premise: FIELDER IS READING - ESPN's Grantland, "How to Watch Sports in a War Zone: As we celebrate Thanksgiving, thinking of those who can't just flip on the TV," by Shashank Bengali, national security editor for McClatchy: "Had I been back in my office in Kabul, where I shared a shaky Afghan wireless connection with a few other journalists, tapping into a bootleg video stream of the game, or even a reliable audio broadcast, <hypo>."
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "would have been an exercise in frustration"