Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day through Friday, on the Athletic Podcast Network.

Coming up on today's show, we ponder if the stretch big is dead and we feel the need

for speed.

This is Nerd or She wrote, with your host Dave Duford, with Mo DeKille, and Seth Partow.

Hello, and welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, it's Friday, that means it's Nerd or She wrote.

I'm Dave, we got Seth and Mo here, we got a big show, so we want to jump right in.

Fellas, it seems like this season is starting to get its legs under it in the last week,

since we recorded.

I still have no idea what is happening, but we just had a week with no positive COVID

tests.

I think that's a really big deal.

Yeah, well, I think that's, listen, it's worth bringing that up because maybe we will

start to get to a sense of normal CLS, normal as anything can be, but a sense of normal

C in the season now that it seems as if they're getting things under control, it seems

like the enhanced protocols are working, hopefully they're working, I mean, they at least

had zero positive tests, so that's a good thing.

The one thing, Seth, about the old star stuff, because I'm with you on, we don't really

need to be doing this, but at the same time too, at least they're going to be in a controlled

environment, whereas the other two-thirds of the league is going to be on vacation somewhere.

I had all trust these dudes to play this simple.

I don't think we want to spend a ton of time on this, but it's sort of the individual

risk versus the systemic risk, and like the systemic risk of, and I think Hollinger wrote

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