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BenFred: Baseball's comeback seems farther away the more you think about it

At a time when optimism can be harder to find than toilet paper, John Mozeliak is asking for it, and hoping it rolls.

That doesn’t mean he’s ignoring the coronavirus unknown.

“It’s going to be a huge part of our healing process,” the Cardinals president of baseball operations said Thursday afternoon. “Creating that hope is what baseball and other sports have done forever. To have that going, not only is that part of your economic engine, but it’s also part of the mental side of what people are dealing with. Giving people faith in something. That’s something all of us involved in the game hope we can be involved in, that process.