The easiest job at the moment is playing Monday Morning Quarterback when it comes to how leagues try to navigate the unknown every business, family and individual is attempting to sort through.

This is hard. It might not work. There is some good news.

MLB shared Friday that the now-completed intake testing caught 66 positive cases, or 1.8 percent of the 3,748 samples tested from players and staff members. Since fully shifting to the monitoring phase of testing, which tests players every other day, there have been 17 new positives found in 7,401 samples. Thats a new-positive percentage of 0.2.

Encouraging. Can it hold through the end of camp? Can it hold when teams begin to travel for games?

I dont know. No one does. Now is no time for victory laps, not even from the Chicago Cubs, which is believed to be the lone team in the National League without a single positive test.

We cant allow the good results thus far to create the illusion were in control, Cubs executive Theo Epstein said in Chicago.

What is starting to stand out, though, is how these completely bizarre circumstances truly can fade between the white lines. Once the temperature checks are finished and the masks come off, baseball is still baseball, even when its played in an empty stadium beneath a song written about a pandemic.

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