So this is what pandemic baseball looks like on TV.
I’ll take it.
Hey, it beats the alternative of no baseball. I can’t recall watching exhibition games as intently as I did this week. It helped that the regulars stayed in longer than usual, but it wouldn’t have mattered. Warm bodies in major-league uniforms was enough to keep my interest.
I wasn’t even bothered by the elements of a pandemic broadcast. Fake crowd noise? Turn it up. Cardboard cuts of fans? The more the merrier. Phantom high-fives? Well, I saw many players not playing by the rules and handing them out.