7. Hosting the Olympics

.On this week’s episode of the Bill Bradley Collective, the hosts tackle the Olympic Games. Originally scheduled for, in part, this current early August window, we are without the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In lieu of our medalist predictions for male tae-kwon-do, the panel assesses whether or not the games are really all that missed from the dual perspectives of the sports fan starved for world-class competition in the course of a usually largely vacant late summer sports calendar and the benevolent observer well-versed in the Games’ sordid history of corruption and economical foul-play. But first the rants, where Andrew details the fallout from Joe Kelly doing MLB’s dirty work with some erratic relief work against the convicted but unpenalized cheaters occupying the Astro lineup, Ed excoriates the folly of the Miami Marlins’ effort towards braving a season in which their own clubhouse is a COVID-19 hotspot, and Zak adjusts his dumbest elected member of Congress in Texas depth chart to highlight Rep. Louie Gohmert’s brand of mask trutherism.