Re: Very brief D2K1 comments

<<So we have six questions. I'd argue,
furthermore, that the pickleball TU is only dubiously a sports
question, that the SI Swimsuit Issue and fictional sports
ones are not sports questions at all, and that the
baseball player question was bonus #19, effectively
removing it from the pack. This leaves two unimpeachable
sports questions -- which I must admit doesn't seem to
be within guidelines to me. But I'm not trying to
take sides here, if the matter were even worth the
making of sides -- simply presenting the evidence and
hoping everyone just lets it go.>>

I speak
here as someone who over the course of the last year
has had to sit through many a question on NHL, NBA,
MLB, and all those other pillars of the American
sports stage. I don't know anything about these
organizations, nor do I care to. I, for one, like the idea of
expanding the canon, both in academic and in trash terms.
Perhaps I'm bitter because my kind of knowledge is not
generally rewarded by trash questions (sci-fi, Monty
Python, soccer, Dungeons and Dragons) but I think trash
being what it is, any question that has anything to do
with sports should have the right to be a sports
question. This isn't a strict academic distribution we're
talking about. Anything in trash is fair game; I think
it's good for all the sports fanatics to get a taste
of their own medicine once in a
while.

Jerry
Who wishes that the USA would play real football like
the rest of the world

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