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anicotti tweeted about my story about the 80 falcons in the plane and he said, imagine being a bird that died in a plane crash. That would be the worst way to go if you were a bird. You know, if I were not inside this plane, things would be going pretty, pretty well for me. That's Larry David saying "pretty, pretty well." So I'll just start with that. Meanwhile, in the law of unintended consequen…
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Now it's not just a story that there were fewer advertisers, but at some point the advertising is not enough to support the event. And I think we're pretty close if not already there. So there's a really very real chance that Megan Rapinoe legitimately intended just to make the world a kinder, nicer place that's more welcoming and fair for everyone. And what she did was destroy the Olympics. Destroyed the Olympics.
So Megan, we call that an own goal. That's the official name for that. That's an own goal.
Speaking of own goals, of all the news today, the thing that bothered me the most was Lionel Messi. If you don't follow soccer, especially international soccer, you may not know who Lionel Messi is. But consider that soccer is the most important sport in the whole world. Is that true still? And he's the best player in the biggest sport.
Now I'm not really a big fan of watching soccer on TV because I think it's kind of boring. I love playing it. It was my favorite sport as a player. But watching it? Now here's the thing. If you watch even the best players in the world, like the best teams play each other, it's still kind of boring. But if Lionel Messi is on one of those two teams, oh my god, oh my god is it entertaining. In the same way that Michael Jordan was entertaining even if you didn't even have to be a basketball fan. But to watch Michael Jordan do something that humans can't do, that was really entertaining. Same with Stephen Curry. Watching him hit a three-pointer from mid-court, like that's fun to watch because he's not like the other players.
So when you watch somebody — you know, your Tiger Woods putting, etc. — who are just sort of not like other people, you know, your Larry Birds, it's a whole different thing. So I'm a giant fan of Lionel Messi even though watching soccer is no big deal for me. But I like to watch his clips. Just go to YouTube and watch just a compilation clip of Lionel Messi's goals. You don't have to like soccer to love the hell out of this because you're watching a person operate on a level that you just didn't even know a person could operate at.
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story, if you don't know, is that Lionel Messi was always told he was too small, literally too short to play professional soccer. And he went from too short to play to the best player in the world in the biggest sport. Here's the tragic part. Where he's lived for 21 years — I think he was playing for Barcelona — he has to leave the team because they have financial problems and they can't afford i…
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