If your like me you're dying for something live, like sports on television. This time of year we're used to crowing champions in basketball and hockey and watching baseball (boys of summer) all summer long... This year we'll have to wait but hopefully not to long.
Today the NBA announced plans to restart their season at the end of July, when Disney opens. Basketball will be back with a modified season, including 22 of 30 teams and then head into the playoffs, after playing eight regular season games amongst the teams within six games of a playoff spot. Their bubble will be at Walt Disney World, which helps both parties. Basketball will set up shop at disney where players and teams can be isolated without fans. All playoff rounds will continue to be a best of seven and run from 7/31-9/31. What I haven't heard from the NBA is anything about testing. Also today the NHL announced a plan with 24 teams, all of whom enter a best of five game qualifing tournanment before being seated for the playoffs. Hockey would probaly have two bubble cities, one for the eastern conference and one for the western conference, I am hearing vesgas. More information will be forthcoming on this plan including specifics on testing, hub cities and rule adjustments. Two leagues are back, next up is baseball, baseball does not have a deal yet but I for one am still holding out hope. Unlike the NBA and NHL the relationship between the MLB owners and players is not great, maybe even frosty. Baseball players and owners are looking more and more petty, everyday they don't have a deal. Millionares and Billionares argueing about dollars and cents at a time when many americans are loosing jobs or getting furloughed, many won't stand for this. Baseball is already losing fans and not playing or potentially loosing a son will not help. Time is running out (for a legegiment season which I consider over 80 games) players want about a three week traing camp and if we're going to have professional baseball by July fourth they betteer get busy, I hope to roll over one day and see an announcement of a basball season. One league that will play it's just a question of with fans or with out is the NFL.
All these leagues are coming back at least at first without fans. We're awase away from sports with fan in this country, do we need a cure for this virus first, thats going to be awhile or can we cheat and gradgually build of attendance. in any case people are going to have to start taking risks not just in sports but in life, in order to get back to some semblace of normalcy. We have aways taken risks in life and I realize is't a new normal but we all have to push the boundries again or we'll be locked in our houses for years.
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