Baseball has a chance for redemption this week if owners and players, terribly far apart in recent counter proposals, somehow can reach an agreement to save the final half, or a bit more, of the 2020 season. On the surface, that would seem a splendid idea considering the sickness, fear, anger, violence and horror — elements created by the rage of the coronavirus and the outrage over the death, while in police custody, of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.
Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith has a different perspective, though. Hope for Smith is being replaced by reality, almost harsher by the day.