Pablo Torre

It's like, why do I care about this millionaire's union?

Well, it's because if you care about football, which statistically, that's what we care about the most, is it a good thing when the NFL, which runs professional football in America, is it a good thing when they don't have a competitor, a check on them?

And what happens if that check is the union?

And what if that union is also, connecting to all of this stuff, beset by its own corruption scandal?

What does the product become?

Does it become something that has these countervailing competitive forces sharpening it into something better for Americans?

Or is it a version that the very, very top of the pyramid people are getting to dictate basically at their own personal whims?

You know, the question of

why and how has corruption taken root?

How and why did money become the only thing we can agree is important, apparently?

It all brings us back to like, again, why are sports cool?

I love this part of Bernard Suits' philosophy.

It's a way of life.

Yeah.

It's a way of life.

You described, again, the...

the heirlooms of social attitudes that are really hard to undo once you have a destruction of the institutions we've been talking about, of the rules.

And what is better, what is more durable as an heirloom than sports in our country, in which we are actually agitated by the idea that we are being cheated by another team because we're all opting in to this way of life in which we all agree that this basketball court, without

boundaries is just a piece of wood.

We all need to embrace what is seemingly the dismissible, the otherwise easily dismissible fiction that any of this matters, that the salary cap matters, that putting a ball in a hoop matters.