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Will The MLB Suspend The 2020 season

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5GoldGlovesOF,75 Greenville Drive

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Fellow posters: I am not a doctor nor a scientist, just a lowly educator. But if I can give any advice, it would be to prepare to stay home -- not just for two weeks, like some "authorities" warned earlier this week, but for two months. I tutor several students online in China, where they have been basically under house arrest for eight weeks already. Their public schools have gone entirely online, with some kids taking courses on devices from 8 am to 5 pm (10 min breaks, plus lunch). Most of them live in high rise apartments -- 28th floor, 34th floor, etc. -- where the only time they've been outside in months is to get some fresh air on a small balcony. This is not media hype or fake news, but reality.
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Fellow posters: I am not a doctor nor a scientist, just a lowly educator. But if I can give any advice, it would be to prepare to stay home -- not just for two weeks, like some "authorities" warned earlier this week, but for two months. I tutor several students online in China, where they have been basically under house arrest for eight weeks already. Their public schools have gone entirely online, with some kids taking courses on devices from 8 am to 5 pm (10 min breaks, plus lunch). Most of them live in high rise apartments -- 28th floor, 34th floor, etc. -- where the only time they've been outside in months is to get some fresh air on a small balcony. This is not media hype or fake news, but reality.
Thank goodness you lowly educators who are not scientists have found something else to preach about besides Climate Change. Just messing with you. I am bored out of my f***ing mind. My wife has established a no-go perimeter around her and our upcoming trip is likely to be cancelled against my wishes and without a refund.
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Thank goodness you lowly educators who are not scientists have found something else to preach about besides Climate Change. Just messing with you. I am bored out of my f***ing mind. My wife has established a no-go perimeter around her and our upcoming trip is likely to be cancelled against my wishes and without a refund.

 

Mar 2020, a700 becomes a gamer.

5GoldGlovesOF,75 Greenville Drive

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I don't expect the MLB to open until at least June. That brings up a lot of questions, like how long will it take pitchers to get ready again, and then how do owners make up all that lost revenue? I'm thinking something radical, like a half-season regular sked for seeding of a round-robin tourney where everyone competes for the ring. That's if there are enough teams healthy enough to play.

 

If there is a season, at least this format guarantees the Sox get back to the playoffs...

a700hitter Cooperstown

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Mar 2020, a700 becomes a gamer.
Any recommendations?

 

Every business is issuing a release so we will know that they care. Why would I care about measures being taken by my electric utility. Just keep the lights on, please!

Elktonnick FCL Red Sox

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Fellow posters: I am not a doctor nor a scientist, just a lowly educator. But if I can give any advice, it would be to prepare to stay home -- not just for two weeks, like some "authorities" warned earlier this week, but for two months. I tutor several students online in China, where they have been basically under house arrest for eight weeks already. Their public schools have gone entirely online, with some kids taking courses on devices from 8 am to 5 pm (10 min breaks, plus lunch). Most of them live in high rise apartments -- 28th floor, 34th floor, etc. -- where the only time they've been outside in months is to get some fresh air on a small balcony. This is not media hype or fake news, but reality.

The United States not any country would survive if everybody just stayed home for two months. Police fire medical personnel farmers grocers utility workers truck drivers sanitation workers etc. All need to do their jobs regardless of the risk.

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Verdugo has a shot now too.

 

Bloom instantly looks better today -- imagine if he decided to keep Mookie for one last season that wasn't? And I admit I was one fan who preferred one more year of Mookie... Now, instead of negative-1, we get plus-15 of Wong and Co.

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Bloom instantly looks better today -- imagine if he decided to keep Mookie for one last season that wasn't? And I admit I was one fan who preferred one more year of Mookie... Now, instead of negative-1, we get plus-15 of Wong and Co.

How will the season suspension impact the calculation of MLB service time?

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How will the season suspension impact the calculation of MLB service time?

 

More interesting is how will the abbreviated season impact calculation of the competitve tax threshold. Will teams be expected to pay full salaries if the revenues are significantly reduced? In the period of revenue sharing is there risk sharing as well with the owners and players?

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Given what might happen to the airlines, you Florida folks--how are you planning on getting to NEngland (if you're headed that way)? Anyone out there who wants to take a road trip from CA to Maine in the next month or so?
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Screw it, I say cancel the entire season. In contrast to the Yankees, the Red Sox aren't built to win this year anyway.

 

I'll find something else to watch--the 2004 ALCS never gets old when the Yankees turned into the biggest losers and chokers in the history of sports. The 2018 ALDS is entertaining as well, when the Red Sox kicked the living crap out of the Yankees.

 

Get ready for spring training 2021!

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Would it really be a bad thing for the Redsox to skip 2020 ? I think not .

 

According to some, that was the plan all along...

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They should cut 20 games off the schedule anyway. Way its played now its ridiculous. 3+hours is the norm. Been a Fan since 1960, and I don't watch it as I used to anymore.

I just turn it on 2 hours later after start. Just as good.

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They should cut 20 games off the schedule anyway. Way its played now its ridiculous. 3+hours is the norm. Been a Fan since 1960, and I don't watch it as I used to anymore.

I just turn it on 2 hours later after start. Just as good.

 

Watch out! Someone may call you "not a true fan" since you don't watch every pitch, every jock scratch, every sign shaken off.

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@jcmccaffrey

Chaim Bloom and Sam Kennedy will hold a conference call with the media at 3 pm for updates on the Red Sox.

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