MLB: MLB to Start Back Up on July 1?
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Are they "healthy" if they can spread a potentially deadly virus? Even unknowingly?
Is the Players Union ok with putting their labor force at risk for COVID after a positive test from a "healthy" player?
Would you have a problem with someone with no symptoms but in the early stages of HIV spreading it all over?
Like him as an announcer or not...he is very connected to the powers that be in MLB...he knows what he talks about and is rarely wrong when it comes to the business side of MLB!
I think its possible with regular testing of the players and those around them. I know it is has been shown asymptomatics can spread but you are more likely to spread after the onset of symptoms. You wouldn't necessarily have to quarantine a whole team because of one player if the testing is diligent.
If you tested positive tomorrow, without any signs or symptoms, would you consider yourself unhealthy?
They must be half-way alright with it, because if the policy is zero tolerance, there is no point in even having the discussion of having a season.
If there's no way for baseball then there's no way for other sports that have much closer contact - I hope you're wrong.
I would be the carrier of an airborne illness that could be fatal to seemingly healthy people.
Doesn't sound too healthy to me.
I think you have to be all in or just cancel the season. You can't dip a toe in the water and then yank it out if one player tests positive. I guarantee you the players are willing to risk catching the virus if it means getting their large salaries. They're at a very, very low risk of becoming seriously ill. None of the players are over 60 which is where nearly all of the deaths are. Plus they're almost all in really good shape and perfectly healthy. Just have the older managers do it virtually for a while; have the players spread out more in the dugout; have the players shower back at their hotels, etc.
Yet another proposal:
• A regular season beginning in early July and consisting of approximately 80 games. The number might not be exactly 80 — 78 and 82 are also possibilities.
The schedule would be regionalized: Teams would face opponents only from their own division and the same geographic division in the opposite league. An NL East club, for example, would face teams only from the NL East and AL East.
A 78-game schedule might look like this: Four three-game series against each division opponent and two three-game series against each non-division opponent.
• Teams would open in as many home parks as possible, with even New York — the major-league city hardest hit by the coronavirus — potentially in play by early July.
Teams unable to open in their cities temporarily would relocate, either to their spring training sites or major-league parks in other parts of the country. The same would apply to spring training 2.0 if the league decides to use mostly home parks as opposed to returning to Florida and Arizona.
Not all clubs agree they should train in their home parks, believing spring locales offer a less densely populated, more controlled environment.
• Expanded playoffs similar to the idea first reported by the New York Post in February, with an increase from five to seven teams in each league.
Under this plan, the team with the best record in each league would receive a bye in the wild-card round and advance to the Division Series. The two other division winners and wild card with the best record would face the bottom three wild cards in a best-of-three wild-card round.
• Because games, at least initially, will be played without fans, the players would be asked to accept a further reduction in pay, most likely by agreeing to a set percentage of revenues for this season only.
• A regular season beginning in early July and consisting of approximately 80 games. The number might not be exactly 80 — 78 and 82 are also possibilities.
The schedule would be regionalized: Teams would face opponents only from their own division and the same geographic division in the opposite league. An NL East club, for example, would face teams only from the NL East and AL East.
A 78-game schedule might look like this: Four three-game series against each division opponent and two three-game series against each non-division opponent.
• Teams would open in as many home parks as possible, with even New York — the major-league city hardest hit by the coronavirus — potentially in play by early July.
Teams unable to open in their cities temporarily would relocate, either to their spring training sites or major-league parks in other parts of the country. The same would apply to spring training 2.0 if the league decides to use mostly home parks as opposed to returning to Florida and Arizona.
Not all clubs agree they should train in their home parks, believing spring locales offer a less densely populated, more controlled environment.
• Expanded playoffs similar to the idea first reported by the New York Post in February, with an increase from five to seven teams in each league.
Under this plan, the team with the best record in each league would receive a bye in the wild-card round and advance to the Division Series. The two other division winners and wild card with the best record would face the bottom three wild cards in a best-of-three wild-card round.
• Because games, at least initially, will be played without fans, the players would be asked to accept a further reduction in pay, most likely by agreeing to a set percentage of revenues for this season only.
Agree, most of these guys are millionaires and you are going to tell them, "Sorry, no premium steakhouse or gorgeous women for months." "Oh yeah, no family or friends either."
Was just talking on Saturday how some changes that come along with this season might end up being permanent, such as a league wide DH.
https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs...-expected-to-add-designated-hitter-this-year/
https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs...-expected-to-add-designated-hitter-this-year/
