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Now What?

It’s Labor Day weekend.

For a minors guy, this means the end of the season. In a good year, there might be another week or two of games, perhaps culminating in a team picture hoisting a “hunk of metal,” to use the parlance of Herr Manfred.

But this is not a good year. It’s the worst year in most people’s living memory. (Raise your cane if you remember ’68 or ’39).

The minor-league season was canceled. Sure, there’s the alternative training sites, but for the most part, fans and scouts aren’t allowed in. We’re forced to rely on second-hand accounts – much like the instrux, which were given the go-ahead by MLB to proceed, though it’s not clear how that will work just yet.

And then there’s the elephant of contraction that’s just a little more than three weeks away.

I wish I could be more upbeat about all of this. I wish I could pass along some platitude without sounding like a grab-the-tartar-sauce-we’re-going-after-that-white-whale Pollyanna with a “Live, Laugh, Love” creation from Etsy on her wall.

But if you’ve stuck around this long – and yeah, site traffic and my Twitter following has taken a beating – then you know that’s not who I am. Of course, we’re going to get through this – we’ve survived world wars, economic depressions, civil unrest, and Milli Vanilli.

It’s the not knowing how, why, or when that I can’t ignore or deny. It doesn’t mean I don’t think I’ll break free on a Saturday morning (prolly not tomorrow, though) and head north on Mills Avenue…

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  1. So much has been bad about 2020 that it makes it more important sites like this help hold us together.
    I don’t do Twitter but it’s not a surprise traffic is down, there’s no games for us to bloviate about. 🙂
    Next year I’m going to 10x more games to watch; Harrisburg will still be beautiful and Fredericksburg will be new and fresh. I have no idea where Low A will be played.

  3. I feel like I am in a circa 1930’s movie in the midst of the great depression and massive unrest worldwide (or at least locally), as pretensions of empire rise from the sack cloth of hopelessness. Seems like I need Bat Masterson’s cane.

    1. More like The Matrix ..
      Any word on how Big Tuna is doing in re – education camp in FRED ??

  4. And worst of all … NO MORE SICKELS!! He has morphed into a political activist. I will miss his baseball acumen and his talent for uncovering sleepers.

  6. It’s been a bad year, no denying that. The outlook is a bit better on the COVID front: several vaccines are in late stage trials. Some surely will be effective, but for how many people and for how long? What are the long term health effects of having been positive for the virus? The Spanish flu virus mutated and still is with us, causing the flu epidemics of the past few decades. The Nats’ chances of making the playoffs are nil, but what should Rizzo (if he still is GM) do to fix the team? We have the anticipation of watching his efforts over the winter–and of kibitzing about what he should, or shouldn’t, have done.

  7. Who would be elevated to Rizzos position if he exits stage left
    Heavens to Mergatroid!!!
    Well the good thing about this summer is Big Tuna, Jeremy “ spoken unlike yesterday “ DeLaRosa and young arms had special attention in FRED camp

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