For the first time in major league history, a game will be played before an audience of zero.
The Baltimore Orioles decided that, given the riots, arson and looting, it was too risky to have fans at the ballpark for the game this afternoon against the Chicago White Sox.
The Washington Post reports, inter alia:
The decision to play in an empty ballpark will cost the Orioles revenue: no ticket sales, no concessions, no parking. The first two games of the series against the White Sox, scheduled for 7:05 p.m. starts Monday and Tuesday nights, have been postponed, and the club announced it will make up those games in a 4:05 p.m. doubleheader on May 28 at Camden Yards.
Of course, it's not just the Orioles who will lose revenue. It's the dozens of people -- generally not people at the top of the economic ladder -- who man the concession stands and carry hot dogs, ice cream and drinks up and down the aisles for sale to the fans.
Those losses will barely count among all the other, more appalling ones, that have come from this lawlessness. But those people work for their money. So, even if their losses don't count with The Elite, they will count with me.
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