Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Recall last year they tried to hold UFC 249 at a Native American-run casino in the Central Valley of California, carried by ESPN, until Disney threw a fit.

 

Let's just say COVID transmission is not the reason I'm actively trying to avoid any autoplaying videos from that event.

 

Of the two, the United deal is far more problematic. Indoors and -- if recent history holds -- more populated.

 

Theoretically they can open the roof, but seems like that never happens more than a couple of times a season. Just another expensive toy for owners to demand and then toss in the corner.

OTOH, United fans, at least in the supporters sections, are a good bit more likely to actually have gotten their two-shot parole cards the honest way.

 

They should all be back at full capacity, no masks required

 

We'll see how that goes.

 

Trolls returning to the board. Back to normal!

 

Bumped this thread since this doesn't fit in the main coronavirus or MiLB threads. Saw the first link on a local station last night, and stumbled across the second while looking for the first.

COVID-19 outbreak in Pecos baseball league causes city of Monterey to intervene and cancel game

https://www.turnto23.com/sports/players-released-after-bakersfield-train-robbers-covid-outbreak

 

The Pecos League sounds like a name that an author came up with for a novel about life in the bus leagues.

 

I so like to read well-written and well-edited stories. Somebody wake me up with when you find one.

 

Nation. Of. Idiots.
As @The Big Ragu would say.
Their quotes just illustrate what I’ve been saying all along, and that is that there is still a large chunk of our society who have no understanding about Covid and how to prevent it.