As MLB’s attempt to play baseball amid a pandemic continues to unravel, it’s time for officials to ask themselves: What are we trying to do here?
This could have played out differently. U.S. officials could have contained the spread of the coronavirus as has every other developed country in the world, or the league could have chosen a “bubble” plan in which all personnel were subject to a sealed quarantine environment. But the president spent months downplaying the threat of the virus and players and owners agreed that a bubble sounded like a drag.