Sports return is percolating!

Well, it's now June. We haven't had any sports since mid March (aside from some golf and racing, which don't matter to me). April and May were a big fat zero as far as games. June will almost certainly be too. 

But...June could be the last month of the sports abyss.

The NHL has set up a return plan, which goes right to the playoffs with more than 16 teams in the dance. The Wild would play Vancouver in a best of 5 for the chance to get into the traditional 16 team field. All teams would play in a couple of "hub" cities.

The NBA has settled on a plan that keeps 22 of 30 teams active. The Wolves are done (were they ever NOT?). Teams would play about 8 regular season games to settle the playoff field, then do the playoffs as standard, all in Florida.

Even the WNBA now has a plan for a 22 game season, also with all teams in a Florida command center.

Baseball? Well, that may warrant it's own blog.  But suffice it to say that MLB is fucking up royally. There is still no solid plan to get a season going, and we don't seem to be getting close to one.

But we could at least be close now to a late summer sprint of winter league playoffs, WNBA and NFL camps getting going. Obviously this would also mean that the next NBA and NHL seasons would be delayed, possibly as a permanent move. We might have seen our last of October starts for those leagues. But that's more of a future thing.

The Wild will be playing playoff games, which is good. They were a hot team before the virus hit, so who knows if they can rev that back up right away to win a best of 5. 

The Wolves finish with I think the league's 3rd worst record. I guess they, along with the other bad teams not coming back, want to schedule something of a separate sort of minicamp, to avoid ultimately going 9 or 10 months between actually playing games, with nothing in between.

Not sure how a shortened WNBA season affects the Lynx. They were likely going to be more of a rebuilding team anyway, so fewer games is probably worse for them.