There shouldn't have even been a vote, this is something that should just be in the restart rules. If and outbreak happens (3 or more people), game should be automatically canceled and the team needs to quarantine - seems pretty obvious.Considering the Marlins VOTED IF THEY WANTED TO PLAY LAST NIGHT AFTER POSITIVE TESTS show every word in this sentence is a lie. Every. Single. One.
Kinda feels like the whole season is riding on these tests:
Especially considering:
Yup. And roughly half of the Marlins 25-man roster has contracted the virus. Who knows how long they'll have to be out, especially if they just got the virus. For some people, they could be back fairly quickly, but for others, you could be looking at weeks of some players being out with this virus before they can successfully get two straight negative results.
If this really is starting to rapidly spread around the league, they have really have little choice but to shut it down immediately. At least shut it down for a few weeks. Maybe try and give players time to recover and then test players again afterwards to make sure they are all negative and no one is spreading. But being outside of a bubble, these players are interacting with other people that could have it and aren't being tested, which is the main problem.
The sad part is they had 4 months to figure this out and this is what they fooled themselves into thinking would work. Hopefully this makes the NFL change their mindset of traveling around and playing games in the normal stadiums but without fans. That's not enough since everyone is in so much contact with the outside world. Also, MLB and NFL have the largest rosters in sports, so that only compounds the issue.MLB has lost me forever. What horrible job, like really. No bubble, traveling, no masks, traveling to and from homes, like what on earth did the MLB expect? A miracle?
At least the greedy owners and commissioners in other leagues took the time to actually plan something that could work, this was just lazy. Never been a fan of Price, but his tweets I saw on Reddit are just spot on for today. Player safety was like not even regarded with any of this.
To my knowledge, the Red Sox and Mets were gonna SPLIT a 4 game series between Queens and Boston. Like, WHY?? Stay in the same place!
It’s being proven that player safety was just quite literally not at ALL in the mind of the owners when deciding this. The BS “vote if you wanna play” proves this even more. Someone’s gonna die because of this mess they’ve created, they should feel totally ashamed of themselves. Disgusting and repulsive, like, they didn’t even TRY!!!
And I believe the NBA bubble has roughly done the same. The only positive cases reported in the NBA have been players that hadn't already entered the bubble (and they caught a few positives 3, i think) when the players were under their initial quarantine, so they never even were able to spread.Meanwhile, the MLS bubble has gone 2 weeks with no positive cases...
I posted this comment on who would win the series, basically as a sarcastic joke at the beginning of this thread (note the image). Unfortunately, it's starting to look like it might play out that way. A shame since I was really beginning to enjoy theWhatever team is left standing, covid free, at the end of September.
The teams have 60-man expanded rosters to fill spots of any COVID positive players, but I mean, we're talking about 6 teams that have been affected by this already.They apparently have no intentions to shutdown.
So, are they just waiting for more teams to be decemated by the virus?
Yup. I don't know what actually has to happen for him to think this is a big f'ing deal if the Marlins losing half of their roster doesn't make them "non-competitive".The biggest lol at that last tweet. The Marlins just lost 12 WHOLE PEOPLE.