Harry Chappas

I went to Michigan last weekend and live in Chicago southland. I think the message is pretty clear be outside and socially distant and if inside wear a mask. SW Michigan masks seemed to be the exception in Illinois it seems to be a rarity to see a person without a mask in a somewhat confined space. The IL numbers to me are acceptable if this is life. The part of this disease that gave me the most angst was the surface transmission and the clarity on that has eased some angst (i.e. cleaning every product I bought from the grocery story for a family of 5). I can keep my space from anyone anywhere as I never like to be close to people, kind of an OCD thing. The White House simply needs to push the narrative that wearing a mask is a much better option than not wearing a mask simple as that. I have lost all respect for a person on social media who is now acting like CO2 poisoning will be what kills us all....yes the medical professions who wear masks have not researched the affects of mask wearing but Karen from Hinsdale has figured out the risk....SMH. I want to defriend her but it is now a study in how long she will hold onto that anchor. If the White House comes out and now states that we should wear masks, is Trump done for in Nov?

Starting to think Illinois and Chicago are not too bad to be right now. Oh and wear your mask!

Id pay $200 to sit in the upper corner with a facemask in 30 degree weather in the rain to watch my White Sox.

Tanking teams will be selling anything and everything especially if there is a salary attached. You could see a ton of trades early as the GM's have had months to do nothing but time to dream up trades.

This is exciting because there is really nothing else to do.

Social media continues to prove to me that a greater majority of the population are pretty much idiots than I would have hoped. What is the government going to do with the information that I went to visit my father yesterday, am at work and may stop at the grocery store this afternoon. Hell I tell my car insurance company my every move in an attempt to save a few hundred bucks. If you don't want to be traced use a burner phone when conducting those activities. Wearing a mask does not cure or prevent COVID but it does reduce the chances of getting it. I would think that concept is an easy one. A friend of mine is begging people to come back to work and they refuse, not because of COVID but because of the government paying people to remain unemployed. I am really starting to fear for this world.

I find the whole not wearing a mask thing rather amazing to me.

Welcome to America in the year 2020.

I'm about to say fuck baseball. These owners are trash.

Do it all Claudell.

White Sox v Cubs 1 week of spring training games would be epically awesome.

My angst comes from the fact that this should have been worked out over the 2 and half months when there was nothing going on instead of making certain every last drop of blood was drained from the turnip. I know it is a business and all of that. The agreement in March did not address the fact that there would be no fans and nobody seemed to want to discuss that until now. We are now opening up at my place of employment and I am rather irritated that there are departments that did nothing over the last 3 months when there was an opportunity to make great strides in upgrading the business model. I am in finance and we converted three of our software systems and overhauled HR. Maybe the world is just getting he better of me but I love baseball and saw a gift given to them to be first out of the gate but instead they looking like they will blow this chance and be irrelevant when they begin.

On the radio this morning they were talking about how they could start spring training. Imagine the coverage the next four weeks just covering spring training.......nope...maybe they will start when basketball and hockey are running their playoff tourneys.....then baseball will run their playoff tourney when football and yes golf will control the weekends. It really is amazing how baseball shoots themselves in the head. Revenue in every sport is up because of advertising so please do not tell me how baseball has never been more popular.

This guy really can't catch a break, in that he seemed to finally be healthy and now the season is gone.

I hate that I love baseball so much. There is no sport that pisses on their fans as much as baseball does.

I'm not certain underslot/overslot is a great idea in this draft especially in Shirley's maiden voyage.

Should every citizen have respect for the rule of law and others that would be great. Unfortunately we have seen in the last week how people will react to their own vices.....and I am not speaking about protesters.

I just posted this in the George Floyd thread and will post my thoughts on this as well. The leaderlessness of this nation and partisan messaging of every aspect of life has really gotten to me. I am a pretty bright individual and I posted many, many pages ago in this thread that I really do not know anything for certain about COVID and I feel that nobody else does either.

If everyone was dropped after the first one there would be no police on the street. There is good money to be made in filing complaints against police officers some justified some unjustified. The difficult part of all of this is that there are good and bad on both sides and the bad on both sides are the focal points and greatly outweigh the good. These things are not going to go away and protesting on the surface is the right notion. The problem is that George Floyd has now become Rodney King and his name is now synonymous with rioting and destruction. I have watched national news quite often over the last few days....I never watch national news....but I found it rather amazing how it was covered on CNN v Fox. It is sickening that there is no impartial coverage of any happenings any longer and there is no leader of people in this country.

I thought that happened in the bottom of the 8th and the White Sox were losing. The reality of that game has now changed.....and I was at the game.

If I recall, Hawk losses his shit rather epically.

I am only being partially sarcastic when I compare this to the 2nd Amendment and gun control. There is a good percentage of America that feels like the government is out to get them. Of that group my guess is a majority can only survive because the government props them up. I don't care if the government can track me, I am not going anywhere. but i also feel that semi automatic weapons are not needed in life. America is pretty selfish as a whole and then has this fear that government and big business are try to control their life on top of it. I have a friend that is a government employee that hates the government....yet if it weren't for his bullshit government job he'd be destitute instead of retiring at 52 years old at 65% of his pay and will never have to work again in his life and can retire to his summer home and finish the story of the American Dream provided by the same government that he hates. The only hope is Biden finds a great VP, builds an amazing cabinet and then retires four months in.

I do not believe the Russia and China totals at all. Also it started in China yet they have the lowest death rate.

He was released from his role.....that is interesting wording. I wonder if he is has another option lined up, I am guessing he did not have a role in hockey decisions but I could be wrong. I could see him getting a gig with the Fire.

Retain the head coach.