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Writer's pictureRyan Mobley

The Fanless Experience


As we slowly start to integrate the thought of sports coming back into our lives I am doing my best to research what those seasons are going to look like. We already got a small taste of this fanless experience with UFC 249 and it was an amazing card and in my opinion wasn’t completely ruined by the lack of drunk fans getting rowdy in a packed arena. The NBA is going to be a weird experience as we’ve seen open gym runs before and how trash talking seems to thrive more in these events. I can see them playing background music consistently as Draymond talked about on the “All The Smoke” podcast as he had a buddy of his set up a three hour playlist for the game that was going to be played in San Francisco without fans before Rudy Gobert ruined everyone’s march. I am itching to see the NBA playoffs and it sounds like the players union is doing everything in their power to make it happen. I just know that if we do come back to finish this season and Bron doesn’t get another ring he is going to be in his bag of excuses of why this virus is the only reason he is 3-6 or potentially 3-7 in the finals.




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Baseball has beautiful sounds to the game as the solid contact of the bat on ball as well as the mitt popping from a 90 plus MPH fastball so we're in for a treat in that aspect. Honestly I don’t think the entire Orioles roster will notice a difference anyway and Giants fans have Kruk and Kuip I’d listen to those guys chirp back and forth all day. Baseball purists are gonna hate being away from the game but really flock to the TV to tweet about how much they love the sounds being amplified. Football is where it gets the most contentious, Seattle has had a notorious home field advantage for the past decade due to the 12th man screaming their hearts out for 60 minutes every weekend as they are 48-16 in since 2012 at the Link giving them a 75% win percentage. The point is this year is going to be different, teams with a struggling fan base like the Chargers or Redskins might be at an advantage, not a significant one but an advantage regardless due to these fan restrictions. Football is definitely going to be a wild card factor this year and i'm excited to see what teams and press boxes due to fill in the noise and gaps that having empty bleachers are going to bring, Joe Buck better be on his A game all year.



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Now I think i have done enough speculation for the first blog, Vince is the fantasy and rankings guy, I am going to attempt to analyze what is in front of me and behind us already, Dana White has proven he’s gonna give us action in the octagon and i'm here for it, last saturday was an electric factory as Ngannou almost decapitated Rozenstruik in 20 seconds and we saw a huge upset in Tony Ferguson getting slowly taken apart by Gaethje as a new interim lightweight champ was crowned. I am going to try and stay locked in on octagon action as well as some of the other exciting competition we’re currently seeing like baseball over in Korea and The NBA 2K League settling in on ESPN and Twitch. That being said I'm excited to post about some eye opening fantasy stats from the past decade and try to get in a lot of sports history for our viewers. We’re living in some strange times but that can’t stop us from viewing exciting sports content and analyzing what the future of our favorite leagues holds.










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