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In that case, "Healthy" could be equivalent to "He's not in a hospital on a ventilator" and still be legally accurate.

Plenty of possible reasons. What did the player ask the team to say...are they conducting a second test, was the player someone expected to start the season on the 30 man roster or not?

The first post/announcement by RH that he was not in camp was Friday Morning, the first post about his absence on this forum was 10:45 a.m on Friday. The test was given on Wednesday and the turnaround time is ~24 hours for what baseball's using. The timing fits perfectly. Tested on Wednesday, positive test reported on Thursday, Friday morning announced he's not in camp.

Kopech. It's the last detail of that mystery.

So Kopech is mysteriously missing for a personal issue they won't discuss and 2 White Sox players have tested positive but both have requested privacy? Kopech's missing because he tested positive. That's it. When they say he's healthy they're just either lying or using some legalistic language loophole. Yordan Alvarez is getting the same treatment for Houston.

IMO, there are even bigger failures by the White House than the messaging failure. While that is important, no failure was more important for this country than the CDC failure in January and February. They refused testing assistance from the WHO, designed and shipped out a faulty and useless test, blocked private labs or institutions from conducting tests, and then created testing standards that made it impossible to test people for community spread. It was the fault of the CDC more than anyone else that the states were flying blind throughout February as the Virus took hold. By the time the first positive test came back in New York City, there were probably 10,000 people who already had it, and they were starting new chains in Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit, and Chicago, and those chains would feed the next set of outbreaks in the US. Notably, the CDC is part of the executive branch, run under the White House. The CDC director, Chosen and nominated by the President, Redfield, is historically problematic, having pushed a so-called AIDS vaccine without evidence and who has worked with an abstinence-only education group. One senator in 2018 described him as " a sloppy scientist with a long history of scientific misconduct and an extreme religious agenda" which is the kind of thing that at the time might not have seemed like a big deal but then when the CDC became the most important organization in the country for a month...its performance mattered a lot. The CDC was key to fighting 2 outbreaks during the Obama administration, Swine Flu and Ebola, and while it is possible to make some mistakes and learn from them every time, it is clear the CDC was completely broken when we needed them and tens of thousands of Americans are dead specifically because of that failure. This should be at the heart of whatever investigation is conducted after this is over. Also along those lines, the administration allowed the FDA in March to begin approving all sorts of junk tests including specifically junk antibody tests that did not actually have any power to verify anything. Furthermore, the administration was also sloppy with supplies. Elizabeth Warren had her plan for COVID response out on January 27th, calling for, among other things, increased production of PPE. That did not happen - in part because the White House had spent several years trying to privatize the effort. There needed to be early training of first responders for how to deal with infected patients. Didn't happen. There needed to be surge funding available to be working on these things in February. Didn't happen. On top of all of that, consistent leadership from the top, supported by scientists, is also key to beating this, and the administration has been missing in action. For one example In South Korea, to reopen things, they developed a nationwide app system where people could log in, to aid in tracing. IF we wanted restaurants open right now, having people log in on an app as they enter the building is a way to make sure that if there is an infected individual recorded there, you can find all the other people who were potentially exposed and get them tested and isolated to break transmission chains. Amarillo Texas is not going to build its own app to do this. If there was a nationwide one? Everyone could use it. Does anyone know what we really need to do to reopen schools safely? NO. Why not? There is zero organization or leadership from the top. Under what circumstances should a state shut down fully a second time, is there any leadership from the top on these standards? No. That's all in addition to the messaging failures, telling people it's a hoax and saying why they don't need to take precautions.

Masahiro Tanaka takes a Giancarlo Stanton line drive off the head. At the hospital, responsive, walking under his own power.

I liked the redtails but then hesitated for the same reason. Yeah it's honoring some really awesome people in history, but at the same time do we want them to be "Mascots"? I dunno.

I'm iffy about that one. It's somehow both a positive, identifying a group that contributed a lot to the US and that region, but also a stereotype of the Irish as angry drunks. I don't have to have a good answer on all of them to be able to say some of them are absolutely wrong. Watching Braves fans doing the "Tomahawk chop" in the 21st century in the playoffs last year was cringe-worthy. I'll admit to being naive about that back in the 20th century when I first watched baseball and not recognizing the legacy that was following on. Morality and values can change, when they do, when we recognize we were doing something wrong, we should stop doing the wrong thing and do the right thing. Does that apply to the Fighting Irish? I'm not sure today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe in 10 years. Maybe we'll decide it's fine. We're intelligent beings, we get to draw that line, and we get to move it if we want.

The good news is eventually it will be changed, now I can believe that.

The only context is that we’ve been ok with one for a long time. Both are minority groups, neither is the correct name for them, just one of them got used so it sounds normal.

They're literally not allowed to say if he has it, so a "no comment" on a health question would be a giveaway. This might be a spot where MLB has, for the next 3 weeks, instructed GMs to straight up lie.

The Washington Football Franchise name should have been gone a long time ago and it says a lot that it hasn't been changed. FSU is interesting because they actually maintain a relationship with the tribe. Places that Use the Indians...eventually they're going to change because it's just wierd. Unlike the Washington Football Franchise I'll write the name, but do it with some other group and it just becomes odd. "The Seattle Asians" may not be straight up racist but really, no one would be comfortable with that. The Boston Caucasians?

We have people at this site who have but I’m not sure if they said so in this thread, I’ll say that much so that if no one else replies that bit is shared. Will leave it to them to decide whether to tag in.

Nike has removed the merchandise of the Washington football franchise from its website, now carrying 29 NFL teams.

Wonder what the universe is like for him if the astros hadn’t cheated against him.

Looks like I wasn’t wrong on the possibility of mandatory travel quarantines.

Yeah they’re doing it this year. Free agents or released minor leaguers. They are there and actually playing so that if a team gets hammered by the virus there are players they can sign to fill in who are ready to go.

He would be a good player to be in the Nashville backup group for the whole league.

FedEx has officially asked the Washington football franchise that plays at FedEx field to change their name.

Well no, the real problems were that we allowed an enormous $2 trillion bubble to form in the economy to keep it going during the Bush years, and then when it burst in 2009 we were more concerned with how inflation was always one step away (it wasn't) than with the gigantic hole in the economy (yes I'm still bitter). Thus the most we could do was an $800 billion stimulus to fill that $2 trillion hole. So even though the economy was growing it was still a very weak recovery after 2009, and interest rates had to remain low because anything else would push the economy back into recession.

And yet, when the players offered the owners expanded playoffs to increase TV revenue in exchange for more games...the owners said no. Kinda funny how that worked out.

I think I gave this metaphor yesterday - if you've got businesses open where there can be 25-50 people in a room conversing (eating), it's like playing a game of Yahtzee. Things tick up slowly at first because you're rolling pairs on the die and stuff like that, but then eventually you hit a Yahtzee and suddenly you have a major outbreak. Then, out of that population, the next 50 people are all rolling, and suddenly you get a second Yahtzee out of that group. Then you get another 2 Yahtzees out of the third group. It starts more slowly than you expect because it burns its way along slowly, one person or two people at a time, until it hits the perfect combination of setting and person who is infectous enough, then it pops. I was genuinely surprised it didn't spike faster in Texas in May, but that's because I wasn't understanding or processing the statistics of those single large bursts being rare, they don't necessarily happen instantly even if you've done something you shouldn't. That slow start also has the effect of lulling your governors to sleep, making them think that because they didn't see an immediate spike they can continue opening mroe things. "See everything's fine who's going to apologize to DiSantis", "There's no big surge of cases so we're clear to proceed to Stage 3 of reopening (Abbott did that on June 12)".

Well first of all I'd really like to watch an expanded playoffs because I enjoy the playoffs. Second, we know darn well that good teams go into slumps and this year they'd have only 1 chance to do so before having to come right out of it. Third, this year some teams are going to lose substantial number of players to quarantines and that could easily be the difference between 33-27 and 27-33.