Dick Allen

A friend of mine knows someone significant In the Iowa athletic department. He told me this person told him they really do not expect to play football this fall. Hopefully in the spring.

Coop has said some dumb stuff in the past, but this didn’t cross any line IMO. Kopech has acknowledged these issues in the past, Coop just said he hope he is OK.

To be fair, his UCL was in the middle of being shredded. i do agree he was overhyped, basically made to be a savior. At least to me he has seemed a bit more mature since his injury.

I would imagine at some point he probably will let everyone know where he was at with this. But why now? Does everyone really need the instant gratification that his “excuse” was legit or not? Like he owes it to us to play? I am looking forward to games just like everyone here, but let’s not forget that we obviously don’t have the players best interests at heart wanting them to play. They are risking a lot. Maybe he is taking care of family, maybe his wife is pregnant, maybe it is his anxiety issue, maybe he doesn’t feel comfortable leaving his house, maybe he would rather go fishing, Whatever the reason, and I agree with the notion he has always been overhyped, I am good with it. Hopefully he remains healthy, and can contribute in 2021. And if he does, everyone who seemingly has a problem with his decision will forget they ever had that problem.

He doesn’t have elbow issues. Hahn said he was healthy. If it turned out he was anything but, he would lose all credibility with the press. He knows he doesn’t have enough time to get ready. He knows his service time will most likely be manipulated anyway, he knows this is going to be an odd “season”. He isn’t comfortable with the situation. Besides, he either wants to become an activist or his wife is pregnant or he is getting divorced. So far. Whatever the reason, if he doesn’t feel right about coming back for 2 months, good for him to say I won’t be there. Hopefully, in February thinks will be closer to normal and we can see him then.

No they are playing in a country that is setting new records for cases every day. Phoenix has run out of room at their morgues.

The guys is not pitching, that is reason for concern , but opting out is fine to me no matter what his excuse is. Get him back next February, hopefully, ready to go. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are several injuries this year. I bet by the end of October, assuming he get everything in, and that is a huge assumption, there are going to be a lot of players that if they had to do it over, would have opted out. i love that they are playing for selfish reasons. It will give me something to watch for 3 months. But when you think about it, even though they had to give it a go, it is borderline stupid. They are asking for a disaster.

If you are younger and don't have a family to support, B seems like an obvious choice.

It's over. Trump defeated the virus. There will be little embers to put out here and there, but no problem. 99% of the cases are like a cold, if that.

Dictators.

Fauci says he hasn't briefed Trump in 2 months. Another WH fail. POTUS thinks the pandemic is over because he wants to do his rallies.

Exactly what is Trump doing to make the US citizens safer re Covid 19? Once the calendar turned to May 1, he gave up and went with whatever Fox News personalizes working from home told him. Now he insists schools be open. Not because Kids need an education but because if they aren’t open their parents won’t be back at work, therefore the economy won’t be back to the level he needs for re-election. The countries he whines that opened their schools didn’t listen to Drs. Hannity and Carlson and Ingraham. That is why it is safer for them to open. Ignoring science is pretty ignorant, and that is exactly what the WH has done. What happened to the virus is going to go away when it gets warm? You would think a self described germaphobe would wear a mask. Even that claim is fake. Listening to the WH will literally get you sick and maybe killed.

Trump is having all kinds of problems with fractions on Twitter, but he claims the only reason there are so many cases (little embers) is because there are so many tests. That there wouldn't be Covid 19 without tests. So he doesn't know basic fractions, something you learn in grammar school. And has no logic. No tests=no disease? Does that mean we can rid the world of earthquakes if they demolish all Richter Scales?

Everyone who wants a test can have a test, and the tests are beautiful. That was almost 4 months ago, to say testing may be at capacity is fake news obviously.

The Sox 3rd baseman is in his early 20s. The first baseman is in his mid 30s. If Vaughn can play 3rd, great, but he is going to be at 1st.

I think you gave her sound advice. She shouldn't work for that moron. I hope she is Covid-free.

I said it a couple of months ago, if you are willing to pick up money, improving your team will never be easier than it will be this winter.

When the weather gets warm, this is just going to go away.

This has to screw up analytics a bit as well, doesn't it, at least as far as projections for this year, and next.

Makes you wonder how much time he would have missed if everything was normal.

It could be Gio's fault. Let's face it, if Kopech comes back soon and Rodon is ready to go, Gio becomes trade bait again. Getting traded by a team 3 times before you ever play a game for them would probably be a record that is never broken.

We can only hope. They did have 3 1/2 months to figure it out.

If it's Covid, RH lied when he said he's healthy. I don't think he would blantantly lie. Attempt to deceive or hide facts, sure, but not an outright lie.

It can go any way. Everyone points to the Nats record after 60 last year. Someone needs to be hot. A key injury is triple the pain. It should be fun, but a bad couple of weeks would be hard to recover from.

But the guys that have a 1 or 2 or 3 year career don't make the league. The players who do are for the most part, unless they are being complete idiots, OK financially especially since they are only sacrificing 1/3 of a season. That's the point I'm making. Yes, you could probably field a league with Daniel Palka as the star, but it probably won't work. They have to get this testing in order or guys are going to start to walk and it will snowball.