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Andrew Cuomo asks Jeff Wilpon: Why Can’t You Play Games Without Fans?

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Major League Baseball, like most aspects of American life these days, is shutdown indefinitely. When it will ramp back up and begin the 2020 season is still unknown. In the beginning of spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, Baseball instituted a two-week delay. Then, they shut down operations altogether.

One workaround option is to play the games in empty stadiums. New York governor Andrew Cuomo, speaking on his brother Chris’ nightly CNN program said he posed the question to New York Mets COO Jeff Wilpon.

“I said why can’t we talk about a baseball season with nobody in the stands?