I have mixed feelings.

I was genuinely excited that Bundesliga came back and did so safely. Germany was able to handle that additional testing and resource strain, and if players were inured they would not take up much needed hospital space.

I was cautiously optimistic for NWSL. They bubbled in Utah, a state that was able to locate additional testing without negatively impacting their populace. It was a great tournament.

When MLS and NBA announced a Florida bubble I initially assumed it was doomed to fail before it started. But as it became clear that MLS is Back was going to start no matter what, I became concerned for player safety.

I was somewhat proven right (two teams with double-digit cases from traveling), and somewhat proven wrong (no cases since then). But the resource strain from both of these tournaments has had a real, tangible, negative impact. People in Florida are waiting longer and longer for test results, and fewer daily tests are available.

That's not really the fault of the leagues, though. It's primarily a fault of DeSantis and his sociopathic governance of Florida. But it also shouldn't have been hard to see this coming.

Leagues like USL and MLB trying to do this without a bubble are crazy, and we're seeing the results line up exactly as expected. USL has fans in the stands for fucks sake, what are you thinking?

Anyway, this is a long post to say that I was mostly excited at first for soccer in other countries, somewhat excited despite circumstances for NWSL and MLS, and enraged by other leagues.