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

It will be magical. Just the morning of Nov. 4 instead of Dec. 25.

 

the idea that somehow the death of 130000 Americans and counting is connected to the election is imbecilic and pretty fucking insulting

 

Being a high school football official has always had its drawbacks. Everybody hates you. The money isn't the reason you do it. Now they're asking people, many of whom are older, to take the same abuse for the same pay in a riskier environment? Are they going to have problems finding enough officials to work the games?

 

So the quality of officials in my parks and rec games are about to get 33 percent worse?

 

Do you have any guess as to whether the virus will impact college officiating? Also a demographic that skews older.

 

Depend on who they are replacing, wouldn't it?

 

I was in a meeting the other day with a well-known Babe Ruth (or whatever 12-14 year olds play) baseball coach from Colorado. He said that his players' parents were just demanding that the kids get to play. He told them no, he didn't want to have anything to do with it, but if you insist on going to some travel tournament they wanted to attend, they'd have to set up their own team. "Our league doesn't want the liability," he said.

So the parents went rogue and set up a team with 9 kids and headed off to the tourney.

 

Good for the coach. Was the tournament in Colorado?

 

Complete. Fucking. Bullshit.

 

I think he said Utah, but not certain.