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[soxhop411]

Editor’s note: More people developed symptoms on Wednesday afternoon, meaning the ailment stems from a virus rather than a foodborne illness. As a result, MLB canceled the remainder of the GM meetings.

If it seems that baseball news is developing slowly, perhaps that’s because executives’ bowels are moving too quickly. More than 30 of the 300 or so officials in attendance have come down with an undetermined stomach ailment at Major League Baseball’s annual offseason kickoff event. The GM meetings have become the GI meetings.

Some executives have spent the week in breakout sessions. Others have spent it in outbreak sessions. The provenance of the disease is not clear, nor is its type, said a person in position to know. It could be foodborne illness, in which case it likely originated with Tuesday’s lunch buffet, the only common meal among those stricken, or it could be an infectious norovirus. No one has been reported sick since Wednesday morning, which would suggest food poisoning, but some of the people who became sick have reported that they did not eat at the buffet, which might mean the disease is infectious. If more people become sick, the league would likely shut down the meetings, which are scheduled to end on Thursday morning, a day early.

MLB declined to comment.

Out of an abundance of caution, the league requested food servers at the Omni Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., site of the event, wear masks and gloves on Wednesday and barred executives from serving themselves. The league also sent a memo to teams, asking them to report illnesses so officials can track the outbreak, and offering assistance from the Diamondbacks’ team doctors. Nearly every team has been hit, as has the league office, which has seen some eight officials felled.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2023/11/08/gm-meetings-plagued-stomach-bug-queasy-conundrum

 

[Bergs]

This has to be the best thread title in SoSH history.

 

[jon abbey]

Taken from here:

View: https://twitter.com/marccarig/status/1722399813650534852?s=46&t=0GHHaPVUX26Io0V2HIcS0g

 

[Sandy Leon Trotsky]

I saw the thread title and chuckled to myself (teenage sense of humor). Little did I know that my immaturity would actually be intuition…

 

[Over Guapo Grande]

It obviously wasn't a soxhop original title because it would have been something like "At the GM Meetings there was shit happening, and it wasn't the deals going down. It was because people were actually shitting."

 

[joe dokes]

Somewhere, Brian Cashman is furiously wiping himself in the ass.

 

[glennhoffmania]

It obviously wasn't a soxhop original title because it would have been something like "At the GM Meetings there was shit happening, and it wasn't the deals going down. It was because people were actually shitting."

Right. Soxhop doesn't do concise or grammatically correct titles.

 

[staz]

Somewhere, Brian Cashman is furiously wiping himself in the ass.

After experiencing some Unconditional Release, no doubt...

 

[Salem's Lot]

Next years thread should be “MLB GM Meetings. No Shit!”

 

[Pitt the Elder]

I don't know if we're keeping track of this somewhere, but this thread title has to be top 10 of all time.