Posted on 04/19/2020 7:06:59 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Do you like golf? Not so much? Too bad. Because that’s what you’ve got.
The PGA Tour made it known this week that it intends to return to normal operating service shortly.
“I’m not going to say that I have 110-per-cent certainty, but we are very confident that we will be able to play [the] second week in June,” Tour official Andy Pazder told reporters on Thursday.
You know what I’m 110-per-cent certain of? That inflation is going to be somewhere around 110 per cent before this is all over. I’m not sure that imaginary number applies anywhere else.
Sports has been turned upside down by the pandemic more profoundly than a simple cessation of business. It is now entering a period where it must radically reconsider how pro sports are exhibited, and whether that’s even possible.
Golf is the early winner because it has several structural disadvantages. At least, things that used to be so.
You can’t make a living selling seats at a golf tournament. No one wants to sit in the baking sun for 12 hours (the amount of time competitors are on the course on a given Thursday or Friday). People do it, but no one really wants to.
If you can get one (you can’t), a four-day pass to the Masters costs US$325. A four-hour pass to the Super Bowl costs more than 10 times that.
Instead, golf makes its money from television. But because you will make room in your life for a British Open, but have never heard of nor will ever watch the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss., there isn’t a whole lot of that.
This is why top golfers make so much less than their basketball- or soccer-playing counterparts.
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I don’t get cable TV, but over the years I’ve read that it is expensive because of what it pays to broadcast sports programs. Is this true shouldn’t subscribers be paying less?
I worked and retired from major hospital in Michigan. Majority of years it was voluntary to get the flu shot or not if you didn’t work around patients. I didn’t and rarely got the flu shot. Starting 4 years ago it became mandatory to get the flu shot even though you never saw or worked around a patient. Each dept had a Flu Czar and checked off and made sure you got your flu shot. If you didn’t it would go up to the CFO. You would get told to get it. If you refused your only recourse was to write a letter stating you refuse under conscience objective guidelines etc. If they accepted your letter in HR then you had to commit to wearing a mask at all times while at work. If you failed to wear the mask you could be fired. A few people did this and wore the mask but majority just got the flu shot.
So sometimes it’s not an objection. Get the shot, don’t get the shot and wear a mask at all times or don’t get the shot and get fired.
“Five years? You really spread the Covid doom, don’t you?”
I don’t know. 5 years sounds about right for the ‘least required’ mass gatherings if we rely on herd immunity, given the social distancing required to keep the infection rate under control.
Also, I did note that if a vaccine does get deployed, then much sooner.
It’s game over for sports as we know them, absent a widely distributed vaccine
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.... not for these tennis players :-)
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Yep.
I used to spread a lot of milorganite back in the early 60's here on western PA. courses, including Oakmont before the sun came up.
......... love the smell of milorganite in the morning.
I read today that there has never been a vaccine developed for any coronavirus. If we manage this time it will be the first time.
While I am all for trying we need to realize that at least short term there will be no vaccine. IMO we need to accept this reality and get back to work. And worship. The vulnerable and the frightened can stay home as desired.
To address your point, the flu is not even a coronavirus.
I get the flu shot every year. Still as you say it often misses the popular current strain and can be ineffective even when it doesn’t.
We are not getting an effective coronavirus vaccine any time soon.
In re a third of us being immune I think that’s great but the problem is viruses mutate so then you catch the next one.
That’s why we have a new and only partly effective flu shot each year and the flu is not even a coronavirus.
Unless we’d like to shut down the world until we can quickly destroy pandemic viruses we are going to just have to accept that they are a risk for living. Because there are new ones all the time.
Good post. I pretty stopped watching sports a few years ago. The kneeling for the anthem was the final straw. Don’t miss them at all.
“It’s Olympics Week on NBCSN, April 13-26.”
“That’s TWO weeks.” - Rocket J. Squirrel.
No argument.
My point about a vaccine not being essential for most sports to restart is (a) yes, we have a flu vaccine, which less than half the population ever gets, and (b) we have tens of thousands deaths from seasonal flu every year, but somehow in spite of all those deaths and that the flu is passed from person to person, and ANY player could have it and any player could get, and any spectator could have it and any spectator could get it, life goes on, our sports are played.
And who mostly dies from the flu? Old folks with comorbidity issues are number one, and little kids are number two. And who mostly dies from the Wuhan Virus? Older folks with comorbidity issues.
Stopping sports just because there is no Wuhan Virus vaccine just does not make any sense.
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