Re: Tying it all together.

My goodness Zach, just a virtuoso performance. Thank god you're back in the fold because I think Kyle and I could only have gone back and forth for so long.

OK first off, you know people named "Bob and Dotty"? I mean, we're both Preachers Kids but if those aren't the names of two early retirement Lutheran church goers I don't know what is. Nothing against them of course, I think "Dotty" should make a comeback, but my god.

Second, if we're going to make fun of my comma usage I'm going to make fun of your sentence fragments. For instance, you wrote: "Yes, I said it Bills. Freed of my burden." You don't think a comma, or even a semi-colon would have been an excellent replacement for your period?

Alright, back to the topic at hand. I think the globalization "argument" is funny. This isn't something that we can argue about, it is a fact of existence. We can talk about the pros and cons all we want but it doesn't change the fact that fundamentally it is happening, one way or the other. This is why I stopped reading The World is Flat a hundred pages in. I got the point. I didn't need another 550 pages of examples about how national boundaries are falling and communication is increasing. It is patently obvious.

However, I dispute your claim that Baseball can, or should, replace football as the natural sport of choice for all the reasons that Kyle has explained so eloquently. The sheer accessibility and ease to follow of the NFL means that until something MORE accessible and EASIER to follow comes along it is going to stick around. There are few things Americans respond to better that ways to engender our laziness.

I should also say that in this struggling economy I'm not sure it would be wise to end the NFL because of the hundreds of thousands of pundits and commentators who would lose their jobs. NBC is going to have no fewer then ELEVEN hosts in house on for the Super Bowl.

Finally, I will bring up Saint Patrick's day over and over (and over) again BECAUSE it hits at exactly what we're talking about. What is Saint Patrick's day other then an arbitrary event that is an excuse to get wasted. This is the precise point Kyle was making. The question is, why are you so excited about something as arbitrary as Saint Patrick's day and so non-committal about something as arbitrary as football on Sunday?