Sports fans should value winning right now over potential future gratification
We've been conditioned as sports fans... to accept that now is not as important as the future. And I hate that. I hate that as a sports fan. I want executives and owners to treat this year like it's the last year that's going to be played. I want them to have reckless abandon trying to go for a championship right now. Because we don't know what the future's going to look like.
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Aaron Nola is statistically the worst starting pitcher in baseball and not a major league pitcher right now
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