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

We’ll see. I think the players may just mass boycott at the last minute. The national media would celebrate such a move.

 

Many seem to want sports canceled for some time, perhaps years.

 

Baseball is very safe, if clubhouses and weight rooms were eliminated. That is the problem, not the field of play.

Set up temporary tents in the parking lots and let’s play ball!

 

No, many don't. But many are going to report when teams cannot figure out how to test. I don't want sports banged, but if an entire professional soccer team in Dallas can't compete because half the squad has tested positive, then the whole process has to be called into question.

 

That is a very good point.

 

Indy is hosting AAU tournaments again. Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Pensacola are back to hosting gigantic travel baseball tournaments. People don't give a fuck any longer - regardless of who it hurts.

 

I'm going to be honest, I was a little disappointed with what I saw at our first championship of the year yesterday. These are seniors, mind you, mostly ages 50-65 ... one kept mask shaming our staff, another couldn't believe we wouldn't do paper scorecards. Basically told them, look, if you want to play and compete and don't want us to get shut down by the government, you're going to have to abide by these rules. Our "committee room" is basically the bag room at the club and people keep running in and out of here, masks be damned, so I'm just staying masked up while I'm trying to work. At least the AC works but this kind of sucks. The food staff is taking it very seriously, at least.

 

Revenge of the woke sportswriters!!

 

Baseball tournaments and golf tournaments do seem safe. Basketball I would not attend.

 

I’m less bothered by baseball (although the “travel” part is concerning). Basketball, however, just seems awful risky.

 

The travel part is exactly the problem. Teams from all across the South stay in condo towers and hotels for a week at a time, go out to restaurants, the water park, one of the 10,000 Surf Style shops along the beach and then return to their hometowns.