March 13th, I was supposed to be flying down to spring training in anticipating of Opening Day 2 weeks later. Instead, the previous day spring training was canceled, that day turned out to be my last day of in-person work at my school, and the fight of a pennant race gave way to fights about who got to keep which $1M bills.
4 months later and change, I write to you today on the heels of an A’s-Giants exhibition game scheduled to be played Monday night at the Oakland Coliseum and broadcast to living rooms like mine.
A few initial thoughts about the season-to-finally-begin (whether it will continue is a “whole nother matter”):
- Baseball is sometimes described as “that most unpredictable game”.