Balta1701

Don’t worry everyone, we still have college football in 2 months, and canceling non conference games will fix this. It will be so safe that my former university’s Athletic Director would like the season ticket holders to know that they get priority for those tickets as the gates will be open, so plan those tailgates now!

Huh?

We don’t know that we are seeing some teams do it better. We can’t evaluate what people are doing in the clubhouse or bullpen or during travel or during off time. There’s a randomness element to this, if you are in an area where there’s currently less virus then you may be less likely to have one of your players get it. Some guys might make 25 mistakes before catching it, some guys might make 2. Depends on who is around them and how irresponsible those people are.

Cancel all games for 2 days. Emergency meeting with the PA. Hand them new safety protocols requiring masks at all times (reduces face touching if you’re not removing it), distancing in dugout and on field, penalties for any actions that violate safety protocols up to suspensions and fines, mandatory distancing And masks during travel, and anyone caught in a hotel bar or restaurant or strip club or barber shop without a mask on or too close to anyone to violate the 6 foot rule gets a week suspension. PA told to take it or season ends.

Families of poorer/low income students are also a lot less likely to be able to work from home, and if they can’t they’re far more likely to send their kids to school even though they have a minor fever. Or go to work themselves with one.

So whoever we suggest Anderson is the next of, the thread title changes to that? I just watched Ant Man and The Wasp. Is Tim Anderson the next Wasp?

This doesn’t address travel, which is probably where all the Marlins got it.

Ask for a credit and not a refund?

The Players Association signed off on an agreement saying the players would not do stuff we've seen them doing, and the players association didn't want penalties for players violating those rules. I bash the owners as much as anyone, but this was a negotiated agreement that the players aren't living up to. If we saw everyone wearing masks, no high 5s, the Astros staying in their dugout, people using the stands for social distancing, etc, and people were still getting sick, then we could blame the policies for being too weak. The players are consistently, on camera, ignoring those rules.

During camp, there were 0 obvious cases of it spreading beyond a single person. Roughly each team had 1 case that appeared during camp, but that's manageable. It's spreading to 2, 3, 5, 15 people that MLB can't take, and that's what we started getting the first week. The plan was to prevent spreading among teams. If you go through MLB's documents, basically that's the whole goal, find every place where spreading could be likely during the games themselves and remove that. But we're watching people violate those rules regularly, and seeing the results. The Cardinals are 2 known cases, but that means there's a chance there's more because that's just from the Wednesday tests, and testing turnaround/infection isn't fast enough to know for sure that there aren't others.

Interesting to see active players complaining about this...

I think the locals are getting fed up with the state.

2 options: pitchers were hanging out together and exposed to the same person, or you had spread amongst the players on the pitching staff during gameday activities.

Maybe it is literally "they're lower to the floor and so the virus has to take more time to go upwards and that's why they infect people less". We're running out of hypotheses for why they transmit less based on various tests. Combine that with lower lung requirements maybe?

I understand suspending Kelly. The Astros left the dugout in clear violation of the safety of play rules. The team should suffer consequences. The fact that they are not receiving those consequences is exactly how the Marlins situation happened, and if we lose this season it's because players aren't following rules they agreed to and MLB isn't enforcing rules it agreed to.

Not really, not when someone on their coaching staff somehow got it.

You can't report "here is where a person got it" because you can't officially know that. It's a very likely spot but CNN reporting it doesn't mean that they had some sort of camera on the facility tracking every virus particle moving through the air to monitor which spot got a high enough dose to infect someone.

It's also pretty obvious that this is something the White Sox either don't recognize or don't work on when they have guys in their minor leagues either.

It's hard to believe these are anything other than basic skills that could be worked on with appropriate practice. Maybe we give some leeway due to the multi-month shutdown, but "working with footwork" and "how to know where the wall is" are things you drill on. There's nothing genetic about putting yoru feet in the right spot.

There ya go.

A full week is enough time for a negative test/to be fully over it if he was a minor case/asymptomatic.

A lot of his cells have been attacked by some sort of protein-surrounded RNA creature that we can't comment about.

Are you being serious? The TV actually showed Rodon off in the corner throwing stuff. Clearly him.

Dude if you're going to wear the mask at the plate cover your nose it doesn't work if you don't.