Doctor Rojas is now the patient.Guess who's positive?
"Marlins star and leader Miguel Rojas has tested positive. " - Heyman
View: https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1288158954569302016
Doctor Rojas is now the patient.Guess who's positive?
"Marlins star and leader Miguel Rojas has tested positive. " - Heyman
View: https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1288158954569302016
All MLB cares about is the$$$$$Rosenthal is plugged in of course and one way MLB might try to finagle this is to have a NYY @ BAL series now, MIA/PHI quarantine for an "undetermined period", and I assume when NYY @ BAL comes up again in the schedule try to do NYY @ PHI and BAL @ MIA then. This is all so tenuous at best...
The Marlins need to quarantine for TWO WEEKS to do this proper. How is this not stopping the season? is MLB actually going to do forfeits?
View: https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1288164474785013762
Context matters.So in this case, we're okay with players making the decision?
I'm not being critical towards you at all, but earlier in this thread we all thought the Marlins shouldn't be making the decision on whether or not to play, it should be the league. Now if the league makes the decision to play it "looks horrible".
What a fun situation.
I understand that but they need to wake the fuck up here. Let's see what happens now with the Nats.All MLB cares about is the$$$$$
They don’t give a shit about the well-being of players.
Yeah, I've been using the espn.com schedule list for more accurate info. MLB just doesn't want to deal with itMLB.com still has the game at 6:05 tonight, but the Yankees have apparently left, so it's definitely not happening. The whole thing is weird - if you go to mlb.com, there's one story about Manfred addressing the positive tests, and that's it. Wouldn't even know anything was going on. I mean, I'm not surprised, but still.
I don't understand how that would work because presumably MIA and PHI have series scheduled then too. There is simply no way to shut a team or teams down for an extended period of time without massive, unavoidable ripple effects through the rest of the schedule, which is already tight to begin with.Rosenthal is plugged in of course and one way MLB might try to finagle this is to have a NYY @ BAL series now, MIA/PHI quarantine for an "undetermined period", and I assume when NYY @ BAL comes up again in the schedule try to do NYY @ PHI and BAL @ MIA then. This is all so tenuous at best...
MLB.com still has the friggin' Marlins game as going forward tonight. The whole league has its head buried very, very far in the sand at the moment.MLB.com still has the game at 6:05 tonight, but the Yankees have apparently left, so it's definitely not happening. The whole thing is weird - if you go to mlb.com, there's one story about Manfred addressing the positive tests, and that's it. Wouldn't even know anything was going on. I mean, I'm not surprised, but still.
This has to be the, excuse the pun, 3rd strike for the season.
I don't know who you work for, but I bet that they also have a similar opinion.All MLB cares about is the$$$$$
They don’t give a shit about the well-being of players.
The Price is Right.I don't know who you work for, but I bet that they also have a similar opinion.
Not a formal one. Was reading the SB Nation Marlins blog which pointed out that the words "outbreak" or "cancellation" appear nowhere in MLB's protocols for this season, amazingly.Does MLB have a contingency to extend the length of the season?
Fine - replace "posts" with "jokes".
Just having some fun, but this is like the 3rd or 4th one this week. I don't care, but doesn't mean I can't give him some shit about it.
Yes, I came to the same joke independently. The version @TFP posted is probably better phrased, and certainly more accurately reflective of the actual language used in broadcasts, and if I'd stolen it I would've kept that language in. I don't want to derail this thread, so I've posted in Backwash about this - went through all the jokes I've made in the last 10 days, and can't seem to figure out which ones seem stolen to othersALL of Singapore's hilarious and erudite puns and jokes are stolen from Twitter? That's a pretty foul accusation - his track record on SoSH is such that I'd absolutely believe he and someone else got to the same joke independently here. (I rather hope my sarcasm detector has gone awry...)
Through next week?Does MLB have a contingency to extend the length of the season?
Assuming it's sanitizer, of course.....Manfred is missing a huge marketing opportunity here. He should simply turn the MLB season in a competition to see which teams can make it through without a COVID infection. You can even do a tie-in to Fanduel or something like that to bet on players making it through.
The only problem is that I can see Anthony Rizzo not being as generous with sanitizer in that scenario.
Players didn’t seem to care either when they were whining about pay rate a few weeks ago.All MLB cares about is the$$$$$
They don’t give a shit about the well-being of players.
I think everyone gets a pass, owners and players, because the reality of the situation changes so quicklyPlayers didn’t seem to care either when they were whining about pay rate a few weeks ago.
Manfred: Man blinded by the lightAll MLB cares about is the$$$$$
They don’t give a shit about the well-being of players.
It's a sliding scale. Whether it's Huizenga, Loria, or Covid, the Marlins have plenty of experience with half their roster disappearing overnight. If there's one franchise that knows how to handle this, it's Miami.The Marlins are at 17 ... haven't seen the breakdown yet, but yesterday it was 11 players, 2 coaches
At what point does that fit with Manfred's statement yesterday that changes would have to come if a team were deemed non-competitive
Yes, yes, saying the Marlins were already non-competitive is very funny
Ha. Marvelous. I think they're still in arbitration over the 1.2 billion dollar sale that the Marlins tried to stiff the city/county over.Mlb planned on the Marlins playing next week. According to this, not so fast.
View: https://twitter.com/andyslater/status/1288184825090912256?s=21
Yep, as has been said in regards to the Blue Jays situation ... ultimately, it will be governments that will tell sports leagues what they can doHa. Marvelous. I think they're still in arbitration over the 1.2 billion dollar sale that the Marlins tried to stiff the city/county over.
Think about how close they came to not having an agreement without dealing with all of this. That is why, I imagine, they didn't----they knew the summer would be done before they reached a deal that actually planned for and dealt with the uncertainties and risks (and who didn't get paid/didn't benefit/did and did not bear risk) so instead they made a deal that ignored all the mess and crossed their fingers.So that means, as of now, the Marlins have to make up 2 home games v. the Orioles, 2 away games v. the Orioles, 3 home games v. the Nationals.
That's a ton of double headers.
I can't believe they didn't plan for this.
It's over. MLB just doesn't know it yetGov. Cuomo just named DC a place that you would have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arriving in NY. Um, how is this going to work with the Yankees who were just in DC?
Florida, Georgia, and Maryland are on there as well. How are the Rays, Marlins, Braves, and Orioles getting around this?
Sports teams are exempted from the quarantine restrictions (as is the case in all other states that have quarantine requirements, I believe).Gov. Cuomo just named DC a place that you would have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arriving in NY. Um, how is this going to work with the Yankees who were just in DC?
But should they be?Sports teams are exempted from the quarantine restrictions (as is the case in all other states that have quarantine requirements, I believe).
Just my 2 cents, but Manfred is not calling all of the shots here.Manfred: Man blinded by the light
None of these players should be traveling the country and then mingling with the general populations and then traveling the country. They should be doing something like what the Blue Jays were planning on doing at the Rogers Centre/Hotel.Gov. Cuomo just named DC a place that you would have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arriving in NY. Um, how is this going to work with the Yankees who were just in DC?
Florida, Georgia, and Maryland are on there as well. How are the Rays, Marlins, Braves, and Orioles getting around this?
And Luis Aparicio still wont score.This is...not going smoothly.
Look at the bright side: if teams play an uneven number of games this year due to COVID cancellations the Red Sox are very unlikely to end up missing the playoffs by percentage points again.
And DC also has the same quarantine for people entering from many states. And has been noted, MLB also excluded from that one.Gov. Cuomo just named DC a place that you would have to quarantine for 2 weeks upon arriving in NY. Um, how is this going to work with the Yankees who were just in DC?
Florida, Georgia, and Maryland are on there as well. How are the Rays, Marlins, Braves, and Orioles getting around this?
And these quarantines are often waived with proof of a recent negative test.And DC also has the same quarantine for people entering from many states. And has been noted, MLB also excluded from that one.
I may be wrong but I think it was a whole confluence of things including (1) a shortsighted belief when negotiations were happening that we were on the downside of the Covid curve and that transmission is less likely outdoors (ignoring things like transmission in planes, buses, and locker rooms of course) (2) players not wanting to be apart from families (3) inability/lack of willpower/need to rush things due to the extended dispute between league and union prevented them from finding a bubble location (or two, or three, etc.) in the time frame they needed (4) probably some owners were under the deluded impression that some level of fans might be allowed in the stands by the end of the season (a delusion at least some NFL owners also seem to be under).I’m sorry if I missed it, but why wasn’t MLB in a bubble? I know there are more players than in the NBA and I remember the initial states they were discussing - FL and AZ are hotspots - but was it a matter of players not wanting to be away from their families that long or owner intransigence? Because it really seems like sports in the US at least aren’t going to work without a strict bubble.
People aren’t contagious at the time they test PCR negative. False negative is a poor description. Viral loads increase exponentially, so a negative at 8am Monday can mean someone is positive and contagious at 5pm Monday or 10am Tuesday. It’s basically a retrospective result.Thank you for posting this.
It's much easier for hockey and basketball to share space. There are half as many games and the games themselves are shorter. You need more than twice as many playing surfaces to accomplish the same thing in baseball.I’m sorry if I missed it, but why wasn’t MLB in a bubble? I know there are more players than in the NBA and I remember the initial states they were discussing - FL and AZ are hotspots - but was it a matter of players not wanting to be away from their families that long or owner intransigence? Because it really seems like sports in the US at least aren’t going to work without a strict bubble.
The players said no.I’m sorry if I missed it, but why wasn’t MLB in a bubble?