(08-01-2020, 10:35 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(08-01-2020, 09:29 PM)TheDogCatcher Wrote: I did. I have people in my industry (college academia) who pushed to eliminate on campus classes in the name of pandemic politics. It’s come back to bite them as layoffs have started. This is what happens when the inmates run the asylum.

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Yes, lots of people in many sectors are counter intuitive pessimists with this pandemic - hanging onto every bit of negative news as you well said. 

After November, it will drop out of the news cycle when it’s no longer viable as a weapon (for either party).

you're confusing public safety with rooting for a virus

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(08-01-2020, 09:09 PM)mal234 Wrote: It really does seem like some of them are. It's one thing to be realistic, it's another thing to be overwhelming negative and pessimistic and many of the sports media, at least those who constantly post on Twitter fall into that category. They are constantly suggesting that it will be almost impossible to have sports, even though sports are getting back into action. (Including some that have been successfully going on/even completed like Women's soccer and the Basketball tournament.)

They are constantly hanging onto any bit of negative information they can regarding this virus and trying to use that say why they think sports won't happen. There is something perverse about the way they act, especially considering their jobs literally depend on sports happening. Even some other people in sports media (like Kyle Brandt and others) have pointed out their behavior. 

If sports like football are cancelled some of these people (maybe a lot) will be laid off. And they will go on Twitter complaining about it and probably blaming sports/their bosses, even though they have constantly been pounding the "Sports should be cancelled" drum. And some if not many of them probably won't find work anytime soon. ESPN has constantly been firing/laying people off the past few years and people don't read things like newspapers like they used to. 

They need to be careful on what they wish for because things will get very real for them, if NFL/MLB is cancelled and some of these people in the sports media will be laid off long term. It's easy to dump on sports and all but hope for cancellation when there's still hope for sports to begin continue. But if they are really cancelled, I think that a lot of the people in the media are really going to get big dose of reality. They are going to find out that rooting against their jobs and constantly being negative on Twitter is not going to pay off.

Baseball is close to being cancelled if another out break or two happens. 

College football season most likely is not going to happen for multiple if not all conferences 

The NFL is probably not going to last past a few weeks at most. 

You are A) misplacing the impact of a media member being skeptical they can happen safely and B) that they want the seasons cancelled for political reasons, when in reality it's mostly a player safety argument with how poor some of the sports have prepared for it (NFL, college football)

The public safety argument is comical and not very applicable. These aren’t geriatric athletes who bunk in a nursing home. The mortality rate is very low for people under 50 without preexisting conditions. Like Belichik (sp) said, every player’s personal situation is different. As a relative percentage, very few players are opting out because of a bad flu.

People can make their own choices about going out in public, just as people make choices about driving their cars every day (greater chance of dying or being seriously hurt). But don’t rain on everyone else’s parade just because you’re more risk averse than most Americans. Just eat your stale popcorn and watch your 24/7 pandemic newsfeed in the comfort of your own monastery, mmmkay?

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