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

[Brian707]

If I heard right? Before their team flight to Philly two of the pilots tested positive so they just switched pilots?

[CubinNY]

Shut it down.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Hitting herd immunity before the stretch run is the new market inefficiency

[Derwood]

Cancelling the season was (reportedly) not discussed during the owners' conference call

[Cubswin11]

Seems like at the very least they need to be looking at changing some protocols. Masks should be required in dugouts during games by everyone maybe even in the playing field too, if you aren’t in the game or have come out maybe you can’t sit in the dugout or locker room and need to go sit in the stands x amount of rows/aisles away from next closets, look at limiting time in locker room before and after games, up the testing to daily for the time being (think it’s every 2-3 days now), figure out better ways to respond if guys aren’t feeling well, etc type stuff. Edited July 27, 2020 by Cubswin11

[Brian]

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[Bertz]

 

Contract the Marlins

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Contract the Marlins

 

With the obvious preamble that I hope all of their players and staff stay safe and healthy, there are only a couple franchises more deserving of this than them.

[Brian707]

Seems like at the very least they need to be looking at changing some protocols. Masks should be required in dugouts during games by everyone maybe even in the playing field too, if you aren’t in the game or have come maybe you can’t sit in the dugout or locker room and need to go sit in the stands x amount of rows/aisles away from next closets, look at limiting time in locker room before and after games, up the testing to daily for the time being (think it’s every 2-3 days now), figure out better ways to respond if guys aren’t feeling well, etc type stuff.

 

Exactly, but why didn't MLB think of this for the last 5 months instead of trying to horsefeathers over the players?

[abuck1220]

the whole "the players can sit in the stands" thing sure didn't pan out huh.

[Cubswin11]

the whole "the players can sit in the stands" thing sure didn't pan out huh.

Watching a lot of different games over the weekend, it seemed like the majority of the players were either in the dugout like normal or the bullpen. Even those 10-15 foot extensions they put on dugouts didn’t look like guys were using it. I didn’t see a single guy on any team go sit in the stands like they said guys would/should.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

The overlap between the demographics of anti-maskers and MLB clubhouses is about 70% of overlapping circles

[Brian]

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[UMFan83]

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this is quickly turning into a train wreck. It sucks but I really can't see the season continuing on much longer if we're already having this many challenges. Hope I'm wrong, but in the meantime I will enjoy the heck out of every game the Cubs play, knowing it might be the last.

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it's going to look so bad for mlb if they have to cancel the season and the nba/nhl bubbles work

[Regular Show]

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“MLB needs to act aggressively now, to hope that you have kept the outbreak contained to the Marlins,” Dr. Zachary Binney, an epidemiologist at Emory University’s Oxford College, said on The Athletic’s “Starkville” podcast.

 

“What you really don’t want is it jumping to other clubs because they’re traveling and playing other opponents. So two teams is a lot harder to control than one team. And three teams would be even harder. And you really want to stop it from getting to that point.”

“I don’t think MLB necessarily needs to scrap the season just yet. I think that would be a little bit of an overreaction,” Binney said. “But they need to think very seriously about the results of the investigation in Miami and (decide) if this can be fixed, or if this is likely to be a one-off, or if it’s likely to happen again and again.

 

“I think that if you saw the situation in Miami repeated for another team, that’s when you’d have to think very seriously about suspending the season.”

Edited July 27, 2020 by Regular Show

[NOLA]

it's going to look so bad for mlb if they have to cancel the season and the nba/nhl bubbles work

They’ll take comfort when the NFL falls flat on its face as well.

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[Cubswin11]

it's going to look so bad for mlb if they have to cancel the season and the nba/nhl bubbles work

The players were never going to accept a bubble scenario by the sounds of it when that was talked about for a few days. Plus the two ST sites aren’t exactly able to play a ton of baseball in summer due to weather (extreme AZ heat and Florida rain). Not that they couldn’t have maybe figured out bubbles in 2-3 spots (like LA/SD for west coast, Chicago/Milwaukee for central). But sounded like the players never wanted a bubble.

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it's going to look so bad for mlb if they have to cancel the season and the nba/nhl bubbles work

The players were never going to accept a bubble scenario by the sounds of it when that was talked about for a few days. Plus the two ST sites aren’t exactly able to play a ton of baseball in summer due to weather (extreme AZ heat and Florida rain). Not that they couldn’t have maybe figured out bubbles in 2-3 spots (like LA/SD for west coast, Chicago/Milwaukee for central). But sounded like the players never wanted a bubble.

 

i meant mlb in general, not mlb as in the owners vs the players. it's going to look bad for baseball if nba/nhl show that a bubble would have worked.

[Cubswin11]

it's going to look so bad for mlb if they have to cancel the season and the nba/nhl bubbles work

The players were never going to accept a bubble scenario by the sounds of it when that was talked about for a few days. Plus the two ST sites aren’t exactly able to play a ton of baseball in summer due to weather (extreme AZ heat and Florida rain). Not that they couldn’t have maybe figured out bubbles in 2-3 spots (like LA/SD for west coast, Chicago/Milwaukee for central). But sounded like the players never wanted a bubble.

 

i meant mlb in general, not mlb as in the owners vs the players. it's going to look bad for baseball if nba/nhl show that a bubble would have worked.

Right, a bubble seems like the clear smartest thing to do to mitigate virus spread. But it never seemed like it was a realistic thing for MLB to do for whatever reason(s).

[NonProfitCow]

4 more Marlins test positive. Up to 17.

 

Phillies Yankees cancelled again.

[Rex Buckingham]

The players were never going to accept a bubble scenario by the sounds of it when that was talked about for a few days. Plus the two ST sites aren’t exactly able to play a ton of baseball in summer due to weather (extreme AZ heat and Florida rain). Not that they couldn’t have maybe figured out bubbles in 2-3 spots (like LA/SD for west coast, Chicago/Milwaukee for central). But sounded like the players never wanted a bubble.

 

i meant mlb in general, not mlb as in the owners vs the players. it's going to look bad for baseball if nba/nhl show that a bubble would have worked.

Right, a bubble seems like the clear smartest thing to do to mitigate virus spread. But it never seemed like it was a realistic thing for MLB to do for whatever reason(s).

 

I'm sure the sheer numbers of MLB teams/traveling parties was a big hindrance to a bubble. I mean, we're probably at 50 people per team at a bare minimum, right? 30 teams, you've got 1500 as probably a baseline amount of people. And then having limited facilities that are usable, given that the only places with a high concentration of parks are Arizona and Florida, which are basically COVID-central right now in addition to being pretty inhospitable for playing in July and August, doesn't seem like an MLB bubble was feasible on the scale needed.

[Cubswin11]