Will The MLB Suspend The 2020 season

[notin]

Nobody tells her how they end, ok?🙂

 

In one of them, Bob Newhart wakes up and tells Suzanne Pleshette about this whole baseball season he dreamt about...

Edited March 15, 2020 by notin

[Kimmi]

Nobody tells her how they end, ok?🙂

 

Please don't ruin them for me!

 

Every time I watch, I see things that I had forgotten about. Good memories.

[Kimmi]

In one of them, Bob Newhart wakes up and tells Suzanne Pleshette about this whole baseball season he dreamt about...

 

I almost never get the references that you guys make to other people, and this one is no different.

[Bellhorn04]

I almost never get the references that you guys make to other people, and this one is no different.

 

I don't get that one either, and I can't be bothered Googling it LOL

[a700hitter]

I almost never get the references that you guys make to other people, and this one is no different.

The reason is probably what we used to refer to as the “Generation gap”. No one uses that term anymore so you probably haven’t heard of it. We didn’t used to name every generation and assign personality characteristics to each generation. I like to call it generational stereotyping. Imo it is every bit as obnoxious as ethnic stereotyping.

 

The Baby Boomer generation was probably the first generation to get a label, but it was descriptive of a population after a world wide cataclysmic event that killed 100 million people. When peace time returned, people f***ed a lot and had babies. All the rest of the generational names are just BS imo.

[FredLynn]

Province I live in Saskatchewan says they are close to a Vaccination. Guess you take hockey away from Canadians and they go insane lol.

 

My guess is that its a year away, maybe two. "Close" is a relative term. It will happen. Also, some of the Asian countries are WAY ahead of us in controlling this. Just got back from a diving trip to Indonesia (Bali) and the Philippines, passing through Korea and Taiwan. Korea was hit hard, but is now on the down slope. Taiwan has done a remarkable job controlling this, especially given its proximity to China. Last I read there were only 51 cases on the whole island. We could take a lesson from them. I think that its likely that either Korea or Taiwan will have a vaccine first. Our health care system dropped the ball.

[Bellhorn04]

My guess is that its a year away, maybe two. "Close" is a relative term. It will happen. Also, some of the Asian countries are WAY ahead of us in controlling this. Just got back from a diving trip to Indonesia (Bali) and the Philippines, passing through Korea and Taiwan. Korea was hit hard, but is now on the down slope. Taiwan has done a remarkable job controlling this, especially given its proximity to China. Last I read there were only 51 cases on the whole island. We could take a lesson from them. I think that its likely that either Korea or Taiwan will have a vaccine first. Our health care system dropped the ball.

 

In what way did the US health care system drop the ball - in terms of consequences?

[notin]

I almost never get the references that you guys make to other people, and this one is no different.

 

This one is 80's pop culture.

 

In the last scene of the TV series Newhart (1982-1990), rather than having anything relevant to the actual show, they filmed a scene where Bob Newhart woke up in bed in the widely-recognized bedroom setting of his previous sitcom (The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-1978) with Suzanne Pleshette, the actress who played his wife in said previous sitcom. And he talked about the entire series of Newhart being a bizarre dream he just had.

 

That scene alone turned the series finale of Newhart into one of the most famous series' endings in TV history...

[FredLynn]

In what way did the US health care system drop the ball - in terms of consequences?

 

They failed to act quickly enough to close the borders to hot zones. They are still not testing nearly enough people, and testing is some areas is not free, or became free only recently. They continue to fail to limit non essential travel and they continue to permit large gatherings of people in one place in most locations such as schools. Kids don't know what "don't touch your face" means. They get mild to assymptomatic infections and can then infect adults. If everyone just eliminated non essential travel for about three weeks this would be gone in this country. Do we have the will to do it?

 

In terms of consequences the virus has now spread to the community and continues to spread. If its not contained there will be insufficient capacity in the hospitals to care for those who are critically ill. I heard that in Italy they are not intubating anyone over age 50, probably because there aren't enough ventilators. We could get there too.

Edited March 15, 2020 by FredLynn

[notin]

In what way did the US health care system drop the ball - in terms of consequences?

 

The bigger question is - in what way didn’t they?

[notin]

They failed to act quickly enough to close the borders to hot zones. They are still not testing nearly enough people, and testing is some areas is not free, or became free only recently. They continue to fail to limit non essential travel and they continue to permit large gatherings of people in one place in most locations such as schools. Kids don't know what "don't touch your face" means. They get mild to assymptomatic infections and can then infect adults. If everyone just eliminated non essential travel for about three weeks this would be gone in this country. Do we have the will to do it?

 

In terms of consequences the virus has now spread to the community and continues to spread. If its not contained there will be insufficient capacity in the hospitals to care for those who are critically ill. I heard that in Italy they are not intubating anyone over age 50, probably because there aren't enough ventilators. We could get there too.

 

They really still haven’t closed the doors. So far we have only closed the borders to foreign nationals, but American citizens, permanent residents, and their families can all still re-enter the country, each carrying as many viruses as carry-on regulations permit...

[jung]

Seems to me that last week we were at the bottom of the rather steep curve that Italy is on just ahead of us by about 12 days. Now we have started up that steep slope of contagion. If it peaks 4 weeks from today then we have something like a 16 week event. You end up with 4 weeks where if you are not testing the virus looks like it is patchy and hit or miss. Then you get 8 weeks right in the thick of things, 4 weeks on the upslope, a top and 4 weeks on the downslope. 4 more weeks where China is now with very few new cases being reported. So that would be 12 weeks left from last week. Puts us right at about the 1st week in June. Sounds like that would leave something like a 3.75 month season at that point.

 

Jacko can chime in if I got any of the above terribly wrong.

 

We would have been wise to follow the SK model. But that is water over the dam now.

 

Gonna' be a tough choice but if that is what it is, they should probably just cancel.

Edited March 15, 2020 by jung

[Thunder]

I feel like this debate is moving dangerously close to a political debate...

[oldtimer]

They failed to act quickly enough to close the borders to hot zones. They are still not testing nearly enough people, and testing is some areas is not free, or became free only recently. They continue to fail to limit non essential travel and they continue to permit large gatherings of people in one place in most locations such as schools. Kids don't know what "don't touch your face" means. They get mild to assymptomatic infections and can then infect adults. If everyone just eliminated non essential travel for about three weeks this would be gone in this country. Do we have the will to do it?

 

In terms of consequences the virus has now spread to the community and continues to spread. If its not contained there will be insufficient capacity in the hospitals to care for those who are critically ill. I heard that in Italy they are not intubating anyone over age 50, probably because there aren't enough ventilators. We could get there too.

 

You seem to be lined up on the gloomy side of things. Many of the things you complain of us not doing are now being done with more steps considered. This is a process within our large country and it is a daunting challenge. From what I have heard and read, cases of the virus will be expressed throughtout the population and those people will be treated and hopefully efforts to reduce the spread will start to bear fruit. I expect to see this process take place over at least a month with the ability to project the life cycle to occur by the end of May. Thats a pretty scary proposition but not nearly as bad as the worst case scenarios being fostered on us by the fear mongers. Its a old story, never let a good crisis go to waste.

[Kimmi]

I don't get that one either, and I can't be bothered Googling it LOL

 

LOL I have Googled some of these unknown references in the past, but usually, I still don't really get it. I think you have to be familiar with the show, or movie, or song, or whatever.

[Kimmi]

The reason is probably what we used to refer to as the “Generation gap”. No one uses that term anymore so you probably haven’t heard of it. We didn’t used to name every generation and assign personality characteristics to each generation. I like to call it generational stereotyping. Imo it is every bit as obnoxious as ethnic stereotyping.

 

The Baby Boomer generation was probably the first generation to get a label, but it was descriptive of a population after a world wide cataclysmic event that killed 100 million people. When peace time returned, people f***ed a lot and had babies. All the rest of the generational names are just BS imo.

 

I agree that there is no need to classify each generation by name.

[Kimmi]

This one is 80's pop culture.

 

In the last scene of the TV series Newhart (1982-1990), rather than having anything relevant to the actual show, they filmed a scene where Bob Newhart woke up in bed in the widely-recognized bedroom setting of his previous sitcom (The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-1978) with Suzanne Pleshette, the actress who played his wife in said previous sitcom. And he talked about the entire series of Newhart being a bizarre dream he just had.

 

That scene alone turned the series finale of Newhart into one of the most famous series' endings in TV history...

 

Thank you for the explanation. Now that you have explained it, it sounds vaguely familiar, though I've never watched the series.

[Kimmi]

A Yankees minor league player has been confirmed to have the corona virus.

[jung]

There is one case to be made for a 3.75 month long season. Assuming they could be ready to play in a week (that actually sounds hard to believe but maybe) they could play maybe 3.5 months of super baseball, unencumbered by the need to get through a full 162 game schedule. They could just let it all hang out for 3 and a half months and then playoffs. Could be a fun change of pace.

[Hitch]

There is one case to be made for a 3.75 month long season. Assuming they could be ready to play in a week (that actually sounds hard to believe but maybe) they could play maybe 3.5 months of super baseball, unencumbered by the need to get through a full 162 game schedule. They could just let it all hang out for 3 and a half months and then playoffs. Could be a fun change of pace.

 

You can be sure of one thing, there will be no baseball this season. It's going to be the least of our worries.

[mvp 78]

Too much money to skip a whole season

[notin]

I agree that there is no need to classify each generation by name.

 

That’s such a Gen Xer thing to say

 

[oldtimer]

I agree that there is no need to classify each generation by name.

 

I am from the silent generation, born between the two world wars. Alll that makes me is old. But I still am an avid Sox fan. Funny that all coverage of the Sox seems to have stopped.

[Elktonnick]

I am from the silent generation, born between the two world wars. Alll that makes me is old. But I still am an avid Sox fan. Funny that all coverage of the Sox seems to have stopped.

I think what my parents and grandparents went through, this is mild by comparison. That being said couldn't MLB at least conclude this red sox investigation.

[mvp 78]

I think what my parents and grandparents went through, this is mild by comparison. That being said couldn't MLB at least conclude this red sox investigation.

 

The investigation has been quarantined for 8 weeks per the CDC.

[Kimmi]

There is one case to be made for a 3.75 month long season. Assuming they could be ready to play in a week (that actually sounds hard to believe but maybe) they could play maybe 3.5 months of super baseball, unencumbered by the need to get through a full 162 game schedule. They could just let it all hang out for 3 and a half months and then playoffs. Could be a fun change of pace.

 

The current thinking is that baseball will resume around Memorial Day.

[Kimmi]

That’s such a Gen Xer thing to say

 

 

Touche'.

[Kimmi]

I am from the silent generation, born between the two world wars. Alll that makes me is old. But I still am an avid Sox fan. Funny that all coverage of the Sox seems to have stopped.

 

You are a good man oldtimer.

 

Personally, I can't watch all of the coverage of the coronavirus, which is pretty much all you see, even on the sports channels. This is a good time to catch up on my reading.

[Hitch]

Too much money to skip a whole season

 

I get the sense that some of you have no idea what's heading your way in the coming months.

[Kimmi]

I get the sense that some of you have no idea what's heading your way in the coming months.

 

Hitch, I always consider you a voice of reason.

 

Your doomsday posts on this topic are really alarming.