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I wonder if these are people that by the way they talk naturally cough or ... articulate themselves too much

strange stuff.

that's what I thought, but this isn't how you negotiate if you cared if the season happened. And if the owners think they will lose money anyway this season, they'd rather do it while making sure the players get screwed.

I've moved firmly to the camp that believes season will be canceled at this point. This is the most embarrassing negotiation process I can imagine, and manfred should resign and personally apologize for being a failure to every baseball fan on earth.

my friend had similar turnaround. Was tested on a wednesday with his wife. His wife found out that friday, he didn't get his results until Monday.

surprised but 20k tests were reported yesterday but only 970 positives. I'd imagine a very low tally tomorrow since so many closed today. But yeah, today illinois is under 5%, go figure.

If anyone likes “The Trip” movies, trip to Greece is available for rental. I liked it much more than” ...Spain”. still the same stuff, but nothing else like them so I never get bored. Very soothing honestly.

It's that time of day: 1622 new cases 21697 new tests 7.4% positive - not as good as yesterday but hard not to look at the last 30 days and feel a lot better - testing has gone up and cases have started to go down

That said I hope it's Abel, with Meyer/Detmers as outside shots to fall and grab. If Veen falls I'm pulling a ricky williams draft (*don't care*)

So here is my final prediction for the sox: Soderstrom

ICU and ventilators used by covid patients continues to fall as well, we have definitely been identifying more non-serious cases. Non-covid patients have gone up though, interestingly. May mean hospitals opening to more procedures again.

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)