Has it been a year of this new normal already?
Well, not quite. Last Feb. 27, the Cubs and White Sox played baseball; for each club, the fifth or sixth full-squad game of the spring. It wasn’t until March 12 that — the first realities of the coronavirus pandemic beginning to hit home across the U.S. sports landscape — Major League Baseball put spring training on hiatus and announced the start of the season would be delayed by at least two weeks.
Two weeks. Can you believe that now? It’s almost funny. It just goes to show how clueless so many of us were.