The 2020 Major League Baseball season is in itself a mishmash of quirks, adjustments and new protocols as it attempts liftoff during what may still be the early innings of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The alternations necessary to have some semblance of a baseball season not only affect the games, of course, but the media outlets that cover and broadcast them.
One significant mandate by the MLB is that the television broadcast teams will not be permitted to travel to call games from the road broadcast booth.
Instead, MLB decided that the home team for a given game must provide a neutral, or “world,’’ broadcast feed for each game, with instructions to show both teams equally.