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Brewers catcher is a real try-hard back there

I’ve wanted this for so long

I do think there is a difference in baseball. Basketball and Hockey both have the feeling that the real season is when the playoffs start, and both leagues see over half the teams make the playoffs. In baseball the regular season is the real season, and frankly the 1-5-7 escalation of the baseball playoffs does make it feel more flukey until the LCS.

lol I can't believe I did this again. 2008 ruined me forever.

I do agree with this.

Naw, sorry, I was told up and down that he is not signing before FA. And no, the sox would actually be fucking awesome with Mookie Betts for the next 13 years so this is also wrong.

You tell science!

I would say that we should use some existence of priors and base rates + 2 negatives + no symptoms would make it extremely unlikely that someone has it, rather than letting extreme scenarios instead define that because something could happen it is likely to happen.

Really? I figured tonight would be Moncada + all backups

I don't know, this is the dodgers dream being able to easily throw 30 players a day out.

I know it's a shortened season but I'd rather just roll with Engel/Leury in RF than sign a cold gennett for a 1 week issue. And to me the bigger concern is another sox player getting COVID while in camp. NBA bubble even in a hell zone certain still seems more practical.

It's important for me to point out for my self-esteem that I was right and everyone was mean to me except @TomPickle ? (and obviously, I am still very excited for the white sox, and covid blah blah) edit and @Harold's Leg Lift

I mean, in some ways I'd almost enjoy it more. It, quite frankly to me, will not be as authentic an accomplishment as the marathon 163 game season and playoffs leading to a championship. But, if by some amazing luck we'd win this year it would almost certainly be more memorable on the national conscience, if that's what you care about. Asterisk be damned. There is no tv in production, no movies to go to, restaurants to go out in and likely in the foreseeable future. This will be a much more communal experience than a typical World Series, quite frankly. It would be an incredibly fun distraction to have the white sox be the main topic of conversation around the country, I just wouldn't care if it was considered "lesser", it will certainly stand out. It would be one that every sport fan remembers as trivia, and boy, the 2005 team is not that (nationally). Maybe as obscure trivia.

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This is still a bit surprising to me, but Sunday night primetime guess it makes sense. Would have guessed the Eloy-cubs game last year would have been similar. Seemed like that was pretty hyped with chance to hit .500 and it being sox/cubs.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/20/893227088/growing-body-of-evidence-suggests-masks-protect-those-wearing-them-too this is the good stuff.

But the drugs are new too. There was really only one successfully repurposed drug, remdesivir never ended up proving helpful for what it started as. And obviously even longstanding common drugs can turn out to have terrible effects (talcum powder). You answered the question, but I didn't understand why you were fine with the medical treatment but skeptical of a vaccine. There will be risks in both, but at least we are dealing with many eyes and multiple countries working at once to provide consumer feedback on risks. From what it sounds like, there are mild side effects for the leading vaccines to date. But there are risks with the treatments, there are risks with the vaccine, but nothing about this virus has shown it can be tamed without significant intervention and that level of disruption makes those risks more tolerable. And, in weighing either, you have to weight the significant chance someone would get covid without the population taking the new drugs/vaccines and the significant toll that takes. Hopefully the vaccine that makes it has no/little side effects, it provides more immunity than a flu shot. But if it is something with mild side effects, yes I will get it when its available and my wife and kids will also get it.

Confused why you are bullish on the treatments for covid but skeptical of the vaccine despite it being just as probable some of these new treatments may have long-term side effects.

antibody treatments are expected to arrive in September.

I agree and am bullish on treatments. I was confused because you were talking about local health infrastructure and capacity, which is to date much more controlled by public health policy than, at this point, advances in treatment. Even things like remdesivir have largely been, due to supply, mostly tested in late stages where it has seen improvement. But it's possible at earlier stages it has an even better rate and I'm not sure that's been studied yet.

I still don't really understand what you are saying. It comes across like "by the time a vaccine is developed, it will not be needed because it will already be controlled". I'm not sure what your counterargument you are sharing even means. But based off of that initial statement, that control is coming at a high cost. Mandated face coverings, gatherings restricted to under 10. The vaccine allows similar control of the virus (if not total) but with much more freedom of movement, business, everything. If you are saying by the time the vaccine comes it will not be a raging epidemic and test and trace is in effect so it won't be that big of a deal, I'd be skeptical. Even countries with awesome success still have consistent rollbacks, and as Caulfield says, many still have travel restrictions. There will be nowhere near the same level of typical freedom until there is a very effective treatment or vaccine

I wonder in what shape the Newark Bears stadium is in. Rutgers Baseball stadium too.

I think this board often forgets about treatment advancements, which will also continue. Even in the world where we don't get a small pox-like eradication with a vaccine, it may be one where we get greater immunity + a much less devastating infection.

This is one of the better resources for vaccine research. Some blog from stata had a guy do rundowns but I can't find it: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html