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Danny. Salazar.

I'm interested to see if that region 4 (STL metro) actually implements the snap back policies when it inevitably hits 8% soon for 3 days.

Since the rebuild has begun (and before then, aside from a hot streak in 2015 that led to not trading samardjiza lol), July has just been a trash show. Pitching all gets bad at once, feels like it happened last year and year before that and ruins the 2nd half. This year, we started in July and same. This starting pitching is unacceptable. I'd rather they be wild with great stuff than worsening their stuff while still not throwing strikes. But that's been the coop special.

Worse!!!

So he probably didn’t have Covid then right?

And also choosing mark fucking kotsay over Thome and also batted him leadoff

Enter Young pitcher for Indians: Me: “Man this guy is gonna be good” * throws 8IP with 15Ks and 2H * Enter young pitcher for White Sox: Me: “Man this guy is gonna be good!” * throws 2 1/3 IP with 13 BBS and 10 ER

Considering all the cities with 4-plus leagues, would be an interesting concept to make like an athlete soho house. Make deals with the leagues to stay there, industry workers/families can be members, ex players keep membership and can stay there when visiting cities.

also good news, the reports about only a few months of antibodies likely don't mean much:

I hope we get another set of remdesivir reports. It's been pretty widely used in key hot spots since then. Due to scarcity, it's been mainly used in the sickest since it showed its modest improvement in hospitalization there. But it really would be good to know if it helps when it's deployed earlier.

this is uh, questionable spin: I mean that's great, but a .3% positive rate nearly derailed the season on day 3. That's not a success and they need to be more realistic on what is needed to be competitive and safe this year.

I am glad they are holding out the marlins for a week, and Phillies for a few days. Not going to hate on it.

Yep. Friends in the city have almost always gone to CVS out of convenience, and unfortunately it has cost and has been by far the slowest turnaround. I don't blame people for not knowing, search Covid testing and you get a whole bunch of doctors offices and links, if unfamiliar you'd go with cvs. But the state/city run ones are free and honestly very very well run and fast. Theres even one at guaranteed rate but its just for healthcare/first responders.

please pass them these testing sites. https://dph.illinois.gov/testing I've been tested a few times, never longer than 4 days. All Illinois dph sites are free.

where do they live?

to me this again is just indicative of how the mlb approached the whole thing. Yeah, it's easier for the NBA and NHL to make a bubble. But the NBA was working with its players and stars throughout and getting them onboard with what was needed to be safe, and they asked them to sacrifice a lot more. The mlb was solely concerned with figuring out operating costs and then did the bare minimum imo for safety. They basically got testing and that's it. I'm sure they'd have fans if states allowed it. Like it probably was a really good idea to have players come to stadium already dressed, that never happened. The separated dugout in the seats was reasonable, didn't happen. Hey guys, wear a mask if you feel like it, and we'll test you occasionally. Otherwise good luck.

yeah that is a huge problem. especially with it being likely that only on Friday will we really know the state of the issue for yesterday. Too big of a lag and it just seems rough.

Well, would you want to travel to a city, hotel, and facility whose team has had an outbreak and a city that is capturing 3k cases a day, has a near 20% positive rate, etc. Or play them when you are isolated in our own home you can control, facilities you trust and only have minimal contact with that other team via on field play?

So the nationals have voted against traveling to Miami this weekend, waiting to hear back from mlb.

This is what E Rodriguez is going through

I totally think this is true. Also dealing with New York media and not Miami.

so 60% of a single team is out for 2 weeks...

looks like that was postponed, probably easier to find days for them to find since they are so close.

4 more tested positive, so I think that's 14 players 2 coaches?

Great stuff here https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/coronavirus-testing-antigen-pooling.html The president of university of Missouri system said the cdc told them not to test students prior to coming onto campus because it was just a “snapshot” and wouldn’t help. Thats again idiocy. The CDC is again letting its rationing for something turn into miscommunication. Of course it would help! Mass testing like this may be a solution. Like a mask, it’s personal efficacy may be low, but it’s group efficacy is much higher and fixes the rationing issue. The cdc needs to stop letting production issues affect its communication policies.