It’s a truism of sports journalism that readers don’t care about what sportswriters endure to do what we do. We get paid to go to games. As jobs go, there are worse. As Red Smith, the patron saint of sportswriters, said of his chosen profession: “It beats lifting things.”
This job, like many jobs, has changed over the past three months. As you’ve doubtless noticed, there have been no games. Our access to sports people has largely come through a series of Zoom-like video conferences. We’re getting closer to the time where actual games might again be played.