dylan do you think you’d shut down umhoops right away if you won the lottery, or would you lie to yourself and tell yourself you’d keep it going, only to shutter it a few months later?
or do you have such an indomitable poster’s spirit that you’d keep it going?
I feel so seen I’d clearly just use my lottery winnings to strongarm my way into complete control of a college basketball team and buy all of my favorite portal players and see what happens.
genuinely the hosts of my favorite baseball podcast did this in 2015 - they took over a very low level independent league baseball team and tried out using a bunch of cutting-edge sabermetrics and stuff to figure out which players to acquire and which strategies to use and then wrote a book about the experience of, like, explaining to college ballplayers why they should let the podcast hosts try out a five-man outfield
obviously the main difference between you and them is they had an active podcast! (said with love not with criticism, please understand.) on the other hand one of them had to leave shortly after because his writing job at a big sports coverage site got too busy, so