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excellent. 26k tests were run yesterday with only 1500 new cases, a positive rate of 5.8%

Looking at how Silver handled this compared to Manfred, it couldn't be more clear how much worse Manfred is, but also how much worse baseball owners hold the players in contempt. He's just an extension of that.

Keith Law out, Bailey to sox again. Abel on board, goes 17.

I think Chicago has been a little misguided re: lakefront, but, Chicago's numbers are quite a bit higher than the state as a whole though declining significantly. It's a tough problem, but I think they've missed out in doing some things to allow people outdoor space such as closing down certain city streets to cars, which would alleviate the lakefront path anyway. Michigan ave could have been a good place for that which already would have had lower traffic with the closed down retail, and there are entry points to LSD through wacker as a midway point.

Not sure, probably working backward from an antibody survey.

good day, down to 1,111 new cases, tantalizingly close to going under 1000 for first time in...forever. Positive rate down to 6.5%

I like being connected to soderstrom. If Abel is there I'll be a bit downtrodden if not selected.

Are we sure this is true? The CARES act allowed for people to file for UI even if hours were only cut.

Interesting tidbits on Japan. As a whole, still feels like there was something different about the viral strains contagiousness btw Europe and Asia as speculated, however, there’s a part here on japans public transit and how it was not contributing to the spread. How? People don’t really talk on the train and they wear masks. likely same reason why air travel has NOT been a spreader beyond the moving of people. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/japan-ends-its-covid-19-state-emergency I remember reading about London’s public health guidelines for a pandemic prior to all this where they mentioned the same about the tube. Merely standing next to people in a tight space is not what is going to put you at grave risk, it’s when it’s mixed with talking (coughing, sneezing). So ban phone talking, make that known, and enforce masks and that should be decent protection when the el needs to be used.

Yeah, quite a few seniors from last year. Those dudes losing a year of development is killer, specifically a guy like Simmons.

ha, sorry, I posted the same thing in PHT just with Harold as the headliner.

4 straight days of below 10% positivity rate in IL, and while today is expected to be a lower reporting day, just 6.7% positive rate and just 1178 new cases.

Pretty easily - increased mask wearing, schools closed, no large gatherings, and, even in open cities, seatings in restaurants only at levels 25% of where they were in early march, testing many multiples higher than where it was, and perhaps some effect of hotter weather/humidity.

https://theathletic.com/1816970/2020/05/26/griffey-a-pirate-chipper-a-tiger-the-mlb-draft-rule-that-changed-history/ 1977 Expos Harold Baines (White Sox) 38.7 Bill Gullickson (Expos) 23.3 Did not remember this rule. Highlighted that it helped the mariners land Arod and Griffey. Griffey would have went to pirates where they could have had bonilla, bonds, and griffey in same outfield (mercy)

Sounds like a huntington draft but I guess that's probably most of the scouts at this point.

No Kelley even in first round? School at that point?

I don’t think her fans liked her because they thought she was anti establishment.

Oh gmafb

If he’s Jose Abreu and signed for 64 million less that is a very good outcome. There is a lot of room beneath cespedes and Robert whole still being worth a few mill

They are also typically partitioned so the exposure is likely contained to the court itself

I'd wait until the next season begins before making this judgment.

These things are all very unlikely. Worst issue is the group getting together to talk at midcourt. Surface transmission continues to see very low reports, I think outdoor tennis is good. As caulfield said, main concern is air conditioning flow indoors. They are certainly way more spread out than an indoor exercise class, with max of 4 players over a huge space. But the heavy breathing is a concern. We will see but I'd tend to believe it's not that terrible to reopen.

What a day! 29300 tests 2268 positive cases 7.7% positive rate, a new low. 100 fewer people on ventilators than last week, hospitalization declining.

but yes restaurants/night clubs/entertainment do not have much of a lobbying group and it has led to them getting short shrifted despite being the most affected, and forcefully limited, by governments. Throw money at them.