More than 4-million people savored the chance Thursday to watch live sports as Major League Baseball’s opening night of a coronavirus-condensed season quickly became the most-watched baseball telecast in the last nine years. I delighted in reuniting my tv remote with ESPN—one of the millions who enjoyed finding something other than the American Cornhole Championships or the Drone Racing League broadcasts that had been featured in the absence of professional sports over the past 4-5 months. Nothing replaces the thrill of gameday.

If you love the games let’s not push the players.

I love live sports. I crave the sights and sounds of competition. And I can’t stand to watch another replay of the 2017 American Cornhole League Championships. In fact, it’s been so long since I watched sports, I will need to retrain my fingers to find ESPN on the TV remote. But as we enthusiastically hope for the chance to fill up the stadiums and arenas again without the trusty masks and gloves, we must make sure we’re doing the right thing. We must make sure that our enthusiasm isn’t merely impatience.