We humans have a nasty habit of not doing anything to prevent bad stuff from happening until really terrible stuff happens.
And if the bad stuff happens slowly or randomly or can be excused as unavoidable, then we still might not do anything.
Hell, I grew up without seat belts in cars. They weren’t required until 1966.
In the previous two years, 92,634 people had died in car wrecks in the United States. Guess that was the tipping point.
Something tipped before the White Sox-Cubs game Tuesday when the Sox said in a statement that they would extend the protective netting at Guaranteed Rate Field down the lines to the foul poles.