Anytime you start to get some hope about sports, anytime you start to feel good, you read something else, whether a tweet or a story, that makes you go the other way. It beats you down after awhile. It's the most deflating time ever to be a sportswriter and a sports fan.

And I hope I haven't contributed to that in a negative way. When this all started our bosses at The Athletic implored us to be a shining light in a dark time. He was absolutely right. But that's been hard, given events and circumstances.

I'm just frustrated. I'm frustrated at the negative, pessimistic and occasionally snide tone that so many people take.

But I'm more frustrated at the incompetence and stubbornness that got us in this whole situation, and prevents us from climbing out of it.