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Have you seen bowling on TV lately? Now it seems all the pros are wearing flashy colors—the more the better—and talking trash to opponents. PBA is trying to attract a certain type that likes watching that kind of thing.

There’s no right way to want and root for a team in a league. Some people love dynasties; others want new teams winning every year. Neither is objectively better than the other, right? The one constant is that everybody wants their own team to win a lot—but even then, I can see where a Braves fans in the 90s and 00s, and also just recently, would become blasé, even bored, of winning the division and making the playoffs every year. I think it’s good for the soul of a fan base to see their perennial playoff team go through a reset every once in a while. Cardinal fans are going through that right now. They’ve been “struggling” for a decade and even when they’ve made the playoffs, they’ve gotten wiped out fast. Not that I am rooting for Cardinals fans, necessarily, but going through rough times makes you really appreciate it when you get back in the thick of things. That’s why I’m enjoying the Tigers right now. We have a legitimate chance now, whereas we didn’t before.

The Premier League—most pro soccer leagues, in fact, with at least one glaring American exception—is a purely capitalist enterprise. There is no revenue share for the purpose of keeping clubs afloat for the league, which makes sense, since the league has a different makeup of clubs every season. But none of the lower leagues help keep their clubs afloat, either. Leagues don’t stress out when one of the clubs playing within is having existential financial troubles, since any failing sides are replaced with another side waiting in the wings. As such, as a purely capitalist venture, football clubs can and do “wind up”—meaning shut down and go out of business. Ten different clubs have wound up just in the last 35 years, and Reading FC is on the verge of doing so right now.

As you imply, I don't object to the question itself, but rather it's positioning as the first question asked. Ask it at the end, after you've given me an opportunity to feed back meaningfully on your product.

To be fair, baseball was a pay to win league well before the free agency era. The Yankees and Cardinals paid big money for decades so they could win. Some of the money they spent even went to players.

I would never wear a Skubal jersey because his name is on it, and I will not wear another man's name on my back. Exception: anyone who was a professional athlete when I was 11 years old.

I'd guess it's more likely that MeidasTouch and any other professional media organization that distributes these screenshots will get sued for libel.

OK, there's the something worse, in that screenshot on the right.

That's a good point your post raises: how much at hand here is honest ignorance, how much is willful ignorance, how much is denial, and how much is acceptance/embrace? Taking a WAG, I'd figure it's something like 10-40-30-20.

The way to free oneself of a troll is to proceed as though they're not there, which includes not only blocking then, but also, not unblocking blocked posts to engage with them, or even referring to them in other posts. I myself have been guilty of both. Attention, any attention, even the level of attention in this post, is oxygen.

Was it related to the screenshot in that tweet on the prior page you suggested could have been doctored?

That he raped children has been baked into the equation since almost the very beginning. The horrible truth must be worse than even that, and we've gotten glimpses of that already.

Tokyo is biiiig, and there are a lotttt of people ...

Eye-opening.

Some will say yes, and sooner than later.

I refuse to take any customer service survey in which the very first question is, "Would you recommend (our service) to a friend?" That's when I know for certain all they are looking for is a verifiable marketing metric, and not for serious feedback on what's good about the service and what they can do to improve it.

Also, literally blaming Teh Left's rhetoric for forcing them to have to execute a citizen they'd already subdued.

Thanks for clarifying that one. Maybe they're trying to tweak the blue-leaning state with the ruby red county, so that they fight each other. That also tracks because the last thing this administration wants is for people to reconcile and get along. That doesn't help them.

I didn't even like him particularly as the person he was presenting as. Not that he was a bad guy, necessarily, although he did get caught up in several bad guy things. But I always imagined it would be more likely he would bully me around for kicks than have a beer with me. Honestly? I'm glad he and Tigers have apparently cut ties with one another and he's not hanging around the team trying to maintain his thumbprint on it. His time with the team seems like a hundred years ago to me, probably because the last seven years he was just so bad at baseball. He was, in fact, the worst player in baseball who was allowed to come to the plate at least 2,500 times during those years. https://www.sports-reference.com/stathead/tiny/cbWJt

Good point. Maybe that’s why they’re going after old ladies and restaurant workers and children. They don’t fight back and are easy to subdue. Actual criminals would tend to give these guys a fight.

I dont understand why they don’t just build all these concentration camps in the Deep South, or upper Midwest or mountain states, or Arizona, instead of trying for blue states areas in Virginia? For one thing, the political climate is favorable for them there. For another, they would be able to weaponize the natural climates in these regions against detainees, which would further degrade the conditions housing them and probably save them some money operating the camps. Unless the underlying purpose is to make a show of forcing a blue-leaning county in a swing state to declare themselves to be anti-Trump by refusing to house the concentration camp, which presumably would mobilize the slack-jawed yokels to show up at the polls for them in a mid-term election? As part of a broader underhanded campaign, that kind of tracks, too.

One of the things I love about soccer broadcasts is that there are no commercial breaks during each entire half, and very few other on-screen ads or mentions. By contrast, the more frequent commercial interruptions during baseball games, including RSN crawls, bumpers, billboards, drop-ins, play sponsorships, betting odds, and between-batter commercials, has made our favorite sport that much less pleasant a viewing experience. You really notice it whenever you view a game from 50 or 40 or even 25 years ago on YouTube.