Marlins ( and now Phillies) season(s) on pause, O's to host Yankees on Wednesday and Thursday

[Redskins Rick]

1 minute ago, ORIOLE33 said:

Are they 100% positive that these conditions didn’t exist before they had COVID-19? 

I think Ed-Rod is pretty safe to say it wasnt there, as they do an pretty intense medical workup on all their patients.

My own heart doctor agreed that COVID can hurt the heart, thankfully, my current checkup compared to last years, with no changes.

He did say that the numbers of people impacted by COVID on their heart,  was not near the amount that social media was portraying. 

[interloper]

4 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

 

I think we will 100% see someone from the Orioles opt out before this is over. 

[MurphDogg]

2 hours ago, MurphDogg said:

I don't think this is going to be the solution but it is news I guess.

 

[waroriole]

A lot of questions about why the game wasn’t cancelled yesterday with 4 Marlins testing positive. Probably because MLB has no protocols in place for this. 

[interloper]

2 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

 

Next tweet: Justin Shafer has opted out.

[BRobinsonfan]

3 hours ago, orioles119 said:

Exactly... in a world where a player can throw out their shoulder just by washing their truck, then there are risks.  There are risks in everything you do in life.

Except with this, when one player throws out his shoulder washing his truck, 7 other teammates don't simultaneously throw out their shoulders with him.  

[esmd]

2 minutes ago, waroriole said:

A lot of questions about why the game wasn’t cancelled yesterday with 4 Marlins testing positive. Probably because MLB has no protocols in place for this. 

This.  I saw a snippet from an article from The Athletic that someone posted on another forum, and it's not a good optic for the Marlins and MLB that they played the game yesterday.

[esmd]

1 minute ago, interloper said:

Next tweet: Justin Shafer has opted out.

You joke, and I laughed, but it wouldn't shock me if he does.  It's a crazy world, man.

[MurphDogg]

5 minutes ago, waroriole said:

A lot of questions about why the game wasn’t cancelled yesterday with 4 Marlins testing positive. Probably because MLB has no protocols in place for this. 

Clearly the protocol is for a 31 year-old shortstop with a career .671 OPS to make the call whether to cancel the game based on group text conversations with his teammates and a consensus that they want to "play hard". The system worked.

[interloper]

 

[waroriole]

5 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Clearly the protocol is for a 31 year-old shortstop with a career .671 OPS to make the call whether to cancel the game based on group text conversations with his teammates and a consensus that they want to "play hard". The system worked.

I think I’m missing something. 

[weams]

 

[spiritof66]

24 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

Every time an athlete steps on the field there is risk involved.  Whether or not it is "worth it" is very difficult to define.

From my perspective as a fan and an outsider, there are only two options in which the reward  might be worth the risk: (a) not having a 2020 season, and (b) trying to have a 2020 season in which every safeguard that doesn't interfere with the playing of the game itself is put in place and enforced. My own preference would have been the second option, but it may be too late for that. In any other scenario, I don't think the reward is likely to be worth the risk of illness not only to players but also to managers, coaches, trainers, and family members -- in part because it looks like the reward is not likely to be the playing out of a 60-game schedule with playoffs. The boat just left the dock, and it's already sprung a pretty big leak. It's time for some repairs, not to proceed full speed ahead. 

 

[MurphDogg]

 

[Redskins Rick]

1 hour ago, Philip said:

I agree. I am not advocating that we continue. In the poll that was taken recently I suggested that we would not start up again at all.

The point is that if you’re going to start up you’ve got to have a reasonable process in place and it is very obvious that the greatest minds in baseball couldn’t come up with something that wasn’t a complete fiasco.

I doubt there are any greatest minds, in the current MLB front office or Ownership reps, or the players association.

Remember, they couldnt even agree on how to start the season, without a whole lot of drama involved.