Confirmed with Link: All-Purpose "Days of Our Meruelo" Talk

[Dirty Old Man]

It's crazy - I've had two sporting obsessions in my life, and it just blows my mind how time and fate have conspired to make me loathe both of them after years of thinking I'd follow them the rest of my life. Time and age are crazy, folks.

Heh, guessing the other one's motorsports, right? I didn't watch a NASCAR race this year (but I do watch F1, including all the practices usually...I know it's a sleazy over-priced business too, but it costs nothing to follow and as long as ESPN carries Sky Sports commercial free, i'm in)

 

[Dirty Old Man]

We're pretty much the same here. My other sport is college football and while I'm still hanging in there, it's getting very tough. I am all for NIL and I don't think they could've done a worse job of implementing it. Almost seems like the goal all along was to destroy the sport.

I see it as a whack a mole. They fixed the "elite teams not getting a shot at the national championship" problem by finally having a playoff like every other sport and level, but then they opened the gates of the transfer portal and NIL, and we have college kids being UFAs every year, with only 1-year "contracts"... so now I'm rooting for my rich fellow alumni to open their wallets as much as for the players (coz we know *I* ain't gonna)