Welcome to Opening Day…and the stretch run.
Greetings from the starting gate…and darn near the trade deadline (Aug. 31.)
Never before has there been a baseball season like this...and, hopefully, never will there be again. MLB 2020: Asterisks and Antibodies. Like an ice-cold, midsummer watermelon, this season is best served seedless: No sunflower or pumpkin seeds, please, because, no spitting.
At once, this 60-game stretch will be both the most joyous and the saddest season of all.
Joyous because, following a four-month, coronavirus-induced timeout and an early summer in which it looked like we may not get baseball until 2021, how great will it be to again have nightly games?