On Tuesday night, Major League Baseball and the players union agreed upon the health protocols and rules of play that will help them attempt a 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic. Whether it is really feasible or advisable or ethical to try, the document is a testament to the ridiculous amount of change necessary to facilitate the “safe” playing of a baseball season.
In the way only a legal-ish document can, it spells out details huge and minuscule, obvious and obscure. If baseball does happen this year, it will be because thousands of people — perhaps even those who might have wished to opt out — followed a plan that re-engineered their lives from the ground up.