Many of us Dodgers fans were ready for another season of Dodgers Baseball. *Insert Vin Scully voice here.*
Then the outbreak COVID-19 happened throughout the country which triggered businesses and schools to shut down. At first, the thought of another Dodgers season happening this year was lost.
News then started to break of a possible return to baseball.
More recently the sun has started to shine and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has discussed the plan of having the season played out in neutral sites in Florida, Texas, and Arizona. With all 30 ball clubs having facilities in wither Florida or Arizona, the plan seems more and more likely to happen.
The plan calls for the teams to play the games in crowd less stadiums with strict guidelines of staying away from the public. Although that may be the most ideal way of handling the issue, a new report has come out that some fans may be able to be in attendance during these games eventually.
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ leading official and most trusted voice on the Coronavirus, has stated that there may potentially be a path for MLB to have baseball fans in their stadiums but with limitations.
In an interview with Jack Curry of the YES Network, Fauci discussed the possibility of such a plan happening.
“If we get the virus under really good control and certain regions of the country can get gradually from the gateway to the phase one to the phase two to the phase three. It is conceivable that you may be able to have some baseball with people practicing physical separation. Namely, you don’t pack a stadium.”
As Fauci said stadiums won’t be won’t go back to what they were before this pandemic struck. A limited of fans would be allowed in with masks and would be separated to practice social distancing.
There’s no guarantee that some of us Dodger fans would be able to see a live game anytime soon, in fact, we may only be able to watch the Boys in Blue on television. However, if there is even a small chance Dodgers fans can get to go and see the team play, I think we’ll take it.
