Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal)

[Arse2Mouse @arse2mouse]

Listening to analysis of Arsenal beyond the fan base this season, the concept that we played attritional haramball by pure preference last season feels v lazy. It was clearly borne out necessity due to the injuries.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@ElliscbIV @ZacharyDonnini Sorry. 19 percent to count and Steyer is down 2.7%.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@ElliscbIV @ZacharyDonnini What am I missing? Serious question.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@theiconic15 No way. He's a unique talent and makes us hum in a way no one else does. There's no obvious replacement in the market, even allowing for availability

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@JamesSurowiecki @erikbryn Because the average voter doesn't want to have a beer with this guy and doesn't think this guy "gets" them.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@sdamico Super interesting question. Worth asking gov candidates but i think it's a better question for national offices.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@sdamico Which is why the best food, by far, I've ever eaten on planes was Cathay First Class. The food was actually good. Not just palatable

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@ytdaveyt @jamesbenge Plus a real...ambivalence about what level of physical contact is acceptable. Which, tbf, im not sure I want PGMOL determining. But the PL doesn't really seem to want to do it or, if they do, they don't want to communicate the standard broadly

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@ytdaveyt @jamesbenge Yeah, I think the implementation of var is so so bad. And it's not a technology issue: it is, IMO, combo of skills of var refs, insular culture of PGMOOL, the idea of the ref as a singular individual in whom authority is vested rather than a team (which could be expanded)

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@jamesbenge Is the problem laws or enforcement? If you had 2 or 3 refs on field & every fouls was called (with, dunno, offsetting fouls resulting in loss of possession for team taking set play), wouldn't it stop pretty quickly? Esp if defenses were punished first with awards of pens..

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@ReubenPinder White was excellent tonight. Both attacking and defending.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@educatador @Noahpinion very misleading. It's like saying the Dustin Hoffman character in Rain Man was super intelligent. True for a narrow definition of super intelligent but kinda misses the point.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@educatador @Noahpinion In a human, they'd be diagnosed as on the spectrum somewhere. Fabulous at narrow stuff (and that has value!) but none of the...cognitive capability that allows them do more than that. Which isn't to say the substance of the piece is wrong but calling them super intelligent is...

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@zeynep @kjw_chiu @yudapearl I think the core point (which you made) is that addressing the initial concern requires fundamental advances and isn’t simply…trivial. What’s (slightly) concerning is the lack of awareness of this by an “elite” commentator.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@kvongoeler @RadioFreeTom 100 percent.

[Arsenal, food, and politics (but mostly Arsenal) @130delmar]

@scottjwillis 5th hardest or 5th easiest?