Dick Allen

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.

The White Sox have been one of the lowest patrolled teams the last several years. Who on their roster do you really think cannot go one year without being paid, especially when most have guaranteed money in the millions coming next year, and could easily get a loan if needed? A handful of Rookies, minor league fringe guys. That could be a problem. But for the most part guys even making minimum should be OK. It’s not like they were making $50k. It’s over half a million minimum plus licensing fees. They are only getting a third of what they would normally get anyway so the minimum are looking at less than $200k this season anyways. That is if they make it through the entire schedule.

There is a bunch of them who do, but most who really make the league, do not. Hopefully they can get a decent grip on testing and keeping players safe or I wouldn’t be surprised if there are not enough top level guys to keep on going, All it takes is the right couple of players to get freaked and a lot will follow. And again, I wouldn’t blame anyone for opting out. Perhaps things can return to something more normal by spring training 2021. Right now they are playing with fire. I understand they had to give it a go, and they really don’t have the luxury of doing it like the NBA or NHL. The only other real option was spring training sites. But AZ in August is brutal. FL it rains a lot and is insanely hot and humid. And they have huge breakouts. I hope this works, but they are going to have to be really smart and really lucky for this to turn into anything but a hot mess.

Someone supposedly has the Bubonic Plague in China. I wonder if that's next. We got hosed on the trade. They get Caulfield, we get Covid 19 and a Plague to be named later.

Moncada obviously has it. They said he didn't have symptoms so that is good. Hopefully it stays that way. The good news is this ins't the NBA, he won't need as much wind to play baseball when he recovers if he has some sort of lingering effects. And hopefully this means he will have antibodies and be good the rest of the way.

One of the greatest offenses in team history. Especially after they got Charles Johnson. They had an .800 + OPS at every position except CF.

Rodon looks a bit bloated in the picture on the White Sox twitter feed.

Don’t forget when he refused to wear a mask at the swab plant, they had to toss out all the swabs made that day.

Summer hotspot by the lake. I have lived in the Chicago area my whole life and had never known The Michigan City area was a huge vacation place until about 10 years ago. A guy I worked with owned a place there he rented out. He had an ad on Craigslist and used Our department’s phone number. He had to get at least 20 calls a day. Up until then , the thing I knew Michigan City for was the snow belt

It is nice to know Ricky had Eloy working on his bunting yesterday.

Yes. Daryl VS had a picture of him this morning.

Unless they kick the press out of the ballpark, It will be pretty obvious by the end of the day.

According to the Sun Times.

2 White Sox have tested positive. I wonder if Moncada is one.

I really don’t blame any player for opting out this season. There is no excuse flimsy enough to question it. There are a lot of players who really don’t need the money. if you had that kind of coin and where told you don’t have to work until next year if you were uncomfortable with the safety of the whole thing, I think many of us would opt out. I hope they get this “season” in. But they are going to have to get through a pretty difficult obstacle course to make it happen.

If the federal government handled this about as well as they could like Jerksticks seems to imply, why are not other countries having these spikes? Why are the states with the biggest outbreaks the ones that broke with the scientists and sided with Trump? Probably just a huge coincidence., and bad luck. Why are cases exploding in TX, AZ and Fl, three of the hottest states, when the warmer weather would make it just go away? Trump is holding rallies and parties, NOW, with no social distancing, and even though he claims 99% of the infections are harmless, to get anywhere near him, guess what, you need a negative test. More BS from perhaps the most documented liar who has ever lived.

Greg must be self employed. No way he could work for a boss trying to tell him what to do.

Just because our government failed us is no reason to “let the coronavirus do its thing”. Why do other countries not have the issues we have? The White House made this political and failed us all. If one baseball player or one NBA player or one NFL pllayyeror one NHL player gets so sick he dies or cannot continue with his career, the just live with it people will change their tune.

Clearly if you have a clue, when a player is missing time for a personal reason, it obviously means he now hates baseball and will never play again.

Admittedly, I was never into this game to begin with, but why have it this year? The extra travel, unfamiliar location, certainly a challenge for the estabished protocols, no fans. The state government of Iowa seems to be under the Trump administration’s spell that the pandemic ended because Trump needed to see people cheer him again at rallies. You are just asking for trouble. Just delay it until next year. Field of Pipe Dreams is what they should call it this season. Seems silly to risk 2 teams health for this.

Anyone see what Oakland is doing? They charge fans a certain amount to have their face put on a cardboard cutout that will be put in a seat at their park. Besides maybe being seen on TV, if a ball hits your cutout, they will mail it to you. Pretty creative.

The best thing about today is 2020 is halfway over.

The next hammer coming is homelessness. Evictions are occurring again. People who haven’t been able to work will be out in the streets, and once they get employed again will find it more difficult to find housing with an eviction on their record.

Why listen to Fauci? He is a scientist. He is full of shit. Listen to Trump and Pence. They always tell it like it is.

FYI with American Airlines. They just started booking full flights again.