Good evening you are listening to ThruMovs ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene, joined by 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Hello, everyone.

And today we also welcome our old friend, freelance producer, Jen Cotter.

Hello.

And we also have U.S. Gamer, editor-in-chief, Kat Bailey.

Good to be back on the show.

And today we're going to be talking about sports or the lack of them and the place that games have unexpectedly found themselves with regard to the sporting world.

Troy, this was something that you wanted to get into because, you know, in part because of the, well, entirely because of the COVID quarantine, sports has sort of been put on hiatus.

And sports games are starting to pop up in some weird places and some weird ways.

Yeah, I mean, this was in part provoked by a column that Hannah Kaiser, a baseball writer who I like at Yahoo Games wrote,

she wrote about how she doesn't care of people's simulated seasons.

And it seems to be a lot of what the sports media is these days.

And it's been really interesting seeing how not just sports media,

but how sports leagues and sports fans have had to cope with the lack of sports in their lives.

Now, I'm a big sports fan. This is generally as far sports people are concerned. For me,

this is the happiest time of the year. It's supposed to be hockey playoffs are going on and baseball season starting. It's a golden time for sports generally,

but we don't have that. So we're seeing sports simulations and various efforts to copy the sports

experience. It gave us the sports coverage we're supposed to be having,

very different ways in very different sports.

In baseball is doing it one way and hockey players are coping another way.

Professional racing has gone off and done its own really wild stuff

that is showing things interesting ways. And the

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