You may think I’m sports obsessed, but I look at it as a cultural metaphor.
We should never forget the Blues v. Greens. Losing Theodora was the real end of the Roman Empire.
This guy can command an hour of primetime.
The thing about professional athletes is that they get eyeballs and eyeballs are money. And as rich as you think these communistic unionists are, they don’t overcharge quite as much as the banksters.
My anarcho-syndicalist side says the players should own the teams and collectively self organize and what else are you going to call the Heat next year under guru Pat Riley?
The best team money can buy? They have salary caps, why do you think the Knicks suck (other than they just do)?
Drew Carey says goodbye to Cleveland for a chance to do really good improv with his buddies? What could be a more all-American success story? You might even say goal directed- a ring for the thing (do you have Prince Albert in a can?)
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to come to NY. Failing that he should have started his own league. Or a syndicated show in which he plays one on one with the other hotshots in a a televised, reality tv single elimination tournament. 64 players, 63 games. Tons of ESPN time.
Also, because of the advantage in basketball to the giants (as opposed even to mesomorphs), it’s really hard to think of it as a game for everyone. On one level, i.e. in the driveway, it is, otherwise, hardly at all.
Imagine trying to coach this prima donna.