Monday, April 06, 2020

Blind Item #11

One of the US pro leagues is exploring playing games outside the US because for a certain "fee," paid to the government and the people in charge, they are willing to waive social distancing.

20 comments:

Tricia13 said...

The Galaxy?

MyDogSmiles said...

NBA and China?

MyDogSmiles said...

They're playing baseball in South Korea

MDAnderson said...

If there is corona outbreak in China they won’t report it so they would fit this blind.

sandybrook said...

Maybe the NHL and Russia. The NBA and China are not getting along right now because one of the league's GMs insulted the country last October and China cut off all business with the NBA ($400 million/yr)

MDAnderson said...

@ Sandybrook. I think they made nice again because Lebron attacked the Houston rockets?? GM for speaking out. So I wonder if they want to get back in their good graces.

sandybrook said...

definitely the NBA wants to make amends but we all know how the Chinese Govt. reacts to stuff.

f handles said...

Make em walk by those Wet Markets.

bollybiy said...

Major League Soccer and Mexico.

The season was just getting underway when Covid-19 arrived, so I'd imagine the league is desperate to find a way to move forward and earn some sort of revenue.

Alternatively, NHL and Canada.

Hockey season was almost over when play was suspended, and Canadians are rabid hockey fans, so I can imagine the Stanley Cup being allowed to go forward "with strict safety measures" or somesuch nonsense. And don't fool yourself, Canadian business and government is certainly corrupt enough to make this possible.

squirrelmistress said...

we don't need anymore highly paid sports whores anyway. this pandemic has proved it. ditto for the celebs.

Studio54 said...

Stupid. Boris Johnson is in the ICU on a vent, deliberately laughing at this virus, shaking hands with everyone....

Count Jerkula said...

Probably supposed to be UFC & Russia, but Khabib is out and UFC 249nis said to be on the west coast.

Frobozz said...

There’s no way even the NBA would be stupid enough to do this with China.

kiki71 said...

@squirrelmistress. Speak for yourself lol! I am missing my LA Dodgers who acquired Mookie Betts for a single season (they have to pay him for even if he doesn't play) and were primed to take the WS this year (as well as host the All Star game our stadium did expensive renovations for) after the Astros and Red Sox cheating scandals. I may not love an individual egomaniac on a team but I hope they play SOME baseball, even say a month's worth. America will need the moral boost and diversion of it's national past time after all this!

Count Jerkula said...

Please. The Dodgers choke every post season. If they didnt lose to the Astros, they would have lost to the Bronx Bombers, who were clearly the favorites this year.

Goddess said...

A potentially dangerous move if they go through with it.

MattDaddy said...

From a business perspective, any pro league that gets on the air will have a captive audience in the billions, so it must be tempting ... Though they'd get a hell of a lot of criticism too.

Vince said...

VEry well could be the MLS. That league isn't on the same kind of financial footing of league's like the NFL and the NBA.

JMFP said...

@bollybiy
I am Canadian and a "rabid" hockey fan and let me tell ya bud, nobody's trying that hard to watch a f'n hockey game right now.
it's friggin ridiculously strict here now and you can barely leave the house without the possibility of being fined a minimum of $1000... and since most of us aren't rollin in the dough, I highly doubt you need to be concerned that us Canadians are going to risk doing anything so foolish as sporting events. We all want this over with asap. :) Lord Stanley can wait lol

gauloise said...

UFC? Saying they will go to a desert island to fight

https://sport.sky.it/altri-sport/2020/04/07/ufc-isola-khabib-coronavirus

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