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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BitterYoungMatador2, Apr 2, 2020.

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  1. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Yes, you as a fan/customer. Not an owner or player.
     
    MileHigh, Jun 7, 2020
    #1153
  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    No different than any other business. The ultimate question is, how do the customers feel? It's one thing to say TV will pay some of the costs of fan-free events, quite another to think fans will pay money to sit in a place they think is unsafe.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Jun 7, 2020
    #1154
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I agree. There's a reason there is this arbitrary eight "regular season" NBA games in Orlando. To get most of the teams to 70 games for RSN payouts. Then a full playoff payout. Millions upon millions at stake that you and I can't grasp. The players and owners will withstand the lost gate and all of that. Unlike MLB, where the owners are, like, F it.
     
    MileHigh, Jun 7, 2020
    #1155
  4. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    They can do it, and I hope it works out for them. I'm nowhere close to going to a mass athletic event as things stand. I'll watch a little of it, but I'm really apathetic about sports at this point.
     
    Neutral Corner, Jun 7, 2020
    #1156
  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    After three months off, those eight games will also serve as a de facto preseason/tune-up period. There's a financial aspect to it, of course, but there also is a practical side.
     
    Batman, Jun 7, 2020
    #1157
  6. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Honestly, I'm so over the live fan experience that going fanless doesn't really faze me. I go to F1 races on vacation most years. Beyond that, maybe one NBA game in person, and one or two MLB games if a friend with season tickets invites me. I'll be happy to have the NBA back on TV.

    I love kind of esoteric sports as it is, so I'm not sweating stuff like MLB or the NFL coming back at all. I'm at a point where I'd much rather watch the KBO than MLB.

     
    PCLoadLetter, Jun 7, 2020
    #1158
  7. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Can you play guitar? OK, now you have something to work on.
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Jun 7, 2020
    #1159
  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    How convenient those things align.

    They don't need eight games. They don't need 22 teams.
     
    MileHigh, Jun 7, 2020
    #1160
  9. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    No, I was a drummer. No guitar, can't sing, either.
    I am reading a book. I haven't done that in forever. "Teemu Selanne: My Life." Pretty good. I stood in line at Honda Center to get it autographed last fall, a Christmas gift for my daughter. Missed the whole first period. The things we do for our kids.
     
    ChrisLong, Jun 7, 2020
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  10. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Businesses ought to be worried. The culture has subsisted for a while without sports, and shown that it can.

    Paying for them seems absurd, at this point. Really absurd.
     
    Last edited: Jun 7, 2020
    3_Octave_Fart, Jun 7, 2020
    #1162
  11. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    It probably will also help the league work out the kinks in how this thing will work, before the games really matter.
    You can't just do a cold restart on the season by jumping into playoff games. Everybody involved needs a couple of weeks to get back in the flow. Whether they should restart at all is a valid argument, but if they're going to then those eight games are pretty important.
     
    Batman, Jun 8, 2020
    #1163
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I'll watch the fan-free hoops and hockey, but I don't know how invested I can get in playoffs. A 2020 championship to me sounds a little cheap if a team never had to win in another team's building. Maybe I'll feel differently once it starts.
     
    playthrough, Jun 8, 2020
    #1164
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