Even with MASN Classics and the MLB channel’s Great Games programming, I still miss the excitement of a current, ongoing baseball season. Each new game is like turning the page of a riveting book. The favorite characters are all there. The familiar setting a perfect backdrop to the drama of a still-young season, ripe with possibility or fraught with injuries. At this point I would even settle for a no-live-spectator curtailed season. But will we even get that?
My family’s shared baseball fettish began in 2012, the year that the hometown Nationals finally gelled into a team with realistic post-season prospects. A contender at long last! As the fan base grew, the stadium crowds got louder. An evening at the ballpark became a coveted destination. Granted, one of us in this household has been a baseball fan for decades before saying “I do”. But now it's a joint pursuit.
Admittedly, the pandemic’s arrival offered something of a reprieve for the Houston Astros in the wake of their cheating scandal. They would have faced resounding boos from opposing fans in every ballpark they visited this year. But now, after weeks of no baseball at all, even the most bitter of opponents is likely to forego retribution in favor of collective euphoria at the first “Play ball!"
Life Lesson: Better late than never!
You’ve nailed the longing for something as simply satisfying as a ballgame. We’ll get there again!
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