It rained, because of course it did.
At 1 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday—some five weeks after what should have been Opening Day for MLB, which is to say some seven weeks after the fabric of daily life unraveled entirely—ESPN went live to its first broadcast of the Korea Baseball Organization. Here was Opening Day, with the NC Dinos set to play the Samsung Lions, and the field was under a tarp. A rain delay: A previously familiar inconvenience, like getting cut off in traffic, or uncomfortably stuck at a crowded bar, or boxed into bad small talk at a party.