A pennant race, a playoff chase, a shootout, an extra innings affair, sudden-death overtime, the green-white-checkered finish, these are all things that we’ve already been missing as a nation and as a world for only about three weeks now. How long can we actually go without sports?
When the remainder of spring training was cancelled on February 12, major league baseball joined a lot of other sports organizations around the world in preventing large gatherings where the increasingly deadly COVID-19 strain of Coronavirus could be more easily spread. Social distancing is the order of the day, and most of us will comply.