Baseball is back. June 4 is Lou Gehrig Day in all ballparks.

[Faygo Kid]

As I turn 70 this year, I recall how important baseball was to me growing up without a father. And spring is right around the corner!

&t=1s

[rsdsharp]

1. June 2nd is the 80th anniversary of his death.

I assume they chose the 4th because he wore number 4.

[Sibelius Fan]

6. Actually, it's June 2. The OP is wrong.

https://www.mlb.com/news/lou-gehrig-day-june-2-to-raise-als-awareness

[rsdsharp]

10. Thanks. That makes more sense.

[movingviolation]

2. So, subject yourself to an incurable disease (multi mutated strains of covid 19)..

in order to celebrate the life of someone who died of an incurable disease. Am I missing something here, other than not being a sports fan? I pretty much grew up without dad around either.. which probably indirectly led to my reactive total dislike of competitive sports, and seeing them as pointlessly divisive pastimes. It's funny how the same stimulus can create or elicit equal and opposite responses from different people.

I'm avoiding all spectator events for the foreseeable future.

[catbyte]

3. I see your point but I would hope that MLB will do it safely. I hope they contribute proceeds to

ALS research. I lost my dad to ALS and it's one of the cruelest diseases on the planet.

[movingviolation]

7. That would be a wonderful thing for MLB to do.

I'm sorry you lost your dad to this horrible disease. Watching what it did to Stephen Hawking was totally heartbreaking.

[Roy Rolling]

4. Yogi Berra said it

“If people don’t wanna go to the ballpark you can’t stop them.”

[movingviolation]

8. Very True.

Yet I still find it disturbing how public health seems to take a back seat to entertainment.

[rsdsharp]

9. Don't worry. "Nobody goes there anymore."

“It’s too crowded.”

[GB_RN]

12. I Believe

That MLB is requiring a MAX seating capacity of 50%. In an open stadium like say, Yankees Stadium, that's a lot of open space.

Now, before someone blasts me, I'm NOT saying I agree with even that much fan seating (I'm a nurse - and one who believes in science - not a tRumpHumping, denialist, bone head), just that they are taking some precautions.

[Sibelius Fan]

5. Nope. It's June 2.

https://www.mlb.com/news/lou-gehrig-day-june-2-to-raise-als-awareness

[spike jones]

11. Baseball is like watching grass grow with some people blocking the view. n/t