Yeah, I’m just as disappointed as you are.

No March Madness. That month came and went.

No Major League Baseball, at least not yet. Obviously no 162-game season.

None of us expected anything like this. The only member of the Grouch family who is happy about this is Mrs. Grouch, a long-suffering sports widow.

Now, for better or worse and even for lunch, she has her husband back.

I’m no bargain, so she may be getting much less of a deal than she imagined.

We’ll wait and see.

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I grew up with a bunch of sports lovers in my family.

A fond memory is listening with my Dad and Uncle Pete the showdown between Charlie Trippi and the Georgia Bulldogs and Choo Choo Justice and the North Carolina Tar Heels.

For days before the game, we talked about it like it was the Super Bowl. Of course, the Super Bowl as we know it was another 20 years in the future.

There was no TV either.

But we listened to the Bulldogs and Tar Heels go at it on radio and could imagine the game in our minds.

Back then pro football was nothing. The big games were the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.

Then, the Orange Bowl came along and a Clemson defensive lineman broke through the line and tackled the Miami quarterback in the end zone and Clemson won by a single point.

We talked for days about a defensive lineman winning the game for Clemson.

Anybody play this game?

Clemson was not the national power it has become. And the Gamecocks back then were actually worse than they are today.

I recall being in the stands when teams like North Carolina and Wake Forest could run all over them.

The Cocks were so desperate back then that they even gave me a uniform.

I did fairly well until a 300+ pound lineman sent me to the infirmary. He later apologized and I was happy to accept it but my playing days were over.

Fantasy fanatics

The baseball season was has been postponed indefinitely. I’m not into fantasy sports but team managers are mulling whom to draft.

I’m told that running a fantasy sports team isn’t all that different than running a real one.

The best fantasy managers understand the markets of their respective leagues better than anyone else. Any shift in that market can create new inefficiencies for the savviest fantasy general managers to exploit, sportswriter Jared Diamond says.

I’ll leave that to the fantasy fanatics but let me ask you, are you into fantasy sports? If you are, I’d love to hear from you about it.

Please write me at ChronicleSports@yahoo.com .