At various points when I was younger I played baseball, football, basketball, and was on the swim team. Baseball was my main thing, I played first base and batted cleanup for years. I don't have any problem with sports themselves.
That said, I absolutely do have a problem with the culture that has grown around them. I have a problem with the glorification and aggrandizement involved. I have a problem with people who play games being propped up as gods among men while people who work tirelessly to better mankind get ignored by the general population.
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