While the quote above could certainly speak to our waistline measurements during the COVID-19 quarantine it’s likely Mr. Schwab had other things in mind. He also probably didn’t think his line could apply to the powers that be in Major League Baseball, however. More on that in a bit as MLB expansion could be on the mind of Rob Manfred.
The COVID-19 pandemic (or “the ‘rona” as Blake Snell, my teenage daughter, and her friends call it) has thrown most of the globe into an economic tailspin and created an environment where no one seems to agree on how to balance the need for safety and the necessity of life to proceed outside one’s couch area.