Some Positive News

Well, it’s been 10 months of nothing much but bad news. Being primarily a baseball photographer it hasn’t been good times. First colleges cancelled their seasons, then Milb was shut down for the season. Added to that Milb was facing massive cuts to their affiliated teams by MLB. Many months of speculation about exactly which teams would be gone ended yesterday. I have many friends working in baseball and they have been hurt tremendously by the pandemic and the elimination of teams by MLB. For me the Bowie Baysox AA affiliate of the Orioles was extended an invitation to continue to be the Orioles AA team. This is the first bit of good news I have had all year. This news doesn’t mean that their will be games played in 2021. As I am writing the pandemic numbers are increasing and our Governor is speaking today with speculation being he is about to start shutting things down again. Teams can’t play without fans. So I can only hope things will be better by spring. Sadly I can’t take much hope in that. My main team the Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League are in Limbo. Two teams in the Atlantic League were chosen to become affiliated teams in Milb, primarily because of their proximity to the parent teams. So our league is in talks with towns who have lost teams in order to try and bring new teams to our league. Currently there are 6 teams remaining in the league. The future of adding teams is in the air. Again, without fans the Atlantic League can’t play either. I am taking the Baysox news as a positive sign because it’s the best thing all year. I don’t have any misconceptions about how 2021 will be. We will start the year just as we are ending this one. Very much in a shroud of darkness. This isn’t going to snuff out my passion for photography. If things go in the worst possible direction I will eagerly step out of my comfort zone and push forward into genres I haven’t had much experience with. For now I am holding out hope but have my eyes open to all possibilities for the months ahead.