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It’s good to have baseball back, but it’s hard to view it as an escape in these tumultuous times

Imagine a World Series played in front of no one.

Six months ago, that wouldn’t have made a bad concept for a bad TV show.

Today, it’s reality.

Of course, we’ve got a ‘‘regular’’ baseball season of 60 games to be played yet, and the World Series isn’t until October.

But the plan right now is for games to be played in front of no one for this entire four-month-delayed season. Crazy.

In case you haven’t noticed, however, these are crazy times.

And I must apologize, but as a veteran sportswriter, I was just plain bored with the two Cubs-White Sox exhibition games I watched from empty Wrigley Field and Guaranteed Rate Field.