Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

A guy I know -- he's probably in his early 30s -- just bought a new Cadillac, the exact model car that my 80-something-year-old mother-in-law drives.

And I don't understand this, but he wanted to move to Nashville, so he quit his college PR job and moved to Nashville and is working as a bar back. I would hate to have a new car payment with that kind of job.

 

Why? Being an artist as well as a confessor of sorts, I used to see a lot of people who moved here for no other reason than someone online listed it as a great place to live. I mean, it's home and I'm happy with it, but I've lived in other places that had a lot more to offer newcomers.

FWIW, one of my best friends is a weaver from PA who got her graduate degree from Tech's Appalachian craft program. She went home to Willow Grove last year and attended a seminar for artists about the best places to live. People were asking if they should move to Portland or Marfa or Nashville or Madison or...?

The facilitator shook her head and said trends shift and people in the arts often find the support networks they have are never as strong in cities where everyone is a stranger than it is at home. Your sense of place helps make your voice as a creator. I kind of agree.

 

Well: Buick.



Edit: I now see that @ChrisLong already noted this; however, it's Good Burn Friday* so I'm keeping it here.


*(C) 2020 TigerVols

 

@OscarMadison and a few others can offer first-hand knowledge as I return to my hometown about once a year now....but that barback buddy of yours is likely to spend more time in the comfort of the Caddy stuck in traffic on Hillsboro Road than he will in his waaaaay overpriced apartment.

 

Preowned LaCrosse is probably one of the best luxury values out there. But this country is so hung up on stigma and needing to have an SUV or a crossover that they sit and then people like me get a 310-horsepower, all-wheel drive car and has more features than Lexus and BMW for a fraction of what it was new. Always cracked me up when I was younger and had a early 1990s Continental. All of my friends called it a grandpa car but, man, when we were going out for the night they always wanted me to drive.

 

Love Nashville. Went to a concert there a few years ago in the midst of their boom. I imagine it’s still one of the fastest growing cities? It was near the top then.

Anyway, one of the guys said, “Thanks for coming. Just go home. We love to have you visit, but stop moving here.”

Of course, he had moved there from somewhere else.

 

I think he has friends there and just liked the city and wanted to move there.

We were there for vacation last year and really liked it. I know what we saw and did was not what the folks who live there do and see (for the most part...I did find as many bookstores as I could), but it's a lovely city.

 

Vox furloughed Spencer Hall, Alex Kirschner, Richard Johnson and Jason Kirk from Banner Society for three months starting May 1.

 

Big thread here.

 

Dannnnnnng. Those four were the first ones I saw ... that's a lot of talent getting cut loose. I wonder if The Athletic will be scooping some up or doing its own furloughs soon?

 

I really don't expect to see The Athletic scooping up anyone or anything in the foreseeable future. They've already got plenty of talented people not writing about sports.

 

The Athletic is becoming impossible to read. Made up stories, impossible hypotheses, fantasies.
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