As they say in baseball, “That’s baseball.” Baseball is the sport that makes us want to quit it for good, but when, at blessed last, it comes to its senses, we forget everything and say, “Welcome back.”
Remember the hand-wringing about missed games? MLB plans to play a full 162-game regular season, with nine-inning (as opposed to seven-inning) doubleheaders making a return. Opening day won’t happen in March, as was the plan, but it will happen in April, which comes just after March.
But that, again, is baseball. Just when you think it’s out, it pulls you back in. Players and owners wound up compromising, which invariably happens only after both sides refuse to budge an inch. Much of the problem with baseball is that the owners and players get so caught up in despising each other that both sides forget the reason players wanted to play this sport and owners wanted to buy franchises. Once the labor issues get resolved, baseball can be a fun thing.
