Well, baseball is right back where it started.
Back at the intersection of COVID-19 and “what the hell do we do now?”
After weeks of nasty infighting between Major League Baseball and its players’ association, with percentages of prorated salaries and numbers of games being bandied about and accusations flying about bad-faith negotiating tactics, it turns out a pesky coronavirus pandemic remains the biggest obstacle of all to a 2020 season.
That’s the way it felt, anyway, after a Friday on which news broke that five players and three staff members working at the Philadelphia Phillies’ spring training facility in Clearwater, Fla.