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How are you not contradicting him? He said he made some great friends through casual sports, and you're saying that lifelong friendship cannot happen through casual sports. You are directly disagreeing with him about how deep his friendships are.

Based on nothing more than armchair psychology!

I dunno, maybe he's saying that if you take casual sports as seriously as the first guy evidently takes his casual sports, they count as a shared struggle, etc, etc.

Methinks "How To Win Friends and Influence People" hasn't made it to your reading list.

Or his goal in this discussion isn't to win friends and influence people.

Maybe he's trying to gain entertainment.

Just because someone isn't getting X now doesn't mean he doesn't know how to. Maybe he's after Y.

I read that as the "shared struggle and purpose" being the softball team..

Then what is 'play time' if softball qualifies as 'struggle and purpose'?

Best troll ever. Love your work man.