Ducksnort

Quarantine the sick and bring in the minor-leaguers

I think the players have their hands tied here to be honest. All these guys speaking up via social media their thoughts, no matter how right they might be, if they don't agree to something, they aren't getting paid at all this season. The way I'm seeing it unfold, unfortunately right now it's take what you can get to play, or get nothing at all.

I've heard that Oakland is one of the worst financially-managed organizations in the league

Seems like future major leaguers (current minor leaguers or potential draftees) ger shafted a lot from these negotiations...

2005 Game 1 ALDS on now THIS CROWD IS AMAZING

I don't mean to speak for him, but I think he means the view of whoever thinks the players are looking to be made out the bad guys. And that tweet doesnt make sense to me. Everything I've read paints the owners as the obstacles, not the players.

Yeah. It's time to stop dicking around with this. Either they do it or they don't, and for the sake of the sport it better not be ugly.

Welp, they said it was gonna get ugly...

I'm still working and we're getting paid hazard pay. An extra $2 an hour. It's really nice and I agree that every person who is working should get some kind of temporary bonus...at least in places where stay-home orders are taking place and non-essentially deemed businesses are forced closed.

Man I can't wait for the park to have that kind of electricity again. It's been way too long.

Some of yall just give up waaayy too easily.

This is a very well balanced view of the entire thing, and one I also subscribe to

Just read that LA is going to have stay at home order until August...

Gotcha, didn't catch the "revenue sharing" aspect...guess I take the players' side with this one then, especially since they already negotiated a deal back in March for the prorated salaries. Doesn't make sense why the owners would try to renegotiate, unless they thought it wouldn't be as bad as it has turned out to be?

I don't see what there is to negotiate. You play half the season, you get paid for half the season. Plus, no tickets being sold nor concessions. Major revenue loss for the teams. How is that deal not fair to the players? Unless I am missing something, seems to be more than fair to me.

Originally what I was thinking. As much as I would love to see way more games with Cubs, MiL, Stl, Cin, etc the Sox chances of winning more games and making the postseason are definitely heightened playing more games against KC and Detroit. Though I'm not sure maybe playing more games against Minnesota balances it out?

Interesting take here... https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/red-sox-pitcher-collin-mchugh-wary-making-return-baseball-mandatory "I’m a husband, I’m a father. There are many guys in the league with underlying conditions. With preexisting conditions, like diabetes and heart arrhythmias," McHugh said on MassLive.com's "Fenway Rundown" podcast. "You look at our coaching staffs, there’s tons of guys over 65. Umpires, there’s a lot of guys over 65. When you’re talking about the risk factors here, there are going to be some guys who sincerely have to weigh the risks of what it’s going to take to come back versus staying at home.” “We’re in a situation right now where you can’t make this mandatory,” he said. “You can’t tell a guy you have to come play or else your roster spot is not going to be here when you come back. You can’t tell a guy to risk his life and the life of his family and the lives of anyone he chooses to be around to come play this game. There’s probably going to have to be some waivers signed and whatever else you need to have done to make guys feel comfortable coming back. Then, MLB and the teams are going to have to do everything in their power so that we go about this in the best way possible and don’t just start playing games, but really set an example of how to do this, how to do it well and how to do it safely.” “I’m probably in the minority here because I see baseball for what it is, which is an amazing game but not an essential activity,” McHugh said.

I agree with ptatc. Money isn't everything. This is an extreme example but if you had the option of making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year working with a drug cartel, vs making 60,000 being, oh idk, a school teacher, which would you choose? More money doesn't necessarily mean more happiness

I believe it will happen, but it's been so long since we've seen them play it just feels like a pipe dream

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Apparently Cleveland has already told players to prepare for early July OD? https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-expected-to-submit-2020-season-restart-plan-to-players-union-by-next-week-reports-say/

Damn way to rain on that parade lmao

You can't reallly call what is currently in the white house leadership

Yeah I really don't understand it. Some reputable and legitimate reporting is saying that deaths are falsely being recorded as due to covid, and some are saying the death is much higher like you say. And again I think, as far as reopening states, we really need to take a look at this regionally. In Michigan, for example, I just listened to our governor and her team's press conference. We've ramped up testing a lot and we are finding that the % of tests that are positive are in fact dropping. Is that due to social distancing and stay at home order? Yeah, most likely. But again what happens when we reopen completely? Will this thing start spreading like wildfire again? We can't stay home until we have a vaccine. It would take too long.

There's a difference between not being overwhelemed and being completely underwhelemed and forced to refuse people who need treatments to the point where there is not enough work and revenue that you can't keep your hospital staff. That is a very real issue that needs to get figured out fast.

Right, that's been the main concern all along is hospitals becoming overwhelmed. Which is a very valid concern, when you have no data to work with. The data is starting to come in. From what I've researched, a lot of the hospitals are not overwhelmed. In fact health care workers are being laid off because hospitals are not accepting non-critical cases. They are underwhelmed. This is the case where I live and its happening in other parts of the country. The data is starting to come in and I think it's showing that the measures we are taking need to be adjusted. I think we need to look at this as a more regional and county-by-county crisis, rather than state-by-state. Also, we need to not focus on just numbers. Yes, they are very very important, but contrary to what a lot of people would say, they only tell part of the story.