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Writing about the Mets in the midst of a pandemic

With the Mets having started their new edition of spring training, branded “summer camp” across all thirty locations by the league, we have begun writing about baseball again here at Amazin’ Avenue. It feels a bit strange, to say the least.

Although things are vastly improved in New York and the northeast in general when it comes to the COVID pandemic, the situation clearly isn’t under control in many parts of the country. A lot of major league teams play in states that are seeing things get worse, not better, at the moment. And while the players on the field might seem to be the least likely to suffer serious illness at the hands of this virus, there’s simply no guarantee that will be the case for any one of them.