Lol nice to see the marlins took distancing and etc serious. 

That's the nail in the coffin right there, it was bound to happen but that was fast.

Well, that didn’t last very long.

How many more teams have to see 3-5 or more players go down before the entire day’s MLB schedule is scrubbed?

2 more teams?  3?  4?

Well it was fun while it lasted...at least Saturday was 

I don't even know how to process this but let's hope the players have mild, asymptomatic cases and that they did not infect any Phillies.

 

8 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Lol nice to see the marlins took distancing and etc serious. 

Not surprising at all, based on that state’s reaction this entire time (and considerable pushback against DeSantis from the Miami mayor)...it’s going to be shocking to see the NBA get through this unscathed somehow.   Already having problems with players who refuse to stay where they’re supposed to 24 hours per day.
 

Now what, they can’t let the Phillies (Marlins’ weekend opponents) play, either?   And unless they can turn tests around quickly, they will need to bang NYY at Philly series starting tonight as well since results are taking 3-5 days, and by the time you get the results, it’s already out of date or potentially a false positive. 

And MLB can’t allow the Yankees to be sidelined for very long or any realistic payback from broadcasting rights is going to be severely limited without them, the Mets, Dodgers, Angels, Cubs, Red Sox, Phillies, Cardinals, Astros, Braves, etc. 

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2 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Not surprising at all, based on that state’s reaction this entire time (and considerable pushback against DeSantis from the Miami mayor)...it’s going to be shocking to see the NBA get through this unscathed somehow.   Already having problems with players who refuse to stay where they’re supposed to 24 hours per day.
 

Now what, they can’t let the Phillies (Marlins’ weekend opponents) play, either?   And unless they can turn tests around quickly, they will need to bang NYY at Philly series starting tonight as well.

MLB can’t allow the Yankees to be sidelined for very long or any realistic payback from broadcasting is going to be limited without the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Angels, Cubs, Red Sox, Phillies, Cardinals, Astros, Braves, etc. 

There's a big difference between the NBAs bubble and MLBs in-stadium restrictions.

Hope everyone is ok. Season should have never happened.

Don’t really see how they can proceed forward here unfortunately.  And sad to think our season ends with yesterday’s fiasco.

1 minute ago, bmags said:

There's a big difference between the NBAs bubble and MLBs in-stadium restrictions.

Sure, but once they start playing and making so much contact in the paint, it will spread like wildfire across the league...otherwise, it would like playing two hand touch football, forbidding any contact, it’s just not possible in soccer and basketball.

Football was over before it started.   Will have to wait and see with NHL.

The Marlins and Ray's should not have been allowed to play in Florida. 

2 minutes ago, Tony said:

I just don’t see how baseball can come out and say “We have this under control, we’re good.”

Incompetent Manfred with spin it somehow

1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:

Sure, but once they start playing and making so much contact in the paint, it will spread like wildfire across the league...otherwise, it would like playing two hand touch football, forbidding any contact, it’s just not possible in soccer and basketball.

Football was over before it started.   Will have to wait and see with NHL.

Yes but NBA is doing all they can to prevent players from having it coming into the games.  MLB is literally doing nothing to prevent players from catching it off the field.

If Marlin's miss two weeks, how can the league recover? You cant have some teams playing 60, with others playing 50-55 games due to cascading cancellations. Dang

Apparently the Phillies decided to go ahead and play Sunday even after being informed by the Marlins about the team-wide outbreak.  Players-only meeting, vote.

 

The Marlins scratched their starting pitcher, their catcher was on the injured list, and their first baseman and right fielder were missing from Sunday’s lineup due to COVID-19 protocols.

1 minute ago, JoshPR said:

Incompetent Manfred with spin it somehow

Rob Manfred announces that they were prepared for this very contingency.  MLB is flying down an alternate team to play in Miami's place.  The Washington Generals will play all of Miami's games during the quaratine period.

They'll say this is why they had the taxi squads and etc.

Marlins beat reporter saying he’s being texted that season is “in jeopardy”

https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMish/status/1287740873560784898

ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Monday morning that at least 10 more positive cases — eight players and two coaches — surfaced after the team’s latest round of testing on Sunday. That comes after four players received positive test results during the team’s trip to Philadelphia, including three starters finding out before Sunday’s series finale. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was first to report the Marlins’ game on Monday would be canceled.

The team had already previously changed its flight back to Miami from Sunday night to Monday morning. They were waiting for results to come in from their latest round of COVID-19 testing Sunday morning. Results from the rapid tests normally take between 12 and 24 hours.

 

That new flight, originally set to depart at 11:10 a.m., was canceled before 9 a.m. Monday

According to MLB’s operations manual for the season, players and staff members are not allowed to travel or access club facilities following a positive test until after they have two negative tests at least 24 hours apart, show no fever for at least 72 hours, complete an antibody test and are cleared by a team physician as well as the MLB COVID-19 joint committee.

A team spokesperson could not provide comment.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article244509512.html#storylink=cpy

16 minutes ago, bmags said:

I don't even know how to process this but let's hope the players have mild, asymptomatic cases and that they did not infect any Phillies.

 

Saw somewhere that not all in this case are asymptomatic

The state of Florida is the worst, just ruining the party for the rest of us.

What happened to players lockers being in the suites and no high fives or touching? I have been wondering that since the Sox have been real close to each other many times. This never seemed feasible, but I think plenty didn't take it serious too.