It wasn't quite 'Play ball!' but I'll happily hear it that way.
When Dr. Anthony Fauci, the suddenly famous director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke Wednesday on the Snapchat show “Good Luck America” that there's a path for sports to return sooner rather than later, he did so unambiguously and unapologetically.
“There’s a way of doing that,” Dr. Fauci opened. “Nobody comes to the stadiums. Put them in big hotels, wherever you want to play. Keep them very well-surveilled, but have them tested like every week, and make sure they don’t wind up infecting each other or their families, and just let them play the season out.”
There it is. Just like that. And now, all that's missing is the big PNC Park cannon-blast. Or Sid stickhandling across a McDonald's arch. Or Styx piping up with, 'Oh, mama ...'
OK, maybe not. But it's unmistakably the beginning of the end of wondering if we'll have professional sports play out in 2020, and I mean as soon as this summer.
Wait. At least hear me out.
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