Well, you will not have time to get used to it. I have said this to anyone who will listen--the baseball season will not last fifteen games. It will not last fifteen games because there are enough people who are foolishly irresponsible such that it is inevitable that players will become infected. Once infected, because teams and players are in close proximity, more players will catch the virus.
This morning nine Miami Marlins tested positive. Three games into the season. A number of games were cancelled. Just a matter of time before the league throws in the towel.
I walk every day. Sometimes long walks. Today was a short one because it was hotter than some saunas in Boston today. The percentage of people wearing masks whom I pass while walking is less than 50 %. Today on my short walk around an adjoining park, there were tennis players, playing doubles, near the sign that says singles only. There were two little league games (there are four fields in the park). At the larger of the fields where games were ongoing, there were close to fifty parents and kid brothers/sisters sitting on bleachers or horsing around near the dugouts. Each dugout (genuine dugouts) had fifteen or so kids congregating when one team or the other was up at bat. I did not see a single parent wearing a mask. I saw one coach wear a mask. Parents who are supposed to set an example, sitting in the bleachers two feet next to each other-- without masks. As I walked around the park path I came to the second field. There, parents had set up chairs beyond the fence to watch the kids. Did not see one mask. I attempted to give the stink-eye to all the maskless, but with my mask covering my kisser, they could not get the full measure of my facial scorn.
But that is why major league baseball will be cancelled. Too many people have borscht in their brains and believe that because they do not have the virus yet, they will not get it. And of course teenagers are invulnerable, just ask them. It is not cool to wear a mask. I read that a moniker for responsible individuals is now "mask-holes". Maybe I got that wrong and the phrase is used for both those who do, and those who do not, wear the masks, depending on what side of the divide you are on. If your ancestors were from Chelm, then those who wear masks are mask-holes. But, now that I think of it, this is too sophisticated and clever a pun for fools.
I read that Kentucky polls have Trump leading by 25 points in that state. Must have a lot of Rhodes Scholars in Kentucky. That is as red as you can get. Trump decided the other day that he was going to postpone throwing out the first ball at a baseball game until later in the season because he wanted to concentrate on the virus.
As my mother would say at her sarcastic Yiddish best, "Mistome" (pronounced mis-TOM-uh).
Yeah, let him concentrate on the virus that he energized.
Baseball is history. Fifteen games tops. Basketball might make it, because they are in that bubble. Football? Sure, plenty of social distancing in football.
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