Will The MLB Suspend The 2020 season

[Larry33]

I'm sure this is something the MLB is seriously looking at right now especially that NBA has announced it suspending the remainder of it's season. Some world tournaments has also been cancelled over the Covid-19 pandemic. The protection of the players and people has to be their top priority expect an announcement soon.

[mvp 78]

Yes. Opening Day will be in June IMO.

 

Maybe the Sox investigation will be done by then?

[oldtimer]

Yes. Opening Day will be in June IMO.

 

Maybe the Sox investigation will be done by then?

 

All kidding aside, if they don't have anything on the Sox, they should just say so and get it over with. The commissioner is doing another disservice to the league by dragging it out.

 

The League will be criticized if they go ahead with the season under the circumstances. Its difficult, because no one can say when the COVID-19 virus will pass by. It could go until mid summer or later so maybe the Sox will ride out the expected down season and get back in 2021 with the league starting back up.

[Hitch]

We'll be lucky to see any baseball this year. Our only hope is the warmer weather stalls it but there's little evidence of it as yet.

 

I have friends who live in Milan, Italy. The only advice I can give you now is stay the f*** away from crowds and mostly any other people(especially if you're older with any underlying issues/complaints). This is going to explode in the US (partly down to the horrific opening response to it, just like Italy's), and in Italy right at this minute, they're deciding who lives, and who dies in the corridor as they don't have the ICU beds to deal with what's happening.

[Slasher9]

they should just move up the end of current CBA to now and have this be the strike season while they haggle over LT limits / drug testing / salaries / pensions.....

turn the lemons into something something....

[mvp 78]

@JeffPassan

There is a feeling of inevitability among executives that Major League Baseball will be suspending spring training as soon as today, sources tell ESPN.

[Hitch]

Not a day too early.

[jacksonianmarch]

Spring games to be postponed today. Opening day will be delayed. Guys, this season might not even occur.

[a700hitter]

Spring games to be postponed today. Opening day will be delayed. Guys, this season might not even occur.

Wow!

[a700hitter]

I assume that the teams will still work out a scrimmage.

[mvp 78]

I assume that the teams will still work out a scrimmage.

 

They are going to send everyone home.

[Slasher9]

if the season is cancelled....our LT is still reset, right?????

[mvp 78]

if the season is cancelled....our LT is still reset, right?????

 

Bloom restocks for 2021. The cliff never happened.

[mvp 78]

Nationals are currently playing to a sellout crowd.

[TylerD]

Looking more and more like it.

[a700hitter]

Nationals are currently playing to a sellout crowd.

Fake News from Jacko. Friends of mine are criticizing me for passing on false information from Jacko about Spring Training being cancelled. Stick to the medicine, Jacko.

[mvp 78]

@Joelsherman1

https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/donovan-mitchells-dad-who-works-for-mets-recently-attended-knicks-jazz-game/ #Mets have been touched by the coronavirus through #Jazz star Donovan Mitchell. The team says they will be addressing this matter today in a statement

[mvp 78]

Fake News from Jacko. Friends of mine are criticizing me for passing on false information from Jacko about Spring Training being cancelled. Stick to the medicine, Jacko.

 

Maybe stand up for Jacko?

 

@JonHeyman

Spring training games in Florida and Arizona are expected to be suspended.

 

@JeffPassan

After a conference call among owners this afternoon, Major League Baseball is expected to suspend spring training. The league likely will delay the beginning of the regular season as well. At this point, it's a formality that ownership-level sources expect to happen.

[mvp 78]

@JeffPassan

For anyone questioning MLB's potentially suspending spring training, I'll refer to David Price as he walked into the Dodgers' facility about an hour ago: "It's gotta happen. This is so much bigger than sports. I've got two kids."

 

That feeling is shared by many, many in the game.

[mvp 78]

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/03/12/major-league-baseball-to-suspend-baseball-operations-indefinitely/

 

Major League Baseball has decided to “suspend baseball operations indefinitely” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means it will suspend spring training, effective tomorrow, and will almost certainly delay to the start of the 2020 regular season. The decision was made on a conference call which concluded moments ago. An official announcement is expected to come shortly.

 

SOMEBODY OWES JACKO AN APOLOGY.

[mvp 78]

@Joelsherman1

The suspension of spring training is to begin tomorrow.

The expectation now is that the start of the regular season will be delayed as well. MLB will be making a statement today on this.

In an hour there is a conference call with Rob Manfred and the 30 owners. MLB will make an official announcement afterward.

[fxkatt]

I guess it was kind of a pipe dream to think professional sports could proceed by just emptying the arenas and ball parks. I mean were the players supposed to be invincible? or exist in a sealed off reality?

 

Oh well, we do have the NFL free agency and draft which do not require actual players or games.

[a700hitter]

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/03/12/major-league-baseball-to-suspend-baseball-operations-indefinitely/

 

Major League Baseball has decided to “suspend baseball operations indefinitely” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means it will suspend spring training, effective tomorrow, and will almost certainly delay to the start of the 2020 regular season. The decision was made on a conference call which concluded moments ago. An official announcement is expected to come shortly.

 

SOMEBODY OWES JACKO AN APOLOGY.

No, he should still stick to the medicine. He knows jackshit about baseball. LOL! He's a Yankee fan.

[mvp 78]

No, he should still stick to the medicine. He knows jackshit about baseball. LOL! He's a Yankee fan.

 

He's a Mt Rushmore TS Poster.

[a700hitter]

He's a Mt Rushmore TS Poster.

LOL! Yes he is.

[jacksonianmarch]

Fake News from Jacko. Friends of mine are criticizing me for passing on false information from Jacko about Spring Training being cancelled. Stick to the medicine, Jacko.

 

Care to rephrase?

 

Guys, once a player in a major sport got this disease, the game changed. ID specialists are anticipating HALF of all Americans will get it. 20% of all infected get hospitalized. 2-3% die. 5% end up needing ICU level care. You cannot have breeding grounds in locker rooms continue to be full of players. All the league would need is a single player to die and they would end up on the wrong side of a law suit that could destroy the sport. This is the right call epidemiologically, personally, and legally

[Larry33]

Great opportunity for Chris Sale to get TJ surgery.

[a700hitter]

Care to rephrase?

 

Guys, once a player in a major sport got this disease, the game changed. ID specialists are anticipating HALF of all Americans will get it. 20% of all infected get hospitalized. 2-3% die. 5% end up needing ICU level care. You cannot have breeding grounds in locker rooms continue to be full of players. All the league would need is a single player to die and they would end up on the wrong side of a law suit that could destroy the sport. This is the right call epidemiologically, personally, and legally

I agreed that you are a MT. Rushmore TS Poster. Don't push it. I treat you nicer than family members who are Yankee fans.

[mvp 78]

Care to rephrase?

 

Guys, once a player in a major sport got this disease, the game changed. ID specialists are anticipating HALF of all Americans will get it. 20% of all infected get hospitalized. 2-3% die. 5% end up needing ICU level care. You cannot have breeding grounds in locker rooms continue to be full of players. All the league would need is a single player to die and they would end up on the wrong side of a law suit that could destroy the sport. This is the right call epidemiologically, personally, and legally

 

"Hysteria"

[a700hitter]

Great opportunity for Chris Sale to get TJ surgery.

There will be time to clone Chris Sale.