8/11 Cubs (Lester) @ Indians (Plutko) 6:00 Marquee/FS1

[Andy]

Had to retitle this thread because of St. Louis being super dumb. Off to Cleveland. Edited August 10, 2020 by Andy

[Derwood]

Ponce de Leon pitches for my awful RTTS Orioles team and he sucks, so clearly this will be an easy win

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[David]

nothing to see here

 

[sweetpeteman]

Ya know, I want the season to happen. But if it gets cancelled due to the Cardinals, that's a decent consolation prize.

[Cubswin11]

nothing to see here

 

[Andy]

Updated thread title.

 

Thanks again, STL.

[UMFan83]

Welp, looking at a 4 day break from Cubs baseball potentially.

[Cubswin11]

They have ~30 guys at their minor league camp who haven’t been around the team, force them to come up and play

[Brian707]

Ya know, I want the season to happen. But if it gets cancelled due to the Cardinals, that's a decent consolation prize.

 

 

The Cardinal Way

[NOLA]

They have ~30 guys at their minor league camp who haven’t been around the team, force them to come up and play

Isn't that why the taxi squad exists? Why hasn't that already happened?

[UMFan83]

7 inning doubleheaders suck, but with the Cubs bullpen I can't say I'd be super disappointed if we had to schedule some....less innings for the pen to cover is certainly a good thing.

[squally1313]

Confirmed, positive tests = Forfeit, but those losses don't count for your draft position. With 16 teams making the playoffs, you really aren't giving anyone that much of an advantage.

[jersey cubs fan]

They have ~30 guys at their minor league camp who haven’t been around the team, force them to come up and play

Isn't that why the taxi squad exists? Why hasn't that already happened?

Because one positive test means the rest of the team could be coming up positive within the next few days. The taxi squad is to have a roster available once enough time has passed that you can reasonably assume others guys were not infected, replacing the positive tests. But it can't happen day of a positive test.

[Cubswin11]

They have ~30 guys at their minor league camp who haven’t been around the team, force them to come up and play

Isn't that why the taxi squad exists? Why hasn't that already happened?

Because one positive test means the rest of the team could be coming up positive within the next few days. The taxi squad is to have a roster available once enough time has passed that you can reasonably assume others guys were not infected, replacing the positive tests. But it can't happen day of a positive test.

Literally don’t let anyone on the MLB team play and stay away from the facilities until the right amount of time/negative tests have happened. Bring up all 30 guys who have, presumably, been isolated from the MLB players and staff and don’t have it. Have the team managed through zoom/bring up minor league staff.

 

If your team is going to go out and do irresponsible things like go to casinos and be in public without masks pay the consequences of having to play with all minor leaguers.

[Cubswin11]

[UMFan83]

 

I was enjoying baseball every night knowing full well at any point we could see an extended break and here we are

[NOLA]

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Why wasn’t Flaherty going to pitch?

[Omar]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

[NonProfitCow]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive.

[Cubswin11]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive.

If the players got it doing something reckless like going to a casino or whatever nonsense the Cardinals seem to have done I’m fine with canceling/voiding a team.

[NonProfitCow]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive.

If the players got it doing something reckless like going to a casino or whatever nonsense the Cardinals seem to have done I’m fine with canceling/voiding a team.

The casino story was a rumor from Jerry Hairston on twitter not realizing it was players going to a drive in concert at an amphitheater a month ago.

[jersey cubs fan]

At this point, doesn't it make sense to just void the Cardinals season?

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive.

“A” player