Quote from: walkstall on January 27, 2021, 06:49:08 PM
No I stopped sports when they started asking 28$ to see a game.   I am just a cheap SOB. 

Somehow I got those quote marks messed up and it posted my reply as a quote to your post. 

$28 a game?  You have been gone.  Try $78?

We win in 2022 and maybe we go see Gonzaga.   Not pro (yet) but a fun team to watch.

Quote from: Yuriy the Loader on January 28, 2021, 09:28:14 AM
27 years ago, when I first flew to America, I was struck by the so-called "Sports" bars. In which men are pumped up with beer and watch sports on TV.

Where I worked, men my age talked about baseball during breaks.

You see, not about women or motorcycles, but about baseball!

Indeed, sports are filling America. Only in a very wrong way.

But you are to blame for this. Americans. You pay incredible money to watch sports, movies, and Oprah, the evil dumb frog.

You made it out of stupid athletes, film actors and TV heads- prophets. Yes, they are rich with your money, but no rich creature can command me what to read, what to watch and what to think.

And I refuse to discuss monkeys in tracksuits, like they are real thinking people.

So you came to the county about 10 years after I exited the military. 

I also went to bars for sports, not women, and only wanted to sit and have a beer.

Stupid athletes, films actors, TV heads, prophets ....

The American dream turned into socialism.

When baseball went on strike, oh ... maybe 30 to 40 years ago, solid fans vowed "to never see a game again.  My money will be spent on more important things."

So was there anything you wanted me to disagree with?

Quote from: Steel Shark on January 29, 2021, 06:07:08 AM
So was there anything you wanted me to disagree with?

I love America and therefore criticize it.

For the first 40 years of my life, America was a dream for me. An inaccessible dream. The country in which I grew up allowed its citizens to travel abroad only in tanks.

Then the dream came true. Airport, suitcases, children, wife, cat, Boeing 747 and we are at the airport JFK.

But when my first happiness to be in the United States of America cooled down a little, I suddenly began to notice that far "not everything is all right in the Danish kingdom" (c)

That the priorities are somewhat shifted here. That the division of the pie, which was made by an American worker, is very willingly eaten by all sorts of not particularly necessary characters.

And this is actually the situation that must lead to vulgar socialism.

To the vulgar, in the sense badly and misinterpreted, since vulgar socialism differs from capitalism in that instead of a real master, a dumb and inept official will be in charge, and only those who can cling to power will receive income.

Of course, all kinds of athletes, actors and other celebrities should be in the country. But they must know their place. Their job is to jump and grimace, and not to engage in politics, for example.

Quote from: Yuriy the Loader on January 29, 2021, 05:10:02 PM
I love America and therefore criticize it. 

we get those who think saving America because it is worth the price of words, is worth the cost of posting words.

and you get the folks who criticize posts because it is all they know?   the f'word is their only vocabulary.  in a county with a supposedly great education system.

in totality, I did the military thing.  no thanks expected, not why I served.  listened to those voices that knew nothing other than profanity.  sometimes, between profane phrases, they made sense, but it led to education.

never offended, but when I hear those voices at Walmart, telling children how they should behave, it leads to the conversation.

I am about to go on to post about shoes.  Nike makes them at slave labor while protesting slave labor and using the endorsement of pro athletes who protest the treatment of blacks, but have shoe made by slave labor.

The conservative movement must be driven by foot (and shoes), not by slavery or malicious protest.

Very excellent post my friend!