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Professional athletes have to be in one of the most low risk groups to die or be hospitalized with COVID. Most of them have spouses and children and are self contained with them per MLB protocols- also low risk groups.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
Who? So you're picking one person and collectively grouping them together? How bout this, unfollow them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Ha! "Exactly"... he spoke of one person, on Twitter even, but the evil "media" needs to chill the 17 out. Why don't you just chill the 17 out?!? Novel idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
One? Wolken, Thamel, Rovell, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Turfdawg67
How about they actually do their damn job that they're already shitty at and report the news?
Perfect example... some hack during the Biden question / answer said the Marlins have canceled their season..Quote:
Originally Posted by Turfdawg67
Which is Totally false ...
if you can’t see that the majority of sports media or just regular media would love for sports to be canceled for a few more months then oh well...
Again why not be positive ... it’s easy to find negativity.. find some positives.. one team has an issue right now.. the other 29 are In Good shape ..
NHL I think had ZERO positive tests..
that’s big time news..
Why plan doubleheaders when you KNOW there will be an outbreak? They will alter the schedule. Yankees / Orioles already have moved games up due to the Phillies / Marlins moving games. MLB will need flexibility for this and they accounted for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
How did you say those two statements back to back when you are so clearly only negative about media. It's absolutely stupid to think the sports media wants sports cancelled. That's their livelihood. Man get a grip... you want so badly the media to be the villain here when most of them just report the news. Sorry there are turds that report incorrectly. There's a reason why they don't make it higher in the biz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
If you can comprehend, they said there would not be any double headers! Not that they wouldn't schedule them in advance. Will they change? I don't know. But that's not part of the original plan. Thanks for the insightful post thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
I don't see where they said none whatsoever with no possibility of flexibility. Just that they scheduled none and that 7-inning double headers are not in the plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
I can't imagine us getting through all 900 games without at least 1 double header.
They said, Bc of safety reasons they wouldn't. Now, that makes no sense but that's what was said. If you can find it, I really don't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Enjoying me some baseball tonight. Other than Carlos Martinez's meltdown.
Pretty sure the white Sox and Indians played a double dip today
Yep it happened. I was looking the June 20'aricle before they agreed to play. I stand corrected. I'll admit itQuote:
Originally Posted by shoeless joe
I can’t listen to Tom verducci do color on a game. He’s awful. Him and the Sunday nite woman are in a tight race for worst.
You're slipping dude, lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Suspending Joe Kelly 8 games is a joke. Don't like being taunted? Don't strike. You're paid millions of dollars, shouldn't get your feelings hurt. Houston Cheatin' Snowflakes.
Yeah, all I heard was his track record, must of been before 2016... lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Agreed... was it the two head throws or the "Nice swing bitch" comment?
Cardinals brewers canceled today due to positive covid. I don't see how the season can continue with all the cancellations
cancelled game b/c of 1 positive test? That doesn't seem like a strategy that's going to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Reported that 4 people within the Cardinals tested positive.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Current impact of positive tests:
Phillies & Marlins - 7 games postponed; Yankees & Orioles - 4 games postponed; Blue Jays & Nationals - 3 games postponed; and now Cardinals & Brewers - 1 game postponed.
They need to figure this out and soon. You keep piling on the postponements and ultimately there won't be a season.
Lastly - if you haven't already done so - PLEASE stop following Wolken on Twitter. That guy is insufferable and your life will be better without his input.
Man, I rarely agree with you, but I can usually see where and why you hold the opinions that you do. This one though... The media on both sides aren't that great and I have seen you dog Fox News for poor or "fake" reporting. Do you think it is solely a Fox news thing? Ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
It does seem as though a lot of the media doesn't want sports to happen for some reason. 99% of the guys playing sports have a better chance of dying on the way to the ball park/field or even being struck by lightening during a rain delay before dying from COVID. There is no reason to have an alarmist attitude when it comes to professional athletes playing in an empty stadium.
It also isn't a stretch to say that some that report in the media will stretch the truth intentionally. So yes, it could be a simple mistake that the reporter made but it also could be a stretch of the truth as well, we don't know.
As long as they can play Saturday and Sunday with the double header Sunday then they?ll be right back on track. The fact that the teams play each other multiple times and now the 7 inning double header rule I think it can be done. But they needa have faster testing it appears.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
again, baseball won't finish and college football can't happen either w the way everyone is doing quarantines. Most if not all, of the MLB positives are from asymptomatic players. Same thing is going to happen w CFB. we might, might play a game or two. but no chance we play 10. But it won't be any different next year. May have a vaccine, but people will still get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh
Sources: MLB commissioner warns of shutdown if coronavirus isn't better managed
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ng-coronavirus
I should have been clearer that I was talking solely about sports media.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB30
Sports media actively rooting against sports makes no sense. News media actively rooting against news follows the same logic though and explains a lot, sadly. CNN is bleh, Fox News is bad, and there are plenty worse (on both sides.)
But I meant to talk sports media there.
To me it’s not that the sports media is rooting for no sports, it’s that so many of them are being smug a-holes and rushing to say “SEE I TOLD YOU! LOOK AT ME I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!” when something bad happens that is COVID related. And it often seems like people who are optimistic get mocked for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Maybe we can have football soon, maybe we can’t, but I personally don’t care to have my Twitter timeline filled with sports media personalities stroking their own egos every time they get a prediction about COVID right as if they correctly predicted the score of a game.
The only way to play sports is to quit testing and only diagnose and quarantine those that actually have serious symptoms. The tests themselves are a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
I sorta agree; but if you just let it run rampant, it'll probably eventually get someone that's vulnerable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Let it run rampant? It already is.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Overall yeah, but I'm talking about in sports leagues. If testing hadn't caught the 2 cardinals, it may have been the whole team (coaches included) in a week or 2. Then their opponents start getting it. Then a manager or older coach ends up dying, and so long sports for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
That's what's happened anyway right??Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Maybe true. But as it stands right now, it's so long sports for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
I know you're right, but I'm dreaming that somehow we get a season of baseball and few werks of football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Isn?t it like 20 of 1200+ test have come back positive with none of them having symptoms?