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Social media, TMZ, college recruiting sites that incessantly dig into personal lives, families, relationships...it’s really going to be the downfall of this generation if we can’t discover more positive outlets for our energy and attention.

Because Bernie Sanders and his wife own all the houses there!!! Didn’t you get the memo?

If Cease gets hurt, do we preemptively blame Hahn, McEwing, Renteria or KW (just because someone always will find a way)?

Thoughts and prayers!

This is bad, really bad, and it will get worse, because living here — today, with leaders whose first priority is themselves, among fellow citizens who can’t be bothered with fortitude or compassion — looks just like this. This is the world into which Major League Baseball rolled its operation. If you signed up for baseball in the summer of 2020, for an escape from reality, you signed up for a baseball team — fathers, husbands, sons, brothers and friends — holed up in hotel rooms, 1,200 miles from home, while people wearing masks, gloves and grim expressions knocked on their doors. The Miami Marlins were tested for the coronavirus again Monday morning in Philadelphia, a day after they were tested (again), because suddenly too many of those tests were coming back positive, in waves, and already one flight home had been canceled and another was at least postponed, and the outbreak that could shut down a season had found them first. A baseball game between the Marlins and Baltimore Orioles in Miami on Monday night was postponed. A game Monday night between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park, where the Marlins had just spent three days on the field, in the dugout and in the clubhouse while at least a dozen players and personnel were carrying the virus, also was postponed. This is bad, really bad, and so wholly predictable. The structural precautions are expanded rosters, taxi squads and a couple dozen other guys set aside to throw bullpens and take batting practice. When the virus blew in, however, the real safeguard was America’s appetite for the game, its willingness to offer up others for its amusement and then its refusal to even temporarily commit to something greater than itself. We do pandemics, it turns out, how we’ve come to do everything else: What’s best for me? The answer was baseball games on TV. So if we shoveled baseball with everything else into the furnace that is four million cases and 150,000 deaths and an unyielding determination to get our nails done, then clearly we had the stomach for 12 or 15 or more Miami Marlins calling their wives and children with the news they were new to the curve. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/the-marlins-covid-19-outbreak-is-really-bad-and-exactly-what-mlb-signed-up-for-160751017.html

Also have SF/Oak, Balt/Wash, Milwaukee along with Chicago, SD with LA...

That’s because they’re not “licensed to ill“ like the Beastie Boys.

Thanks, Ms. DeVos, so well put! And, of course, it’s equally applicable to K-12 education as well as higher ed.

Should be an extra $2 per hour bonus from last Thursday (optimistically) through the final World Series game in Oct/Nov. Did you apply for PPP bridge funds?

NFL is stipulating risky activity which could jeopardize paychecks. The memo also states: "Clubs/NFL can challenge designation as a football related injury if it can prove that the player contracted COVID-19 through engaging in high risk conduct below. (This issue remains open.)" Per the memo, the NFL defines high-risk conduct as attending: • an indoor nightclub with more than 15 people • an indoor bar with more than 15 people, other than to pick up food • an indoor house party with more than 15 people • an indoor music concert/entertainment event with more than 15 people • a professional sporting event, other than applicable NFL games or events, with more than 15 people • an indoor religious service attended by more than 25% of a venue's capacity (Greg reaction?)

The problem with this is you’re going to need at least four stadiums....three or four staggered games per day times 4 locations. All the cleaning between games. Right now, just one highly infected team would very quickly wipe out another 5-6-7 teams over a single weekend. It would have worked had all the teams gone into protective bubbles 6-8 weeks ago, but by July it was already too late as cases started increasing as far back as Memorial Day weekend. It was always more about mitigating owners’ losses than the health of players and their families.

West Coast would be where, exactly? Denver? Definitely not Texas, CA, Washington or Phoenix. East Coast would probably be okay, except FL teams and Atlanta. For Central, Chicago, St. Louis, Minnesota, Pittsburgh? Milwaukee? Not too many super-obvious choices there. Ohio seems to be a bit of a trouble spot, again.

So far, just those two games cancelled so far on MLB.com website. No updates on the Braves or Reds...or what it would take for the Yankees/Phils to play tmrw. Just a two game set, so you’d think they would just hold off. Then, the Phillies are scheduled to play the return leg Wed and Thursday at Yankee Stadium.

Opportunity cost. Market forces. Cost/benefit analysis.

This is kind of like nothing bad can happen if you pray and there is no God to answer your prayers. There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence it can prevent transmission if you’re already ill, as opposed to getting sick in the first place. Pretty much the entire medical/scientific community around the world has come around, and 75% of the Republican Party in the last 2-3 weeks. The principal reason Dr. Fauci was hesitant in the beginning was they were telling him not to encourage a nationwide run on PPE so that there would be enough available to ER/ICU doctors and nurses.

Yeah, eventually Donaldson and Cruz will hit that wall...Nelson was in the theoretical final year of his contract. Oh, well.

One thing is for sure, this just heightened the “back to school” debate by a factor of 5X if the MLB season is already lost in the first week. Goodbye, any form of football across the entire country. Golf, tennis, figure skating, individualistic sports (X Games) might be okay, but that’s going to be the extent of it.

Not only them, but Flowers and D’Arnaud were already ill in Atlanta. The Marlins played there Tuesday and Wed. Lag time. Probably more. Reds have at least three in Davidson, Moustakas and Senzel.

It was never going to work. I just thought it would have lasted longer than four days. Yesterday, reports surfaced that four Marlins players tested positive for COVID-19,including Harold Ramirez, Garrett Cooper, and Jose Urena, all members of the active roster. Instead of postponing or forfeiting their game against the Phillies, the club rallied together and played ball, pandemic be damned. That turned out to be an exceptionally stupid idea, as Jeff Passan reported this morning that eight (EIGHT!) additional players and two coaches on the Marlins have tested positive for the coronavirus. Ken Rosenthal noted that tonight’s game between Miami and Baltimore Orioles has been cancelled, as the team remains bunkered down in Philadelphia. The Yankees are expected to play in Philadelphia tonight. I have a hard time believing it’s safe for them to do so. Craig Mish says that the clubhouses followed guidelines, and believed it to be safe. Joel Sherman adds the Yankees will staff the visiting clubhouse tonight themselves, if they play. But that says nothing of the fact that the Marlins were in close contact with the Phillies, and now any of those players could be carrying the virus. Baseball has a history of transcending crises, leading to spectacles of great human achievement, moments of light, if not glory, emerging from the cracks in a period of darkness. This is not one of those times. It never could have been. You can’t out-will a pandemic. The virus doesn’t care about the intangibles or winning it for the guys who can’t take the field today. The only concerns it has are replicating and shedding. That’s it. The Yankees shouldn’t take the field tonight. They shouldn’t even go to the ballpark. It’s irresponsible if they do. An outbreak was the worst-case scenario, and it happened in the first series of the season. This is as big of a disaster as one could imagine. This is a developing situation. Follow Pinstripe Alley for the latest updates.

Next will be the Reds and probably the Braves... At that point, you pretty much have to shut everything down for at least 3-5 days to test EVERYONE.

I’m listening to the podcast "In the Bubble" with Andy Slavitt right now, whose guests are two epidemiologists. The first question he asked them was how safe is air travel? On a scale of 1 to 10, they rated it a 5. That’s not good enough. One of the doctors frames risk in terms of how many breaths you share with someone. They both said they would refrain from air travel this year. I’m worried about the Phillies, but hopeful that having played the Marlins won’t lead to Phillies’ infections, only because they play outside and have some distance between them much of the time. I’m glad Rhys & Didi wore masks on the field, and that Kingery hopefully has immunity. JT & Segura should wear masks on the infield, too. Coaches already have to, right? And I maintain that players should have to wear masks when batting and base-running. That’s if they try to keep this going. Also, what about those in the Phillies’ organization who maintain the visitors’ clubhouse? Posted by GBrettfan on Jul 27, 2020 | 10:26 AM They’re being quarantined. The Yankees brought their own crew.

Yeah, just giving those wins to whoever was supposed to play the Marlins would be ONE solution. You certainly wouldn’t want to reward organizations for not containing outbreaks. But do they (Marlins) still have to send out taxi/scrimmage teams to keep the starting pitchers in alignment for the next series? Stopping and starting for 2-4 games at a time is terrible for teams trying to get in synch with the new reality. It’s definitely not going to help the Phillies, they inexplicably lost 2/3 games to Miami.

So do the Phillies host the Yankees for two games, or those are cancelled? Yankees already have Aroldis out. Do the Braves go ahead and play tonight in Tampa/Florida, without the entire team being tested? What about the Reds, with Moustakas, Davidson and Senzel?

But (Rear Admiral Brett) Giroir also warned that states had used only $50 million of $10.25 billion allocated to them to hire contact tracers. "There is money there for them to do it," he insisted. "We are supplying the technical assistance. The money is there. The state plans have to meet requirements." Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar claimed that states had not used $11 billion in allocated financing for next-generation diagnostics.