The reasons not to play are obvious: In the nation with the biggest COVID outbreak on Earth, one that is also entering a second Civil Rights movement, baseball is neither safe nor important. This is the opinion of the majority of my timeline and one with which I am surprised to disagree.
In theory, at least. Further outbreaks within teams and, to an extent, a continued rending of the social order could render this column moot. All of this is taking place on a knife’s edge and we have no idea if the knife will stay upright through the end of this sentence, let alone this season, and by far the easiest solution would be to pack it all in until all of “this” is over, whatever your definition of “this.