Like the weather in the Midwest, all you’ve got to do to get a different take on the viability of MLB’s 2020 season is wait five minutes. Hope waxes and wanes with the same fickleness as the forecast, though the storm clouds on the horizon have never quite blown away. As such, it can be difficult to discern the earnest predictions from the clickbait.
I have no idea whether the Newark Star-Ledger’s Bob Klapisch is pushing one or the other, but he tweeted Friday afternoon that, “It’s going to take a miracle to save the season.” That was preceded by a quote from someone identified as a previously optimistic party who said “Things are really bad right now.