MLB season delayed

I hope to watch more than seven minutes of sports every three hours

 

Maybe they could both shit in their hats and piss up a rope simultaneously.

Sports are a treat you get when you live in a functioning society. We do not live in a functioning society. We live in a society in which more than 118,000 people have died of COVID-19, the curves are pointed upward … and states are responding by reopening.

One of MLB’s early plans called for it to stage the season in a quarantine bubble of sorts—with teams either clustered in Arizona or split among Arizona, Florida and Texas. That option might have kept everyone safe. But it evaporated when players scoffed at the idea of months locked in hotels and owners decried the loss of stadium sponsorships. So they settled on the more dangerous plan of playing in their home ballparks, flying from state to state and then returning to their families—and to their local grocery stores.

Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Texas and Washington all reported record highs in cases in the last two weeks. Those seven states represent the homes of 14 MLB teams—15 if the Blue Jays are unable to travel from Toronto and need to play at their spring training site in Dunedin, Fla. As bars and restaurants welcome back customers, young people have found themselves disproportionately stricken. And scientists continue to caution that we do not know what the long-term effects of this disease will be. Even people who recover are often left with lung damage, hardly ideal for a professional athlete.
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Almost no one in baseball truly believes that the players will be able to stick to a strict quarantine. The belief that you are invincible allows you to stand in the box and face 99 mph on the black. It also makes you likely to go to a bar during a pandemic. And then what? If the Phillies and the Blue Jays and the Giants are any indication, it will be nearly impossible to contain an outbreak. For months people around the sport have asked: What happens when a player tests positive? A better question would be: What happens when half a dozen players test positive?
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For a few weeks in April, people in baseball were captivated by the idea of being the first sport to return. That did not happen. Maybe that was for the best. Now baseball has a chance to be the first sport to do the right thing: not play at all. ​

Seriously, why bother? A bastardized “season” that could be shortened or terminated at anytime due to a COVID-19 flare-up isn’t worth the effort. At all.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/06/22/rob-manfred-owners-agreement-coronavirus

 

Nice of the owners to agree to abide by the agreement they agreed to back in March.

 

If you don't think they can still fuck this up you haven't been watching this program for the last 30 years.

 

Fun fact about Jim O’Rourke. He became a Giants star in the 1880s, retired in his 40s the early 1890s, then came back to the Giants to play as a nostalgia act in the game where they they clinched the NL pennant in 1904 when he was in his 50s. And he was a catcher.

 

The most frustrating thing and yet we knew this is where it would end up.

 

Why bother with any of it? Let's just all go out in the back yard, dig a hole, and crawl in and wait to die.

 

Can.
And most likely will.

 

Or maybe we exercise just a little more patience.

 

The Aubrey Huff v. Trevor Bauer Twitter bash features an epic beatdown by Mr. Bauer.

https://twitter.com/BauerOutage

 

Aubrey Huff sucked as a Tiger
The most notable thing he did in his career was his use as bait by the Rays to fleece the Astros of Ben Zobrist