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digitaldiscipline
digitaldiscipline[from King Kaufman's column in Salon this morning}
> I've never met any actual people who think that a snarling, venomous rivalry that occasionally spills over into beanball wars and bench-clearing brawls is anything but a rocking good time.
This is why people watch hockey, and us purists get annoyed when the neo-hippy whiners complain that it's too violent, and that fighting has no place in the game. Watching these people discover that a little violence is good for the soul is almost as much fun as watching them feel guilty about it afterwards.
Plus, they don't drink anything but white wine when they come over, which, as Kenny Mayne says, "That's more beer for us."
> I've never met any actual people who think that a snarling, venomous rivalry that occasionally spills over into beanball wars and bench-clearing brawls is anything but a rocking good time.
This is why people watch hockey, and us purists get annoyed when the neo-hippy whiners complain that it's too violent, and that fighting has no place in the game. Watching these people discover that a little violence is good for the soul is almost as much fun as watching them feel guilty about it afterwards.
Plus, they don't drink anything but white wine when they come over, which, as Kenny Mayne says, "That's more beer for us."
