What is your team doing at this time as they figure out where and when they’ll play. If it’s baseball perhaps they could play on the minor league fields since the minor league season has been cancelled. Even though the accommodations are small at least it will limit how many people come to the games.

We have to get used to it people. Things are going to strange for a while. Consequence be damned the country is opening up and if you think things are crazy now chaos will reign with all the stops and starts no matter the industry. Different states different plans. Different sports. Different plans. The fact is the “what if moment” turned real and the story of it won’t be written during our lifetimes. Cancellations of sports as a whole whether it’s tennis, golf or baseball could possibly be the straw that breaks the economy for good. Unless your team however is the dregs how would it feel to watch without people in the stands or even play that way? No shirtless bums at Soldier Field when the Packers come to Chicago. But who is to say that game would be played in Chicago? Let’s be thankful we finally got to see a Super Bowl without Tom Brady before it all went sideways. I say that tongue in cheek. Seriously every little step to get back to sports is a step towards normalcy. Every step helps.

Let This Be The End Of The Last Dance

A sports starved populous latch like pit bulls to every story of the “Last Dance,” of the Michael Jordan led Chicago bulls and his relationships with his teammates. His ability to embarrass his opponents. I’d said for years what made that era of the Chicago Bulls stand out was the number of Hall Of Famers who didn’t win Championships because the road to the top went through Chicago. What doesn’t get mentioned were the seasons before; What we call the Doug Collins years. Once the Bulls started seeing success and getting close to the NBA Finals and the difficult battles with the Detroit Pistons including when the shamelessly stalked off the court without shaking Bulls players’ hands. These were also years where the City of Chicago was filled with crime and corruption. During the Bulls rise was also the rise of the Chicago Bears. Imagine two dominant teams in one city. Certainly Chicago was the center of the sports universe in those two sports. The White Sox had their share of characters and let’s not forget the ’84 Cubs. The road for the Bulls was not an easy one but it was a compelling one that the argument over who is the best is being argued not in Chicago but everywhere else. Believe me more people watched the, “Last Dance,” outside of Chicago than in Chicago simply because the Bulls were a force.

I can see an organization wanting to win but allowing a player to put his hands on another player as alleged that Jordan was not afraid to do is a step too far. With social media Jordan wouldn’t have gotten away with it and he shouldn’t have. Nowadays players would be fined if not suspended. And the crowd around his locker wouldn’t be because of the number of points he scored that night. However in this time of yellow journalism there would have to be someone crazy enough to face Michael and challenge him the way he challenges his teammates. Of course they would have to face his vengeance because in the end Jordan always gets his man. Possibly his notoriety would have caught up to his fame but the fact would still remain that Jordan is the greatest. Lebron will be the greatest of his generation but a couple of things I’ve seen that would never have happened to Jordan: he never lost a championship round and no other team has ever gotten into his head even when the Pistons wrote the Jordan rules. Honestly I’m tired of hearing about the whole thing as much as I am of hearing about the ’85 Bears. Chicago if not sports as a whole is about what you’ve done for me lately which is why we’ll soon get tired of hearing about the 2016 Cubs as it is looking like another 100 hundred years for them. I don’t need to watch old video of Jordan and I can remember where I was when they won every championship and the battles they had to face to win each one. I’m as sports starved as the next but I was already of a mind sometimes you don’t want to meet your hero’s.

In this time of Covid and the desire to get things back to normal unfortunately I think sports should take a year off. I think these ideas of putting athletes back on the field whichever level high school, college and the pros is terribly premature. Athletes being told to stay home probably have no had the proper amount of preparation, and we know that no matter how much you prepare nothing can make up for actual combat. None of the MLB plans make any sense. In order for football to go on starting with college and high school campuses have to open. Not to mention where these schools are located. Were there any deaths or infections from covid in that town so it's likely that there will have to be some neutral site games. Athletes will have to be constantly quarantined and tested. At the same time if there is no sports there will be a glut of athletes coming through the pipelines where professional teams will have to go back to video of the player in order to figure out who to draft. As well as eligibility. Does it end for those who were seniors at the time of the end of their season. And what about the players behind them who are not seniors. I think it's a good time to loosen transfer rules so that when/if sports, particular college sports get going again student athletes can play where they want.

Another idea is to allow basketball players to go right into the G-League and earn a paycheck because we all know the idea of Student athletes is misleading. More athlete than student. Instead of the silly one and done let them go right into the sports in the United States and not in some war zone in a foreign country or China. Baseball players right out of high school can go into the minors so why not let basketball players do the same. Some sports will be played this season but it will look much like the XFL than or some second rate league.Most importantly we need vaccines and testing to go back to full on sports. I can hardly breathe in masks can you imagine an athlete having to wear one of those things for hours and have constant cleaning going on while the game is being played? I hope sports comes back mostly for the concession workers and security and vendors. Beyond that I'm not missing sports right now.

The Cubs are holding on by the hairs on their chinney chin chin. And that is very tenuous considering they’re about to lose a division to a Cardinals team that should at most be fighting for a wild card spot. Instead the Cubs are fighting for the wildcard spot and I suggest by the end of the week the Cubs will be out of the race. Any race. They keep talking like Maddon will be here next year and he probably shouldn’t be. We’re sick of high hopes and bad hitting coaches. Let me tell it has nothing to do with the hitting coaches they just cannot hit and the best thing they’ve done since winning the World Series in 2016 was trading for Castellanos. But when that guy does something spectacular the Cubs find a way to lose. If I was him I’d almost run for the hills. It’s one thing to come from a crappy team to a team that is going to choke away the Season.

For the second year the Cubs are looking at the Wildcard. They’re in second place with better teams more likely to pass them and possibly knock the Cubs out of the playoffs altogether. If that happens there needs to be some huge tangible changes. There have been talk of changes and it’s always been at the field manager level but what about the ones in charge of putting players on the field? We still don’t have a lead off hitter and the worse bullpen in baseball. Talk of the playoffs was always like it is destiny. Just give the Cubs the regular season championship for winning one of the worse divisions in baseball. But this might be the last time we see them in the playoffs at this rate. They can’t hit. The starting pitching is giving up tons of runs. It’s time to let the circus leave town. Here’s to hoping the Rickets family is right behind them.

Castellanos needs to remain a Cub. He's hit at least 8 homers since he's been here on a team that is contending. From a team that wasn't in Detroit. The Cubs still won't make the world Series with him but when one man goes he's next one up. No one misses Addison Russell. Castellanos is making people do just that. As bad as our minor leagues is now Rome might be burning soon.

Look out Cub fans things are falling. And what is that going to look like? Remember when you used to play video games and you stack your line up only to see your best hitters ground out every time? The big words for the Cubs is potential and they're about to run out of that. Fans like me are starting to long for the lovable loser days because when this franchise sees success you should take it with a grain of salt because given enough time they'll be back to lovable losers. Once the NL North division was one of the best divisions in baseball. You look at all the other divisions the leaders are all well over 20 plus more wins over losses. The Cubs are fighting off a bad Brewers team and a bad Cardinals team which it looks like they might be knocked out early. It's been said none of the teams in the division will will 95 games  this season. WhatWdoes that tell you. Granted  rest of baseball has better records but I can't say more talented. The Cubs might make the playoffs for the fifth straight year but it's become such a circus on the Northside that fans are starting to get sick of it like an upset stomach after drinking too much. I'm going to make a crazy statement and say Maddon doesn't finish out the season with the team if they keep giving up double digits runs on the road. The worse road team in baseball. Enjoy 2016 and we'll keep reliving it for years like the 85 Bears. And remember none of us might be around if there's another World Series.