It feels like I was just writing about how baseball was unlikely to return before May. Yeah, that’s because I wrote a piece about that 24 hours ago. As government officials come to terms with the drastic measures required to stem the rapid outbreak of the coronavirus, the sports calendar becomes less and less important with events on it pushed further and further away.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance on Sunday that “for eight weeks, organizers (whether groups or individuals) cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States.