In announcing its cessation of operations Thursday, Major League Baseball said that the start of the 2020 season would be delayed "at least two weeks."
It sounds like the actual delay might be a whole lot longer than two weeks.
Certainly, from the moment that statement was released, a two-week delay to the beginning of the regular season seemed like nothing but the best-case scenario. The situation involving the COVID-19 pandemic would have to improve dramatically across the United States for that rosy outlook to end up becoming reality.
And according to one national reporter, it sounds like staging Opening Day on April 9 — two weeks after the originally scheduled season-start date of March 26 — isn't very realistic at this point.