Don’t be too hard on yourself, there not a person alive who knows how the Nations League works. Which is why I totally forgot about it. You’re right, there’s still an outside chance they qualify that way through a playoff in March 2020 (had to look it up).

I beg to differ

I understand that, I think you’re allowed to say or think whatever you want. It’s just that I’m having a hard time calling someone a hypocrite when (on a much, much smaller scale than the NBA obviously) I’m really doing the same thing in way.

I think that’s pretty much a good summation of what Silver actually did say. He’s really the only one in this whole story who I’m going to give some leeway on this, because of the position he’s in and what’s expected from him as the commissioner.

He could’ve said that, whether he agreed with it or not, he supported Morey’s right to voice his opinion on any issue,

Of course, no debate about that. But let’s be honest, you, me and everyone else out here probably have a million products in our homes that are ‘made in China’, mainly because they’re cheap. Are we so different?

They usually use stewards to police the crowds. The problem is that they are often volunteers who don’t really have the power to tell these people to fucking behave like normal people, unless they want to get their ass kicked too.

You’re not wrong, though I can’t help but chuckle at the phrase ‘banning Bulgaria from major tournaments’. It’s like saying Meatloaf is banned from banging Gal Gadot for the next few years.

Apart from Indy (which won’t happen), there are none that are FIA grade 1, though.

Yeah, currently they have Baku and Montreal scheduled as a back-to-back for 2020 so I think it would be fine.

Button was fantastic that day, but he also directly took out two fellow contenders for victory. That always leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth when thinking of the race.

That’s definitely Belgium 2008, though I think you may have merged it with Brazil 2008 in your mind. No worries, it’s been while.

Yes, the only non-turbo car in the race was Stefan Bellof’s Tyrrell. He started 20th (last) and finished third. He was actually lapping quicker than even Senna towards the end of the race.

Yeah they’re not quiet. Though you don’t need earplugs anymore when attending.

If it’s in May it has to be the last Sunday in May, so they can schedule it before Montreal and after Monaco in a back-to-back-to-back.

Probably none. It’s no secret that Liberty wants to go to 25 race weekends per season. The teams are generally opposed to his, because that number is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

Baku is really good.

I think the most shocking thing is that it starts off really friendly and then just turns out of nowhere in the second paragraph.

True, and it also wasn’t Mercedes’ intention to ‘just go racing’. The McLaren partnership had broken down at that point, and Mercedes wanted to remain in F1 but didn’t want to rely on an outside partnership. The team took a few years to invest heavily in their personnel, and it’s really when Toto was brought in from…

True, and if Albon had been a woman, Jos would’ve probably hit her already.