(No, I'm staying. 2020 is leaving!!! boot in ass)
Oh how do I start this?
I think there's a very powerful statement Keith Olbermann made. When this first started and it was clear the response was going to be INTENTIONALLY flawed, Olbermann told the world that the most powerful being on this planet was no longer the human race. It was the coronavirus.
Don't believe me?
We don't even have to talk about the year basically being split between "before March 11" and "after March 11"...
This is tonight -- Times Square... Usually, over 2,000,000 people flood the area for stage performances and the world-famous ball drop.
The performances are still there.
The ball will still drop.
The two million people? Not there.
Want more proof? The Las Vegas Strip.
New Year's Eve is always the most expensive night of the year to get a room in the place. That's because, on a normal New Year's Eve, 300,000 jam the Strip end to end.
The roads are still closed to cars.
Only a smattering of pedestrian traffic. NO on-street crowds allowed.
The most powerful being on this planet is a virus.
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But, yes, the world can basically be separated, sports and otherwise, to the time before people became aware of the coronavirus and the time after.
Don't believe me? Here's ESPN, just before what was to be the tipoff of the game which upsot the whole apple cart in Oklahoma City, when health officials notified the officials, the teams, and the league that the coronavirus was here in the NBA -- and, within an hour or so (and seven minutes after the news broke of Rudy Gobert's positive), the NBA was off until about July...
- January 1: Former NBA Commissioner David Stern
- January 1: The only man to throw a perfect game in the World Series: Don Larsen
- January 2: Former NFL coach Sam Wyche
- January 9: Golf course architect Pete Dye
- January 15: "Soul Man" Rocky Johnson
- January 16: British editor and academian Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R.
- January 23: Jim Lehrer
- January 26: Kobe and Gianna Bryant, along with several others
- January 30: John Andretti
- February 5: Kirk Douglas
- February 20: Tennis player Jeanne Evert, sister of Chris
- March 8: Max von Sydow
- March 17: Roger Mayweather
- March 17: Lyle Waggoner
- March 21: Richard S Kline, of "Kline and Friends" game show productions
- March 29: Joe Diffie
- April 1: Adam Schlesinger
- April 2: Patricia Bosworth
- April 4: Tom Dempsey
- April 6: Al Kaline
- April 12: Danny Goldman
- April 12: Joe Pedicino
- April 15: Brian Dennedy
- May 5: Sweet Pea Atkinson of Was (Not Was)
- May 6: Brian Howe of Bad Company
- May 8: Roy Horn of Seigfried and Roy
- May 9: Little Richard
- May 12: Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon and Schuster
- May 22: Jerry Sloan
- June 2: Wes Unseld
- June 10: Mr. Wrestling II
- June 20: Jim Kiick
- June 29: Carl Reiner
- July 1: Hugh Downs
- July 5: Nick Cordero
- August 28: Chadwick Boseman
- August 31: Tom Seaver
- September 6: Lou Brock
- September 18: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- September 21: Jackie Stallone
- September 23: Gale Sayers
- September 29: Mac Davis
- September 29: Helen Reddy
- October 6: Eddie Van Halen
- October 7: Tom Kennedy
- October 7: Bob Gibson
- October 8: Whitey Ford
- October 11: Joe Morgan
- October 28: Tracy Smothers
- October 31: Sean Connery
- November 7: Norm Crosby
- November 8: Alex Trebek
- November 9: Tommy Heinsohn
- December 7: Chuck Yeager
- December 12: Charley Pride
- December 21: Kevin Greene
- December 25: KC Jones
- December 26: Brodie Lee/Jon Huber
- December 26: Phil Niekro
- December 30: Dawn Wells
- The now 354,215 Americans and 1,825,780 worldwide lost to this damn virus this year.
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