>Like "am ... am I allowed to just not give a shit?" Turns out the answer is "yes".

There's got to be some sort of DABDA-esque five stage cycle that breaks down how those who grow up in the 24 hour sports media coverage era learn to process sports. Something like: We let hot takes influence how we watch. We get angry at hot takes that don't align with what we see when we watch. We successfully detach hot takes from the watching experience.

Lord knows when I started posting on this site in, like, senior year of high school, I was definitely in the first stage of this.

>People who get paid to comment on sports are very stupid and very boring. They are hired because of this, not in spite of this.

I was stoned, talking to a friend about Charlie Kirk. And my friend said, "I could do what Charlie Kirk does better than Charlie Kirk does it. I'd be fucking great at it. I'd just have to not give a shit about people or myself." I think about that a lot whenever I turn on ESPN. Just a sea of grifters, all of whom are perfectly aware they're grifting, and none of whom give a shit.