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If they don’t at least try, there are then problems with the 2021 season due to the virus again and, after all that, acrimonious CBA discussions, the economic foundation/viability of the sport will shaken for at least 10-12 and potentially half the ownership groups. Zero sum game.

Say it ain't so Joe, please say it ain't so That's not what I want to hear Joe Ain't I got a right to know Say it ain't so Joe, please say it ain't so I'm sure they're telling us lies Joe Please tell us it ain't so They told us our hero has played his trump card He doesn't know how to go on We're clinging to his charm and determined smile But the good old days are gone The image and the empire may be falling apart The money has gotten scarce One man's word held the country together But the truth is getting fierce Say it ain't so Joe, please say it ain't so We pinned our hopes on you Joe And they're ruining our show Murray Head (1975)

Two (more) staffers who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus, Trump's campaign said Monday. "After another round of testing for campaign staff in Tulsa, two additional members of the advance team tested positive for the coronavirus. These staff members attended the rally but were wearing masks during the entire event. Upon the positive tests, the campaign immediately activated established quarantine and contact tracing protocols," Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told CNN in a statement. The two positive tests, first reported by CNBC, bring the total number of Trump advance team staffers in Tulsa who tested positive for coronavirus to eight. Hours before Trump's Saturday rally, the campaign said that six staffers working on the rally tested positive for coronavirus. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/two-staffers-coronavirus-trump-rally/index.html That’s in addition to two Secret Service members, making ten in all so far that are in 14 day quarantine... https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/amid-threats-and-political-pushback-public-health-officials-leaving-posts/2020/06/22/6075f7a2-b0cf-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_virus-officials-1245pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&itid=hp_hp-top-table-main_virus-officials-1245pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans Public health care workers feel villainized, leaving posts

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29334714/what-mlb-owners-need-hear-rob-manfred-save-baseball

South Korea becomes first country to announce “second wave“ of coronavirus https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-south-korea-second-wave-112229586.html 90 cases and it’s a second wave. Florida has 4 thousand yesterday and it’s just minor setback. ReplyReplies (19) 13916 Ken32 minutes ago They call it a second wave.... we just call it a spike in cases. Go figure!

Thought that people were at risk of losing UNE if they were called back to work and couldn’t find a valid health-related or childcare-related excuse?

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/20/arizona-coronavirus-masks-pkg-lah-ebof-vpx.cnn Man says he lost family to virus. Why he's still not wearing a mask. No-lockdown Sweden is compelling parents to send their children to school. Some fear their kids could ultimately be taken away if they refuse. https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-lockdown-sweden-compelling-parents-092900158.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-japans-jobless-rate-just-150343409.html The New York Times Why Japan's Jobless Rate Is Just 2.6% While the U.S.'s Has Soared

Six months into this and they still have no clue. Do what HK, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Australia/NZ and Germany are doing. Almost everyone wears masks there (at least in Asia), even for pollution and common colds. Given the case increases, the CDC has been conducting a scientific review about the public health benefits of masks, and will soon make an updated recommendation, a senior CDC official told CNN. A senior official with knowledge of the review said science is being studied as to whether masks are not only "good for source control -- and keeping you from giving it to others -- but we're also seeing if masks are going to protect you from getting [Covid-19] yourself." "We know it's a good thing to wear a mask to protect others. We are studying if it is also potentially going to keep you safe," the official added. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said last week that people under 30 made up a majority of new coronavirus cases in several counties. He said that increase in young infected people could be related to Memorial Day parties, visits to bars or other gatherings. And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that the median age was 37 for newly diagnosed coronavirus cases over the last week. In the state, 62% of new cases for the week of June 7 are under 45 years old, he said. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/us/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html

Not according to the DJIA. If the 80/20 rule follows (20% of the ticket and suite buyers comprising 80% of revenue outside of media), then it's much more related to the financial health of those upper income season ticket buyers and local/regional corporations that utilize sports marketing to reach their target audiences. Could those potentially fall by 10-25% over the next two years? Will media rights deals fall off into an abyss? Well, we will just have to wait and see. The first test case will be the Cubs' complete debacle with negotiating Marquee carriage rights in the middle of all this uncertainty. We have a number of recent examples with major economic interruptions such as 1997-98, 2001-2003 and 2008-2009 to study.

Seems we’re going to see another “mass” rally in Arizona this week, where Covid cases have doubled recently and the Phoenix area still doesn’t have adequate testing capacity. One penalty being discussed is $250 fines for not wearing masks. Not sure how well that would work. As for the protests, mostly outside where germs/bacteria are more easily dispersed and a much higher % of masking than was in evidence over the weekend in Tulsa, where it was 1 in 10, at best.

Sheer greed/self-interest and the coronavirus response destroyed this season in equal measure. Perfectly summarizes not only not only the state of society, but also the world of sports in 2020 with deca billionaires, deca millionaires and the fans just struggling to survive. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis invoked that phrase “for the good of the game.” That concept of someone on either side being able to see the forest for the trees is certainly lacking now. "Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life work. Destroy his faith in it and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart. "

Go back to 2010, the Tea Party Patriots and Mitch McConnell deliberately obstructing everything Obama tried to do...even after the Dems actually made numerous attempts to compromise. If Trump loses in November, he will spend every single day of those subsequent four years trying to destroy Biden, not any different from the birther controversy. Fox News, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush, OAN, etc. will do the exact same. Why would anyone expect that dichotomy to change, the divisiveness to be healed? It only seems MORE unfair is because this last month has been the bottom of the Trump presidency in terms of support and polling. Obama reached similar numbers in the upper 30’s, but actually had the ability to reach out to more than just his base. In fact, you can say the same of every President re-elected in modern times, even GW Bush and Nixon.

There was also a 16 year old that died this past week, fwiw.

News just came out that two Secret Service agents in addition to those six advance (campaign) team members tested positive for Covid-19. On Saturday night, the president defended his handling of the coronavirus, claiming to have saved "millions." "We saved millions of lives. Now, it's time, get back to work,"

One of the biggest remaining questions is what (if anything) happens to Stone Mountain in Georgia...or the Lee-Custis Mansion (his former home) now in the heart of Arlington Cemetery. For example, Washington & Lee University now has to be renamed? In 1865, shortly after his April 9 surrender to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Armies, former Confederate States Army General-in-Chief Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was called and served as president of the college for five years until his death in 1870, when the college was thereafter renamed the "Washington and Lee University".[6]One of the oldest institutions of higher education in the American South, W&L is the second-oldest in the Commonwealth of Virginia (next to the College of William & Mary, founded in 1693). CSA General Albert Pike statue in DC toppled this weekend as well.

I tuned out as soon as he expressed a preference for violent protesting and out of control looting in Seattle...because that would give him a more compelling argument against Defund the Police/coastal elites. But in the middle of three overlapping national crises, our first priority should be to fight a cultural war like they are in HK over Chinese flag desecration? “I may be wrong, but it's probably better for us to just watch that (Seattle) disaster." Trump added that a congressman on the flight to the rally told him he shouldn't step in to end the CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.) “When you do testing to that extent, you are gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please. They test and they test. We have tests that people don’t know what's going on,” Trump said in the rally. He then imitated a public health official examining a patient, “If you have the sniffles, it’s a case!” ..... As President Trump spoke about the coronavirus and media coverage of it during his Saturday rally, he referred to the virus with a racist term "kung flu," while complaining about the amount of names for the virus. "It's a disease, without question, has more names than any disease in history, " he said. "I can name 'kung flu,' I can name 19 different versions of name. Many call it a virus, which it is. Many call it a flu. What difference? I think we have 19, 20 different versions of the name." This was the first time he used the racist term, opting to call it the "Chinese virus" early in the pandemic before changing to Covid or the coronavirus. source: CNN.com “I don’t think it’s anything worse than the flu,” said Brian Bernard, 54, a retired IT worker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who sported a Trump 2020 hat. “I haven’t caught a cold or a flu in probably 15 years, and if I haven’t caught a cold or flu yet, I don’t think I’m gonna catch COVID.“ seattlepi.com

Sounds like a character from Star Wars.

Two reasons, they weren’t cognizant about Juneteenth/1921 being on the same weekend (now we’re in a totally different world after Minneapolis), and two months ago Oklahoma looked like one of the safest places in the country, and a friendly audience receptive to his message. Not only that, but it’s going to make it even more challenging to schedule the next big rally, especially if there’s any type of outbreak in the next 2-3 weeks. Puts the August conventions in even more jeopardy. Brad Pascale likely to be out as campaign manager in the next 7-10 days.

Okay, I deleted it. But earlier in this thread there was a discussion of Confederate statues...which has now morphed in the US and around the world to something much bigger, stretching from Churchill to Francis Scott Key to Washington and Jefferson. So where does that end and begin? As a Civil War buff and history teacher, I consider myself as sympathetic as anyone from a historical sense despite being a “Yankee from up north in Iowa.” Antifa, Confederate statues or the USPS, whatever the topic now, there’s Inevitably going to be a political spin. If I even attempted to defend Robert E. Lee (because of brilliant military/strategic expertise or “sense of honor” to not turn against his native Virginia) , it would be an impossible case to make in an American public high school today. Maybe it would get one fired or at least suspended.

Probably 7-9,000 people, just an educated guess. Just one section in the upper deck, the first level is packed around half the stadium and then maybe half the standing area on the floor of the stadium. Very, very few masks being worn. Certainly no protesters preventing anyone from entering, then there is a number in the hundreds just enjoying being outside along with the 200 or so counter protestors somehow stopping 100,000 from entering... Campaign will undoubtedly claim 12-15,000.

Well, we’re already seeing multiple cases of top NCAA FB teams with 15-25 team members testing positive...the virus doesn’t care about your politics, or if you trust science over gut instincts and intuition or not. It simply looks for available/vulnerable hosts to infect. If we’re not following any of the CDC guidelines or attempting to enforce them, then why do they exist, exactly? Washington State was perhaps the national model of how to handle this in the beginning. Now Yakima hospitals are being overrun, months later. https://www.yakimaherald.com/special_projects/coronavirus/yakima-county-hospitals-exceed-capacity-report-critical-staffing-shortages/article_9e24ab98-dd28-5bd4-a829-8dce719f251d.html

Planned massive outdoor pre-rally with Trump and VP Pence, with an expected crowd of 40,000-100,000 just canceled after only a couple dozen show up. ”There’s still lots of space indoors at the BOK Center, come on down!” MSM and intimidating protestors scared everyone away, right? Too hot? If all the mainstream media is fake news and a hoax, why or how would that impact the crowds?

Breaking news: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas USPS offices running low on funds, don’t have necessary budget to accommodate mail-in balloting. President irate news of six campaign advance team staffers testing positive for Covid-19 is getting too much attention, as well as the latest Friday Night Massacre of Berman from the Southern District of NY/NJ...”Super Spreader-in-Chief.“ https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/may/30/coronavirus-cases-at-meat-plants-rise-d/ https://www.provisioneronline.com/articles/107869-top-100-meat-and-poultry-processors-holding-pattern https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/22993-covid-19-meat-plant-map It’s the perfect storm, you have the massive Tyson and George’s poultry and turkey processing plants 100 miles away in Springdale, AR, by my count at least six beef/meat processing plants in the Tulsa/NE Oklahoma region, another massive cluster near Springfield, MO, and then again in KS/NE. I still can’t quite figure out how to embed that national map at meatpoultry.com, but it almost looks like Tulsa is near the epicenter of all the Covid-19 beef/pork/chicken processing plant problems...essentially, a corridor from there to Springdale to Springfield to KC and up into Nebraska and Iowa. “The companies are reacting too late," Licolli said. "For them, it's more important to keep their production rather than protections for these workers." About 50 protesters stood on the sidewalk outside of the Tyson plant on Berry Street and held up signs reading "People > chicken," "protect = respect" and more. Dr. Nate Smith, state health secretary, said Thursday during Gov. Asa Hutchinson's daily news briefing covid-19 cases are rapidly increasing in the Latino community, particularly in Northwest Arkansas. This week the total number of cases from people employed by the poultry industry climbed to 415, the Health Department reported Friday. That's up 37% from Monday when there were 301 cases. All eight of the businesses in the latest covid-19 job cluster report process chicken or turkey. At least 69% of the cases are Hispanic or Latino, according to the report.