MLB Imposes 60 Game Season, Spring Training 2.0 Starts in 7 Days

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I think in the worst case scenario it's game over and MLB has to shut down and cancel the season. This goes for the NBA and other pro sports too.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'd be pretty shocked if they cancelled. As long as they can find 25 x 30 players to fill the rosters, they're gonna run through something and declare a champion to fulfill the TV contracts.

[jersey cubs fan]

I'd be pretty shocked if they cancelled. As long as they can find 25 x 30 players to fill the rosters, they're gonna run through something and declare a champion to fulfill the TV contracts.

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'd be pretty shocked if they cancelled. As long as they can find 25 x 30 players to fill the rosters, they're gonna run through something and declare a champion to fulfill the TV contracts.

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

[Derwood]

If MLB and the other sports can’t avoid COVID cases (with all their precautions, testing, etc) how do we think sending kids back to school will work? Ugh

[David]

I'd be pretty shocked if they cancelled. As long as they can find 25 x 30 players to fill the rosters, they're gonna run through something and declare a champion to fulfill the TV contracts.

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before.

 

I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work."

[jersey cubs fan]

I'd be pretty shocked if they cancelled. As long as they can find 25 x 30 players to fill the rosters, they're gonna run through something and declare a champion to fulfill the TV contracts.

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

What would that matter? The entire point is these guys can all easily infect each other after getting it from anywhere. The whole premise of reopening the season is the theory that big strong men can't die from it so it's not really an issue. They've basically created a new DL category assuming the guys that test positive just need a little R&R. It has been more or less accepted that a huge surge in positive tests will very possibly cause it to shutdown. If, and I don't anticipate it happening, but if a player actually dies from the disease during the season it blows the whole thing out of the water.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before.

 

I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work."

 

 

Maybe I'll end up being wildly wrong (as per usual). But remember, we're not talking about what you or I would do. At the end of the day, MLB just needs 30 billionaires, some politicians and ~750 willing baseball players. The amount of money they stand to lose if they don't have some sort of season is enormous. They didn't become billionaires by prioritizing lives over money.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

If a player dies from COVID? Nah, if that happens it’s dunzo.

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

What would that matter? The entire point is these guys can all easily infect each other after getting it from anywhere. The whole premise of reopening the season is the theory that big strong men can't die from it so it's not really an issue. They've basically created a new DL category assuming the guys that test positive just need a little R&R. It has been more or less accepted that a huge surge in positive tests will very possibly cause it to shutdown. If, and I don't anticipate it happening, but if a player actually dies from the disease during the season it blows the whole thing out of the water.

 

The *justification* is big strong man can't really die from it. The real reason is $. They'll find a new justification if they need it.

[jersey cubs fan]

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before.

 

I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work."

 

 

Maybe I'll end up being wildly wrong (as per usual). But remember, we're not talking about what you or I would do. At the end of the day, MLB just needs 30 billionaires, some politicians and ~750 willing baseball players. The amount of money they stand to lose if they don't have some sort of season is enormous. They didn't become billionaires by prioritizing lives over money.

A death leads to a walk out which creates a near impossibility to fill rosters with scabs in time to finish a season.

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i think they'll play until one of these 3 things happens

 

a) a player gets gravely ill

 

b) the deaths spike heavily in the us

 

c) a single team get completely annihilated by the virus and can't really field a professional team

[Andy]

 

What if the player's case is traced to something outside of his job?

 

It'll still cement the possibility as real (and perceived to be more likely than it is, perhaps) and lead to pulling back. We've made long standing/permanent changes to society in reaction to plenty of unlikely events that just hadn't occurred yet before.

 

I think seeing a player die would make players far more fearful of getting it, too, even if they can prove he didn't get it from "work."

 

 

Maybe I'll end up being wildly wrong (as per usual). But remember, we're not talking about what you or I would do. At the end of the day, MLB just needs 30 billionaires, some politicians and ~750 willing baseball players. The amount of money they stand to lose if they don't have some sort of season is enormous. They didn't become billionaires by prioritizing lives over money.

They shut down all of sports just because Rudy Gobert got the virus. (They ultimately would have anyway at some point, but there's no doubt that was the spark.) If someone dies, God forbid, public pressure to shut it down will be insane.

[Sammy Sofa]

[NonProfitCow]

Jesus horsefeathers

 

MLB flew Dominican players to the U.S. for restart but didn’t test them for coronavirus first

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/09/mlb-charter-flights-dominican-republic-testing/

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[Clem Fandango]

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horsefeathering idiots.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

MLB.tv blackouts were never about attendance? I don’t even recall that being floated as an excuse, it’s to prop up local tv deals that bring in a huge chunk of the league’s revenue.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

MLB.tv blackouts were never about attendance? I don’t even recall that being floated as an excuse, it’s to prop up local tv deals that bring in a huge chunk of the league’s revenue.

 

And since the whole point of this season is to keep the local cable deals happy, then the blackouts are gonna be even more important to them.

[Clem Fandango]

MLB.tv blackouts were never about attendance? I don’t even recall that being floated as an excuse, it’s to prop up local tv deals that bring in a huge chunk of the league’s revenue.

 

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd.

[jersey cubs fan]

MLB.tv blackouts were never about attendance? I don’t even recall that being floated as an excuse, it’s to prop up local tv deals that bring in a huge chunk of the league’s revenue.

 

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd.

 

No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money.

[Clem Fandango]

MLB.tv blackouts were never about attendance? I don’t even recall that being floated as an excuse, it’s to prop up local tv deals that bring in a huge chunk of the league’s revenue.

 

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd.

 

No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money.

 

I mean yeah, duh, it's about money with the cable companies, but it also isn't not about attendance because they insist on that being a primary reason for it and have for decades. Even though that's obviously a fallacy because the blackout maps make no horsefeathering sense for that to even work, that's what they put out there as a big reason as some kind of "Golly gee shucks Mister, guess you oughta buy a ticket or something" while they stuff their fat faces with Comcast and Fox's sweaty ballsacks

[jersey cubs fan]

 

Huh? Attendance is the strawman they've used as the reason for the blackouts forever. The whole point is that if you're in the vicinity of a teams location, they black you out to force you to go to a game. That's quite literally the reason it said on their page for years. Whether it says that now I don't know, but that's why I was unable to get Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, or Houston games in Mobile, Alabama. Cable had nothing to do with it because outside of maybe TBS, I literally got none of those local stations, so there was no reason to be blacked out on a service I pay to watch these games. There are cities everywhere that are dead zones that get screwed out of watching teams that aren't realistic to drive and go see, nor do they have the local channels to watch those teams. Their blackout map is absurd.

 

No. That was blackhawks excuse in 1987. It’s always been about protecting cable money.

 

I mean yeah, duh, it's about money with the cable companies, but it also isn't not about attendance because they insist on that being a primary reason for it and have for decades. Even though that's obviously a fallacy because the blackout maps make no horsefeathering sense for that to even work, that's what they put out there as a big reason as some kind of "Golly gee shucks Mister, guess you oughta buy a ticket or something" while they stuff their fat faces with Comcast and Fox's sweaty ballsacks

I don’t understand your lingo but I can’t imagine thinking it was about attendance. It’s not about attendance and hasn’t been about attendance. It’s about making it easier to justify millions of people paying an extra $3.75 on their cable bill every month.

[David]

i think he's getting mixed up thinking of local blackouts when the teams dont hit an attendance threshold, like used to happen in the NFL.