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If there is any one rule, it should be that you only get one team per league. Otherwise you're just hedging your bets and not stepping up to the plate in your big boy pants and casting your lot with the one you truly believe in. I've run out of space to cram more platitudes into that sentence. The one that got me a while ago: I went to a Nats game and had a pretty good time, so I was like "maybe I'll go to more baseball games. Baseball games are kinda fun in person, even if I don't really like baseball." But then I had this feeling of "no, if you are going to pay money for baseball, you pay for horrible Pirates games like you're supposed to."
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Crazy Ted posted:Can we still make fun of MourningView for cheering for the Stockton/Malone Jazz and the 1990's Dallas Cowboys? At least it wasn't Cowboys and Jordan Bulls!
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Sash! posted:If there is any one rule, it should be that you only get one team per league. Otherwise you're just hedging your bets and not stepping up to the plate in your big boy pants and casting your lot with the one you truly believe in. I've run out of space to cram more platitudes into that sentence.
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I don't get how people bandwagon. I've seriously tried doing it before, and it's felt very empty. Not saying this from a "lol frontrunner" perspective, but I don't get how it really feels all that fulfilling as a fan. About the only teams I've ever really felt any sort of connection to in that regard have been a couple of college teams I've been to games and had a good time at. (Clemson for example).
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People get attracted to teams for weird reasons. I grew up in the northeast and became a die-hard Sonics fan because they were good when I decided I wasn't gonna root for the same Boston teams like everyone else (and poo poo which #40 was I gonna cheer for, Shawn Kemp or Dino Radja?), and that was helped because the Sonics were good at that time and played exciting basketball. Just don't bring up Mutombo and we're good. I can't explain why I'm a Lions fan other than my uncontrollable urge to punch myself in the dick at any and all times.
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Jun 1, 2015 13:48
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I guess Keith wants to take a vacation... https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/605779850717036544 quote:With Blatter's resignation I'd like to congratulate @NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on his ascension to World's Worst Sports Executive.
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Jun 2, 2015 19:48
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He did an entire segment saying more or less exactly that and calling for Goodell to resign after the Ray Rice video came out. It's almost like "being critical of Goodell" wasn't the real reason Bill Simmons got in trouble!
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Jun 2, 2015 19:50
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Olbermann's criticized Goodell before, Simmons got popped for his COME AT ME bit
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Simmons 1) straight-up called Goddell a "liar" and 2) openly dared his bosses at ESPN to suspend him for it (and then was incredulous when they did), neither of which Olbermann has done.
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Jun 2, 2015 19:54
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ESPN also has the tweet in an article linked on their front page, so yeah, I guess this is fair game.
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FMguru posted:Simmons 1) straight-up called Goddell a "liar" and 2) openly dared his bosses at ESPN to suspend him for it (and then was incredulous when they did), neither of which Olbermann has done. And by daring them he undermined their entire coverage of the NFL by heavily implying that they were in the pocket of the league, despite multiple ESPN outlets being highly critical of Goodell in the wake of the Rice video. Olbermann and OTL managed to pull it off in a professional way that didn't put themselves above the story for the sake of pushing some goofy rebellious teenager image. And when you're less mature and professional than Keith loving Olbermann you seriously need to rethink how you're handling things.
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MourningView posted:And when you're less mature and professional than Keith loving Olbermann you seriously need to rethink how you're handling things.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I don't get how people bandwagon. I've seriously tried doing it before, and it's felt very empty. I think it comes from just wanting to see the game played well and being a fan of individual players.
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Yeah, Le Batard had an article with something like "integrity is an illusion in the nfl" and was heavily promoted on ESPN's front page. MV is right in that it likely was Simmons' "I am totally get suspended for this because ESPN is in NFL's pocket" angle that sealed his fate.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:35
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hcreight posted:I guess Keith wants to take a vacation... Is Goddell worse than Mark Emmert or who whoever runs the IOC? 
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I mean I'm guessing there was a whole lot of poo poo internally leading up to the "suspend me" thing that we just don't know about yet.
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DOOP posted:Is Goddell worse than Mark Emmert or who whoever runs the IOC? I thought the guy that is in charge of F1 was the worst because the cars are literally powered by the blood of babies or something
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Sash! posted:I thought the guy that is in charge of F1 was the worst because the cars are literally powered by the blood of babies or something
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Crazy Ted posted:Well he does think that Hitler was an impressive taskmaster who was led astray. link?
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Metapod posted:link? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Ecclestone#Controversies Bernie Ecclestone. A hell of a man, right there. Still not as bad as Goodell and Bettman.
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What the hell does thisquote:she would have to be a woman who was blowing away the boys. ... What I would really like to see happen is to find the right girl, perhaps a black girl with super looks, preferably Jewish or Muslim, who speaks Spanish. even mean? The best thing for F1 would be a really good woman driver who was a hot black Jew from Spain? That's one hell of a check list.
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Badfinger posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Ecclestone#Controversies i don't think i ever heard a person say hitler was persuaded to do the things he did
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Metapod posted:i don't think i ever heard a person say hitler was persuaded to do the things he did The closest you can get to a "persuaded" argument is that Anton Drexler convinced him to get into politics instead of just being some angry guy yelling at people in bars. And that's still pretty far away from what Ecclestone said.
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Are you guys seriously making an argument that hitler was actually bad.
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:Are you guys seriously making an argument that hitler was actually bad. I think he was
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:Are you guys seriously making an argument that hitler was actually bad. we are discussing about the F1 chief executive saying that hitler was persuaded to do the things he did which blows my mind that someone can think that way
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https://twitter.com/ReillyRick/status/606141619973160960Rick Reilly posted:Just back from 4 months in Italy. All I wanna do is watch some Letterman, read some Simmons + see how my boy Bruce Jenner is hanging in.
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Jun 3, 2015 18:20
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Meh Giving that attention is really more than it deserves.
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Jun 3, 2015 18:29
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The most offensive part is ESPN still paying him enough money to spend 4 months in Italy
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I'm more offended we let him back into the country.
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The Bruce Jenner crack is in the same train of thought that gave us a columnist who wrote about all the sports that happened in the past 18 years using a girl being kept against her will in a basement as a framing device.
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It doesn't seem that bad. The joke is that Riley is oblivious, not that he's rejecting her choice. Bad joke, not really a mean one to me.
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hcreight posted:ESPN also has the tweet in an article linked on their front page, so yeah, I guess this is fair game. The whole Simmons fiasco basically painted ESPN into a corner. As long as Olbermann doesn't cross into slander/libel, ESPN can't do anything without looking like puppets of the NFL Commissioner's office.
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ChickenMedium posted:The whole Simmons fiasco basically painted ESPN into a corner. As long as Olbermann doesn't cross into slander/libel, ESPN can't do anything without looking like puppets of the NFL Commissioner's office. ESPN People were critical of the NFL before Simmons. While I think if Simmons was a baby-man about something else ESPN might have been able to ignore it, they didn't suspend him for attacking the NFL.
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If anything Simmons was late to the "Use Goodell as a piņata" party.
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My gut is that they werent going to resign him anyway and didnt want him making (more) of an rear end of himself as his contract came to an end. It looks very probably to me that they paid him to shut the gently caress up.
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I think it's pretty obvious they negotiated a buyout and put a muzzle on him as a term of the agreement.
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Rovell might need his own thread because he's his own brand (  ) of lovely
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morestuff posted:It doesn't seem that bad. The joke is that Riley is oblivious, not that he's rejecting her choice. Bad joke, not really a mean one to me. Yea I read it more as 'ha ha he missed a lot of stuff' given the contexts of the other things he said. I don't really know the guy's work so maybe I'm wrong but that seemed like a clumsy joke more than 'gently caress you Jenner'.
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Spoeank posted:Rovell might need his own thread because he's his own brand ( The key to Darren Rovell is not to follow @DarrenRovell, but to follow @RovellReplies only.
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