The last time I was at a ballpark for a Cubs baseball game was March 11, 2020, nearly a year ago. It was an ordinary spring training game — the Cubs broke up a nascent no-hitter and won 3-2.
What I remember most about that evening, though, was while I was idly scrolling through Twitter between innings, up popped this tweet:
Oh.
That was the first real inkling I had that things were about to change for all of us, not just for baseball but for all of life.