Korean Organization Baseball players with masks prepare to play in front of an empty stadium (mercurynews.com file photo)

Until a Vaccine is Available

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

Amaury Pi-González

In the next few days Major League Baseball will present,what might be the final proposal to the players union in order to start the 2020 baseball season by early July..The South Korean Professional League.started playing last week and Athletics third-base coach Matt Williams is managing the KIA Tigers. Dan Straily,once a pitcher for the Oakland Athletics is now pitching for the Lotte Giants. A total of ten (10) teams make the South Korean Professional Baseball League. Umpires there are playing with Masks.And no fans.

There is a reason why MLB is the #1 baseball league in the world, not only the best talent in baseball all over the world, plays there, but we also have a total of 30 teams. And of those 30 teams, the State of California (the most populous with close to 40 million residents) also has the most teams, five (5) of those 30; Angels, Athletics, Dodgers, Giants and Padres.

According to the Mercury News, California Governor Gavin Newsom says restarting sports is ‘difficult to image’until a vaccine is available. The state is just beginning Phase Two, of four phases with Phase Four the reopening of sporting events with fans. The state won’t move into the final phase of Newsom’s plan, which includes the reopening of sporting events to fans, until immunity to COVID-19 has increased and a vaccine is widely available.

Wonder about when a Covid-19 vaccine will happen? Nobody and everybody is an expert,depends what you see, hear or read. Oxford has said they might have it by summer’s end or early fall.

The experts virologists have many models and they have been all-over-the-place with their projections, not every time they have been right. The Media is all over the place,”experts” coming out of the woods, some very optimistic, others say this pandemic will go for the next two(2) years. But remember, scientist do not work for ratings, the media does, so they can generate revenues, so they can go on the air. So for me.all regular networks, cable, talk shows. Late night shows, it is just entertainment, because they are as opinionated as ever and in this case as ignorant as ever. So, who knows?

Mr.Walter G. Gibson created a fictional character The Shadow, one of the most famous of the pulp heroes of the 1930’s and 1940’s and he used to say “Only the Shadow knows”.

Adiós and Stay Well.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Museum and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com