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Save us...um...big tobacco https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-15/cigarette-maker-s-coronavirus-vaccine-poised-for-human-tests?sref=vuYGislZ

Soooo..how many 5th rounders do we see going for between 21-50k?

Tough to say. We may give our kids some time with their grandparents before going back to daycare since after that seems unlikely. but definitely need some time with friends just likely to stick to outdoors.

Yes this is correct. It’s not hoarding though. Hard to build up that capacity in weeks.

Pritzker says Chicago on pace to move to phase 3 by 5/29. Here is the run down article on that if you are curious: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-cb-pritzker-plan-reopen-illinois-20200506-erfvitdovffmzd7ativx4hj57q-htmlstory.html

I am in general very pro player. I think the players positioning is getting better, the first "no salary cap!" positioning was idiotic. Players have a harder time since any one of hundreds can break off and say something dumb, while owners know from years not to speak ever. But, I think it's harder this time to just take the "owners signed the agreement in march, can't negotiate!". Clearly things are way worse than I think many anticipated when everything canceled. The loss of revenue you are talking about is not something that happens without everyone feeling it, though it could very well be short term. It is an outlier, and I think the way to bridge that while allowing positive or negative changes is a year of revenue sharing (though matched to typical % of players salaries +1/2%) Yeah, the owners are billionaires, but here's a good illustration of the reality in action. Bu-whah!? You are [redacted: millionaire] OWNER! You can't just keep paying your employees! You are ignoring rent!? Just pay with your millions! edit: well apologies to Patty Light here, I figured he had more than a cup of coffee. Soooo...not a millionaire What do you think will happen in FA next offseason if players "win" this? A lot of the problem is manfred sucks. You can see silver in the NBA meeting with players constantly, making sure they have a voice. Manfred just tries to plop his shit on everyone and make them feel like a zero sum game rather than something the league needs to get through with everyone as close to whole as possible.

well no such luck with keeping consistently good news. 22.5k tests 3300 positives 14% Still overall nice trend with lots of more tests online but really hope we can start openign more places to allow quarantining away from family.

I mean david robinson getting shown up against the other big men of his era is kinda his thing. And yeah, that's a clip. I'm sure he'd get embarrassed a few times. He'd certainly get scored on. But he just needs to slow him down enough, and the lakers would be at an overall disadvantage defensively.

Could Draymond do enough to contain shaq to allow the superior offensive lineup to stay on the floor for a good chunk of the game? Yes.

Well if we were all going to be tested as much as baseball players, other restrictions would be unneccessary.

or there's very little new info out, and so there is a herd mentality. Sorry not buying at all the "sox need a catcher in their system" logic, and then backing into "sox always draft college". There's little new info on players, there's no "tracking where the scouts are", so we are left with heuristics like that.

good stuff on travel procedure into HK.

Not sure you could pick a player I’d want less than Bailey.

I don’t know that I said that but that article doesn’t dispute that anyway.

well there is cause of and underlying cause of death, and quite a few steps. Ultimately we are talking about marginal cases and I don't know how much it really informs us anyway.

certainly still in fingers crossed mode but even yesterdays case count was just 13 or so percent. But we were stuck above 20% for weeks, then 15% after the testing jump. First real decline I feel.

It was just 10% on Monday.

Great news today. Tests: 17668 Cases: 1,677 %Pos: 9.5% 5 day avg: 12% positive, 2200 cases/day, 18k tests/day

If "Teams always need catching" you'd think catchers would go for a lot more than they do in FA.

Yeah that ain’t it.

Have you tried putting shaving cream on the classes and wiping em off? It’s not crystal clear but it’s better it does prevent a good amount of fogging

And centralized quarantine!

Daily new cases were headed slightly downward but this 4k number puts it upward.

Whew well things definitely got dumped as @StrangeSox said. 29,200 (!) tests reported in Illinois today 4000 cases confirmed 13.5% positive rate So more of that slow trudging downward trend in % pos. If you take the 5 day average it's 13%. Going down sl-o-o-o-wly