Saudi Arabia Decides LIV Golf Is Ready To Be Supported By Its Passionate Fan Base, Unbeatable Product | Defector

"LIV was a flop, but it wasn't a total failure. As a way to get some cheesy bribes into various pockets, it worked out fine."

“From its inception, LIV was a rich-guy nuisance lawsuit in the shape of a pro sports league“ defector.com/saudi-arabia...

this piece is great, even if you don't know or care about golf. no one describes the rich idiots running (and ruining) everything quite like @davidjroth.bsky.social defector.com/saudi-arabia...

Literally laughed uproariously several times at this; the schadenfreude feels SO GOOD (gift article): defector.com/saudi-arabia...

“As with so many other things in the culture that could be described as Trumpy—lavishly gilded, obviously corrupt, all done on the fly and in the open and with a bunch of visibly rotting celebrities sucking around—it felt both obviously doomed and somehow inexorable.”

Whoever writes headlines for @defector.com should have to carry insurance for all the readers who spit their coffee out on their keyboards from LOL-ing.

Oops, source: defector.com/saudi-arabia...

Makes me think of top-flight soccer players leaving for a payday in China or Saudi Arabia. Sure, you're in a lg no one you know watches, and therefore you lose most of the prominence you might've had... but you got paid. Which is why it was dumb for golfers under 40 to consider this. 🎁 link

David Roth can write: "This was disruption, the already antique-feeling pejorative for what happens when an unconscionable amount of venture capital is blasted in the direction of something that already exists, to see if the pressure of all that money might somehow fracture it in a profitable way."

worth relishing that women's sports are more popular than ever and blood golf is already fading to bar trivia defector.com/saudi-arabia...

Golf just isn't very popular so it was inevitable that a second copycat league of aging retreads would fail. defector.com/saudi-arabia...

You’re reading the wrong media. defector.com/saudi-arabia...