There are no fans in the stands, players are wearing masks, there's pumped-in crowd noise, the general sloppiness of the games themselves —but the strangeness of sports right now goes even beyond just the backdrop
Basketball in a bubble. Photo: Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images The phrase “stick to sports” — hurled at athletes and commentators by people who mistakenly believe it’s possible to separate politics and athletic pursuits — has been thoroughly vivisected over the years, and with good reason. But I confess that I’ve always been sympathetic to the theoretical concept.
But the strangeness goes beyond just the backdrop. These games, in leagues that are scrambling to keep their players healthy and their games on schedule without an outbreak that will derail the whole enterprise — as is threatening to happen in baseball — feel as perilous as everything else does right now, and increasingly fragile. So fragile, in fact, that it’s difficult to get emotionally involved at all.
If you are fortunate enough to be employed right now, it is difficult to focus on some of your job’s more banal aspects: Who wants to file expense reports at the end of the world? The same dynamic extends to professional sports. It’s evident from the unusually high number of mental mistakes committed during play that athletes are taking pride in their work but perhaps not passion in it.
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