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You make me hot with your B&B stuff. You run a ton of it.

FIFY.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

Never been said.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

For being a pretty bright guy, Dan is a textbook of logical fallacies. You could take an aircheck to a 100-level communications course and be like "okay, spot the strawman, the slippery slope, the reduction to absurdity, the ad hominem, and begging the question. Go!"

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I've heard Dan say that almost word for word.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Not exactly in those words, but close.

The Ombudsman Fallacy: rejecting any criticism of B&B that does not include a notarized transcript of the show in question.

Ex. supra

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Dave just proved why UofI is the educational mecca of Illinois.

And likes meth.

somebody just took Logic 101.

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No. I just reject any criticism of things that are completely made up. I've explained this before.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

That's not completely made up though. Im not even sure it is really exaggerated. After the 2012 Finals, I definitely heard Dan Bernstein say things very similar to "LeBron James is just better than Michael Jordan. Sorry, he just is. Accept it. He's better on defense, he's more physical, more dominant, more explosive. He is harder to guard. He is the perfect basketball player." Thats not really much different from what Dave said.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Bernsy says that all the time. Not sure what the debate is.

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Scottie Pippen agrees.

Oh, Scotty! Your inability to not speak in double-negatives is truly dizzying.

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You know me like that.

But that's never the argument. You're making a reasonable point based on population growth, the markets for specific sports, etc. To say that the talent level is deeper is a far cry from suggesting that Babe Ruth accumulated his numbers vs. midgets and cripples. Not to mention suggesting a guy who is physically inferior by every measure would "run circles around" his superior based on nothing more than the time when they played and/or their respective skin tones.

To OKC's point, I think most people have biases based on that magical time when they really became a fan of a game. You grow up and it's tough to maintain that childlike awe and wonder. But while Bobby Knoop will always be my hero and Paul Konerko never could, I don't have a hard time knowing which one was a more accomplished ballplayer.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Diluted? At this very moment, every MLB franchise has a scout in some godforsaken hovel in the DR, Cuba, Panama or Venezuela watching a 14 year old take grounders. A and AA are littered with kids who were High School legends in their hometown who don't have a chance of sniffing the majors because they can't learn how to throw a changeup.

Yes, there are more teams, but the number of people playing and evaluating baseball is just as big, if not bigger.

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Of course today's population is much greater, baseball is open to people in more markets, and, most significantly, blacks are allowed to play in the major leagues. But that may well be more than offset by the fact that in the 30s baseball was virtually the only professional sport for those who didn't want to be hit in the head or were too big to ride a horse, as well as the fact that there were half as many teams.

I think such an argument works better for basketball as Favre Fan suggested. In the 70s the NBA was an afterthought and basketball wasn't really played at any significant level anywhere else in the world.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

jeez, when's the last time you saw kids out playing ball in the street/vacant lot/park. That's primarily what kids did back in the day. Personally, I think the 60s-70s must have been the golden era. You had full integration and baseball still ruled across the country.

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I would say 50s'-60s was probably the peak of American baseball. And in spite of the Yankee dominance of that era built around possibly the greatest all-around player in the history of the game and the most criminally underrated pitcher ever, it's clear that the reluctance (with few exceptions, i.e. Veeck) of the American League to embrace blacks and Hispanics created two very different leagues with the NL showing clear superiority that lasted a long time.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I actually see that quite often, actually. I remember Bernsie mentioned that he never sees a pick-up game around the neighborhood anymore, but I really don't buy that.

That might be primarily based on where Berns lives.

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I really wanted to throw another "actually" in my previous sentence, but I ran out of stupid.

Do you live out in the exurbs?

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