I have a rhetorical question: who in the wide wide world of sports is sitting out there watching the professional poker tour on the Travel Channel? Whose life is sure to be so long, and his nights so deeply steeped in oblivion, that he’s willingly watching some self-absorbed asshats doing nothing but playing cards?

And what in the wide world of travel does poker have to do with the Travel Channel anyway?

There is a reason why people don’t watch chess on TV, and there’s a reason why people do watch poker on TV. And I submit the difference is precisely the difference between people who like chess and those who like poker. And if you find that observation offensive, then Bingo! … No! For Pete’s sake don’t start showing bingo on TV too.