From the desk of: BASEBALL HOT DOGS APPLE PIE AND CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMIC
vs.
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball should cancel their season. It pains me as a fan to utter such words but I just feel it's the right thing to do. They can not simply circle a day on the calendar and abruptly declare from this day forward it's safe to play. Safe for whom? What of the collateral workforce involved with the day-to-day operations and logistics required for producing baseball games? Do they not realize recovery from this pandemic will be a year's long process not only health-wise, but financially? They must know that we the proletariat harbor no empathy towards billionaires - certainly not a citizenry which has been under quarantine for roughly six weeks and counting. During which time people have exhausted short term emergency funds, or are depleting savings. But let's keep this real, the aforementioned are not the common person's experience. They're not the person working week to week, check to check, having a tougher go of this. Too many more people have been furloughed, laid off, or flat out terminated. Small businesses are folding, Mom-and-Pops are being wiped out, and jobs are being lost by the bunches. Yet baseball remains hungry as ever (but far from starved) for our discretionary income. I will not be attending regular games any time soon. Will you? Otherwise MLB has one chance to get this right. May they decide wisely because getting this wrong is way too easy. Letting common sense rule the day is hard.
