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While some may consider Covid-19 to be not highly fatal for younger people, it is still dangerous in terms of lung scarring, heart damage, etc. The saying, "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger,

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So if the season WERE to end from this and the O's don't play any other games.....could the O's declare themselves 2020 AL East Champions?  Asking for a friend.....

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I was disappointed to see that the Orioles had to travel to Miami.  I'm assuming there's a good chance this game doesn't happen tonite...but on the flip side of that coin, if this game doesn't happen

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19 hours ago, Morgan423 said:

ERod is a pro athlete in solid shape, 27 years of age, who had no history of any heart issue prior to the present time.  The odds of it being caused by anything else are slim to none.

(it wasn't connected to anything else)

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Nats are forcing MLB's hand. They have to shut down the Marlins through the weekend.

To be clear, the Nats do not have the right to unilaterally refuse to play, it would be a wildcat strike. MLB has the sole discretion to cancel games.

That said, MLB will almost definitely step in and (accidentally) do the right thing and cancel Marlins games through at least the weekend.

Manfred is absolutely leading from behind, just a complete vacuum of leadership, really embarrassing. If there weren't labor negotiations coming up in a year my guess is he would be gone.

I'm not sure whether owners would want to make a change this close to the Basic Agreement expiring, but they have to be thinking about it.

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I've given up guessing what's going to happen at this point. Looks like MLB wants to try to push through this incident and cross their fingers that it's a Marlins-only thing. O's are going to be 4 games behind with pretty much no good way of making it up, and the Marlins will possibly be 6-10 games behind best-case. 

It's getting weird very quickly

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20 hours ago, Philip said:

These are both very good points, but the fact is that right now the benefit of the business aspect is only to the owners and the players. the minor-league players and the towns that have those teams, aren’t getting anything, the concession workers aren’t getting anything, the local economy isn’t getting anything, The peanut makers and the hotdog sellers are actually having to pay money to destroy product(which I also find appalling) the  only people who are getting anything are the owners and the players.
So in that sense, yes you are correct but it doesn’t apply here. I am very much a laissez-faire guy, but the greed of the owners is appalling.
so your argument fails in this instance.

 

I'm not saying its good for business.  I'm saying it brings the community together, all people rooting for one team as apposed to arguing with each other.  

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46 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Nats are forcing MLB's hand. They have to shut down the Marlins through the weekend.

To be clear, the Nats do not have the right to unilaterally refuse to play, it would be a wildcat strike. MLB has the sole discretion to cancel games.

That said, MLB will almost definitely step in and (accidentally) do the right thing and cancel Marlins games through at least the weekend.

 

If it's just about going to the city of Miami (on the part of the Nats players), couldn't they just flip the Marlins series to Washington and play a future one that was scheduled to be in Washington in Miami?

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20 hours ago, Philip said:

These are both very good points, but the fact is that right now the benefit of the business aspect is only to the owners and the players. the minor-league players and the towns that have those teams, aren’t getting anything, the concession workers aren’t getting anything, the local economy isn’t getting anything, The peanut makers and the hotdog sellers are actually having to pay money to destroy product(which I also find appalling) the  only people who are getting anything are the owners and the players.
So in that sense, yes you are correct but it doesn’t apply here. I am very much a laissez-faire guy, but the greed of the owners is appalling.
so your argument fails in this instance.

 

The owners were willing to go forward without a season, a position for which they were demonized. I'm not suggesting that they were pursuing that angle out of concern for player safety, but it rings a bit hollow that they are now apparently to blame for NOT cancelling the season.

 

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6 minutes ago, BohKnowsBmore said:

If it's just about going to the city of Miami (on the part of the Nats players), couldn't they just flip the Marlins series to Washington and play a future one that was scheduled to be in Washington in Miami?

There is no way it is just about going to the city of Miami.

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