The Major League Baseball season will finally begin on Thursday night. Jeff Passan talked to a number of baseball people to try and figure out what the season might look like in the age of a global pandemic.
Via ESPN:
“I’ve gone back and forth,” one National League general manager said this week. “I think it’s the right thing to try this. I came in concerned with a rash of positives in the industry. Now I’m just more concerned with the nation. How long can you continue a business that’s purely a diversion when a nation is increasingly in turmoil?”
He also spoke to one player from a playoff team from 2019 who had this to say:
“One player on a 2019 playoff team, who asked for anonymity so as not to get his teammates in trouble, said he worries that players inside his clubhouse have grown comfortable because of the lack of positive tests and no longer are wearing masks. “All it takes is one guy for this thing to go sideways,” he said. “Because testing itself isn’t going to keep us healthy.”
He also thinks the season might not get finished because of extremely horny dudes on the road who will look for some action:
“Players tend to believe the micro is a far trickier impediment, with one saying: “I honestly think horny dudes on the road are what’s going to bring this down.”
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As fans, let’s just try to enjoy games while we have them at the moment.
