As anticipated, an agreement regarding the coronavirus-driven suspension of the 2020 season has resulted in a freezing of MLB rosters, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports on Twitter. A date for the resumption of transactions will be set in the future.
As part of their negotiations, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have also reached a set of understandings regarding the resumption of play. Jeff Passan of ESPN.com (Twitter links) reported the details. Roster movement will be permitted once a new Opening Day can be scheduled.
It isn’t fully clear whether the sides have specifically agreed to restrictions as part of their collectively bargained special exceptions to the Basic Agreement. But it seems at minimum the mutual intention is to wait until baseball can conduct business in much the usual fashion before starting the season.
Per Passan, the league and union do not wish to begin play if fans cannot be present. Thus, a lifting of bans on mass gatherings will be a precondition to the start of the season — though he adds there’s a “caveat” by which neutral sits and empty stadiums can be considered as needed.
It’s good there’s some flexibility baked into this set of understandings, as there are no guarantees as to whether and when typical staging of ballgames will be possible. Even if some number of fans are ultimately permitted in to watch a contest, that would always be subject to change.
Much the same holds true of one of the other requirements for resuming play identified by Passan: a lack of travel restrictions. We don’t yet know what kinds of domestic transportation modifications we’ll end up facing in this crisis, but it seems likely the approach will evolve over time as needs change in various areas.
The final main consideration for holding contests is the review of medical experts to ensure it is safe to those on hand. MLB’s precise plans aren’t clear; perhaps the league will engage a consultant to guide the process.
It’s certainly good to hear that the league and union intend to ensure their actions won’t pose a health risk to those involved in the game and/or the broader public. But the set of requirements also seems rather steep given where things stand now in the effort to contain the deadly pathogen. In particular, much as we’d all love to see the game played in front of live audiences, it seems as if that’ll be awfully difficult to pull off in the near term given the vast ongoing uncertainty.
And that’s the death knell of the season
That was a week or so ago, Brewster.
It’s going to be played once this “epidemic” is over which should be soon. According to CDC, less than 1% in America are infected, less than 3% are in actual risk of dying. 81% of infected never even have any serious symptoms.
nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemi…
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
The fact that “less than 1% of Americans” are infected is because almost no Americans have been tested. The number of cases identified each day is growing by leaps and bounds each day as we plod through testing the populace, mainly just testing those with self-identified symptoms. We blew past China yesterday. China is basically standing still because they have established and are enforcing draconian shelter in place protocols. The fact that “81% of infected never even have any serious symptoms” means that 19% do; once enough people with serious symptoms need to go to the hospital that they overwhelm hospital capacity in terms of beds, medical supplies, ventilators, and doctors, then the death rate will spike. That day is rapidly approaching. The day-to-day death rate has slowed the past couple of days. So we got that going for us. But don’t listen to thetruth. He’s not plugged in to the expert virologists, infectious disease doctors, and epidemilogists. He’s a 25 year old know it all, self-proclaimed expert. Me? I go with the trained, experienced experts.
My man you are wasting your breath w these knuckle draggers. Their minds won’t change. They’ve chosen their preferred narrative.
Just like you’ve chosen your narrative dynamite
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/26/rightwin…
thetruth and his american flag knows it all from over there on the right wing.
My ancestors came here in 1635. I am no more American than anyone else.
Reality isn’t a narrative, dingbat.
What I wonder is why we are arguing like this. Democrat or Republican we need to be doing what’s right for the people. The politicians need to get relief funds passed so that the families living paycheck to paycheck aren’t having to worry about not feeding their kids at night! Random people need to quit getting into fist fights with old-ladies over bleach. And most importantly, we need to quit arguing! Getting stressed out and yelling at people in comments sections isn’t helping anybody! All we are doing is getting crazier and crazier, and just more and more outrageous. Calm down.
i made my doctor appointment at a large hospital and the earliest they could do was early may because of patients of the corona virus infection. and i’ve been a member of the hmo for more than 30 years. and depending on how many more patients they get they may postpone mine.
Dude, facts are facts. Things may not be bad in your area at the moment but in a couple of weeks that may be completely different. Just because you feel something, it doesn’t make it true. The numbers are telling us the truth it has nothing to do with which narrative you chose
Mo – “then the death rate will spike. That day is rapidly approaching.” How can you say Truth isn’t “plugged in” after throwing out your own unsubstantiated conjecture?
I’m the one with the master’s degree and can pay my own bills without waiting for government help and I also don’t feel the need to tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps while taking said government money…but no, it’s the Fox News crowd that’s got it all figured out and I’m the idiot.
You got me, my favorite thing is missing Opening Day because dumb dumb in the Oval Office downplayed this when first warned about it, maybe could have gotten ahead of it, and now the damage is done.
Exactly, whynot
Flu:
1.3 – spread rate
0.3% – hospitalization
0.01-0.03% – death rate
Coronavirus estimates:
~3.0 – spread rate
~15% – hospitalized
~1% – dead
If Corona merely reaches the 1 in 5 (roughly 66 million) the flu does, we are talking at least about 10 million in hospitals and 660,000 dead solely from the disease – and all over a roughly 1-2 month time frame. That is a massive overload of the health system, and would be taking place all over the country
And I’ll also point out that I was dealing with the misinformation from this self-described “truth” guy merely 2 days ago. At that time there were
52,976 cases, 704 deaths
97,288 cases, 1,481 deaths right now, just 2 days later
200,000 cases, 3,000 deaths is what we are pacing for by Sunday night, based off our current rate – but it might even be many more considering the hot spots just popping up now in NJ, LA, MI, GA, IL, CA and more.
With us at 100,000 today, and it doubling every roughly 2 days, we could be around that 66 million cases (10 million in hospitals and 660,000 dead) in just 19 days time
Now that doesn’t mean we will definitely see those numbers 19 days from now, ideally our stay-in-place measures slow it dramatically, but it could easily be what we are in for over the next 2 months if fools take this as lightly as “thetruth” wants them to
My man quoting the guardian in any intellectual argument is a joke. That is one of the most bias and radical sites you can find.
You trust the government in China for accurate statictics?
Posting articles from the guardian, or daily mail is no more accuarte and/or truthful than posting them from the likes of someone like CNN.
That linked article should be read with 2lbs of salt, then tossed as rubbish.
Dumb Dumb wants the economy opened because of all his empty hotel rooms. He was a me first spoiled brat as a kid, as a young entrepreneur and still is as a marketer for Orange facial products.
Did your mother have any children who lived?
Looks like Mr. Liberal has it all figured out
@prov356
“Mo – ‘then the death rate will spike. That day is rapidly approaching.’ How can you say Truth isn’t “plugged in” after throwing out your own unsubstantiated conjecture?”
Conjecture? The hospitals are already running out of ventilators and medical supplies like gloves, masks and coats. When they start running out of beds and doctors (soon) people with serious symptoms will be turned away and the death rate will spike. Pure and simple. No conjecture about it. The doctors and public health experts are saying it. The only thing that will change this scenario is if we flatten the curve on the cases with serious symptoms requiring hospitalization, and the rate of new deaths per day.
I love baseball and all of you!
Yes Mo, conjecture. If you only listen to the news, be it CNN, Fox, et al, you are only getting the hype.
Me too Adroc, me too.
prov356.
My wife does medical research and has relationships throughout medicine. I get my information FROM the experts. No conjecture involved. You’re the one sucking hype because you, like thetruth you’re defending, are not in contact with the experts.
Well that’s good Mo. You shouldn’t be in panic mode then. I’m sure the experts your wife is getting her information from aren’t panicking. Chill and do what’s right for you and those around you.
Well, Ranger, you’re right about what “should” be done and how people should behave. But the fundamental differences, including who really cares about us great unwashed masses, is evident in the coronavirus relief bill. Among other money-grubbing and pet projects COMPLETELY UNRELATED to Covid-19, the Democrats used the bill to give $25Million to the Kennedy Center (basically, a freaking opera house) in Washington, DC.
Put the blame where it belongs. They don’t care about people.
Whyhay, you noticed one of his “right wing” sources was the new york times, right?
The word is “biased”. Not “bias”. Anyway, based on your comment, I went over t0 The Guardian website. It seems like a pretty straight, comprehensive site. Maybe the pieces clearly marked “opinion” were biased; but the news seemed pretty straight. I suspect you’ve never gone over there yourself, but are just repeating something you think you’ve heard. Please go to their website and tell us which News stories are radical and excessively biased.
and you have done the same (difference is, you types are 100 percent wrong).
yet, you’ll be the first ones there with your hands out for a cure, money, etc… like you guys always do.
I agree with much of what you are saying, with the exception of your comment about the USA “blowing past China.” If you really believe that China is reporting true numbers, it puts you in the dim bulb category.
Geez! What an idiot you are dynamite.
Well you were right about the idiot part njbird.
I know you were voting for that commie Sanders but he’s gone now thank God
You r FOS.
If u r speaking of the poster referencing guardian.. yes.. They ARE in with the chinese and have been regurgitating chi com talking points since their virus began.
Dudes, it’s an opinion piece. Get over yourselves. It’s got nothing to do with the virus and everything to do with how people think. Sorry if your fragile egos got hurt by a relatively accurate description of the right wing. I voted for Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama and nobody (I still voted). It’s called coming to grips with the reality that my Republican party has gone down the toilet. I don’t really care where my information comes from but I can see quite clearly what reality is without someone else telling me. By the way, Obama was a conservative and I supported him. Not because he was a Democrat. It’s very hard for me to pull that lever because historically the Democrats were the liars. How that’s changed.
You just lied to everyone hayzee. Obama was a Conservative, well, never. Not saying there’s anything wrong with that but you just lied. Time to stop telling us who you voted for because I doubt anyone really cares.
Yes, Obama was a conservative. Universal health care was forwarded in the early 1900’s by one of the of the founders of the Casualty Actuarial Society, even favored by Richard Nixon. It’s not liberalism, it’s common sense that is more than 100 years old. There are lots of other examples. Democrats whine about him because he wasn’t a liberal. That’s part of why he was a good president as opposed to the complete disasters of Carter and Clinton.
I know no one cares, including me about whether anyone cares or not. I just have three free minutes in my day to type nonsense. Sorry.
It’s true. Obama was right-of-center by 1960s standards. The Republican Party has been moving more or less steadily rightward starting with Reagan. GHW Bush was maybe the only exception, which is why his party more or less abandoned him.
Gasu, you are clueless. Obama is a left wing socialist. In case you missed the part where he called Saul Alinsky his “mentor,” maybe you should look it up.
Stay in school.
Hayzee, that is total garbage. Do you even know what the Casualty Actuarial Society was, and what they endorsed? Not likely.
whyhaszee, Well you still have a job right? the best economy in 55 yrs and your complaining suck it up, of course with this virus things in the economy have changed but they’ll be back stronger than ever in four months
I’ve been laughing at your comment for about 24 hours WhyZ. Haven’t slept. Fell off a chair and kept laughing. You are a riot. Not that intelligent but quite a riot. Keep posting. We need more humor.
In some circles whyhaszee would be referred to as a “useful idiot.”
“Epidemic” wtf
Unfortunately, this epidemic is just getting started in this country. The infection rate is increasing exponentially. China has been dealing with this since January. They’re just now getting back to normal. Don’t be naive.
With rosters frozen, does that mean players can’t be added to the IL? I.e Syndergaard, Sale, etc
Correct.
Does it matter?
My heart hurts.
All you people will be thinking there will be no baseball this year what are you smoking. Odds are baseball resume probably around July and they will probably get in about 80 games. Also owners not wanting to do games without fans is just their way of saying “the hell with the fans we want to make money“.
This.
You seem very dim.
80 games would be a joke 100 game or gtfo
81 is exactly half of the season. why does it need to be a nice round number?
Well Darkside some peoples small minds can only comprehend even numbers for some reason
Yeah, what are we…NBA fans? Actually, 80 would be awesome at this point. The second half of the season is often waaaaay different than the first for half the teams.
If its 80 or zero….ill take 80,,, seems pretty simple
I’d take an 80 came season. Division only play. 20 games against each. One wild card for the next best record. Not perfect but the only way it matters to fans that aren’t in fantasy leagues is rivalries. That will create passion. The Mets playin 20 games each against the Nats, Phils and Braves. Same in each division.
Actually a very cool idea!!!!!!-
Have 6 neutral cites ; have every Div play 20 per each team 80 games total !!!!
I actually really really like that… even if its super late you can fit a lot more games with the neutral cites with double headers etc…would be kinda fun too for a Div like the NL east…. might be stealing this idea of yours for the future better trademark that!
This is terrible.
I will also take 80 over zero games
What makes baseball special are the individual stadiums and how teams build in large part because of the uniqueness of each ballpark. I realize it’s only one season but my earlier suggestion keeps that aspect and also rewards local fans. Neutral cities will reward the rich with some out of town fans also benefitting.
Why?
how about not wanting the viral breakout in the ballparks?
Even with 80 games, Yankees/Red Sox will still be at least 12 of the ESPN Sunday Night games. /s
Whatever makes you feel better
Sorry there will be no baseball this year is a sure thing, putting 40k fans together in a stadium won’t happen until Dec. 2020 at the earliest and baseball is not played in the snow.
Well, the geniuses in Minnesota did build an open air baseball stadium. Of course, they also elected a professional wrestler to governor, an ignorant comedian to the Senate, and a law-breaking communist Somali to the House of Representatives. Forget December baseball and Covid-19, they should test their water supply for hallucinogens.
State officials Friday announced more than 1,900 new cases of the coronavirus and 27 new deaths in New Jersey, bringing the statewide total to at least 8,825 known cases — including at least 108 deaths — as the state continues its efforts to slow the spread of the fast-moving virus.
Thank goodness we’re worried about the baseball season.
This thing is just getting started.
Lol talk about an overreaction.
According to The CDC, less than 1% of Americans are infected, less than 3% are in actual risk of dying. 81% of infected never even have any serious symptoms.
nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemi…
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
Experts are saying this quarantine is worse than the actual disease and yet here we have another chicken little overreacting. More people die from car accidents and yet I don’t see car bans do you? This thing is ending soon.
You realize less than 3% is still millions of people, right?
If you say that the U.S population is approximately 327,000,000, 3% of that would be around 9,810,000 people.
And 9.8 million is ten times the total number of hospital beds we have in the US, most of which are already full with people battling other illnesses and having babies.
That’s the real problem.
aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
And that’s exactly the point of quarantine. The slow the curve. That means that even if all of those 9.8 million get hospitalized, they all come in at different times, and they have a bed to get well in. Essentially just slowing the spread. Let’s just hope that 9.8 million people in the U.S don’t get it.
That and while all of the coronavirus patients are rolling in people will still be dealing with cancer, heart attacks, strokes, broken bones, and of course having babies. We can’t just clear every bed.
Fortunately the weather in SoCal has been dreary and rainy most of the last two weeks and that keeps people here indoors (seriously folks can’t deal with stuff falling out of the sky). I really hope Mother Nature has helped calm it here, but we just don’t know yet.
Baseball fans should be able to understand statistics, but some can’t seem to get beyond addition and subtraction to multiplication and division. Higher arithmetic, it’s just so hard.
thetruth
You’re repeating yourself. You realize almost none of the population has been tested? You realize that 19% of the infected developing serious symptoms is alot, especially once beds, medical supplies, ventilators, doctors, etc. become overwhelmed?
“Experts are saying this quarantine is worse than the actual disease”
Who are these experts? I’ve heard this talk, but not from any experts. I’ve heard this from self-dealing business people who are not watching the increase in cases and deaths. Well, people will ignore those business people until they feel safe.
there must be a copy and paste classes down there somewhere.
Mo….have you read the other threads on this site? You’ve been repeating yourself constantly. Probably should have started your argument in a different fashion. Just a suggestion.
Mo, checked in with your wife. She said you are not the sharpest piece of cutlery in the drawer and she wishes you would stop quoting her.
You don’t see any car bans because traffic fatalities don’t exponentially multiply among motorists who happen to have used the same roasts or parked in the same garages as the vehicles involved in those crashes, days after the fact.
Experts? Which experts? The mindless assclown a on Fox News? Haha
Car accidents aren’t contagious, goofball.
And if you wish upon a star, all your dreams will come true.
Regardless of who or what is posting this but it’s not clear to me how 1% be infected and 3% have a risk of dying from the infection.
If one player gets it they will easily transmit it to everyone in the clubhouse and out of everyone there is a good chance someone will get serious symptoms. Unlike the flu this is a potentially severe respiratory disease for people. We need more data before we can consider a season.
No medical expert thinks the lockdowns are over doing it.
I’m making a list of morons on this site that because they are so stupid I can just skip all there comments because there opinion does not matter can I have the name of the person that thinks this?
What experts? The only expert you can cite is the President.
No, the CDC is reporting only KNOWN infections. Even the CDC admits there are many more people infected than the ones they know about.
In any case, the number of infected and dead are going to keep rising. Do you keep track of your posts? Are you going to come back and correct them when the numbers are 5 or 10 times higher?
Nothing to laugh about. Unless there’s a total freeze on human movement and a stay in place order, there’s simply no way to stop or long term contain this until treatment and a vaccine are developed.
thetruth, You’re missing the point the virus can come back once you’re in remission and that is the infectious aspect of this virus. You won’t be calling this chicken little when in four months from now the total will surpass 5 M people in this country.
this is a baseball site talking about people who work in baseball. why wouldnt they have at least some concern about baseball?
The CBA expires after the 2020 season. Start the negotiations ASAP
2021 I believe and while discussions should take place, the sides need to wait this out to learn if the landscape radically changes when this is over. Alternatively, maybe extend the current MLBPA an extra year if this goes on longer than expected.
I say go on strike now it won’t matter since there will be no baseball this season. I don’t like the service time allotted even if the season is cancelled. I would also give the players 35% of their salary tops with no season. If MLBPA doesn’t like it then call a strike now and they don’t get paid anything.
What kind of effect is this going to have on the Blue Jays, because technically that is international travel, so how long will it take to get those bans lifted? Weird times.
id assume they could get an exemption.
I imagine this means no more than 20,000 will be allowed to attend games at the Trop or Marlins Park…….
Baby steps lol.
Good one, bobtillman!!
That’s a nice baseball laugh when we need to smile more. Thanks Bob.
Marlins. All time social distancing champions.
A good week for them is 20,000, so yeah, they’re in trouble….
How about one fan each for teams playing?
They can sit on opposite sides of the stadium.
“We are having a Twitter contest today for who is going to get the Ranger ticket for today’s game!” lol
It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars
You would think they would think to of canceled all twitter contests. Actually it’s kind of fun if someone wins they should get a ticket to the first game
If these dummies would just stay home, wash their hands and be decent human beings, we could put a huge dent in this problem. It’s not going away anytime soon but there is real progress being made in treatments for this virus. A vaccine is still 9-12 months away but treatments of some sort will be available in the next 30-90 days. Until then, can we all please be decent humans? Don’t manhandle fruit in the grocery store, cough into your sleeves, use hand sanitizer or alcohol wipes after touching public door handles, ATM machines, Credit Card payment machines, etc. We can all make a difference if we just use our heads. But these a-holes out there making light of this, licking things in public just for social media likes, having parties, meeting groups of people in public are going to make thing so much worse than they have to be. Just use common sense, respect others and stop being unsanitary and selfish. The more we do now, the quicker life can get back to some sense of normal, including baseball games.
I hate the people licking stuff, it’s so stupid. BTW did you know that people are coughing out loud saying they have the virus in stores and getting arrested! They deserve it.
exactly. if people would listen to a forces quarantine then we could keep everyone non-essential home for however many weeks it takes to pass the virus and then be done with it nationwide. yet “we’re Americans, and hell if anyone will tell us to stay home /s”
Wouldn’t coughing in your hands be better, since you could just wash or use hand sanitizer on your hands? The germs on your sleeve would still be there.
You don’t usually touch things with your sleeve.
suppose to cough in your arm by covering your mouth completely.
This is a smart man. We shall see his baseball expertise but this is a great comment
Some of these people can’t possibly be that short sighted to believe this is going to end tomorrow…lol just to funny what a clown “the truth” change your handle to something more appropriate. Words can’t be said here. As for wondering about the Blue Jays and international travel. The rest of the MLB world needs to wonder if and when they will be allowed into Canada. Where by the way we are taking this very seriously. I unfortunately don’t think there will be much of a season at all. Until the folks in the US of A start paying attention this doesn’t go away anytime soon.
no one thinks this is ending soon, but to assume there will be no time at all to play baseball this year is just silly. much can change for the month – for the worse or better.
No baseball this season is being realistic, you can’t have 20 or 40k fans in a stadium for three hours, this virus can come back even if a person gets over it, it can come back as well. I have loved baseball for 55 yrs but let’s be real about this, 2021 will be the first new season and that will give time for MLB to make their demands know to MLBPA and the Union. The way its formatted now its really bad, strike now this also negates players being paid and by 2021 of March it should all be in place without giving away the farm.
Said the guy from Canada, which only has about 10% of the population of the USA. Thanks for playing.
12000 new cases Identified yet again in US yesterday 10000, Wednesday almost 14K…218 people died in the USA today and over 9000 in Italy. Please continue to treat this as a joke as stated earlier the testing is way behind or there’s not enough yet. That’s the real scary part. Sports should be the last thing on our minds right now. All the sports will be there when this ends, but how many of our seniors will remain.
Well said
The expansion rate is a doubling of cases every 2.5 days. That means the 100,000 US cases today will be 200,000 by Sunday, 400,000 by Tuesday and 800,000 by Thursday/ Friday. That would be cases that are tested. There are thousands more who have it, but have not been tested. This might actually be more than the people who have tested positive.
When a million Americans have it by next weekend, Maybe people will wake up.
Until they do, there is not going to be a season.
I wonder if teams will consider keeping open seats between ticket purchasers? I’m thinking sell these 4 tickets, keep 4 seats open around them. Next game sell the blocked tickets keeping 4 seats open open them.
Concession lines need to be enforced with space between as well as bathrooms.
It’s a stretch, but it might be an option in the early going until this thing has been controlled.
With no vaccine available for at least a year, I’m concerned that cases will remultiply once travel and gathering restrictions are lifted. Does the reboot clock start all over again? Cases across the USA are doubling every other day, we aren’t even close to allowing travel to and from areas like New York, New Jersey, Seattle, Philadelphia, California etc. it’s not even on the horizon.
Pandemic is exploding in the U.S. right now. U.S. was very late in enforcing restrictions. Just last week the Florida beaches were packed with people. Colder states like Washington and NY are getting overrun. Baseball is a pipe dream for this year. Even with no fans in attendance, hundreds of others would still need to be there.
Smart comment.
Tough times for baseball. World War II was tougher, but the games were played every year. Yes, these are different times and of course a contagious virus is an entirely different problem. But I think baseball will try to play as many games as possible. How many-nobody knows. I hope the doctors, scientists and researchers can develop a cure and soon. I love baseball. It’s good for people, and the morale of the country.
This might be kinda silly to talk about but as a cranky old man it has, in recent years, bothered me how ill mannered more and more people have become. And I’m referring to people in general BEFORE this virus became an issue.
What I’m talking about are things like how people eat or chew gum with their mouths open. Cough and sneeze without covering up and the most annoying habit of all are big yawns without covering your mouth. I’m talking about just basic manners we, or at least I, were taught growing up.
I said this might sound silly, but for a second pretend there isn’t a contamination issue and that there is no deadly virus. Pretend we’re talking about manners in general ONLY. People have become ill mannered.
Now I know I myself every now and then forget to use good manners. It happens but I like to think that I 98% of the time “cover up”.
Now fast forward to the times we’re enduring now. Everyone is now aware of using those manners/habits we need to now use. People are now FINALLY covering up.
But something I still see are people who yawn these big huge lionlike yawns and don’t coverup. I’ve seen people wearing gloves that still yawn like something you see on National Geographic…with no covering. When you yawn you breathe in then exhale.
Feel free to make fun of this post. Maybe I’m making a big deal out of nothing. But to me, of all the ways there are to spread this thing, little has been said about yawning. I remember when I was little my parents chewing me out about yawning. Telling me I looked horrible, I was rude, and I spread germs. It’s always ticked me off to see it but the same people sneezing into their elbows, thank God for that are the same people dislocating their jaws yawning.
Sorry for the length
I’m not laughing (except at the National Geographic line, that was funny). Seems to me more and more people are giving themselves permission to be rude, or are using rudeness as a form of personal validation. Not sure which, or both, but either way it’s everywhere now.
What’s weird is the same people that have gloves and cough/sneeze into elbows and tissues are the very same people who yawn big yawns and don’t cover. It’s like they care but at the same time must be thinking yawns are different. It’s just hard to fathom.
Btw, I assume you’re a dodger fan. I’m a giants fan since BOBBY Bonds came along. Man I loved to watch him. Ran like a gazelle.
Anyway, I realize that this virus takes priority if you are a dodger guy you’ve gotta be disappointed. If you were ever gonna finally win the title this probbbly would have been your year. At least I thought so. Still question the pitching but man, you guys r loaded. Giants hopefully will get to that point but your window is now
still swept by the lowly angels. 0 for 4!
This is a nice reasonable comment. And I can’t believe how the Astros robbed them like that
Feels like the window is closing, fast. Also feels like ticket holders aren’t even going to get any of their money back. I wouldn’t be surprised if MLB takes the same position as the airlines and tour companies. Their losses will be underwritten by our money.
u.s. soldiers infected the world with chewing the gum with mouth open in the 40’s.
I’m 68 and even I think you’re a crank. People were exhibiting this behavior even when I was growing up.
Considering how many people one single person can contaminate, considering how unlikely it is that this will completely disappear, considering how many people refuse to take this seriously and on and on… Why would you even WANT to attend an event where tens of thousands of people could be there? I have zero idea how the odds would be calculated, but even come June or July, what are the chances that ZERO people out of tens of thousands gathered would be infected? Many people have shown a lot of disregard for their community; I can’t imagine that caution and caring would rise when 20,000 people in a relatively crowded environment, a sporting event and some beer get added to the equation.
Would love to know why certain people DIDNT get infected around those who did, and how they managed not to while surrounded by the same people in the same circle.
My instincts tell me there will be Baseball this year… in some form. But not any time soon.
As far as the Virus goes we are looking at about two months of social separation IF the rest of the country comes even close to the separation protocols. But if it is patchwork we will see a rolling set of outbreaks in different places. The data on this is clear from china to now in the world. Isolate the Virus (that no one has an immunity to before exposure) and limit both it’s impact and damage
In the event that there isn’t a season this year, service time should not count
Ok but I think the league Should provide compensation for the money they are losing. Lol Kris Bryant wound be getting altered again with your idea
Why should players get a year of service time if there isn’t a season?
Ok so let’s try to think the worst and the season starts in Augest 1st 30 days 30 double headers and 35 man rosters. Same thing in September and October and that’s 90 games. Then all the playoff games will be played in domed stadiums but no team can play at home so Everyone can play in Tampa but Tampa. So November you play the playoffs. It’s a weird idea but it could work
i just don’t see how the season can be played. there’s no way the CDC will lift travel conditions for many months…this all started with a handful of infected people returning from asia in january….you think they’ll let people back on planes in a matter of weeks or months from now? a few hundred infected people going around in July could start it all over again. no way CDC will let 40k people pack themselves in a stadium in the year 2020…and players said they won’t play in empty stadiums…