There is some speculation that Major League Baseball might just realign their leagues this season due to COVID-19. Can you picture the Yankees & Mets, for example, in the same division? Or the Cubs & White Sox? The Dodgers & Angels?
Basically, an idea being floated is to have the teams that play their pre-season ball in Arizona (i.e. Dodgers, Angels, White Sox, Cubs) and Florida (Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Braves, etc.) play their regular seasons in what amounts to a regular season extension of the Cactus & Grapefruit League seasons played in February & March.
In the words of that legendary philosopher, Groucho Marx, that's the silliest thing I've ever heard.
Allow another cliche in play. If it ain't broken, you don't fix it. However, in order to minimalize the risk of a recurrence of COVID-19, assuming it finally runs its course in time to actually play some meaningful games, baseball suits have considered this idea. One other lame idea was to have everyone play in Arizona.
Welp, as "Forrest Gump" (Tom Hanks) said, stupid is as stupid does. The best bet is, if the pandemic doesn't fade out in due course, to give everyone a year off, and come back in 2021.
Stay tuned.
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Vince McMahon's XFL 2.0, having already wiped out the remainder of the 2020 season, has suspended operations, and laid everyone off, meaning there won't be a 2021 season after all. We think.
The league had made some strides this year, even though ratings were starting to fall after the first week, just like in 2001. The quality of play was much, much better. I'd bet on McMahon waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic, then trying again in 2022.
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There are concerns in Japan that even after moving this year's Olympic Games to 2021, they might not be able to present the event even then due to COVID-19. Yeah, things are that bad.
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The idea is being floated to televise a NBA HORSE tournament.
Translated: ESPN & TNT are that starved for programming. I'd rather watch reruns of The Way it Was, Sports Challenge, Greatest Sports Legends, and whatever else lies in the ESPN vaults after ESPN Classic seemed to shut down several months ago.
COVID-19 is like 9/11 all over again.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that got shut down on 9/11 were the airlines, and those reopened after a week and we got additional padding by having the National Guard standing around to make it look "safe".
ReplyDeleteRight now, a whole lot of people lost their jobs and small business owners may lose their life's work for...what exactly? There is NO REASON for all these closures.
Also, why is it that people are getting fined for sitting in their cars?
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtC_cAvrfxU
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxaR6GPQuU
I wonder if mosques are being patrolled with such zeal?
@Magicdog: Both of those videos were shot in Mississippi. If their governor is a Republican, he's probably in lockstep with the President. However, it would appear that the police down there are being a wee bit overzealous.
ReplyDelete@Steven: COVID-19 is worse with all the casualties, and no physical enemy.
True the current MS governor is a Republican, but those cops are likely operating under local law enforcement (county or city sheriff). Either way, they shouldn't be harassing the churchgoers.
ReplyDeleteReally? COVID-19 is worse than 9/11?
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