IF WE COULD GO BACK IN TIME

If...this is a story about ifs, truthfully speaking.  We can't go back in time, although many of us would like to if we could.  Interestingly enough as I write this, I am realizing that it is the 35th Anniversary of the 80s nostalgia movie, Back to the Future.  We could go back, if Michael J. Fox's Delorean was real and it was a time machine.  Since we have some time on our hands, I thought I would explore if...with you.  Let's go back in time, just a few years.

Source: Newsweek

If we could go back in time, we could catch the Houston Astros red-handed, and maybe prevent the scandal that shook America's past time.

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CC Sabathia, now completely jacked, might have retired after the 2017 season, following his second World Series ring.  He could have gotten jacked two years earlier as he donned his new jewelry. 

If we could go back in time, doctors could have diagnosed Luis Severino two years ago, and he would have had his surgery, or perhaps undergone physical therapy avoiding surgery and he'd be back.  Perhaps we could have defended our World Series title in 2018 with Sevy really hot, and because the Red Sox would have never hired Alex Cora, so they would not have won the Series.  I am liking this...let's do some more.

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If we could go back in time, Aaron Judge would not have worked himself so hard, and his mysterious injury might not have happened.  In fact the doctors would have figured it out because Judge would have been relentless in his pursuit for a cause for the reoccurring pain.  He would be healthy and perhaps, 2019 would have been a three-peat for the Bombers.

If we could go back in time, the 2020 season would have started on March 26th as planned and the vaccine for the corona virus would have been developed ahead of the pandemic, because early warning signs would have been seriously vetted.  All of the players would have gotten the vaccine and we'd be almost two months in with the Yankees, clearly in first place.

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Perhaps it is delirium setting in with the longest stretch of no baseball in my life.  Perhaps I don't want to talk about the fact that if the baseball players don't take the 50-50 split of revenue that comes in this year when the game starts that there might not be a 2020 season despite the plan to open things up.  If they do agree, baseball spring training could start in mid-June and the season could kick off on July 4th.  Now that is real nostalgia: The American Past time starts on America's birthday.

So much has to happen for the season happen.  So, I sit wondering if...if there will be a season and if baseball will survive COVID-19.  Here's hoping that a deal comes through soon and baseball comes back. And there will be no more ifs, only when.

--Suzie Pinstripe
BYB Managing Editor
Twitter: @suzieprof