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C Moon

(12,188 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 09:10 PM Jun 2020

Baseball's Back: Players Reporting to Camps After Reaching Deal With Owners

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Major League Baseball players on Tuesday said they were reporting to training camp after reaching a deal to start the coronavirus-delayed 2020 season.

MLB had asked the union to respond by 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday as to whether players can report to training by July 1 and whether the players' association will agree on the operating manual of health and safety protocols. The schedule would start July 24 and would be the shortest since the National League's third season.

Spring training was suspended on March 12, two weeks ahead of scheduled openers, and the sides reverted to the familiar financial infighting that fractured the sport in the past. An initial deal March 26 called for players to receive prorated salaries and gave MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred power to set the schedule, but that agreement did not require MLB to play in ballparks without fans.



Read more: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/baseballs-back-players-reporting-to-camps-after-reaching-deal-with-owners/2384989/

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Blues Heron

(5,898 posts)
1. The greed for money in this country is so disgusting
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 09:14 PM
Jun 2020

They should look at Djokovic's positive diagnosis as a stark warning to professional jocks that think they are immune for some reason.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
4. the way cases are exploding again we may need those bb fields for burial sites
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 09:19 PM
Jun 2020

right now, i'm just trying to survive, who gives a rats ass about sports.

Auggie

(31,061 posts)
6. Wonder what the rules are for an infected player?
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 09:50 PM
Jun 2020

If one guy gets the virus will the whole team be quarantined and their games be forfeited?

Bad, bad idea.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
17. Nope!
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 03:33 PM
Jun 2020

They're allowed an expanded roster (AA guys?).
If someone tests positive, 48 hour sequester, then retest.
If the test negative twice, they're free to rejoin the team.
Not the most robust safety measure.

Auggie

(31,061 posts)
18. But if one player tests positive, isn't it possible part of, or the entire team, has been exposed?
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 05:22 PM
Jun 2020

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ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
19. Of Course
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 06:38 PM
Jun 2020

But, that's not how they wrote the safety protocols.
I didn't say I thought it was a good plan. Merely a plan.

 

Steelrolled

(2,022 posts)
10. I think it can be done safely
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 09:33 AM
Jun 2020

if the players, coaches, and umpires can follow safe practices and be tested perhaps twice a week. Many (perhaps not all) do take their health seriously. As added incentive, testing positive should put you on disability for the rest of the season, and cause the team to forfeit games for the next two weeks (while they isolate). This could be a good advertising for what it takes to fight this virus.

yuiyoshida

(41,763 posts)
12. It totally is madness...
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:27 AM
Jun 2020

There will be a huge population in this country that will pay the price for going out and trying to do stuff in a normal way during a pandemic.. if it doesn't kill them, it will kill their parents and grand parents.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
14. Just going into a public restroom might be deadly.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:33 AM
Jun 2020

Because the C-19 virus also hits the intestines and when that person who might be
asymptomatic drops a # 2 enough virus could splash up that could make somebody else
sick.

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
15. I may be wrong, but I don't think they are opening the stadiums.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 02:02 PM
Jun 2020

They'll be playing without fans there.

 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
13. When will the decide what parks will have fans and which won't.
Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:32 AM
Jun 2020

If they have fans, are there going to be food and drinks sold and just in booths or selling in the stands?

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