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ports Fishermen cast for chum salmon Friday where Johns Creek meets Oakland Bay at the Bayshore Preserve near of Shelton. Journal photo Gordon Weeks FAB POST Savoring the distraction that sport brings ’11 admit it. Back in in 'the early days of the summer, when college and profes- sional sports were shut It was confirmation bias of just what I expected to happen. " The thing is, though, that ‘ was about the end of it. down due to the pandemic, The rest of that tour- I wasn’tvery enthusiastic nament came off without about their return. any further confirmed CO- What’s that blasphemy VID—19 cases. you write? A sports writer By JUSTIN The WNBA and NBA who didn’t want to see JOHNSON returned to action shortly sports? thereafter, with the former It’s true- Playing a complete 22-game With the novel coronavirus slowly spreading across the country, it just didn’t feel like the time or place to be worried about playing games. ‘ When Major League Soccer be- came the first professional sport to return to action in its MLS is Back tournament playing in a controlled bubble in Florida, two teams were knocked out within days due to out- breaks of the virus. regular season and playoffs with next to no virus—related problems, except for the league champion Seattle Storm’s opening playoff game being pushed back by three days by what proved to be a false positive test. The NBA completed its season, which had paused with just weeks remaining, and culminated with the Los Angeles Lakers winning their 17th NBA title. Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 Shelton-Mason County Journal Page A-37 - Major League Baseball played a 60-game season at home stadiums and, aside from a few rocky weeks at the start, also has successfully pulled off a year, with the World Series be- tween the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays underway now. Even the National Football . League, which, truth be told I didn’t expect to see start until at least early is underway and managing to keep its teams on the field. The league has seen a handful of out- breaks that have postponed games and canceled practices, but it’s been reasonably handled through the first third of the season. The start of the college football season has been a little rockier, with a number of games postponed or can- celed. . While I wasn’t initially enthusi- astic about the return of sports, I’ve thawed out a bit. I haven’t watched as many games as I normally would, but I find myself drawn back to the welcome‘distraction that the world of sports provide. As the pandemic has worn on, those distractions are proving valu- able to my mental health. It allows me to disengage from everything else going and just watch — although with the way some of the games have gone, I’m not sure if they’ve been to- tally stress-free. I’m sure fans of the Seattle Seahawks can understand that given the finishes of the past few weeks. It’s nice to have a distraction again. I Justin Johnson is the Editor of the Shelton—Mason County Journal. He was named Sports Writer of the Year by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. He can be reached at justin@masoncounty.com. 1|