though those people owe him,…

Why are there so many people like you on the internet willing to carry water for management over labor in instances like this? Like, I thought most of the people who have the time to kill and level of boredom it takes to register their opinion on a Deadspin article would be people who understand the concept of labor…

Counterpoint: Making things hard for Dana White is always a babyface move, regardless of context. It more than cancels out any inherent moral wrong you think Connor is guilty of here.

You realize you’re arguing that someone trying to undermine Dana White’s authority is in the wrong here, right?

Yeah, that’s why Jordan quit basketball during his peak years to go hit under the Mendoza Line for the fucking White Sox. Because these powerful, incredibly organized sporting leagues got together and decided “Hey, the most dominant player in this sport we’ve been fixing so that he can keep winning? Let’s let him go…

Yeah, MLB is definitely rigging games, that’s why one of the least marketable teams in all of professional sports went to the World Series two years in a row, won last year, and why the ratings for the World Series have been on the decline for about a decade. Because MLB has the organization to rig 163 games for 30…

Until this series, I didn’t realize what an oppressive, joy-stifling figure Michael Jordan was in my formative years, but man am I ever enjoying this.

Even the most diehard of the Deadspin/Gawker trolls who post on every article around here has to be having some sort of massive internal struggle over this one. “I hate Deadspin unequivocally, but Jesus, do I really want to de facto be on Dana White’s side of anything?”

Way to miss the point of this series, bro.

God it’s depressing how many stars you got for this dumb, lazy, shitty opinion.

I know everyone else is making much more nuanced arguments, but the only reason I prefer the NBA now to the NBA of the 90's is that there’s no Jordan now and I no longer feel compelled to root for teams that got consistently owned by the fucking Bulls.

Yes, because language evolves and doesn’t adhere to the strictures of tight-asses like you looking for easy, pedantic self-administered back-pats.

So, I don’t follow MMA stuff because it’s really boring to me, but I do hate Dana White, so I’m curious as to how Carvalho’s death is playing in the MMA media. Is it bringing increased scrutiny on MMA and UFC in particular? Has Dana said anything incredibly scummy/tone deaf about it?

Yeah, I mean, Texans have that bullshit unearned pride about their parents having fucked and squatted them out in Texas, but even that pales in comparison to the utterly unearned sense of moral superiority that people all over the Midwest harbor for themselves, particularly white Conservative Midwesterners. They…