When a close friend texted him Thursday afternoon to propose the idea of a virtual “7th-inning stretch,” Red Sox organist Josh Kantor was intrigued and quickly latched on to the concept.
He had never done a live stream of any sort before, but it was Opening Day, and he was feeling both nostalgic and inspired. Kantor assumed many others were disheartened by the lack of baseball as well, and he figured this would be a small yet meaningful way to provide some joy in a bleak time.
“I expected maybe a few people to come by, and maybe get one or two requests, and I would go for maybe eight to 10 minutes, and if it was fun, I would do it again,” Kantor told Boston.