Latest Daily News Cover Claims Social Distancing Could Be Tough in MLB Because Everyone Wants to Fight the Astros

Social distancing is more important now than ever, as the American public works to combat the spread of the coronavirus and ease the burden on our healthcare workers.

The New York Daily News, unfortunately, has their doubts over if those measures can be adhered to when the MLB resumes play.

If players in the Chinese baseball league have been getting into major brawls and fistfights, what is going to happen when pitchers get the opportunity to take aim at the Houston Astros after they were revealed to have stolen signs? It's probably going to be a bloodbath. While the News is half-joking here, there's a significant kernel of truth embedded within.

Rob Manfred and MLB are nowhere close to getting play started up once again. If the league were to resume play, however, they are tossing around various proposals that involve playing games at alternate locations in empty stadiums rather than letting fans in the gate, which shows how far America has to go before the virus is eradicated and sports return.

As shown in Spring Training, however, pitchers like Ramon Santos of the St. Louis Cardinals are ready to let players like Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve know how deplorable their scheme was. All they need is the green light from the commissioner to resume play.

The Astros' reckoning has been put on ice until the pandemic subsides, but the pitchers of MLB have not forgotten what the Astros did. As soon as they are able, they are going to be firing bullets into the batter's box, distancing be damned.