ESPN may have to move into the sports documentary business full-time if this COVID-19 lockdown and its The Last Dance success are any indication of the future of sports. With their unprecedented success and the fact that we still don’t have any kind of live sports worth mentioning, ESPN has moved up the clock on yet another documentary dealing with a larger-than-life athlete and his exploits as a member of the Chicago Cubs during the summer of 1998.
Of course, this athlete was a little bit better at baseball than Michael Jordan, and was nearly as big a cultural and sports star at the height of his powers.