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How far apart are we talking? If you’re sitting 15 feet downwind of someone who has it at the right time, you’re both talking, and you’re both there for an hour, you probably still get it. The difference outside is it’s 1 or 2 people who get it rather than 50.

They specifically have policies about things on field like no high fives that the players were consistently violating all weekend. Those annoy me far more, the PA agreed to that and said they players would police themselves so no penalties were needed.

They are testing anyone in the clubhouse, just not as often as players. Testing players every other day costs tens of millions of dollars already.

The plan was for this to not happen. They were specific about that, Manfred included.

Even if they aren’t, there’s still plenty of chances for transmission. Hotel staff and guests. Airport staff and guests. Families. Kids going to school or daycare. the trick was always to limit it to 1 person at a time, to use the natural distancing in the game to prevent outbreaks like this. The high fives, the guys sitting together in the dugout, that’s what you couldn’t do.

Mike Trout should opt out now.

They definitely aren’t. They were acting like it wasn’t there all weekend. White Sox included.

Yes. At any point.

Well the problem with this is that someone might test negative today and still have it, if they got exposed over the weekend. Might take til Wednesday or Friday tests to be positive.

We know mask wearing and distancing can limit it, even if people are infected, but we know they aren’t perfect, and any time people bend the rules it raises the chances of this type of large outbreak.

The plan was specifically to avoid this. Small case numbers are fine, the thing they wrote their rules to avoid was team wide outbreaks from spreading at the ballpark. This was what they wrote the rules to avoid.

If this convinces enough owners that a season is unlikely do they just pull the plug now to avoid paying more game salaries?

Beats me.

It was that or this.

Maybe it’s time for a mask mandate.

My guess is MLB says “last chance”. Maybe they even announce some enforcement of the rules they aren’t enforcing.

Remember it often takes 5 or more days for an infection to turn into a positive test, so these cases are coming from their series with the Braves last week, and the Braves lost a couple players too.

That should push Cruz over a 2.000 ops.

Right Shoulder Tightness for Lopez. Light-Headedness for Eloy. Evaluate both tomorrow.

Cruz sporting what looks like an 1.850 OPS.

No official report. Ran hard into wall on grand slam in the first inning. Passed concussion tests fine. 2nd inning another ball hit to LF, called trainers out afterwards, came out while rubbing his eyes as though dizzy. Very hot on field, maybe concussion, maybe something else?

Ran hard into the wall on a grand slam in the first inning. Tried to field a ball in the 2nd inning, trainers came out, was noticeably rubbing his eyes as though he was dizzy.

No information given, just pulled mid at-bat. Velocity was notably down, but has had low velocity games before including game 1 of last year. So, maybe?