{"id":51760,"date":"2020-08-22T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/subway-series-fans-dont-have-to-choose-between-devotion-and-compassion\/"},"modified":"2020-08-22T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T02:05:00","slug":"subway-series-fans-dont-have-to-choose-between-devotion-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/subway-series-fans-dont-have-to-choose-between-devotion-and-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"#Subway Series fans don\u2019t have to choose between devotion and compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Subway Series<\/a> fans don\u2019t have to choose between devotion and compassion<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The seduction has been easy, for those who\u2019ve invited it in. There were some sports fans who\u2019ve done what some of the athletes have done \u2014 they\u2019ve opted out, either for now, or for the duration, or for good.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve done this for a variety of reasons: simmering resentment over baseball allowing its labor issues to invade the pandemic; an inability to embrace the odd bells and whistles that have accompanied the various restarts \u2014 cardboard cutouts in baseball, virtual fans in hoops, fake crowd noise everywhere you turn \u2014 and the temporary (until they\u2019re permanent) changes to baseball\u2019s rules. The prevalence of politics has turned some off. These folks swore to find other things to do, and have, so they have been immune to the lure.<\/p>\n

But there are still a lot of baseball fans who embraced this 60-game<\/a> dash through summer. And that means they have attached themselves to this season as they would any other. There are still more than enough talk-show callers, and columnist emailers, who can\u2019t wait to destroy Aaron Boone\u2019s managing, or Wilson Ramos\u2019 hitting, or the Yankees\u2019 training staff that lately resembles the triage unit from \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d to the Mets\u2019 stubborn refusal to hit with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n

It has made it easy to feel like this is a baseball season just like any other baseball season, collective moods that rise and fall depending on last night\u2019s result. Baseball is like that, always has been, the dailyness of the games app<\/a>roximating a necessary regular fix in the veins of its most ardent fans. And in New York, that daily rush can be intoxicating no matter which side of the great divide you reside.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Boone, Michael Conforto<\/span>AP (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Except there will be no games this weekend. The first half of the Subway Series, which was supposed to roll out at Citi Field this weekend, will instead likely take over next weekend in a surge of doubleheaders in The Bronx. The Mets were afflicted by COVID-19 during their stay in Miami, one player and one coach for now, pending a slew of test results to come. Some of the team flew home. Some of them stayed behind. Such is baseball life in 2020.<\/p>\n

And even now, the first questions from fans tend to be the same: does this help the Yankees (who could surely use a break from the daily trip<\/a>s to the MRI tube they\u2019ve been making)? Does this hurt the Mets (who were fixing to catch the Yankees, perhaps, at their most vulnerable)? Does it hurt the Yankees to keep the memory of the Tampa sweep alive a few more days without having more games to provide amnesia? Does it help the Mets to keep a positive outlook framed by three wins in Miami?<\/p>\n

Of course that\u2019s what people want to talk about. That\u2019s baseball. And if you\u2019re all-in in a baseball season, there\u2019s no \u201coff\u201d switch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a little different this time.<\/p>\n

This time there are athletes involved who, since the start, have put their health at risk every day trying to put together a season. The Yankees felt the sting early, losing DJ LeMahieu and Aroldis Chapman; the Mets had their own summer-camp casualties, and then a couple of opt-outs, and now an infiltration of the virus. The hope is it has been contained. The belief is the virus arrived without anyone breaking protocol.<\/p>\n

And that is what makes it especially concerning, a reminder that, even if there is caution, even if there is strict adherence to the rules, the virus doesn\u2019t play by those rules. It will still do as it pleases. And yes: You can cite as often as you want the likelihood that young, strong athletes will almost certainly recover, and the preponderance of cases that are asymptomatic. A simple truth remains this:<\/p>\n

If the choice is getting the virus, or not getting the virus, you don\u2019t want the virus.<\/p>\n

We can agree about that, right?<\/p>\n

Nineteen years ago, sports took a 10-day pause in the wake of 9\/11, and it seemed impossible we would ever again fret about the outcomes of ballgames. And yet plenty of Yankees fans suffered through Game 7 of the World Series, even if they didn\u2019t want to. When you care, you care. There are still a lot of them who can\u2019t watch Luis Gonzalez\u2019s at-bat, and one of the things to remember is: it\u2019s OK to feel that way. In fact, in 2001, it was the strongest sign yet that normalcy was possible.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the same thing applies. Of course it is OK to miss the games when they\u2019re postponed. Of course it\u2019s OK to think about what happens the rest of the season, even if it\u2019s a truncated season, even if there are seven-inning doubleheaders and a universal DH and the new extra-inning rule.<\/p>\n

But it is also OK to remember: When the players play, and when they go on the road, and when they do their best to play out this season, they do it knowing the virus is Out There, that it is lurking, that it can still visit them, still infect them, still bring them all the short- and long-term worries and heart and lung and other issues about which we are all still discovering. We learned 19 years ago that you can be a devout sports fan and show concern for the greater world at large. It wasn\u2019t mutually exclusive. It still isn\u2019t.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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