Balta1701

Hell get Herrera some burn in a real game.

If the Twins win the division they could pick us as their round 1 opponent.

that...is a good idea. Jose?

Since we are probably aiming for top 3 in this division to make a playoff run....

Then this won’t last long. The only thing preventing the entire Mets team from requiring quarantine right now is Cespedes not having it. You only get that so many tins before someone does.

That’s a “maybe” on Madrigal getting that one. If he’s as good as promised then he does.

Perhaps both?

Yuck.

Has everyone noticed that there is a AJ Pierzynski cutout behind home plate?

So Cespedes homered then got about 25 high fives from unmasked Mets in the dugout and I’m wondering if MLB really doesn’t care now if the season finishes.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29531742/entire-michigan-state-football-team-quarantine the entire Michigan State football team is under a 14 day quarantine.

Welp I guess we have to make this the banner now, sorry Kal.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschlossberg/2020/07/24/covid-19-kayos-both-braves-catchers-flowers-darnaud-out-of-atlantas-opening-day-lineup/#b56e55a7ab6d

I don't see any mention of this in the roster thread...who is the 3-person taxi squad that travels with the team? Do they get a different designation from the Schaumburg team?

No. He's destroying them all. Every time someone posts the first phrase for the next 10 years, that clause will get added in a reply automatically because of what he's about to do to pitchers.

“Every time the White Sox call a guy up he struggles” becomes ”Every time the White Sox call a guy up he struggles, except Robert.”

Joy.

This is a complicated question. There are confirmed cases presented by doctors where someone tested positive in March, had weak or no symptoms, they went away, and now they’ve tested positive again in July with far stronger symptoms. There are several possibilities: 1. The first test was a false positive, their early symptoms were some other illness, and they only just now got it. 2. The virus somehow went dormant in the people for a few months then flared back up. There are viruses that can do that. 3. The person had it, and because of the weak symptoms they did not develop a strong immune response, allowing them to be reinfected soon after. Any of those could fit Soto, and it is also possible that the most recent test was just dead/remnant virus in his system from an earlier infection. Right now it is unknown whether the virus can really do any of those things above, and it will be a while to know if any of those are possible.

For washington state, but as far as data visualization goes this is pretty good.

Part of MLB's official plan is that their game is a game with distancing built right in. Maintain spacing in dugouts, have people with masks on, and the game takes care of itself by having people spread out so the chances of broad transmission are low. You don't cancel an official game because a player tests positive that day under that setup. It's not an unreasonable strategy and if it was going to fail dramatically there's a good chance we'd already have seen it fail during ST.

The good news? Extra pressure on the Senate GOP today to get a bigger unemployment package together.