Balta1701

The NHL teams are not traveling back and forth, they traveled there once. Huge difference.

“I never imagined a baseball team could destroy the world but well, here we are...”

He is currently unsigned, but he is currently unavailable with COVID-19 and could not pass a physical without 2 negative tests. If Mazara has the same thing, then their timescales for availability will hopefully be similar.

The last time someone said this 2 days ago someone responded that Mendick was outplaying him.

Well at least you've stopped attacking the media for reporting what he wanted reported, so that's something.

I think he's a smart businessman who knew exactly what part of his statement would be picked up by the press and he made that statement because he's a smart businessman working the press.

If you've been counting, around the league there have been roughly 25 positive tests reported since the intake testing. The league confirmed the first 1/2 of these and just watching press reports you could count the additional ones. It's been about 1 a day this month league-wide, so there's now multiple examples here. People are getting it, but they haven't spread it to multiple people in the same camp like they were when 8 Phillies got it in June during workouts. We haven't seen how this will work with teams traveling, but we have a lot of examples of 1 player having it, testing positive, and then being removed from their teammates without broad spreading, so count me as cautiously optimistic right now?

The good news is - that dugout is outside, so there should be plenty of ventilation, making it hard for a viral load to build up if people are moving around pretty quickly. Baseball's whole plan, to say again, does not say "no one will ever get it" and it does not say "no one will spread it to their teammate". It is instead based on "We will not see large outbreaks that knock out multiple teams", which so far has been true and successful for us to get to this point.

No, symptoms and positive tests are caused by the same thing - rising viral abundance, but they are different things.

We do not know that and it would be extremely difficult to do that as a controlled test. You'd have to, for example, take a large group of people, infect them, test them every hour so that you know when the first positive test appears, and then somehow monitor the amount of virus they're putting out...or put them in with other test subjects who are rotated out every time they test someone and see when those test subjects get infected. Very difficult to get research approval when some of the test subjects are likely to become very ill from the experiment.

Yes. Think of the procedure that is happening - the virus enters your lungs and begins replicating. It moves into the bloodstream and begins replicating. But it takes time to go from 1000 viruses in the body to millions or billions. The test is "Swab at the back of your nasal cavity", which means you have to have virus actively replicating back there, and you have to have enough of it for the virus to be detected by the DNA test. I guess for comparison think of it like a test for DUI - you need to build up a concentration before you hit the limit that breaks the law.

On days 1 and 3 after infection? It may not be certain but everything we know about this virus says it would be common. It takes 5-7 days for symptoms to appear in a great number of people, and the tests don't beat the appearance of symptoms by that much. The hope is that testing often enough you catch guys before they are contagious for very long, and if you are outside with appropriate safety measures including masks most of the time, spreading is limited.

That...seems pretty clear.

The tests aren't 100% precise at "catching it when you just get it". The amount of virus needs to rise to a detectable level in your body before a test will appear positive. There is no reason why a player couldn't be exposed on a Sunday, actually have it when they're tested on Monday and Wednesday, test negative both days, and then be spreading it on Thursday and Friday before testing positive on Friday.

We know there's been >20 people in the league who have tested positive since the intake screenings, so it is clearly getting to people even before traveling. However, there's some good news - there have been >20 people who tested positive, but even with that many cases, there have been 0 cases of it exploding among the teams where there have been positive tests. Baseball's plan did not say "no one will ever test positive", the NBA and NFL need to go with versions like that because their games have so much face to face contact. Baseball's plan says "people will get it, but our game is naturally spread out, so with precautions we can prevent large-scale outbreaks from being so common that the league has to shut down." So far, that has been correct - adding in travel may or may not remove that, but so far it's worked.

More clearly explaining the previous post: Jerry Reinsdorf is not the idiot you take him for. Jerry Reinsdorf knew exactly which part of that interview would be the headline of the article when he gave it. This isn't any conspiracy theory, he's just smart businessman. Which thing does he want out in the public right now? A statement about teams taking big losses, because they're going to have to negotiate about potential losses for next year.

Dude, that was an awful lot of text explaining how you didn't understand the sarcasm in my post.

It's a shame that Jerry Reinsdorf has no idea how to give a press interview, that he gives quotes without knowing which ones will be at the front of the article. Since he makes those mistakes so often, maybe he should hire some press people to work with him. He must be a terrible businessman too, I mean otherwise he'd have done that long ago, and if that was the case then when he gave an interview like this he'd know exactly which quotes are going to wind up on ESPN and Twitter.

Google lists Bexar county's population as just over 2 million, so at that rate you're talking 3 to 4 years before you had enough people infected to start approaching herd immunity, and that's under the assumption that the infection provides long-lasting immunity which we know in some cases it doesn't.

Renteria casually announces via bobble head. https://es.pn/2OEJ2af

Yes. They controlled a deadly virus and we didn’t. And the franchise clearly gets to decide what they’re called based on the “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” precedent. They are the Torotno Blue Jays as long as Joe Carters jersey says that.

Like a boss.

Isn't that a bad thing? If you have people changing classrooms and wearing masks and the people are below 10 then that makes it less likely they'll pass along a dose that can get someone infected in the time they're with them, but if they're in the same room for 8 hours...

That’s what, 3rd grade or so?

Because he has COVID-19.