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catlover79
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A's fans were still able to make their fury at the Astros known when the teams played in Oakland last night. They may not be physically allowed in the stadium, so they did the next best thing:

xaxat
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I read that Houck said he was "bummed" that he would missing a start. Hmmm, if only there was something he could have done to make sure he could play in every park. 

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I know it’s been a week, but I am still boggled by the fact that the Marlins KNEW they had positive players...ON THE SECOND DAY...and they left it up to the TEAM to decide if they wanted to still play.

Typing it out like that is so fucked up.  Were there seriously not protocols in place for the managers in that type of situation?  Like, if a player tests positive, the manager alerts the league office and then everyone is quarantined and tested immediately?  You don’t take your infected asses to THE ROAD CLUBHOUSE.  The team does not get to make that decision because of fucking COURSE they want to play.

Right now in the season the Phillies have played three games, the Yankees seven.  The World Series, if there is one, will HAVE to have the hugest asterisk in history with how unbalanced this season is.  ONE WEEK IN.

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catlover79

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Don Mattingly has led the Marlins through some very difficult times (most notably, the death of Jose Fernandez). Of course, he can't be all places at all times, so I don't think he can be blamed for some of his players being careless in their downtime and going out to party. They are adults who should know better. Still, if MLB needs to make an example of the Marlins - Mattingly would most likely be the one to go.

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Jenniferbug

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Kris Bryant is out for self reported covid symptoms. He's tested negative so far 😪

It figures that the one guy on the Cubs that I've seen trying to mask as much as possible is the one to maybe be sick. Then again, if he's taking it seriously enough to mask as much as possible, he may be more inclined to report any symptom he experiences. So I'm going to hope that he's just being cautious and isn't actually sick. And hopefully his caution will be a good example for the rest of the team to do the same. 

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theatremouse

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The whole thing sounded to me as though they're trying to be factual. Since they genuinely don't know where he is or what's happening, if it turns out he's pulling a Matt Harvey, he'll look bad. If it turns out he's having a medical emergency or otherwise unsafe - people will have already been worrying about that.

I would hope they've already sent someone to do a wellness check at his hotel room, so that much should've been ruled out pretty quickly.

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Mittengirl

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The Tigers-Cardinals series that was supposed to start today as 2 games in Detroit, then 2 games in  STL, then changed to four games in Detroit, has now been “postponed”.

 I have serious doubts that any of the postponed games across the league will ever be played.  I think the odds of the season going all the way to the end are tanking.

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Lantern7

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52 minutes ago, cleo said:

A few days ago I thought they would cancel. But Manfred's little we won't quit speech- I think he got his marching orders from the owners. They want that playoff revenue no matter who gets sick or opts out or how unbalanced the schedule is. 

They should not call it the WS though. Whatever integrity a 60 game season had is long gone.

“The Manfred Cup”? “The Fauci Trophy”? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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basiltherat

basiltherat

The WS is gonna be one big asterisk, but if one of MY teams wins, it will be as legitimate as all the others!

I am totally gobsmacked that, in this age of social media, NO ONE has posted (or sold to TMZ) pictures of baseball players (or any other athletes) as they carouse on the town.  That stuff should have been posted before we heard anything about positive tests.

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catlover79

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1 hour ago, cleo said:

A few days ago I thought they would cancel. But Manfred's little we won't quit speech- I think he got his marching orders from the owners. They want that playoff revenue no matter who gets sick or opts out or how unbalanced the schedule is. 

They should not call it the WS though. Whatever integrity a 60 game season had is long gone.

If Manfred had any sense, those games against the Marlins and Cardinals wouldn't be postponed. They should be forfeited. Their upcoming opponents were left holding the bag. They shouldn't be penalized. It's the only fair solution.

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xaxat

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It feels like the league is one or two clusters away from a state or local health commissioner taking the decision to play in a city out of Manfred's hands. The PA Health Commissioner (who vetoed the Jays' move to Pittsburgh) can't be happy that the Marlins' cluster spent a week in Philadelphia before leaving. It doesn't seem like the mayor of Miami Dade is too excited about receiving the covid bus. And Milwaukee officials can't be happy that they are now hosting a hotspot.

I'm tired of league and team officials saying that symptomatic party members are experiencing "mild" symptoms. This is an insidious disease, and just because you don't go to the hospital doesn't mean you can't have life changing effects. We were told that Red Sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez had mild symptoms. Then they discovered he had developed a heart problem that ended his season. And Rudy Gobert still doesn't have a full sense of taste and smell.

I try to be optimistic,  but the league, from Manfred down, has not earned any benefit of a doubt.

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theatremouse

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1 hour ago, catlover79 said:

If Manfred had any sense, those games against the Marlins and Cardinals wouldn't be postponed. They should be forfeited. Their upcoming opponents were left holding the bag. They shouldn't be penalized. It's the only fair solution.

Yes. Not postponed, you don't have enough of a healthy team that wasn't recently exposed to play, you get the L. The end. And if that'd been established before this started, I don't think those guys would've been out and about at restaurants and casinos.

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catlover79

catlover79

3 hours ago, xaxat said:

Well that's a first. The Pirates/Twins game was delayed because some idiot decided to fly a drone over the stadium.

2020 bruh.

ETA I stand corrected. It is the second time a game has been delayed because of a drone.

Going out for "a milk". So that's what the kids are calling it now?

He may be a HOF player, but he's a horrible spin doctor. Maybe he just should have kept quiet.

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Mittengirl

Mittengirl

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I find it hard to believe that the Marlins were staying in a hotel that didn’t have a restaurant or coffee shop onsite that the players couldn’t have availed themselves of.  Or that there is not a concierge or team lackey that could make a milk run when someone has a yen for some dairy.  If that is the case, maybe Derek needs to crack open his wallet and book his team into a better hotel than the Super-8 they must have been using.

 

I want baseball, not excuses.

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xaxat

xaxat

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2 hours ago, Mittengirl said:

I find it hard to believe that the Marlins were staying in a hotel that didn’t have a restaurant or coffee shop onsite that the players couldn’t have availed themselves of.

They were staying at the Four Seasons. Many of their US locations, including Philadelphia, are only offering room service.

ETA So yes, they could have ordered milk, but not "a milk".

 

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