Opinion on 2022 Baseball Season Status
Jeff Passan recently tweeted that the MLB and MLBPA will be meeting tomorrow to talk about economics negotiations. While there is the hope of positives, this only steps one of a long journey.
I have a hard time believing that we will have a regular baseball season in April. It’s a shame how much a difference of two months can be when a world crisis comes into order. 2020 did not go into the prediction of just how amazing of a year it can be. Now, we could see ourselves living through another hell with the rise of the Omicron variant of Covid.
When the MLBPA announced last month that players would be going on strike, it caused a massive pause in the future of team building, team planning, and training. There was fear that Baseball would lose spring training or, worse, a couple of games in April. Yet, the lockout became the worst of our worries in two months.
The finding of the omicron variant in South Africa caused a huge spark of a scare through the world. Though vaccinations have been distributed and given to over 4 billion humans, they have proven not to work against this new virus. The reaction from world communities was just as scary as the actions of travel bans place. I knew that another storm was coming towards us.
Looking for alternatives to help cover the baseball season, I started to look at other leagues. I saw a couple of cancellations in places like Australia. It began to me that this could be a reality for American companies. Up in Canada, the capacity for events is now at 50 percent throughout the province of Ontario. The rising cases of players contracting covid is a height number, with it being the most prominent peak ever in the history of the pandemic.
So why am I giving off negative vibes towards the recent outbreak? The issues sprouting Baseball right now are at a point where you can project the odds of the season starting on time. Baseball is in a weird state where we may not know when to play again. We don’t honestly know if other leagues plan to shut down as the NHL has with their week span. I’m not trying to scare people. It’s nice to hear opinions from others about the two major conflicts and how anyone feels about them. I just am preparing for the worst of any situation, so if there are positives, it is sweeter!
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