That’s true, but again the issue is really how often you deal with head trauma. Some positions in the NFL take shots to the head on virtually every play. Concussions aren’t baked into almost any other sport the way that it is in the NFL.

No worries, I thought you were asking if there were maybe some guys in baseball who had preemptively retired due to concerns about head trauma and I don’t believe there have been. The problem with baseball is that there’s still a real culture of silence around that stuff the way there is in the NFL around PEDs. So…

I’m thinking from 1960 onward, when you first begin to see actual batting helmets on players where previously they would just wear a cap. And again, I’m talking about baseball, so I’m not sure how Chris Borland plays into what I’ve said. If you’re asking are there guys who have quit baseball in fear of head trauma, I…

I mean in baseball at least we can say its relatively low compared to football. We don’t have as much data, but since the hard-helmet era exactly one player has had to retire from post-concussion syndrome, which is not the same thing as CTE obviously but it does suggest the same kind of impacts.

Yeah there is not a single part of me that wants to watch this.

And you don’t get to gloss over history because you don’t like that people are noticing fucked up shit.

My man have you heard of voter suppression?

Betsy DeVos but not quite as personally repellent.

Why did two separate people immediately go to Star Trek references? Have you guys not heard of Caravaggio? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_on_the_Way_to_Damascus

Sure, but in a SIGNIFICANT portion of these cases there is no contact whatsoever. Even a lot of the legitimate falls come from trying to avoid contact. I dunno, I watch this stuff with experience as a wrestling fan and someone who played a very violent brand of football (I’m a goalkeeper, but not especially tall, so I…

Oh yeah, I’m not too worried about it either. Apart from one little fuck up it was a great match on a great card, so who cares? Jericho writes in one of his books about Benoit selling a kick that missed and doing 500 squats in a boiler room to punish himself afterward. If it can happen to Benoit it can happen to…

Oh, I know, but the other day I was arguing with someone over soccer dives. They basically said that of course the falls are real and I just asked “Do you watch much wrestling? Cause I can’t see these flops as anything other than taking bumps and selling.”

And in fairness if you watched the latest Takeover, we saw Lars…

Pepe on the road to Damascus

And yet, strangely, it’s why people love wrestling.

I guess this would be fine if there was some way to make sure that he didn’t make any money from the release. Broadly speaking I think the loads of other people who worked on it do deserve to see it released.

I’ve seen people saying things like “WHAT IF YOU READ A BOOK TOO MUCH? IS THAT READING DISORDER?” No, it’s not, because the feedback you get from reading a book doesn’t feed into addiction the way that video games, gambling, food, or social media do. “Gaming addiction” is not the fault of gaming, it’s a question of…

I’ve definitely started to see a handful of signs for this lady in my town. Closest to my house is about five blocks away and its pretty lonely, so I guess there’s that. She’s in a pretty hot primary.

Anything that happens in seasons 7-8 of any show can safely be called minor.

That is maybe the most “not where I thought this was going” thing I’ve ever seen. And I don’t mean I wasn’t expecting the pepper spray, I just wasn’t expecting his gun control commercial to end with “instead of giving teachers guns why don’t we give them pepper spray?”

Hammerfell is mostly desert isn’t it? Kind of meant to be like a north Africa stand in?