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Why does Kevin Warren have a job?

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 I am aware I have been beating this drum pretty hard lately, but I am not gonna stop til this man is fired. This guy is such a joke. This man stated that it was unsafe to play college football, cancelled the season for thousands of kids, doubled down on saying it was unsafe, and then sent his kid to play college football. That alone should have him fired for being an idiot. You cannot say the risk is too great and then send your own kid to play. The kind way to look at it is that he's a hypocrite. The not so kind take is that he knows the coronavirus is not a real threat, but won't admit the season was cancelled to take away the leverage for a player's association. The one small hope I have for this situation is that the discontent seems to be spreading among the coaches, players, and staff at the B1G programs.  ESPN posted an article  about the general attitude around the B1G and it is not good.  "Been in this league for 20-plus years," a league sour...

B1G has cancelled football.

 The B1G and PAC 12 have cancelled fall sports.  Here  is the B1G official statement. I have been thinking about this and getting steadily more upset ever since 1:45 PM. This is horrible. I have avoided really shitting on the COVID-19 media coverage too much because I didn't want to deal with the trolling and "yOu THinK cOroNavIruS iS faKe IF yOu qUEstioN anYthIng!" crowd. I am done. Bring on the trolls. This decision has nothing to do with the coronavirus. The B1G, as a whole, is not concerned about player safety per coronavirus. Nothing has changed in the overall COVID-19 numbers between when they announced the season schedule and when they cancelled. The schedule was announced August 5. Per the  CDC report release July 31  hospitalization rate was 130.1 per 100,000 and mortality rate was 8.4% if you include pneumonia, influenza, and COVID-19 deaths. The  report released August 7   has hospitalization at 137.6 per 100,000 and mortality rate at 7.8% i...

Dr. Fauci on baseball

“There’s a way of doing that,”  Fauci said  in an interview released Wednesday. “Nobody comes to the stadium. Put [the players] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled. ... Have them tested every single week and make sure they don’t wind up infecting each other or their family, and just let them play the season out.” So, this came out today and at first seems like great news. We are going to have baseball. However, upon closer review, he is happily telling us that baseball is fucked with a smile on his face. Now I am protecting my heart by refusing to believe that baseball will happen this year and putting all my chips on college football. That being said I will be ecstatic if I'm fucking wrong and we get baseball but I refuse to allow myself hope. Let's break the statement down.  Nobody comes to the stadium.  This works.... to a point. No fans is fine and doable although that would be fucking eerie. But what about bat boys, groundske...