The Postponed 2020 Season May Be Exactly What Baseball Needs
Baseball is nothing without fans. That's both obvious and not at the same time. Sure baseball is speed and power, leather and wood, grass and dirt. It's the hit and run, stretching a double to a triple, and the play at the plate. It's a frozen rope, high cheese, and the big fly. But unless millions of fans were willing to show up to their favorite team's home stadium or watch them on TV, it would just be a fun game that people played in their spare time, like horse shoes or bocce. As the biggest contributor to keeping the baseball train chugging, it's safe to say we had lost our way a bit as baseball fans before the pandemic hit. The coverage of the Astros cheating scandal this off-season was certainly exhausting and understandably took its toll on the MLB fanbase, but for years now we as fans have complained an awful lot about baseball. Just as we started to get over the black mark that steroid use left on the game, the pendulum swung the other way. The grumble du ...