Mike O'Connell

There are many opinion pieces out there saying we “need” sports right now. I disagree. I think sports are great entertainment, yes, and I’ve been disappointed I haven’t been able to follow them the last few weeks. But need? Like I need baseball to happen in empty stadiums for the sake of its happening?

Nope. Don’t need that. There are more important things going on in the world right now other than baseball. Wartime comparisons don’t work for me. Military battles on the other side of the world don’t equate with can’t-even-have-people-in-the-same-room.

Sports take a backseat right now.

Can I say the same for math class?

Well, we’re doing our best.

Just when I thought I had my life together this coronavirus thing comes along.

So now that I’ve got my quarantine life together that’s going to be up in smoke soon too, right?

Let’s hope so.

And then I found out they were pushing the release of the new Bond movie until November.

Never mind Prince Charles and the prime minister…

this just got real.

My copy of The Washington Post today did not even have a sports section.

You knew this day was coming.

Yeah, I got nothin’.

These days, with everything going on in the world, and little of it good, it’s refreshing to hear, well, anything that isn’t about coronavirus, the Apocalypse, or both.

Tom Brady going to the Buccaneers? I don’t care whether it’s true or not–sign me up for that news story!