Be grateful baseball is back on TV, no matter how it looks

Hopefully, the announcers can put viewers at ease amid the emptiness. They’re the ones who’ll be responsible for making the broadcasts as normal as possible.So this is what pandemic baseball looks like on TV.

I’ll take it.

Hey, it beats the alternative of no baseball. I can’t recall watching exhibition games as intently as I did this week. It helped that the regulars stayed in longer than usual, but it wouldn’t have mattered. Warm bodies in major-league uniforms was enough to keep my interest.

I wasn’t even bothered by the elements of a pandemic broadcast. Fake crowd noise? Turn it up. Cardboard cuts of fans? The more the merrier. Phantom high-fives? Well, I saw many players not playing by the…