Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez found a faint silver lining to the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on the sports world.
Martinez recently told ESPN that the way he sees it, because the 2020 Major League Baseball season is delayed and won’t finish on a regular schedule, the Nationals get to call themselves World Series champions for a longer time than any team before them.
“I tell the boys, think of it this way, we hold the trophy for a lot longer than anybody else,” he said. “I think about that moment when we come back and get those beautiful rings and put up that banner in the stadium.