Even with the pandemic's tightening grip on the U.S., I always felt that Major League Baseball should try to play _ and keep trying _ until it became impossible to do so.
The problem? It was naive to think that everyone would have the same definition of impossible. And now that the Marlins have been sickened with the sport's first COVID-19 outbreak, reportedly involving 13 players and staff, the boundaries of what is possible are being stretched again.
"I don't put this in the nightmare category," commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday night during an interview on MLB Network. "Obviously we don't want any player to get exposed. It's not a positive thing. But I don't see it as a nightmare. We built the protocols to allow us to continue to play. That's why we have the expanded rosters. That's why we have the pool of additional players."
