{"id":14128,"date":"2020-06-24T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/despite-recent-drama-fans-will-fall-in-love-with-baseball-again\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:40:00","slug":"despite-recent-drama-fans-will-fall-in-love-with-baseball-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/despite-recent-drama-fans-will-fall-in-love-with-baseball-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Despite recent drama, fans will fall in love with baseball again"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Despite recent drama, fans will fall in love with baseball again<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Wait \u2026 is the coast clear?<\/p>\n

Have the warring parties really retreated to their bunkers at last? Have we actually typed the words \u201cpro rata\u201d into laptops for the last time? Is it really OK to start talking about baseball again?<\/p>\n

You remember baseball, don\u2019t you? Pastoral game<\/a>. Nine to a side (well, 10 for the time being, now that everyone has a DH). Had a nice run as the national pastime, back when the games took two hours, there were lots of afternoon games (some of which included doubleheaders!), the uniforms were flannel and the players played for the love of the game (also known as \u201cwhatever scraps their cheapskate owners were willing to part with.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Baseball\u2019s owners and its players finally agreed to start the 2020 season \u2014 assuming the coronavirus doesn\u2019t overrule them \u2014 with a spring training report date of next Wednesday, July 1, with Opening Day scheduled for 23 days later and a 60-game sprint to Sept. 27 thereafter. So it is back to the field they go \u2026<\/p>\n

The field! Yes, the Mets and the Yankees will both spend the next week arriving in the city, getting acclimated, getting tested, and they will report to Yankee Stadium and Citi Field and \u2026<\/p>\n

(And, well, of course, if you have a gander at the 10-day forecast you see lots and lots of rain predicted for next Wednesday, because in 2020 would you expect anything different?) <\/p>\n

Maybe you have decided to take a pass on what\u2019s coming. Maybe the drama of the past month and the odd nature of such a short season have conspired to chisel away at the part of your soul that was devoted to baseball all these years. And maybe you\u2019ll stay committed to that, having found other hobbies in the interim.<\/p>\n

But if history tells us anything, that will dissolve. That will fade. If you root for the Mets, if you root for the Yankees, then you will slowly find yourself taking notice of reports of Jacob deGrom\u2019s fastball popping Wilson Ramos\u2019 mitt, of Gleyber Torres taking aim at the fences his first few rounds of batting practice.<\/p>\n

These are, after all, two teams with ambitions, with expectations. The Yankees project to be the best team in the American League. The Mets finished strong last year and hope to emulate that 60-game finish this time around. That is where we left off in Florida. That is where we resume in New York.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Judge and Pete Alonso<\/span>Anthony J. Causi (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The games will arrive (we hope), and maybe you won\u2019t watch them. But maybe you will. Baseball is an addiction. It is a Svengali. If you can resist its lure, good for you. If the first four-game Mets winning streak doesn\u2019t get your heart racing, if the first three-game Yankees losing streak doesn\u2019t get your blood boiling \u2026 well, congrats. Maybe you have kicked the habit for good.<\/p>\n

But if you haven\u2019t, you\u2019ll watch. You\u2019ll find anger replaced by acceptance. Maybe you\u2019ll hate yourself for that. Maybe you\u2019ll kick yourself for that. And yet, see if you can avoid yelling at the screen the first time Pete Alonso or Giancarlo Stanton make baseballs disapp<\/a>ear over the sun. See if you can simply ignore the first time Luis Rojas pulls his starter too early against the Phillies, or when Aaron Boone goes to his bullpen too slowly against the Sox.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ll stay away this time.<\/p>\n

But I heard plenty of hockey fans insist they\u2019d stay away for good when the NHL threw a brick wall up in front of all the momentum they\u2019d gained in 1994 by spending half the next season in a lockout. But I was also at the Garden on Jan. 20, 1995, the night a Stanley Cup banner was raised to the roof. I was at the Meadowlands five months and four days later when Scott Stevens hoisted the Cup in the air after the Devils swept the Red Wings.<\/p>\n

I was there when Larry Johnson\u2019s four-point play nearly sent the Garden into orbit on June 5, 1999, the end of a weird and angry lockout year in the NBA. I was there when Don Mattingly took Andy Benes deep on Oct. 4, 1995, a year after baseball tried to light itself on fire the last time. \u201cHang onto the roof!\u201d Gary Thorne screamed over the din that night.<\/p>\n

I heard all of that, all of those times, after hearing so much anger. I hear it still. And expect to hear it again, starting in the softening hearts of an angry legion of baseball fans. Maybe I\u2019m wrong about that. Let\u2019s see.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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