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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. It is a particularly venal idiot who gets angry when a player makes an achievement who is not the fan's favorite

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jul 10, 2024, 04:55 AM

Jul 2024

Great play is great play and true fans of the SPORT celebrate great play, period.

magas and Republicons have corrupted social sensibilities with a win at all costs, take no prisoners attitude. This is of course a long running trend, not something recent, but accelerated by modern tech (including colour TV in the 60s). However the political polarization has seeped into other parts of the public sphere or is exacerbating trends there already present.

SPORT fundamentally means play, as in mammalian play which lasts a lifetime. People who get wrapped around an axle over sports have lost the thread, lost the plot, lost some of their humanity.

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It is a particularly venal idiot who gets angry when a player makes an achievement who is not the fan's favorite Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2024 #1