⁍ Baseball will finally get to the cry of ‘play ball’ this week.

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⁍ The big American sports leagues are moving to re-open their seasons.

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⁍ We can’t stop watching TV during the pandemic.

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– When you’re a late-night host, it’s easy to forget that you’re dealing with an audience that doesn’t listen to your jokes. “I miss how every audience is unique and therefore affects the show a different way,” Seth Meyers tells the New York Times. “Some nights they are red hot and you get to ride on that for the full hour or they can be so cold that you have to use every weapon in your arsenal to fight your way through it. I don’t just miss the good audiences. I miss the bad ones, too.” Late-night hosts, he adds, “have done shows in what amounts to a laugh vacuum: no hint if a joke is working; no way to tell how long to pause between lines to let the laugh play out.” Bill Carter, a media analyst for CNN, agrees. “The fake crowd noise was set up to accompany the developing action of the live game, strictly for the home TV viewers,” he writes in the Times. “In the stadium, the players, coaches, and whoever else happened to be around heard none of that. In the stadium, the players, coaches, and whoever else happened to be around heard none of that.” He predicts that we’ll soon see