The Miami Marlins are Quarantined in Philadelphia casting doubts on the rest of the season.
After around a dozen Marlins players and two coaches tested positive for COVID-19, Major League Baseball is facing a major setback.
Marlins CEO Derek Jeter said in a statement: “We have conducted another round of testing for our players and staff, and our team will all remain in Philadelphia pending the results of those tests, which we expect later today. We will provide additional information as soon as it becomes available.”
City of Philadelphia Response
Phillies Quarantined Too
Questions Arise
https://twitter.com/Adrienn52905995/status/1287807459290210304
Marlin Schedule Postponed Through Sunday
Season Lost?
Dr. Anthony Fauci says Marlins’ virus outbreak could endanger MLB season.
The Season is 60 Game
The entire season is now just 60 games, down from 162.
The Marlin Schedule shows they can play at most 53 games. Four games with the Nationals have been “postponed” as have three with the Orioles.
The Nationals can play at most 56 games and the Orioles 57 (not counting the Philadelphia quarantine which will also cost at least one game for two teams).
Lost Philly Games
Schedule Revisions
Supposedly they will try to make up these lost games. Color me highly doubtful.
That leads to the key question:
Why Bother?
The answer is team do have to recover as much as they can, but really, 53-60 games?
Fake First Pitch News From Trump
In other baseball news, Trump Announced, Then Canceled, a Yankees First Pitch
The president’s announcement that he would pitch at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 15 startled the team’s officials, who had not scheduled such an event.
“Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,” Mr. Trump, referring to the president of the baseball team, told reporters on Thursday as Dr. Fauci was preparing to take the mound. “And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I’m doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium.”
There was one problem: Mr. Trump had not actually been invited on that day by the Yankees, according to one person with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s schedule.
But Mr. Trump had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci’s turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch. No date was ever finalized.
Mish
The baseball season was in jeopardy the minute they started kneeling.
Haven’t watched an inning and don’t intend to.
So you have quarantine between states now in the US ? You don’t hear of that much over here. Here is an article on Sweden’s approach via ZH … different strain, different demographic or what ?
Olympics was around now I think, at least from replays on TV… and also a virtual bicycle tour with athletes peddling at home to compete on a sort of video game, instead of whichever race it was.
As long as they don’t open up to international travel they’ll probably be fine. Unless the bug blows in on an ill wind from a neighboring country. Maybe they’ll quarantine ships like during the Black Plague times.
Their deaths are higher, economy no better. So, whatever.
Have you read other articles and opinions at that unz site?! It’s a cesspool …
No I don’t read unz except occasional articles that get presented, but I know what they cover makes others uneasy. There’s Saker, Moon of Alabama, Gates of Vienna, or try Riposte Laique in french… and surely many others… if you are in the mood for culture and ideology clash, deep/shallow conspiracy etc.
However the points they present in the above article are quite mundane, so I leave you to your messenger shooting.
RE: ” culture and ideology clash, deep/shallow conspiracy”
No, I was referring to rabid anti-semitism, racism, xenophobia, etc.
And there was no “shooting of the messenger” (assuming by “messenger” you meant Anda)… any “shooting” was at the site that produced the article.
“But Mr. Trump had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci’s turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch. No date was ever finalized.”
The world is seeing its first nuclear armed toddler.
The entire human race is a nuclear-armed toddler. The sooner we exterminate ourselves the better.
Is the NHL the apex of sports?
They had more than a dozen cases a couple weeks ago.
Marlins broke quarantine to go to a strip club in Atlanta.
The sports leagues are proving to be an interesting microcosm of US society as a whole.
The NHL has taken the “lockdown” course of action, imposing the “market bubbles” paradigm that is strictly enforced and dealing with the increased costs and limitations on personal mobility. Someone already mentioned their results so far.
The WNBA and MLS have adopted similar strategies. So far their results have been good as well.
The NBA has taken a similar approach but, as someone else has mentioned, a covidiot player decided he just had to enter a strip club to get his favorite wings, against league and team policies, and is now in quarantine with the hope that he had no real chance to spread it to other players.
The NFL and MLB have chosen the more “relaxed” approach, eschewed the “market bubbles” paradigm as too economically costly and too personally restrictive.
This discussion is about the early results for the Marlins less than a week into the shortened season … with numerous scheduled games “postponed”, likely never to be made up … which may not matter because the entire season may go down in flames due to the failure to be more serious about the virus. Anyone watching the games surely noticed the laissez-faire attitude displayed by some players when it came to masks … with the manager and coaches clearly not being strict in enforcing anything.
Poof … reports indicate 9 players and 5 staff test positive … POW
The NFL must be holding its breath … tough to do when playing such a physical sport … but probably the only way they can possibly keep infection rates from blowing their season to smithereens too.
These athletes probably comprise a fairly low-risk demographic, at least when it comes to the worst COVID-19 outcomes. The issue is, as it always is, what about other people those athletes, while infectious but unaware of it, might come in contact with who are not professional athletes in top physical condition?
Anyone who feels sorry for these athletes is a moron.
Who cares about sports ?
I don’t. Unless you are referring to true amateur sports such as collegiate division 3. To me, pro sports are bread & circuses for the lumpen proletariat.
I do. Baseball — I enjoy it at all levels, youthball to MLB. Sad to see the struggles…
Lots of people. What do you care about? You know, so I can mock how stupid it is.
The Normies
Duh. For the owners!!! This mini season was primarily for the rich owners. Damn the health of the clubhouse staff, umpires and ground crew.
Why aren’t they wearing masks? They don’t restrict oxygen. Under Armour makes one specifically for playing sports.
Occasionally you show flashes of the old Mish. Sadly, it’s a rare occurrence.
You’re question: why bother? Indeed. Many will never attend another game or watch them on TV. Same with the NBA and the NFL. Let’s see the dwindling fan base pay for these spoiled and over indulged athletes. Suckers.
10 tests per player per week.
The NBA is in the same situation since a player decided a gentlemen’s club was the best place to buy a meal and then tested positive.
“Why Bother?”
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NFL: “Gulp”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/youtube-is-engaged-in-sedition-to-overthrow-the-government/.
Why are YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter banning a group of doctors who dare to disagree with the establishment? Why would Mish never post it?
Why is Fauci and other officials trying to prevent the use of a drug that has been proven to work, a drug that Fauci himself knew was safe and helpful over 15 years ago when he was at the NIH?
The answers are simple:
– they want the “Great Reset” / green socialist agenda being pushed by WEF, Gates, Soros, establishment politicians, etc.
– the cost of the solution is cheap and is not patentable, so Fauci and big pharma can’t get rich off the drug.
– big corporations go along with the fraud because it puts their small business competitors out of business.
– bloggers like Mish simply go for the clicks, and could give two sh*ts about the country.
If you believe this video was blacklisted to protect you, then you likely believe that face masks, social distancing, and shutting down the economy is also good for us.
Remarkably, Newsweek just published an article about the same subject, where the doctor has “been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines” – https://www.newsweek.com/key-defeating-covid-19-already-exists-we-need-start-using-it-opinion-1519535.
meanwhile the NHL is safely in their two bubbles with zero positives in the latest battery of tests.