This was supposed to be a happy post. Going to be called 'The boys are back!' I'd cover the return of baseball over the weekend. It's truly an obsession during the season and seeing games brought a bit of normalcy and ease. The Twins offense looked dominant. My fantasy league drafted and I've probably already annoyed league-mates with trade offers. For a few days it finally felt like summer, even if the weather had already been there a while.
Then yesterday multiple Marlins players tested positive for the #VID. The team still played with a makeshift lineup. Today several became many, showing a clear outbreak in their clubhouse. The team is in limbo and so far two games have already been postponed for tonight, those with the Marlins and yesterdays opponent the Phillies.
Now the rest of the season stands on the edge of a knife, like so much else at the moment, and I could see today going two ways. Either MLB comes out and says the rest of the season is off, which at the moment I don't find super likely, or they trudge on. If the latter, they'll talk about the safety provisions and procedures already implemented and that such an outcome (at least one team devastated for a few weeks) was more or less expected. Like Joker said, 'Because it's all part of the plan.'
I recognize it's silly but no matter what happens this just adds to my frustration. If the season is called off we only got an ill-fated tease. If they continue (the biggest if being buy-in from the remaining players), the competitiveness of the season is further thrown into doubt. Plus the outcry of writers and fans about the danger of more play will be non-stop. If only the owners hadn't dragged their feet all summer there could've been a contingency, but the already too-short schedule and dwindling warm weather months won't allow that. Alas.
That's enough about baseball. More than anything I'm really sick and tired of COVID and quarantineSZN. It thoroughly dominates conversation. Arguing about masks has essentially become the new national pastime. Whether it's wannabe authoritarians who think they know what's best for everyone or anti-mask activists that take rebellion too seriously, I want(ed) a break from talking about it.
Maybe we'll see a trend of a rising case-count that doesn't correspond to an uptick in hospitalizations and deaths. It could happen and if so there'd be a real end in sight. But I doubt we're that lucky.
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