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Will MLB's season start on April 1 as scheduled? Well, COVID-19 is making it complicated

Related Topics: COVID-19, sports season

As of this day, in this hour, at this minute, major league baseball players will report in two months to spring training, play their first exhibition games a couple weeks later, then open the regular season April 1.

That’s the plan, just like regular school days, birthday dinners at the pizza joint and a couple beers with the fellas were the plan.

In the six weeks since the last of 30 teams fell through the finish line of the devil-child 2020 baseball season, the pandemic has deepened. But there’s a vaccine. Stay-at-home orders have returned. But there’s a new president.