Hey All,
Hope this finds you well. Listless summer days filled with binge watching and burn notices from the sun can be time consuming. Don’t get me wrong…as I’m enjoying the early 90’s fashion and hairdos that make up the rank and file of “Supermarket Sweep” on Netflix. On that note, anyone else think that David Ruprecht guy is somewhere still in Hollywood, trying to solicit jobs behind an Applebee’s dumpster somewhere? He’s got that look to him, if you know what I mean. The kind of look that says, “I’m not a good babysitter.” That’s a lot of ham, baby…or maybe turkey. Let’s talk some.
I find myself watching this stuff because I miss sports. SO MUCH. So much so, that I bet over one hundred dollars on the annual hot dog eating contest they have on July 4th. I lost that money, because of Joey Chestnut and his gigantic mouth. Guy must be part squirrel. Water logged hotdog buns also make me gag, for the record.
The drought appears to almost over though. Both the NBA and MLB are slated to crank up next week. July 23rd is opening night for baseball, and the hoops return July 30th. It’s been entertaining, to say the least, following the storylines, drama, and the crazy nature of what COVID has done to some of our most beloved athletic institutions. Now there may be no fans, and it may be played in a bubble…but I’m ready to get back to the joy of competition, the spectacle of sport. I don’t hold it against anyone who opted out of their respective seasons either. Humans do what humans got to do, no matter who they work for or who you think they answer to. More power to you. But one point is to be made here…the absolutely bonkers industry that sports has become supplies a lot of people with a lot of income, from top to bottom. If COVID remains a thing, as it most likely will (hence the nature of communicable disease), we will have to find a way to play with it as part of reality’s landscape. Sports aren’t more important than life is. But whatever we can do moving forward to play the games we love at all levels, from prep to pro, we’ll need to take the small and tentative steps forward to figure out if we can do this thing and beat the virus. My hope is that these truncated seasons will give us a blueprint for the future. Here’s to it. And here’s some more info on both the NBA and the MLB doing their thing.
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