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(47,245 posts) Thu Aug 1, 2013, 12:09 AM Aug 2013

Is there too much professional sports? [View all]

Too many breaks for owners and players?

Owners getting big tax breaks for their stadiums?

Players getting away almost with murder?

I'm thinking of this, watching a news report on the baseball doping scandal.

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Is there too much professional sports? [View all] Archae Aug 2013 OP

yes olddots Aug 2013 #1

Oh yes, yes, yes,yes! SharonAnn Aug 2013 #18

Ditto and another yes, yes, yes, yes. n/t RebelOne Aug 2013 #45

No. Captain Stern Aug 2013 #2

It's a bad thing when they care more about sport than everything else. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #4

But the same can be said of virtually any form of entertainment, hughee99 Aug 2013 #7

At least those have the potential to be intellectual. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #8

Good lord that's snooty... Pelican Aug 2013 #9

No, I quite enjoy several sports within the context that they turn my brain to mush. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #10

There! Post 12... Pelican Aug 2013 #14

I do admit that it would be pretty badass to use a monocle and top hat. Gravitycollapse Aug 2013 #16

Oh good grief a la izquierda Aug 2013 #28

Sabermetrics Yavin4 Aug 2013 #37

some people are able to enjoy all those as well as sports frylock Aug 2013 #43

Probably so. Captain Stern Aug 2013 #19

Your reply explains America's love of sports ceonupe Aug 2013 #26

Well by all means, let's decide for them what they should care about! Bake Aug 2013 #32

And then they wonder why some people hate the Left. Yavin4 Aug 2013 #38

Hell the fuck YES MotherPetrie Aug 2013 #3

I think some of the magic is gone olddots Aug 2013 #5

No more sports! No escapism! Read a book! No TV! And... lights out at 9. cherokeeprogressive Aug 2013 #6

+1 Gemini Cat Aug 2013 #22

Imagine just a fraction of the money that goes into sports went into performing arts. KittyWampus Aug 2013 #11

I agree, but sports kind of is a performing art imo. nolabear Aug 2013 #13

No, but subsidized arenas are BS. Union Scribe Aug 2013 #12

That's the thing that bugs me the most. Archae Aug 2013 #17

That is what is obscene about pro sports. teamster633 Aug 2013 #24

The problem is ceonupe Aug 2013 #29

Only Aussie Rules Football means anything to me these days. longship Aug 2013 #15

People are going to find all sorts of creative ways to justify the "importance" of pro sports dogknob Aug 2013 #20

No. Gemini Cat Aug 2013 #21

Who's to say Tien1985 Aug 2013 #23

There wouldn't be an economy if people didn't waste their time and resources The2ndWheel Aug 2013 #25

and what is so great about an economy? hfojvt Aug 2013 #39

Personally, I think there are too many sh*tty movies. Bake Aug 2013 #34

Depends DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2013 #27

doesn't that mean that many fine young minds hfojvt Aug 2013 #41

No, and people who hate sports are silly. Inkfreak Aug 2013 #30

It's not hating sports. Archae Aug 2013 #31

Naked greed isn't limited to pro sports. Bake Aug 2013 #35

There is also greed in other forms of entertainment tabbycat31 Aug 2013 #42

Yes. Vashta Nerada Aug 2013 #33

In Division I schools, the athletic departments are usually self-supporting Bake Aug 2013 #36

No. n/t zappaman Aug 2013 #40

Yes. Huge waste of time and money. n/t MadrasT Aug 2013 #44