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Weird Cactus League: M’s vs. Padres

Marco Gonzales vs. Dinelson Lamet, 6:40pm

Today we learned that the M’s won’t be making their season-opening homestand. They’ll be somewhere else, maybe in Arizona. It’s like an extended version of the Cactus League, I guess? But the games count? It’s going to be seriously weird, but hopefully it might play some small role in getting Covid-19 transmission under control in King County.

Shed Long summed it how everyone’s feeling in a two-word tweet: This sucks.

It’s so strange to focus on baseball right now, and stranger to focus on spring training. It’s done what it needed to do, which is to supply some optimism to a fanbase that needs it.