Take a deep breath

[yonihamagid]

The important thing to remember while debating the impact/importance/significance/etc. of current events is that in not too many years they're going to be history and evaluated by a whole different group of people by entirely different standards

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[ladyjanelly]

If I were to put money on it, I would guess it would be a hockey player, but maybe that's because I've been watching videos of on and off-ice hugs, kisses and eye-fucking all weekend. :)

[yonihamagid]

If Jason Collins doesn't play in any games next year, it's going to be a baseball player.

A hockey player at this point would have to wait until the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs and that would upstage the free agency period and the draft. Then they'd be in training camps, not a time teams want their players' issues to be the story.

Baseball's playoffs, free agency and draft are a little different, and a player could wait until the end of the World Series and not really interfere with anything in the off season. I'm not entirely sure, but there may be time for a baseball player to come out at the end of this season before Jason Collins has a chance to play in a game (though we'll know by then if he's been picked up by a team).

But what I'm saying is it's going to be Jason Collins or a baseball player because I can't see many closeted athletes at this point wanting to wait for someone else to be the first and get all the endorsements and attention.