Taylor: Stop the Game. Stop Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A GameStop store in Los Angeles. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times/TNS)Dania Maxwell, MBR / TNS I didn’t want to do this — talk about GameStop, Reddit, Stonks, short squeezes, hedge funds and roaring kitties. And yet, here we are. I didn’t want to do this because part of what I hate about traditional financial journalism is that it focuses on the sensational and statistically improbable, potentially leaving the average reader with a twisted sense of what is normal and probable. I didn’t want to do this, but then I kept reading the stories that celebrated all the sensational. I fielded questions like “Are short sellers bad?” and comments like “I bought GME. Wish me luck.” So I can’t help myself.