re: #124 stpaulbear

This season will be like a game of musical chairs. The last team not quarantined with Covid-19 wins the pennant. We should have a winner within three weeks.

i understand the appeal of sports. i am not a sports fan.

trying to salvage sports this season was a reasonable thing to try. everyone who participated did it so more or less voluntarily.

major league sports is a huge business. it employs lots of people directly and indirectly besides the players. and it supports lots of ancillary industries as well.

and lets make no mistake. there was no altruism or job saving here.
revenue and profits drove these decisions, not safety or any sense of careful propriety.

so this was a great opportunity to try it and see what would happen.
a big experiment.
we may have all known, still there wasn’t too much harm in them trying.

and they have. and now we know for sure.

it’s not gonna work.
sure they may be able to put a technically completed season in the books.
but a large part of the nature of the competitive aspects of the individual sports is missing - it’s not just the on-field play.

this whole virus thing is new. we learn, we adjust, we adapt, and move forward. that’s more or less how adapting science to real life operates.

science is an explanation of what we (think we) know works.
this isn’t going to.

obviously some people think it’s ‘worth it’.
i don’t see it.