There isn’t much in the wide world of sports that you can look at and genuinely call a “travesty”. Especially when you consider all of the instability in the world at large, sports are merely entertainment. They’re designed to provide an escape, a distraction, and something for us to care about for a few hours before returning to the things that actually matter.
But much like “sports hate” is different from real hate, I think there’s room for “the sports travesty”. It’s something that isn’t a true tragedy in any meaningful sense of the word, but within the strange little universe we’ve created around games, statistics, legacies, and the people...
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