PITTSBURGH — Most of the American sports over which we obsess have their own established rhythms, the times set metronomically into place for practice, for games, for training, even for soothing ourselves from a harsh world by talking sports in lieu of talking life.
No sport has more quotidian requirements along this paradigm than Major League Baseball, where the game's very respiration depends on keeping and sequencing these rhythms, so Thursday night's voluntary disruption, even on the game's margins, felt historic.
"In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Rays, we will be using our channels to offer facts about the impact of gun violence," the New York Yankees said on Twitter before their game in Tampa. "The devastating events that have taken place in Uvalde, Buffalo, and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable."
