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Tom's avatar

You should dive deeper into the changes wrought by "the cool kids at deadspin" and the like. Here's J.B. Bickerstaff after the Cavs suffocated the Bucks last night: “The beauty of it is, you can’t put numbers to it, you have to put time and care into it. That’s the human aspect of what we do. The computers want to take all that away from us. There’s so much more to be said about -- especially in teams -- togetherness, a genuine trust and care for one another. That support gives you an opportunity every night to be more than what you are as an individual.”

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Kumar's avatar

I think the Twitter dunking you talked about is more schadenfreude than anything else! At some level, watching sports nowadays is schadenfreude, we all like to see someone fail and dunking on them for what they did not do or how they failed - maybe that is now the communal experience of watching sports instead of enjoying the exploits.

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