The Michael Barry show time sports section print edition.

Why do I start the show with that? What does it matter? Well, that's just it.

This is part of a bigger trend. And the trend is worth noting because it's bigger than a newspaper

or even sports. It's a trend about community. It's a trend about family. It's a trend about

nationhood in the Max Weber sense. Follow me for a moment. Let's step back for a segment

from the news of the day, which we'll get to. And let's talk about what kind of people we are.

If you've been divorced, you might have married into one woman's family that you really liked.

And then you got divorced and you married another woman and her family are dysfunctional.

They're mean. They're divisive. They're petty. And they've sent your wife or her sister into

therapy with all the problems and baggage. They hoisted or foisted upon her. It matters.

Is Thanksgiving something you look forward to because you really like your brother-in-law and you

can't wait to hear how his business is doing. Or you really like your father-in-law and you

you can't wait to ask him more stories about serving in NAMM because he's got a thousand of them

or his exploits while he was a sailor. Or do you dread that family? Do you dread that day?

Do you dread it personally because they're going to go, oh, hey, what's old Trump up to?

I was even prison here. Oh, Tom, he's a Trump fan. How's Trump doing, Tom? You said Trump was

going to win. What happened, Tom? Tom, what's going on with Trump? Is he got a nice orange suit to

go with his orange? And you hate it. You hate it so bad that you try not to but you take it out on

your wife. I can't go over there anymore of those people or monsters. I hate them. They're losers.

Your dad's a drunk, your brother-in-law's a punk, right? Or maybe they do that to your wife.

Maybe her mother is so toxic that by the time you leave, your wife is distraught.

She's reduced to a puddle. You don't want to see that. Or maybe they say things or do things with

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