StrangeSox

If tlr is a bad manager then ignoring his dumb decisions in order to score more or give up fewer runs is a positive move imo.

If the twins just wanted the game over they could have forfeited or taken every pitch after they were down by 10+

The Sox should absolutely play the game the right way: Score as many runs as possible in every situation Give up as few runs as possible in every situation The game isn't over until the home team is leading at the end of 8.5 or later, or the away team is leading at the end of 9 or later. If you don't want the opposing team to keep scoring, then forfeit. Stop trying to score any runs yourself. I still remember playing soccer for a year as a kid. Our team was terrible! We scored one goal the entire season. We still had fun, and we weren't even being paid hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.

We have something like 57% that has their first shot and several million people age 12-15 that just became eligible. It takes over a month from your first shot to be fully vaccinated. Why not wait until you're at least 5-6 weeks out from general availability so that everyone who wanted a shot right out of the gate had time to become fully vaccinated? Why not allow the incentivized reopening metrics that states like North Carolina had announced some time to work to see if they could convince the hesitant to get their shots to get the state as a whole to the next tier? Here's the CDC data on the '19/20 flu season: Final 2019/20 Flu Numbers The final data on flu season 2019/2020 was released by the CDC in April as COVID-19 continued to spread throughout the United States. Between October 1, 2019 and April 4, 2020, the flu resulted in: 39 to 56 million illnesses 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations 24,000 to 62,000 deaths 195 pediatric deaths Compare to the 2021 season from October '20 until last week: Hospitalization Rates - Hospitalization rates are the number of hospitalizations based on the number of positive cases. A total of 226 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported by FluSurv-NET sites in 14 states between October 1, 2020 and this week for an overall cumulative hospitalization rate of 0.8 per 100,000 population. Pediatric Deaths - Pediatric deaths are the number of deaths of people under the age of 18. In 2019/20, there were 195 pediatric deaths. There has been one pediatric death during the 2020/21 season so far. We absolutely crushed flu season last year with masking and distancing. There have been only 1,848 confirmed cases of influenza for this entire season.

Agreed. Some states like North Carolina had created a tiered incentive system where the state reopening was based on vaccination levels. It created obvious rewards for vaccine hold outs. The day after the CDC made their change, North Carolina lifted all masking and capacity restrictions. Now there's no incentive for the hesitant to get vaccinated. Many suburban Chicago towns are lifting masks. So are some big national chains. And if there's some bad variant that pops up that we need to counteract, it'll be extremely difficult to reverse this. Lots of downside, and little upside at a point when barely more than a third of the country is fully vaccinated and 49 million people still aren't even eligible for months. Hell, they didn't even wait for five or six weeks after general availability for 16+.

slider more like stay-er!!!!!! sorry sorry I'll see myself out

yikes

FWIW here's the CDC's actual guidance page https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html Here's the linked underlying scientific data they're basing their guidance on, which appears to have been last updated on April 2nd: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fmore%2Ffully-vaccinated-people.htm Here's their conclusion:

2nd shot uptake rate is greater than 90%, last I saw I think it was about 95%. So most people are getting both! Pretty much everywhere outside of healthcare and maybe schools will be rolling back mask requirements is my guess. I'd like to see what the underlying data/studies the CDC is relying on for this change actually are. The single study they relied on to change school guidance from 6' spacing to 3' spacing was appallingly bad. Hopefully their claims that vaccinated people just aren't transmissible even if they do get infected are based on something more solid. We're at a little more than a third of the US population being fully vaccinated at this point. Case counts are down a lot since winter, but we still have tens of thousands of cases a day. And I'm not sure where it's going to leave parents with unvaccinated children who won't even be eligible for a shot for another 5+ months. This seems very premature to me. e: for example

Alternating home and away every week

Schefter went on Dan Patrick. Admitted he had ZERO sources. Admitted that someone was going to report that Rodgers wanted out of Green Bay 'sooner or later'. Admitted that he released it on Draft Day on purpose. https://danpatrick.com/2021/05/06/adam-schefter-on-timing-of-aaron-rodgers-report/

PFizer started the process for full FDA approval for 16+ today, but it'll probably be closer to fall before that's all wrapped up.

I wouldn't say the Bears "traded" two first round picks for Fields, but it does make some sense to say they used two first round picks to get Fields. Which is fine, because he's a highly graded talent, it wasn't some too-smart-for-its-own-good overreach, and if it works out it'll be a bargin.

more evidence that NL-style baseball is dumb trash imo

sigh

what an absolutely garbage 9th inning for the ump