Day 117

• WOW!  They expect sports to re-open with THIS level of incompetence?????

The Athletics' COVID-19 tests have sat at an airport since Friday because no one accounted for Saturday being a holiday. GM Dave Forst is hopping mad. https://t.co/mloXLpaBzC via @HardballTalk

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) July 6, 2020

• And Donald Trump believes that Bubba Wallace and NASCAR lied about the noose in Talladega. Fucking racist dog-whistle Piece of the Ultimate Shit!!
• The protocols for season resumption in the NHL have been agreed to. Whether they are POSSIBLE is another question...
• The NFL, on the other hand... The clock is still ticking. Hoo boy. Everyone I'm talking to thinks an NFL cancellation is both likely and the tipping point for large-scale further unrest!
• Felix Hernandez has opted out of playing the short 2020 MLB season.
• WNBA has announced, out of 137 players tested, seven have tested positive for the coronavirus. 
• Olbermann had to go to the doctor today for something -- no Thurber tonight. 
• The Mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, has announced she has asymptomatically tested positive for the coronavirus.
• On the same day, Governor Brian Kemp has called the National Guard to regain order in the city of Atlanta.  Guard's a zero in that regard, Governor Kemp.  The last six weeks should've told you that.  You might as well organize the Army and be done with it.    
• The NFL has just set it's narrative for the next decade:  Patrick Mahomes is The Next Man, and Kansas City the next dynasty.  Mahomes has just signed for 10 years and a ridiculous amount of money.  Try possibly half a BILLION dollars.
• In another case of governmental stupidity, Floyd Mayweather got a Paycheck Protection Progam loan.  Fuck that twit.    
• So did a number of teams in the MLS.  That's not so surprising -- very real chance entire sports leagues will fail in this country due to what we see as people's desires for "Free-DUMB!!!!"
• Insert mandatory "UGH!" here.  Reports indicate both a (fall) college football season (Spring 2020 is being discussed) and an MLB season at all are getting longer and longer odds by the hour.
• More bad news for Major League Soccer, just two days before the tournament is to start:  Reigning MVP Carlos Vela of LA Football Club will not play this season -- he's opted out. 
• The current number of apparent WWE cases is somewhere 30-40, and they have not slowed down shows.  Knowing Vince's attitude, he'll let the virus do the next roster cuts, because he hates even a cough, much less sneezing.