Manfred scolding players as bad boys is really rich. MLB’s handling of this situation has been characteristically greedy and incompetent from the start. If they don’t have a further outbreak and cancel the season it will simply be dumb luck. The NBA has handled things far better, and even their semi-bubble is not guaranteed to allow a safe completion to their season.
I’m not sure how MLB could have approximated a bubble, they have larger rosters and staffs, and no place has as many diamonds as would be needed in one complex. They could have limited play to a smaller number of geographically close stadiums, mandated all personnel to quarantine and then shelter in place together, play multiple games with different teams in the same stadium every day, and played down as quickly as possible to a smaller number of post-season teams. Even so, it would have been very risky. I love baseball and have missed it, but I love my daughter even more, and we went ahead and postponed her wedding scheduled for this August three month ago, so I think I could live with cancelling the baseball season. We will see what virus conditions are like this Fall, but hard to imagine risks won’t be much greater for college and pro football. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 1:05 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > Buried in this story on baseball's Covid-19 disaster: Keith Olbermann's > reporting that networks have been told to start preparing alternate > programming for as soon as Monday. > > > https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29578360/mlb-commissioner-rob-manfred-says-playing-players-need-better > > As a point of reference: the Sunday night game is scheduled for 7:08 PM > ET. The first game Monday is scheduled for 6:40 PM ET. > > (In case the panel is curious: I have not participated in or supported > this farce in any way. And after the Cubs inexplicably floated a trial > balloon to have 7,000 fans at Wrigley in September, they're probably dead > to me (and yes: joehass.com has already been reserved)) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BciiYqaa%3DyQ_%3DUQNucLTRjPoK%2BGN-FrPP9aZdV5hBsNWA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BciiYqaa%3DyQ_%3DUQNucLTRjPoK%2BGN-FrPP9aZdV5hBsNWA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJ7wKoH2EL5rWut0sCgZE2vwAN923Bydaz7k%2BFyL-omEQ%40mail.gmail.com.
