Deep thoughts, cheap shots & bon mots ...

This is how crazy 2020 is: We’ll put a live mike on a gabby tight end ( George Kittle on Sunday against the Patriots), but we have to silence the mikes of our presidential candidates.

When Santa Clara health officials finally do allow fans back into Levi’s Stadium, it will be limited to fans who live within a 120mile radius of the stadium. Good news for you 49ers fans who live in the City: I checked, and San Francisco is within that radius of the home of the San Francisco 49ers.

It’s a mistake to mike Kittle during Sunday’s game. Kittle should be miked 24/ 7.

Here’s a Fred Dean story I heard years ago from a former 49ers exec: Dean sat down with the 49ers to hammer out a contract, in the days before agents. The two sides were close to an agreement, so the 49ers threw in a sweetener. “We’ll give you $ 500 for every sack.” Dean said, “OK, but does my wife have to know?”

Not to be overlooked, when praising Baker for his handling of Bonds: The role of Willie Mays, Bonds’ godfather. It’s part of the unsung Mays legacy — unsung, that is, until the book “24: Life Stories and Lessons From the Say Hey Kid,” by Mays and John Shea. A great look into Mays’ lifetime of leadership.

Another thought on Baker: His polar opposite is Bill Belichick. What a dreary load it must be to cover a Belichick team on a regular basis. “Let’s see what meager scraps Bill throws at us today before he leaves in a snit or a huff.”

That’s the choice with Belichick: Snit or huff. Such needless pomposity.

I’ll cheer for Los Angeles on this: The Lakers, Sparks and Kings are teaming up to get out the vote at Staples Center.

All the Tom Seaver obits I saw ( except for “The Nation”) left out an important element of his resume: war protester. Seaver was a Marine ( Reserves), an alum of superconservative USC, and he rocked an insuranceman’s haircut back in the day when you knew a man’s politics by his hairstyle. Nobody in baseball was political back then. But Seaver was. On the eve of the ’ 69 World Series, Seaver told the New York Times that the Vietnam war was “perfectly ridiculous.” Some Shea fans booed Seaver when he pitched ( and won) Game 4. After the Mets won the Series, he and wife Nancy placed an antiwar ad in the Times.

When Jimmy Garoppolo piledrives into linebackers for a gutsy first down, and the TV announcers talk about how inspiring this is to Jimmy’s teammates, do they remember his gutsy move to stay inbounds on a sideline scramble in Kansas City two seasons ago? That one didn’t exactly inspire Jimmy’s teammates.

It will be fantastic when businesses can safely reopen, but the least critical reopening, and one of the riskiest, is fans at sports events.

Something to consider: The pandemic dead in America would fill the Bay Area’s six professional sports venues ( Chase Center, Oracle Park, Oakland Coliseum, Levi’s Stadium, SAP Center, Earthquakes Stadium) with only about 2,700 seats to spare. We’re days away from full capacity.