I agree with you, but since I already think Sorkin is a moron (a really talented moron, but a moron nonetheless) when it comes to his fans, it didn't bother me so much.
Just a tiny nit, as an active sports fan: fantasy baseball, football, basketball, and hockey teams
People who play fantasy baseball or rotisserie sports are mocked mercilessly by other sports fans. On the sports fan hierarchy, they're in the same spot as LARPers or Furries are on the media fandom hierarchy; in other words, pretty damn low.
Sports fandom is no different from media fandom in theory (or in practice, really). The arguments are the same, the behavior is the same, etc. It just happens to make billions of dollars for media conglomerates, rather than operating under the radar because of the quasi-illicit nature of the activity (whereas betting... betting on sports is illegal so many places, yet it occurs) and the 'creative' nature of writing/making movies/television shows.
Fanfiction is like bootlegging concerts - eventually it'll be respectable and endorsed by many of the authors/copyright owners.
Until that happens, and it's somehow making money for someone, and the province of people other than 'overweight, middle-aged women', it's not going to be mainstream, and Sorkin will get laughs a'plenty by roasting the people who smacked him down when he was an idiot.
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Just a tiny nit, as an active sports fan:
fantasy baseball, football, basketball, and hockey teams
People who play fantasy baseball or rotisserie sports are mocked mercilessly by other sports fans. On the sports fan hierarchy, they're in the same spot as LARPers or Furries are on the media fandom hierarchy; in other words, pretty damn low.
Sports fandom is no different from media fandom in theory (or in practice, really). The arguments are the same, the behavior is the same, etc. It just happens to make billions of dollars for media conglomerates, rather than operating under the radar because of the quasi-illicit nature of the activity (whereas betting... betting on sports is illegal so many places, yet it occurs) and the 'creative' nature of writing/making movies/television shows.
Fanfiction is like bootlegging concerts - eventually it'll be respectable and endorsed by many of the authors/copyright owners.
Until that happens, and it's somehow making money for someone, and the province of people other than 'overweight, middle-aged women', it's not going to be mainstream, and Sorkin will get laughs a'plenty by roasting the people who smacked him down when he was an idiot.