At this time of year, baseball normally would be ending its marathon 162-game regular season and be about to begin postseason play, culminating in the World Series at the end of October. This being 2020, nothing is normal. After a Covid-abbreviated 60-game regular campaign, an expanded roster of 16 teams will vie in the playoffs, with the World Series winding up in Arlington, Texas, home of the Rangers, a team that won’t even be in the playoffs.
The U.S. presidential race also enters its final and most crucial stage this week, with Republican President Donald Trump facing his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, in their first debate on Tuesday evening. That will be the culmination of a seemingly endless process, even longer than a normal baseball campaign, that got under way with the first debate among the Dems’ contenders (and not a few pretenders) back in mid-2019. In comparison, an elephant’s gestation period is 18 to 22 months, and it takes 11…
