So much for everyone’s best efforts to pull off a major league baseball season.
This protocol-heavy effort to play 60 games and an expanded October postseason was never about the hits, runs and errors of a dulcet-toned, summertime American pastime.
Errors, maybe, and American, yes — but only in relation to the massive, destructive impact COVID-19 continues to wreak on a country that has been unable and (in some places) unwilling to take unified action against a deadly pandemic.
The point is this was never a baseball season. It always was a coronavirus season. It had to be.