This is Fourth of July weekend, and it is a different experience than any of us have ever had. I’m not just talking about the pandemic, either, as we have also seen social upheavals both domestic and international rock our neighborhoods and headlines.
Perhaps it is appropriate, then, that we celebrate our nation’s independence just days after players reported to Summer Camp, and go through their workouts to get ready for a baseball season that may not go to completion, if it gets started at all.
Perhaps the season shouldn’t start, but since MLB is bent on making money (as former Cub Jeff Samardzija so bluntly states), we wish the players all good health and safe passage through whatever they can get through.