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brb going to inject some disinfectant and then going to the tanning salon

Better buy a gun if you want to eat.

So you are trying to argue that people shouldn't be stupid enough to listen to the President. Makes sense to me. Too bad 45% of voters are in the cult and not capable.

He's the President of the United States. His official public statements should be treated as non-credible ramblings that are inherently dangerous every time they are heard? I'm pretty sure you just stretched so far that you accidentally gave a complete justification for the 25th amendment being invoked.

I wouldn’t say Biden is an idiot, but I would like to see more legitimate choices without money in politics. Ending Citizens United would be a good start. There’s too much power concentrated in two parties, making independent moderates like me having to have a binary choice - for or against Trump. Instead of picking someone like Buttigieg or another moderate.

If he told people to inject bleach and they did it, yes hed have culpability. He is the President of the US his words matter and have consequences. The best thing he can do is be quiet and let professionals take over. This isnt about Democrat or Republican anymore, its about trying to salvage ourselves from disaster. He needs to either man up or get out of the way.

https://theathletic.com/1707846/2020/04/20/origin-story-how-lucas-giolito-found-the-confidence-to-be-himself-again/?amp#click=https://t.co/7QptWYDseP Amazing piece by Fegan here on the athletic. Highly recommend reading it.

As we found less than 50% of the population was responsible for speeding up our demise. Hes the President of the United States, we shouldnt be making excuses for him. We claim we are the best health, best science and all that, and what has it gotten us so far when we really needed it? We have a President floating ideas that are so stupid, that we cant hold him accountable because they are so dumb that no one should even consider them? That is exactly what is wrong with our country right now. That some people still think we need to make excuses for the person who is supposed to be running our country. Im an optimistic person, but when I look at my kids, I wonder if on my watch our world got changed for the worse. I did my little part, I argued as hard as I could, but its still on my damn watch that this shit went down. Its unbearable that as I a normal person take more responsibility for this calamity than the President. And Im sorry if you think its cute to argue about it, but what is happening right now isnt cute, its not funny, its possibly the worst disaster in the history of the US. And our govt still has no sustainable plan.

Nope. But I think it was over the top when people blamed him for those idiots drinking coy pond cleaner. There are plenty of things to blame him for and hold him accountable for. Blaming him for everything and anything just gives credence to his "fake news" ramblings and makes his supporters believe it even more. If somebody injected themselves with bleach, it would be absurd to blame Trump.

Isn’t it amazing that the greatest organization of people the world has ever seen (USA) somehow can’t find 2 better candidates than these 2 idiots? We don’t have better leaders to select from among the 330 million? Baffles me every 4 years. The people gotta take it back one of these days.

Yup...too much PTSD from Rodgers/Favre.

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light ... and then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re gonna test that,” Trump said, addressing Bryan. “And then I see disinfectant, where it knocks it [coronavirus] out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.” Donald J Trump

Dan Bernstein put it the best. “Listen to doctors and only listen to people who listen to doctors.” The President should take to that advice instead of being on the wrong side of history with not dealing with facts and sending mixed messages.

There's a conspiracy theory if I've ever heard one. I understand that money talks and it's a big part of baseball. Obviously, it's a business. But the owners aren't dumb. They know it's wise to listen to people who are knowledgeable in the game about what works in player development. They know that leads to winning, and they know winning brings in money. Which keeps the baseball world turning. And why do people have to constantly point out the fact that owners are billionaires like it's a bad thing. They own businesses, that are paying literally hundreds of millions of dollars to employees, plus an unending black-hole of other costs, I'm sure. It's not like you can be an owner of a professional sports team and not have a ton of money (that is most likely being invested back into the team), to effectively run it.

1. The owners of those places have to realize that they can either figure out what they need to protect their workers or shut down. It would be nice if they had a functioning federal government to assist. 2. Alternatively, things become more acute this summer and fall. I'd say the latter...seems somewhat more likely, but not guaranteed.

How is it arrogance? I look at it this way. Maybe this will ultimately make MLB teams more competitive, as theoretically this should improve the resources that are available to the players that will still be playing. How many teams in baseball are rebuilding? I think the less teams that have to rebuild, ultimately the better the game will be. And the less minor league teams that front offices need to be concerned with, again theoretically, they can focus on player development a lot more closely. And players should be getting paid more after this. Pretty much echoing what ptatc said I guess. Yes, minor league teams are important to communities and accessibility for people like you and I to be close to the game more often. But, ultimately, what do the majority of the people want? A winning major league team. That's what peaks the peoples' interest.

Reasonable post. I flip flop as I read different stuff. As I read your post and read about "clustering" occurring immediately at the few churches that have opened and some of the plants where people have to work close together, I shift to the "no way we'll ever have sports with crowds again." Maybe a couple hundred rich guys and gals (boosters) and their families will sit in the upper deck spread out during college events. Maybe some rich corporations will sit in the upper deck spread out at baseball and NFL games; a few hundred. But the way people are seated so close to each other? How can we ever have that again? I do see the athletes risking this and playing with no crowds in pro sports. College is tricky because if the campuses are closed to students (and again, how can we ever have kids go to classes again?) you can't have sports if campus is closed to all other students. It would take elimination of the NCAA and just having paid to play college aged "pros" wear the college jerseys and compete. That said: I can't see money being the holdup here; owners are going to have to pay full salaries.

Baseball should be trying to expand the game not contracting it. The more guys playing baseball is a good thing. Just another example of baseballs new found arrogance.

I doubt it. Charlotte is one of the best markets in the minor leagues and I can't see the White Sox dumping them. The affiliates don't need to be closer to Chicago as long as they're all somewhat close to each other. My guess is the Sox 4 affiliates stay the same but they add a 2nd team in the AZL. Getting out of Great Falls is probably a good thing anyway.

Great article. Thanks for posting it