It’s the one thing that provides people with a gateway to think about something else for a few hours. With the exception of which teams we root for, it is something that helps put our differences aside. That thing is baseball.
That is part of the sentiment that Congress delivered on Wednesday in response to the news that we reported on yesterday: potentially, Major League Baseball could be cutting 42 of Minor League Baseball’s teams, including two Colorado Rockies affiliates and the entire Pioneer League, which has a quarter of its league in Colorado and all of it in the Mountain Time Zone.