Top 10 reasons Meta D can't move to Shanghai

10) Liberal Malcontents will wither and die without its most articulate contributor

9) Howard Eskin will run amok without the threat of being put in his place by Meta D

8) Without his daily blog activity, all those statistics measuring how much time the average American spends surfing the web from the workplace will suddenly become completely skewed.

7) Chinese basketball players' ankles won't surive his crossover dribble.

6) Who else will be there to turn the TV off and on 1,000 times in the last two minutes of a Sixers game?

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.....and the number one reason why Meta D (and Ms. Meta D) can't move to Shanghai is......
Dumplingeater will have to travel al the way to China to get good dumplings.