Here at the dawn of short attention span baseball, the season reduced from a soliloquy to a hiccup, one must recalibrate one’s outlook.
Take, for instance, the old sports bromide – “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” Now shred that. In a 60-game, virus-shortened baseball season, the comforting idea that somehow time is on your side is passe.
Now, it’s very much how you start ... or you may be finished.
In the increased gravity of a 60-game schedule, as opposed to the 162-game one that was instituted nearly 60 years ago, each game bears more than twice the usual weight (2.