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https://957thegame.radio.com/articles/opinion/sports-as-the-vanguard-of-anti-science Dana White wants to have a "fight island" for his UFC cards, which until; baseball turned up was the dimmest and most arrogantly misguided idea for resumption yet proposed. Fortunately for him, baseball floated an idea that would send all the teams to Arizona for a mid-May start because — well, why should Dana White get all the stick for not understanding the issue? The story, provided us by ESPN's Jeff Passan, claims that MLB, the players union and the state of Arizona are focusing on a plan that would send all 30 teams to the greater Phoenix area for upwards of five months, sequestered except for the games at Chase Field and the 10 spring training ballparks has the potential imprimatur of federal health officials, which means that we have three separate groups who do not comprehend the nature of the virus besetting us all. Passan explains: "The logistics to pull off such a plan would be enormous and cumbersome on the league side and require the buy-in of players, who sources expect to be skeptical of separating from their families for an indefinite amount of time — perhaps as long as 4½ months, if the inability to stem the coronavirus outbreak keeps teams from playing in their home stadiums in 2020. "Still, there is hope among leadership on both sides that the combination of receiving paychecks for playing and baseball's return offering a respite to a nation beset by the devastation of COVID-19 would convince players to agree to the plan, sources said." So once again, we have people in sports who think they understand more about virology than virologists. Or, and this is demonstrably worse, they don't care because the only thing that matters is playing the games with a new emphasis on the word "sacrifice."

@alexspeier Sale says limits on elective surgery led to significant delay. Cedar-Sinai wanted to make sure surgery would have ‘zero impact’ on anyone else, esp COVID-19 patients. Sale says he got tested for the virus when he got to California.

@jcmccaffrey Chris Sale says he gets a cast off Thursday and will start moving his arm post surgery then. He'll likely start most of his rehab from home with initial exercises and range of motion.

@alexspeier Sale says he’s ‘going to have a better elbow than he did before’ after 9-14 month rehab process.

@alexspeier Sale on whether he regrets not having surgery last year: ‘I sleep easier knowing we did everything we could. ... We could have done this 6 months ago... (But) I wouldn’t have been 100 percent go’ on the surgery. Said he wanted to ‘turn over every stone’ before surgery. ‘ ‘It didnt work out, but at the end of he day...everyone did everything we could to make this work (without surgery)...I’m more than OK with that.’

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@salemredsox The year is 2008. We are no longer affiliated with the Houston Astros and new names for the club are being tossed around as we join Boston’s MiLB line-up. The Salem Red Sox is off the table. The team takes the field in 2009 as the Salem ??? What would you have named us? The million dollar question.

It was so that teams wouldn't start letting players go instead of paying them.

And when COVID goes to AZ? Cancel the season again? This just doesn't make much sense IMO.

@JeffPassan NEWS: Major League Baseball and the MLBPA are focusing on a plan backed by federal health officials that could have players in training camps by May and games soon thereafter. Details at ESPN on how MLB may return -- and the difficulty in doing so:

Dafuq? Heard @Buster_ESPN suggest that many more in the game are coming around on 7 inning games in the future, maybe within 10 yrs.

You should take a trip to the HOF.

It would be it's best use since golf is lame and takes up too much space.

@JeffPassan South Korea has done as good a job as any country of containing coronavirus -- and now, baseball is being played there, with opening day slated for late April. At ESPN, a look inside how Korea is doing it, through the eyes of Americans playing ball there: https://es.pn/34d3B4F

It should be public land.

Boring. Waste of public land. Waste of water to maintain. Ruins the environment with over fertilization.

Untrue IMO.

No. TV ratings aren’t subjective.

No. It’s just the truth. NFL is way more popular.

Because there are more players? MLB guys are often within 6 ft of each other.

In this day and age, the NFL is more important than MLB.

I spend more time browsing on Netflix than watching any of their own shows.

Good news!

How would LA survive without plastic surgeons?!?!?

Damn, this is horrible to hear. So sorry.