With the resumption plans of the NHL and NBA starting to come into focus, fans are starting to get excited about the possibility of being able to watch live sports on a daily basis for the first time since March.
On Tuesday’s Highly Questionable (which has rebranded Highly Quarantined) with Dan Le Batard, ESPN senior writer Mina Kimes along with Pablo Torre were talking with Le Batard about the excitement level of sports coming back and let’s just say there was a unique analogy thrown in at the end by Kimes:
“We, as a nation, have been on a sports diet, right? We have been subsisting on three almonds a day of sports. And enjoying those three almonds, but now here we are, pulling up to the sports buffet, and it’s gonna be ugly! Like, spouses coming home and us passed out on the floor drowning in sports wrappers levels of ugly, because we crave it so much!”
Kimes brought up a good point right out of the gate by comparing the last two months for the nation being on a sports diet. When any live sports have been on, we have all been trying to get to a TV or a streaming service to watch the event, such as The Match II this past weekend.
Once sports comes back (NBA, NHL, maybe MLB, NFL), the schedule will be overwhelmed with so many games/events that it will end up being the equivalent of a “sports buffet”, according to Kimes. It would surely make up for the last couple of months of few, if any live events to choose from.
At the end of the clip, Torre’s comment was interesting after Kimes brought up her other analogy about us being in a long-distance relationship with sports right now. He said about bringing up old videos of older relationships, which you could say is the equivalent of watching classic games and remembering the good old days like many of us have done.
It is important to remember the health risks that still exist when the major leagues resume play at some point. With that being said, many sports fans are waiting for the day where there will be many live events to choose from that it will be tough to make a choice as to watch. It will be like being at a buffet where you will have your choice once again.
