Tony Plate - Pro Sports Year Looking Bleak

                                                 

The 2020 year for all professional sports is looking bleak, because of the COVID-19 outbreak. There was talk the other day that the NBA might cancel the rest of their season. If they do the other sports might as well do the same thing. The concern is a scenario in which players and those connected to the sport are placed at risk.

If it was up to Ron Darling, he would take the whole summer without baseball over the risk of someone catching the virus. He feels that his optimism for the baseball season to begin is running out and the sports world would be able to manage the shutdown from the virus. He also feels that the people have to be taken care of and protected before they decide to play any sport which is the utmost importance.

Darling is playing it safe by spending the past several weeks with his family basically in quarantine. He only leaves the house when he takes an occasional walk outdoors and when he goes to pick up food. He has respiratory issues that would complicate his condition if he were to contract the coronavirus.

You do what you have to do to be safe. There are many hurdles baseball would have to jump over just to start the season. Once they do start the season, there is also the chance that a problem can occur if a player tested positive on his team during the season while it was going on.

In other sports news, the NFL draft is scheduled to go on later this month. The draft is always something that sports fans look forward to. All Giant and Jet fans are hoping to see their team improve from the draft. Both teams need to improve at the offensive line.

In my opinion the Jets have done a better job with their offensive line during free agency than the Giants, because they signed three potential starters, re-signed one and added a backup while the Giants signed just one free agent offensive lineman, Cameron Fleming who was a backup last year.

The Giants should have also signed Jack Conklin whose contract may have been expensive, however he was the best offensive lineman available. In my opinion, the offensive line was the higher priority area that needed to be fixed since they have been trying to fix it during the last several years. I feel they spent too much money on the defense and they didn’t even sign an edge rusher.