Life without professional sports

What a difference a week makes. My last post was about MLB predictions and now it’s about the screech of sporting brakes. The coronavirus has taken over the sports world and the world in general without it even knowing what sports are.

The NBA suspends its season for at least 30 days after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert wanted to joke around and give the microphones some coronavirus. Little did Gobert know that he infected his teammates and probably many others. The teammate was star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell and power forward Christian Wood on the Detroit Pistons. No one knows if his sickness came from Gobert or from a fan. Even though all of them tested negative for the virus, the disease could still be in the players.

We don’t know how many people actually have it right now, maybe 10, maybe only 3. Commish Adam Silver said that they want to continue the season even if the championship finals are in August.

Corona has also affected many other things, like the NBA’s ticket sales and revenue, and videogames. How? You might ask, well, if 2k21 comes out in August or September, usually, with the offseason passed already, and everyone knows where the free agents new teams are, the offseason is just starting then. And, consequently, the new videogame can’t be released.

The MLB has taken action and canceled the remainder of Spring Training and delayed Opening Day by at least two weeks while some say we won’t hear play ball until May. Everyone knows that it will be for longer but it is for at least two. None of the major league players have it yet, so, it’s just a precautionary measure. But, a Yankee minor leaguer does, the first baseball-affiliated player to have it. Don’t worry, the videogame for baseball came out in the past few days.

The NFL has done nothing so far, and they don’t have to worry. The preseason will start in July and the season in late September, so maybe football will be the only sport unaffected.

Maybe not all football…. The XFL suspended all play as an unidentified Seattle Dragons player tested positive. The sport that was growing rapidly has stopped.

The NHL also jumped on the coronavirus bandwagon and said that they will suspend their season as well.

Other sports and championships have also been assigned to limbo. It’s plain and simple, we have absolutely nothing to watch.

Day Four without Sports: I actually learned that there is another person living with us other than me and my father. A woman, she tells me, she’s my mom. Eh, she seems nice.