Kovacevic: Thanks a lot for blah-ball

So, baseball will be the first back.

Whatever.

I mean, look, from a purely professional standpoint, I'll be delighted to get back to doing what I do. I'll be happy for the dozens of decent people within the Pirates' world, not least of whom are Derek Shelton, Ben Cherington, the coaches and the players who'll get back to doing what they do, too. We're all identified by what we do, to an extent, and there'll be a special satisfaction doing that during this extraordinary time in our world.

That isn't lost on me.

But sorry, the rest is.

Oh, they tried to pump everyone's tires within milliseconds of Major League Baseball's owners and players finally putting pen to paper to proceed with a 60-game schedule beginning in a month.

The teams tried ...