You are going to be reading many articles about how baseball should resume.
Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn’t. I personally don’t think we need it and there are lots of questions that remain.
Many of the articles will, without realizing it, take the owner’s side. The players will be seen as greedy, as the kindly old billionaires just want baseball to come back for the good of the country or something but those greedy baseball players who want the owners to live up to the agreed upon contract don’t love America or something.
Along the way there will be people like me who will be shouted down by the baseball mafia. Because I suggest that baseball NOT be played, I am automatically the worst.
All that is fine. But let’s factor this into the coverage.
People that cover baseball are paid to cover baseball. Were there to not be baseball, perhaps the bosses at the newspaper, or the national paywall sports site, or the television network start looking at financials and start laying people off. None of us want anyone to be laid off. But let’s not pretend that unless you have some iron-clad contract that it’s not better for you Mr. National Baseball Writer/Columnist/TV Personality for the sport to be active rather than on indefinite hiatus.
We all have biases, conscious and unconscious – myself included. But keep in mind when you read all these articles that few of those covering the sport are going to suggest the sport not be played.
We have now crossed the 90,000 death mark in the United States, down from 15 cases, soon to be zero, and Easter will be here soon anyway. Play ball.
