If the extraordinarily tumultuous 2020 has taught us anything, it has highlighted what is really important. As Covid-19 has forced people to stay at home, it’s highlighted just how much joy and meaning we (even us introverts) find from human interaction.
And as the virus has prevented baseball from happening until July, its absence reveals just how important the existence of baseball is, regardless of quality. Over the last two years, I became weary of Kansas City Royals teams that were singularly awful, wondering if it wouldn’t be better for fans if there was no baseball at all (the answer, as revealed by 2020, is no).