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Couldn't be further from the truth. The entire club is behind him. Everybody. The speculation on his professional and personal safety concerns in the midst of a pandemic has been beyond unfair by the media and a large portion of this fanbase. People need to get over it and let the guy live his life. Unreal.

Here's the Youtube link for those of you without the app/NBC

I did read somewhere that the biggest form of transmission is when you have a long conversation with somebody who has the virus. A mask would seem critical in a 1-1 dialogue situation with a stranger or even a family member. You guys don't believe greg but the reason it is so divisive as you ask?? Because of the hypocracy. Whether you guys want to believe it or not, people watch the TV and internet and see BLM protests every single night still. And yet we can't bury a relative in front of more than 10 people when hundreds of thousands are rebelling in the streets every night. It's not fair and it's appalling. Di Blasio even said those protests are more important than anything else thus are allowed. Not wearing a mask is one of the ways people can rebel in ANGER at that hypocracy. "You will not tell me to wear a mask." It is rebellion folks. Nobody followed my kill 'em with kindness mantra. all I see on Twitter is "wear the damn mask!" Anyhow, we have to wear our masks indoors here. It's the rule and stores enforce it big time. Sorry, that's my answer to your question and whether you want to punch me for saying it, a lot of people feel this way. It's not much, but it is a form of rebellion against the government leaders in not wearing the mask. Freedom of choice.

I love how his MLB ERA is always used as some knock against him as if he didn't have a 0.82 ERA before his final start where he was visibly injured (my overall point being that ERA, or any stat, over such a small sample is meaningless)

Slappy almost muscled that one over a pulled in infiled.

Can't believe everyone just let Vaughn ask for defensive help by the worst fielder in the history of the sport

If he’s back next year, it’s bullpen. Giolito, Keuchel, Rodon, Cease, Lopez, Dunning, Lambert, Stiever, Crochet, maybe Gonzalez again. We’ll get by.

I like this quote from Mazara a lot

When Bucket speaks, y'all listen.

Per Our Chuck, they asked Marcus Semien about Andrew Vaughn (they both went to Cal) and his response was apparently "I wish I could hit like him"

Yes, this is essentially right..

I don’t know if this sounds weird but Dunning is one guy who I think this mess might be good for. Limits his innings but very likely to see big league competition quickly.

And I don’t want the world to see me ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand When everything’s made to be broken I just want you to know who I am.

As far as I'm concerned if an employee in any field is worried about coronavirus, he/she has the right to skip work and be paid. All of Kopech's concerns sound reasonable. It's his arm. He knows if he's ready to test it.

I have zero doubt I would have done a better job - none; Would I have been perfect, no, but better, absolutely. I will also admit, that I am pretty sure even if Trump did everything right, he would still get blasted by 50% of the people on here (that it still wasn't good enough, etc - and the same would hold true if Trump was a democrat). But I don't have to debate whether he did a good job - cause he clearly did an awful awful job.

Yeah. Entirely. Never said or implied otherwise. Don't know why anyone would ever take him seriously. That is part of the reason why we have worse infection and death rates than whipping boy Sweden, but Illinois has some of that responsibility too.

I think he's snow flaking and probably pouting, but that's his right. Hope he gets over himself next year.

Damn solid burn bruh. I'm gonna go be embarrassed because I value your opinion so highly.

Yeah, I was totally embarrassed by Illinois doing a terrific job and only having 150k cases and barely over 7K deaths. Outstanding. I didn't see much info to counter that. And still don't understand how it is anything but poor. I saw a lot of excuses for why we blew up early. And saw information that we have done better lately, with which I obviously agreed.

Yeah, don't you know you aren't allowed to change your opinion? Even when faced with more information.

Right on Heads !

I remember 2000 as a blast, sort of out of nowhere, of which the prospects totally changed when we dumped Navarro for 2 productive players right before spring training. It was also my first year on message boards and my introduction to message boards. In what I thought was a ridiculous thread on some Sox board, I posted something like 'Yall are acting like a bunch of 13 year olds," to which I received a series of replies along the lines of "what's wrong with being 13?" Sometimes one forgets...

Giolito retired the last 12 he saw.

TWiV had Daniel Griffin on again for a clinical update. They discussed two of his cases with potential reinfection. It may also have been the same infection the whole time, it just went dormant/below detectable levels for a couple of months before coming roaring back. Wouldn't be able to tell for sure without being able to genetically sample the original March/April samples and the July samples from the same person. Not great either way, though. https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-638/ However, my understanding is that vaccine-induced protective immunity (the kind that prevents you from getting sick in the first place) can be completely different from natural viral infection-induced responses. So even if the natural immunity is relatively short-lived, a vaccine could still very well work with a completely different biological mechanism and be longer-lasting. But, yeah, it's still a possibility that natural immunity doesn't prevent reinfection at a later date. Plenty of real-world viruses to look at for examples. Or it could never go away completely. Some of those, too (think HIV). This is from the EU's CDC equivalent: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/latest-evidence/immune-responses The short answer on a whole lot of COVID, especially medium- and long-term stuff, is "we don't know; it hasn't been long enough to know." But this has gotta be the largest collective medical/research endeavor in human history. So many medical labs around the globe stopped all research except COVID-19. The experts and researchers remain pretty optimistic that there will be some sort of vaccine, hopefully within a year.

In that case there is still an option but we have to actually gear up and battle this thing. 1. Lockdowns and mask wearing, get down to a few hundred cases nationwide. 2. Aggressive contact tracing. (same as the options being pushed previously). 3. Targeted vaccination campaigns. Hit areas where it is known to be circulating with a large campaign of vaccination. A couple months of immunity combined with the other measures is enough to shut it down in an area since many of the people who get it don’t actually spread it. 4. Set a goal of elimination. Maybe at first you are dealing with areas that have dozens of cases, maybe later you’re vaccinating cities because there were 5 reported cases. With leadership and money it could be done.

Robert ranges WAY into RCF to make it look easy.

It's getting real people. An actual game thread. I love it!!! 2 signs in honor of 2 teams to root for.

I'm on YouTube on Chrome on my laptop and I haven't noticed.

Idk who to root for

First pitch right now

I want to add to this by saying, Kopech has brought a lot of his struggles to the public light in an effort to destigmatize them. While Cooper maybe sort of avoided it, the exact stigma Kopech is fighting is the leap people make from "Person x has mental health issues Y" to "Person X is unreliable/a timebomb/going to crack/weak/etc". People fear to tell their work about their struggles precisely because they don't want their capabilities or loyalty or worth questioned every time they need to call out for a cold. It is important to remember that a huge reason that stigma exists is because of selection bias. Millions of people struggle with mental health issues of varying severity, but we often don't find out until someone's life falls apart from them. The mental health stigma prevents people who are coping just fine from coming forward, and it also prevents people who are not coping just fine from seeking help. We only see the worst cases, so that is what we associate with mental health issues. Again, Coop didn't quite explicitly say anything wrong. But the implications of his pitching coach saying he is concerned about Kopech's mental health to the media are certainly along the lines of the "unreliable" stigma that Kopech is trying to help fight.

It's amazing how many people want to make a big deal out of this. It's going to ruin everything.....If you don't have a problem with someone opting out, you really shouldn't have a problem with anyone opting out. If the guy has anxiety, the lockdown could have done a number on him. Judging him by tweets or rumors will make you look like a fool.

Hopefully, someday, you can overcome the oppression being faced by you and yours.

Retail workers in stores with strict mask policies are taking tons of abuse from assholes. My friend who works at an outdoor recreation retail store gets yelled at at least once a day. The best was the person who wore a mask but took it off to cough e: it's not about "freedom of choice," it's about selfish refusal to consider anyone else at any point. That same logic could apply to drunk driving with no change.

Redskins and Indians have received backlash for years over their logos. Way different cases.

Read the latest from Fegan. Cooper stepped in it because he was out of the loop. I’m not surprised.

I could live with a hybrid approach. 3 and 2 would work for me. Online only would not. The kids need to be taught in person and tested. Tests in a classroom. My son is a very high level academic kid who is trying to land academic scholarships that will impact his long term future. Going to a P/F system and allowing everyone to cheat hurts his chances of differentiating his talents from others. This could impact where he goes to school and his career chances down the road. Federal and State funds should be provided for both PPE and other material. This should of been done already. HIPAA and other lovely privacy laws are going to be at odds with reality. You test positive, sure contact trace and part of that is that you notify the school and that person goes away for 2 weeks. Now I already know that we will have a mix this fall. Some parents will keep Junior home when he sneezes, says his tummy feels bad, or just wants to stay home to keep mom company. Others will push 3 pills down their kids throat and tell them they are not sick and to go to school. I think at the HS level its simple. Everyone wears masks. If your kid doesnt want to wear a mask, great homeschool is for you. You get sick, you contact trace and everyone involved gets tested. When people get sick they get processed out until they are cleared. There is no penalty for staying away with a covid positive hit. Its part of the price we pay to open up. Shuttering for the year is a better option then just moving to online only.

The world will continue to spin without sacrificing Kansas basketball players and Alabama football players on the altar of entertainment.

1. Have you noticed how the hospitals in all the hotspots are overloaded again and reusing PPE again? 2. you are correct, nothing has been done. There is a reason why. I deal a little in disaster response science. One of the lessons there is that someone needs to make decisions at the top, even if they are wrong they are better than paralysis, because when decisions aren’t made at the top, no one else can do their job m. The US is broken at the top. There are no thought through guidelines, No answer for what to do when there is an outbreak, there are no extra funds, people haven’t been buying or manufacturing the equipment you would need to keep those buildings safe. Even if something was ordered incorrectly, at least some things might have been done right. A school district on its own can’t make these decisions, especially if they have no extra funds. When no one is in charge, it creates paralysis at every level. That is where we are right now.

Yermin was like 5 years older so no he didn't go toe to toe with him in AAA. Thats like saying a college senior went toe to toe in high school AP Chemistry with an 11 year old genius taking the same class and getting the same grade.

Yermin has a bat that plays even if it's only once per game. Finding a position would be gravy.

Have fun. Never been to the latter two but I have been to the former two, and they are awesome.

The WH is going on a crusade to trash Fauci. And probably will still say everything is under control and the virus will go away once it gets warmer.

They have no plan to control this and keep us safe, and they don't care if you or your children die.

Honestly, who gives a shit what Coop says? None of it really matters. Kopech isn't pitching this year. If he comes back next year, that's great. If not, we move on. Nothing Cooper says changes that.

Back in the day, some people worked 16 hours a day in 100 degree weather for free and got whipped if they spoke up or made a mistake. And you’re telling my these lazy coal miners, who get PAID to work, can only do 12 hours?

Im sure you can find a country where you can go mine in unsafe conditions for pennies on the dollar. So why arent you? Kopech can do what he wants, its his life.

I don't think there is any scenario where Rand Paul is anything but a niche candidate. He is just an awful person and senator

The infectious disease expert from Advocate was on 670 and he said testing negative isa poor threshold because they've had patients who have tested positive for months while no longer being contagious from the virus. He said that the threshold to return should be 10 days symptom free and 3 days fever free.