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Has the pandemic reduced your interest in professional sports?

* Really missing baseball but not super hopeful on how that will work out.

* As a Rangers fan, I'm thrilled the way this season turned out. Got a 1st rounder for a bad contract and got into the playoffs. Huge for such a young, rebuilding team.

* NBA each year my interest has gone down and haven't watched a full NBA game in at least three years. It's just not an enjoyable product, to me.

* NFL is normal. Now that the draft is over and free agency has winded down, it's the part of the year I don't think about it.

* Spending way more time following college basketball news, especially transfers, recruits, etc. I've kept all my notes on a google doc which I'd be happy to share once the season starts.
 
This is an intestine thread. How about sports radio? I had very little interest in tuning in. I did put it in the other day and I thought... I am passing the time waiting for sports to return by listening to people talk about when sports will return. I need to find a better use of my time.
 
Miss going to Yankee games along with having them on the TV most evenings after dinner. I was hopeful that they'd get it rolling soon but it's not looking good.

I'm drooling all over myself in anticipation of UConn hoops especially after how we ended up last year and now with some solid newcomers. It would be a big downer to not have a college basketball season.

I'm a Pats fan and am a little worried about life after Brady so my interest in the NFL this year may be more for fantasy purposes assuming there is a season. And I'll watch the NHL and NBA playoffs depending on who's playing but not with great interest.
 
I think the question has another angle that no one has hit on yet.

My interest in professional sports in the normal world vs my interest in these shortened seasons with expanded postseasons.

I'm very excited if the NFL can play a normal season. I was super excited for the Mets this year and now couldn't care less about some 70 game season and gimmicky tourney.

So, that said, I have reduced (almost no) interest in the completion of the NBA, NHL and MLB 2020 season and I'm just looking forward to 2021, hopefully.
 
Not a huge golf fan but will probably watch the Travelers golf tourney over the next couple weeks due to the stacked lineup
 
I miss them some. But this is not a big sports time of year for me anyway.

UConn MBB: very excited to see this team.
NFL: very excited to see the Patriots with Stidham.
Baseball: irritated with players and owners both. The season is too long as it is.
UConn FB: I'll watch some games
NBA: could care less about continued season unless Celtics make the final
NHL: Think Bruins have the best team in the league, so I'm a bit more excited for this.
MLS: Revs seem better than in the past, so I'm curious and would watch if games were on.
Have had more interest in European football than in the past.
 
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Kitaman said:
Let me start by saying I'm a former athlete (jock) and loved all sports.

However outside of our Huskies, I think this pandemic 'cured' me of my sports addiction. The golf Tourney was on this past weekend and I didn't even peek. The NBA, MLB and NFL are trying to get back on track but I've not even shown any interest in the updates or following the news. I may check ESPN once or twice a week and that's only their website.

I think this experience has forced me to look for alternative ways to occupy my time and mind, and perhaps create/participate in my own activities. I guess the best way of putting it, is that I am in no rush to sit in front of my TV for 2-3 hours or more watching men play a game. At least in the spring/summer.

Of course this may be temporary, cuz by virtue of being a member on this forum I'm a fanatic but still its changed to only following our Huskies (right now). I really think I've changed though, because I'm not missing it as much as I thought I would.
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Not one of us knows yet. Is watching sports an addiction that you can break, and we've all had our cold turkey and are better? Or is it like heroin, and changes your brain stem, and when it's back on we'll go right back to our old habits?

I have not a clue. But I know that when Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester United in about 72 hours, it will be the first thing on television I will be fully emotionally intensively inested in for three months -- since UConn closed its regular season in hoops -- and I can't wait to have that feeling again.
 
the Q said:
Ummmm mlb players agreed to play on a pro rated basis.

The owners are asking for additional cuts beyond pro rated salaries.
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Those salaries are based on revenues including paying fans and concessions. No fans and no concessions means way less revenue for everyone.
 
Kitaman said:
Let me start by saying I'm a former athlete (jock) and loved all sports.

However outside of our Huskies, I think this pandemic 'cured' me of my sports addiction. The golf Tourney was on this past weekend and I didn't even peek. The NBA, MLB and NFL are trying to get back on track but I've not even shown any interest in the updates or following the news. I may check ESPN once or twice a week and that's only their website.

I think this experience has forced me to look for alternative ways to occupy my time and mind, and perhaps create/participate in my own activities. I guess the best way of putting it, is that I am in no rush to sit in front of my TV for 2-3 hours or more watching men play a game. At least in the spring/summer.

Of course this may be temporary, cuz by virtue of being a member on this forum I'm a fanatic but still its changed to only following our Huskies (right now). I really think I've changed though, because I'm not missing it as much as I thought I would.
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its reduced my interest in life. :(
 
I was a sports junkie in my younger days but because of the hype, $ and the knuckleheads that play the game I have cooled over the years. The only sports that I have remained true to are baseball and college basketball. The labor issues in baseball have totally turned me off. So that leaves me with UConn hoops. I will never give that up. So my answer is, I don't miss professional sports in the least. My marriage is better, my garden is better and my health is better.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Those salaries are based on revenues including paying fans and concessions. No fans and no concessions means way less revenue for everyone.
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Mlb contracts are not tied to revenues. They are the only sport not to.
 
ucp990411 said:
I was a sports junkie in my younger days but because of the hype, $ and the knuckleheads that play the game I have cooled over the years. The only sports that I have remained true to are baseball and college basketball. The labor issues in baseball have totally turned me off. So that leaves me with UConn hoops. I will never give that up. So my answer is, I don't miss professional sports in the least. My marriage is better, my garden is better and my health is better.
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I’m the same as you.

And now, honestly beyond UConn bb and fb, mlb playoffs, and March madness, I can miss most of it and be just fine.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Those salaries are based on revenues including paying fans and concessions. No fans and no concessions means way less revenue for everyone.
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While agree that less fans means less revenue, etc, I'll play Devil's advocate...do the players make more when the owners kill it in a given year? I don't believe so, they get whatever their contract is. I.e. if the players can't participate in the upside, why should they have to participate in the downside?

Regardless, I hope they can figure it out bc watching Cornhole on the Ocho is getting old.
 
Stlh8L8ner said:
While agree that less fans means less revenue, etc, I'll play Devil's advocate...do the players make more when the owners kill it in a given year? I don't believe so, they get whatever their contract is. I.e. if the players can't participate in the upside, why should they have to participate in the downside?

Regardless, I hope they can figure it out bc watching Cornhole on the Ocho is getting old.
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Yes. Players are walled off from profits, but now everyone wants them to socialize The losses.

The owners take the (relatively) small risk. This year the risk became reality. The players have contracts for specific dollars.

Even the WNBA isn’t pro rating salaries despite playing 1/3 the amount of games.

This one really shouldn’t have been that hard. The owners are using a pandemic to try and break the union, and it has backfired
 
Stlh8L8ner said:
While agree that less fans means less revenue, etc, I'll play Devil's advocate...do the players make more when the owners kill it in a given year? I don't believe so, they get whatever their contract is. I.e. if the players can't participate in the upside, why should they have to participate in the downside?

Regardless, I hope they can figure it out bc watching Cornhole on the Ocho is getting old.
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the Q said:
Yes. Players are walled off from profits, but now everyone wants them to socialize The losses.

The owners take the (relatively) small risk. This year the risk became reality. The players have contracts for specific dollars.

Even the WNBA isn’t pro rating salaries despite playing 1/3 the amount of games.

This one really shouldn’t have been that hard. The owners are using a pandemic to try and break the union, and it has backfired
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I couldn't care less if they play a partial season or not. With baseball if you aren't playing at least 100 games it's basically an exhibition.

I have zero doubt owners will come through this season healthier than players. No season always hurts the players more. Superstars and vets are fine. Younger players and minor leaguers who are the bulk of the roster get hammered.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I couldn't care less if they play a partial season or not. With baseball if you aren't playing at least 100 games it's basically an exhibition.

I have zero doubt owners will come through this season healthier than players. No season always hurts the players more. Superstars and vets are fine. Younger players and minor leaguers who are the bulk of the roster get hammered.
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It is basically a calendar impossibility to do that due to the ramp up time required.

65 is probably the most without really pushing it.

This should’ve been done 2 weeks ago.
 
the Q said:
It is basically a calendar impossibility to do that due to the ramp up time required.

65 is probably the most without really pushing it.

This should’ve been done 2 weeks ago.
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Until the owners decide to actually negotiate I don't expect there to be any season
 
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navery12 said:
Until the owners decide to actually negotiate I don't expect there to be any season
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The problem is they are running out of time. There aren’t enough days left to give the players the number of games they really want.
 
the Q said:
The problem is they are running out of time. There aren’t enough days left to give the players the number of games they really want.
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I think it's a ploy. The owners are stalling until the only option the players have is accepting the 50 games the owners are asking for
 
navery12 said:
I think it's a ploy. The owners are stalling until the only option the players have is accepting the 50 games the owners are asking for
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I’m not sure the players are happy with anything less than 70. Which I’m not sure there time for
 
I have just realized there's more to life. I've been golfing and fishing more. Playing more board/card games with my wife. Reading books. My family has been getting together at a public park in my town - which I had never been to before and just realized it's very nice. I watched the final day of the Colonial all day on Sunday though, but I always watch golf anyway. I don't miss baseball one bit. I cannot wait for NFL and Uconn hoops though. I will be watching less baseball and hockey from here on out though, and filling in my time with the aforementioned activities. I also realized how awful Nascar and MMA are - who watches those? They are just terrible.
 
the Q said:
I’m not sure the players are happy with anything less than 70. Which I’m not sure there time for
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They definitely won't be happy and I think a bunch would sit out. But Manfred can still honor the original agreement of prorated salaries for however many games he chooses. Even 50 will be tough unless that happens this week since the regular season has to end in September
 
My interest in sports as a whole has dwindled for years, ever since I hit my 30s. The quarantine has reinforced that. Too much other stuff going on in life. They're still my prime source of entertainment but I really don't miss them all that much. I'm still a huge Knicks and UConn fan but that's it. I used to be a four-season die hard. Loved MLB, NFL, NBA, CBB, CFB. I watched a fair amount of golf.

I stopped following MLB a decade ago after being a huge Yankee fan for 20 years. Stopped cold turkey one season; my interest died overnight and never came back. Interestingly, out of my group of high school friends (about ten of us) all but one of us stopped following MLB around 2010-2012. Not sure exactly what happened but something turned off all of us. Baseball chatter gets derided when it gets brought up in our group chat.

I'd barely follow the NFL if it weren't for fantasy football. Maybe watch part of the SNF game if it was an interesting matchup. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a college football game. Football is too slow and too boring for me. Three-plus hours of TV and commercials for 11-12 minutes of action. I think RedZone and fantasy ruined my fanhood.

With UConn going to the AAC in 2013 it killed my interest in college hoops though hopefully that'll be revived now that we're back in the BE. I used to watch several non-UConn games each week (Big Monday, Super Tuesday, etc). I haven't watched a non-UConn, non-tournament college basketball since probably 2012 or 2013.

I still love the NBA. My interest there hasn't waivered recently (it did in a major way from '00 to about '07--the league was awful) but it's been strong the last 13 years.

I'm going strong now without sports but I will admit that winter will be really tough if there's no basketball. Hunkered down through a New England winter with no hoops would be a drag. I'd be reading two books a week (probably a good thing) if we don't have basketball.
 
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I’ve been waiting for this thread to come out. I’ve had friends and family ask me how I was holding up without sports and I’m proud to say that they all received the same answer which was an astounding “ehh I’ll live.” I’ve been following sports and faithfully watched ESPN since I was 8/9 yrs old and I’m in my early 40’s now. Besides the MJ doc I don’t think I’ve watched 10 mins of ESPN and NO Sportscenter. I actually thought that having no sports would’ve crushed me but it hasn’t and it hasn’t changed my life for the worse either. Now I have thought consistently about my Huskies and what will be of our first season back in the BE and will we even be able to attend games this season. When sports do come back I will check in periodically but not like before.
 
Pro sports lost their luster for me some years ago and at the risk of irking others I am really enjoying the peace of not hearing about the Red Sox vs. Yankee's garbage all summer and would not miss it if it never returned.
 
I miss football ( NFL, College). College hoops. I’ve also realized the rest of TV is pretty bad and boring. I watch way less now.
 
the Q said:
Ummmm mlb players agreed to play on a pro rated basis.

The owners are asking for additional cuts beyond pro rated salaries.
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I stand corrected. Still think baseball is dead for this season.
 
I think the Red Sox ownership reduced my interest in the MLB season. Seeing Mookie in Dodger blue is still disheartening.
Other than that, I can't wait for Premier League to start up today and whether or not it's behind closed doors, I am hoping that the start of the NFL season isn't impacted.
 
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