Will The MLB Suspend The 2020 season

[notin]

@TomCaron

The crowd goes wild, as they experiment with piped-in audio here at an empty Fenway Park.

 

Worth noting these crowd tracks reportedly come from the league, and all teams will be experimenting with them over the next two weeks.

 

Just let the players play in silence. Like the Marlins do every year...

[jad]

Well, there's Netflix and Chill for that now. No reason to steam up your car windows.

 

 

Also, making out in a car is the worst. Modern cars with bucket seats are no longer made for it.

 

Netflix and Chill not an option if you're 16 and living at home!

 

As for the second point: having bucket seats and NOT making out is much worse.

[Kimmi]

@DodgersBeat

I asked Stan Kasten last week about Drive-in Baseball. He said they were in discussions on a number of projects just like that but nothing to announce yet

 

What is more comfortable: couch/bathroom/fridge combo or a car?

 

Drive in baseball doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

 

It would be much easier just to let a limited number of fans into the games.

[Kimmi]

@TomCaron

The crowd goes wild, as they experiment with piped-in audio here at an empty Fenway Park.

 

Worth noting these crowd tracks reportedly come from the league, and all teams will be experimenting with them over the next two weeks.

 

I do not like the idea of piping in crowd noise. Maybe the players would like to hear it? I'd rather have the players mic'd up and listen to their comments throughout the game.

[a700hitter]

I do not like the idea of piping in crowd noise. Maybe the players would like to hear it? I'd rather have the players mic'd up and listen to their comments throughout the game.

I.m with you. Just give me the sounds of the game. It is a rare opportunity to get that perspective.

[Kimmi]

The following players are opting out:

 

Price

Leake

Zimmerman

Joe Ross

Ian Desmond

King Felix

Nick Markakis

 

Potentially:

Buster Posey

Mike Trout

Zach Wheeler

 

Buster Posey is out.

 

Michael Kopech has also opted out.

[Thunder]

I fully expect the same stadium sounds for HRs across the league, even the annoying foghorns in the Trop and Toronto

 

Very excited to hear the usual HR song after JD's HR in the scrimmage yesterday. Hopefully this is league wide thing

[mvp 78]

Buster Posey is out.

 

Michael Kopech has also opted out.

Gives him longer to rehab from TJ.

[dgalehouse]

Aroldis Chapman has tested positive for Covid . He is said to only have mild symptoms. But you have to wonder if it will have an effect on his nandrolone- jacked biceps.

[notin]

Aroldis Chapman has tested positive for Covid . He is said to only have mild symptoms. But you have to wonder if it will have an effect on his nandrolone- jacked biceps.

 

It’s nothing a (league approved?) prescription to some Stanislozol won’t fix...

[Kimmi]

I'm wondering with this group of MLB players who are testing positive, how many of them have gotten ill or have shown any symptoms. The impression that I'm getting is that most of them didn't even know they had the virus.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

I'm wondering with this group of MLB players who are testing positive, how many of them have gotten ill or have shown any symptoms. The impression that I'm getting is that most of them didn't even know they had the virus.

 

Isn't it obvious by now this is all just a hoax by the lefty players to hurt their conservative-walleted owners (who think they're always right)? So many local left-handed pitchers missing time with the virus: ERod, Darwinzon, Josh Taylor... and now Chapman. Watch, as soon the new CBA is settled, all this will go away.

[a700hitter]

The whole forum has turned political. No one has any interest in discussing baseball anymore. It was a huge mistake allowing the political stuff and letting Pumpsie spread his poison and others followed suit without fear of reprisal. Congratulations mods. You let the entire forum turn to garbage.

[dgalehouse]

The whole forum has turned political. No one has any interest in discussing baseball anymore. It was a huge mistake allowing the political stuff and letting Pumpsie spread his poison and others followed suit without fear of reprisal. Congratulations mods. You let the entire forum turn to garbage.

 

A lot of it is just flat out trolling . They know exactly what they are doing . They are trying to agitate . The very definition of trolling . I don't know why it is being permitted .

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

This is a Red Sox baseball forum, but politics drove Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros to conveniently make Alex Cora the scapegoat in a massively sensationalized scandal last winter.

 

Cora admits he was involved, but subsequent interviews and testimony with front office employees confirm that the sign-stealing system was devised by the organization before he was hired, and implemented by and through every level after. And yet, Boston and Red Sox fans were adversely affected. As one poster said, politics pervade and are unavoidable.

[jad]

My bad. I deleted my post. But come on--5GG's post was a joke, not particularly political.

[jad]

In addition, I have never seen a policy on this forum that forbids reference to politics, although I have often seen it invoked. (Since there are threads that are specifically "non-political", that implies that politics is fine.)

 

Now as for this thread, when it was created, one of the problems (perhaps the central one) was whether MLB and the players could ever agree. They did. NOW, however, the only factor in whether the season begins or not is one of public health: i.e., the question of a major league season depends entirely on how the states and fed. government acts (or doesn't act) to control CV19. Unfortunately, that public health matter has been completely politicized (not by us, but by federal and state officials). There is thus no way to continue discussing the issue of "will the MLB have a season" without reference to the 50-70K cases per day we have seen in the past few days, or to Florida's continuing to open up even after 15,000 cases in a single day. Those cases aren't a political issue; they are facts. So the question now is how to reduce those numbers to make it safe for players and fans.

[Thunder]

The whole forum has turned political. No one has any interest in discussing baseball anymore. It was a huge mistake allowing the political stuff and letting Pumpsie spread his poison and others followed suit without fear of reprisal. Congratulations mods. You let the entire forum turn to garbage.

 

I hope you remember what I told you last week...

[mvp 78]

If the problem is the "other" post, then just stop posting there. Let that dumb thread die and we can all just move on with our lives.

[jad]

Back to the topic at hand, I'm wondering how the situation in the NCAA will impact pro sports. There have been a series of 'steps' (Ivies cancelling fall sports, universities cancelling certain sports altogether--UConn, Brown, Stanford, moving to spring schedules, and the latest decision. "conference-only" schedules, which doesn't seem to address any of the real problems of playing). USC's president announced weeks ago that without students in residence, there would be no football. But there is no way USC will be 'open' (you need to just walk the campus or pass student housing to realize why). None of these decisions solves the problem but just ... well whatever metaphor you want: kicks the can down the road: throws sh*t on the wall, hoping something sticks. I would bet any amount of money, the NCAA will announce the suspension of fall sports soon. The NBA and NHL will MAYBE be able to get some semblance of a season in. But it will take an ironbound will for the MLB to do so, and given the dysfunctional relationship between management and players, I don't see how they will be able to operate in any but a best-case public health scenario, and the chances of that happening seem to be fading day by day. If the NCAA cancels, I can't see how MLB will not be right behind.

[Kimmi]

Pretty much every topic of debate can be considered 'political'. Certainly, management versus players could be. I think most people realize that when we ask that politics are kept out of the other threads that we are talking about government politics.

 

I understand that there is a fine line in a lot of what we are discussing in regards to the coronavirus. Most posters are respectful of that line. There are a few posters, however, who continue to deliberately and knowingly cross that line, just because they can. It's rude, disrespectful to other posters, selfish, and juvenile.

 

The administrator of this site, Yeszir, has not allowed politics in the past. Against his better judgment, he was nice enough to allow the "Anything Goes" thread to discuss politics due to our current circumstances. I'm not sure why he hasn't been here, but if he were here, I am sure that he would not allow posters to continually cross that line in other threads.

 

I and others have nicely asked many times for posters to keep politics out of the other threads. I will ask one more time that you keep the politics in the "Anything Goes" thread. We would appreciate it very much.

[oldtimer]

Pretty much every topic of debate can be considered 'political'. Certainly, management versus players could be. I think most people realize that when we ask that politics are kept out of the other threads that we are talking about government politics.

 

I understand that there is a fine line in a lot of what we are discussing in regards to the coronavirus. Most posters are respectful of that line. There are a few posters, however, who continue to deliberately and knowingly cross that line, just because they can. It's rude, disrespectful to other posters, selfish, and juvenile.

 

The administrator of this site, Yeszir, has not allowed politics in the past. Against his better judgment, he was nice enough to allow the "Anything Goes" thread to discuss politics due to our current circumstances. I'm not sure why he hasn't been here, but if he were here, I am sure that he would not allow posters to continually cross that line in other threads.

 

I and others have nicely asked many times for posters to keep politics out of the other threads. I will ask one more time that you keep the politics in the "Anything Goes" thread. We would appreciate it very much.

 

I totally agree. This thread is about whether there will be a season. That appears to be only related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the decision lies in the hands of government entities as they monitor the spread and impact of the virus.

[mvp 78]

I think it's totally fine for this thread to be about MLB and its response to COVID (regular season games, testing, sick players, etc.). Anything outside that scope should be discussed elsewhere.

[mvp 78]

From Rotoworld:

 

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that the Diamondbacks are among multiple teams who have used outside labs for COVID-19 testing.

It appears that some of this has been about the well-documented testing delays with MLB. Rosenthal has learned about two occasions where the Diamondbacks sent a player to a testing site in the Phoenix area in order to secure a second negative test to clear the way for him to return. The D-Backs say they have used a third-party lab roughly 20 times, which works out to less than one percent of their overall tests. Meanwhile, the team also says that every lab they have used said they are not taking tests away from the general public. It's true that we are talking about a small number of tests on the whole, but the fact is that testing is still hard to access for many people around the country. It's just a bad look for MLB more than anything else and it doesn't inspire confidence in their plan for the season.

[jad]

Another shoe drops: Patriot League just cancelled fall schedule. Unless there is some radical news on the health front (which we all hope for but none of us expects), it can't be long now before the NCAA tosses in the towel. Despite that, is it really true that we have just over a week before the RS first game? (I fear I may owe Bellhorn4 $(virtual)100. but as everything this spring, "it's early yet."

[Thunder]

Back to the topic at hand, I'm wondering how the situation in the NCAA will impact pro sports. There have been a series of 'steps' (Ivies cancelling fall sports, universities cancelling certain sports altogether--UConn, Brown, Stanford, moving to spring schedules, and the latest decision. "conference-only" schedules, which doesn't seem to address any of the real problems of playing). USC's president announced weeks ago that without students in residence, there would be no football. But there is no way USC will be 'open' (you need to just walk the campus or pass student housing to realize why). None of these decisions solves the problem but just ... well whatever metaphor you want: kicks the can down the road: throws sh*t on the wall, hoping something sticks. I would bet any amount of money, the NCAA will announce the suspension of fall sports soon. The NBA and NHL will MAYBE be able to get some semblance of a season in. But it will take an ironbound will for the MLB to do so, and given the dysfunctional relationship between management and players, I don't see how they will be able to operate in any but a best-case public health scenario, and the chances of that happening seem to be fading day by day. If the NCAA cancels, I can't see how MLB will not be right behind.

 

UConn has not done anything yet regarding fall sports. No student athletes who are currently on campus have tested positive. What I think you are referencing, along with Brown and Stanford, is that UConn permanently cut 4 sports due to the economic hardships brought on by the pandemic.

[jad]

UConn has not done anything yet regarding fall sports. No student athletes who are currently on campus have tested positive. What I think you are referencing, along with Brown and Stanford, is that UConn permanently cut 4 sports due to the economic hardships brought on by the pandemic.

 

You're right. That's what I meant. (Am I remembering right? Are they eliminating D-1 football? I know they had a huge deficit--over 40million for 2019. There were also some figures out, pretty shocking ones, abut the amount of money that the university paid to subsidize athletics.). You're working there, right? (or you were). What's the effect on staff?

[Thunder]

You're right. That's what I meant. (Am I remembering right? Are they eliminating D-1 football? I know they had a huge deficit--over 40million for 2019. There were also some figures out, pretty shocking ones, abut the amount of money that the university paid to subsidize athletics.). You're working there, right? (or you were). What's the effect on staff?

 

No, they are not eliminating football. They got rid of women's rowing (since the men's team is only a club sport), men's tennis, men's cross country, and men's swimming. The only way football will be eliminated is if this season gets cancelled, and even at that point, it's still a few years away from dying

[jad]

Yeah, I think i was misremembering details of Pat Forde's devastating article in SI at the end of May. Looks like the accountants and bean-counters finally caught up with the myth that big-time football brings in tons of money. And UConn is hardly alone in this

[Thunder]

Yeah, I think i was misremembering details of Pat Forde's devastating article in SI at the end of May. Looks like the accountants and bean-counters finally caught up with the myth that big-time football brings in tons of money. And UConn is hardly alone in this

 

You're not misremembering that article. That article was just way too irrational and stupid. Take a minute and learn a little bit about our school, our priorities, and how things operate before you go around telling the world we should cut our football program