He goes over the border to Canada to curl.

If I were to choose a sport that best represents Republicanism I think I'd have to go with demolition derby; there can be only one survivor, and they leave the mess for someone else to clean up!

That was the only sport during the Olympics that I tried to catch every game. I got all into the strategy and everything (though admittedly, I couldn't even begin to explain it now). I can't wait for 2014 to catch it again!

I couldn't walk normal for days afterward. Republicans wouldn't be strong enough to even attempt it.

Thanks.

Got it bookmarked for the baseball season.

I didn't go looking for this video - it came to me. I thought the animation was good and that Maher made some interesting points, but was biased against baseball.

In any case, I can't imagine a more appropriate place than DU's sports forum to share and discuss this.

Baseball is a great example of what's wrong with free market capitalism.

I thought it was pretty cool, too.

And I agree, in that baseball is a great object lesson in the pitfalls of greed.

He should state the facts. Baseball has had revenue sharing since 1996. The problem is that there is no way to make the owners of small market teams spend it to "improve its performance on the field." The fuckers pocket it.

Douche from Cortez who isn't a Bronco's fan.

I can't imagine you have anyone else of tender sympathies to palaver with, so we'll just let that go...

Douche. Decades ago I took a position as assistant manager of a busy five & dime. My first day on the job the manager showed me around, introduced me to the staff, and assigned me my first task. He had me unpack and set up an end display of douche. We had about four varieties at .99/ea. Must have been a dozen cases I had to unpack and stack.


Thing is, douche sells.

Still, Maher's blowhard exaggerations and selected anecdotes are completely worthless.

Most of you have heard this classic before, I'm sure:

Carlin is missed!

I think Carlin's contrasts of the differences in the two games, and his emphasis on the authoritarian slant in the football psyche, reinforces Maher's secondary point of the irony inherent in the popularity of football in certain, ahem, demographics.

Why should anyone watch him bash anything?

Bill Maher and "anti-science"
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/07/bill_maher_and_anti-science.php

Germ Theory Denialism

We'll all be out of here on our ass!

I know that Maher has some controversial viewpoints. Those were not what was under discussion, and if your argument is that everything he believes is discredited because of some of his beliefs, then your own arguments must be equally hollow due to weak logic.

How is that not obvious?

I mean your post mentioning certain conspiracies ought to make that clear in and of itself.

On edit: His whole argument about sports is based on the very type logical fallacies and omissions that allow him to be so off base in other areas. Anecdotes about a single city, grand statements without necessary caveats, etc...

I just don't go to him for medical advice.

If you want to deconstruct his argument on a point by point basis that might be interesting, but I generally don't hold comedians' commentaries to the same rigor as scientific treatises. I think your antipathy is much more against the messenger than it is the message.

You can continue to ignore it. That's your choice.