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* Seeing reports online about a Cardinals game being postponed because of an outbreak. What are your thoughts on the rest of the season?

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:33 am

Comments

Depth will be key

Comment by unclesam Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:35 am
It will be canceled not if but when. How do you make-up all of these games that have been canceled in an abbreviated season with minimal off days?

Comment by 1st Ward Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:37 am
Not looking good for MLB. Yet the NBA and NHL have gone over a week without a positive test, in their bubbles. I am guessing the NFL is looking hard at the bubble concept right now.

Comment by Smalls Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:38 am
Baseball will face a reckoning around August 15ish… we’re looking at one, two teams, couple series rescheduled, “see me around August 15th” that might be a benchmark where baseball as a league can’t function.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:38 am
Guessing it cannot continue much longer.

Comment by walker Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:39 am
MLB needs to end the season now before someone suffers the severe effects of COVD-19 or dies.

I like what Jessica Mendoza of ESPN said here.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=29571020

Comment by Big Jer Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:41 am
A week in and multiple games have been cancelled due to Covid with two teams losing about a week. Can’t see how that’s sustainable.

Like everything related to Covid why would we think that baseball would be “different.”

Comment by Pundent Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:41 am
I’m not sure how much longer this going to go on.
The constant drip, drip, drip of cases. Eventually MLB may have to pull the plug.

Comment by Bruce (no not him) Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:42 am
Didn’t work.

Comment by Dotnonymous Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:42 am
Pessimistic. I figure a couple of more weeks before they have to pull the plug on the season.

Comment by RNUG Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:43 am
Marlins are sitting pretty right now with a .667 winning percentage /S

Comment by Stu Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:44 am
I don’t think they can go on much longer. The most important issue is safety for the players and staff, but at even a trivial level how is it a fair competition when multiple teams have most of their squads wiped out due to something somewhat outside their control?

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:47 am
Mendoza’s spot on about the domino effect here. By the time we’ve realized that a team has positive tests they’ve already played several other teams. The challenge with a season, even an abbreviated one, is that the players keep moving on from place to place and the virus moves with them. The NBA and NHL bubbles at least prevent that scenario. The NFL should consider that scenario or alternatively shorten the schedule, split the league in two and have teams play every 14 days. Half the league is off each alternating week.

Comment by Pundent Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:47 am
Let’s see, Phillies, Marlins, Brewers, Pirates, how many more with positive cases? this can’t keep going.

Comment by Amalia Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:48 am
It makes we wonder about how the virus is transmitted.

Were these cases of people not following guidelines, or of the guidelines not being effective.

The baseball Covid cases should be something that makes more of us focus on those issues.

A lot of us are nearly religious about wearing masks and washing hands, but I am wondering if that’s enough.

Comment by Gooner Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:48 am
Carpe Diem because I wouldn’t put a lot of money on having a full, albeit shortened, season. This is going to keep happening. Been saying this for month. I love baseball, but logic would suggest that this season is doomed.

Comment by Chicago Cynic Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:49 am
Everything happening with MLB right now will be happening in your school district, and then some, next month

Comment by Bob Loblaw Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:49 am
Play all games in Wrigley. No one catches anything there. /s

Comment by A Guy Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:50 am
Toast. Pull the plug now.

Comment by Vote Quimby Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:51 am
The last team to pop for COVID should be declared the 2020 World Series Champions of Major League Baseball.

Still no parade though.

– MrJM

Comment by @misterjayem Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:53 am
Not to worry sports fans. High school and middle school traveling teams will play on the front lines. Their parents will send them out to exercise their freedoms. If enough children will just step up, we can have a season. Consolidate any teams with short rosters due to Covid./S

Comment by Froganon Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:53 am
Enjoy the games while you can because there is a good chance they won’t finish the season.

Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:55 am
I’m a Cubs fan so I’m quite accustomed to disappointing ends to the baseball season.

They were in first place on August 1. That’s a pretty good year for us, even if it was only 5 games.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:58 am
I want a season or whatever this is that MLB cobbled together, but I just don’t see how this is going to work after the Marlins experience.

Comment by SAP Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:58 am
And once again, it’s the Cardinals who are going to ruin the Cubs season.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 11:59 am
I don’t think the season is absolutely fated to be lost, but they need a radical attitude change - players are still not wearing masks or distancing in duggout, probably even worse behavior in locker room and away from game. If they’re -that- unserious then the only question is whether it’s too late to pivot to a bubble.

Comment by lake county democrat Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:01 pm
Let em’ play the rest of the season. the MLB/MPBPA negotiated this and the clubs have a taxi squads. We need baseball now more than ever.

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:02 pm
Looks like season pretty much winding down
At least they tried
Openers will probably insist they should have played until folks dropped on the field

Comment by Annonin' Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:02 pm
I give the season two more weeks.

Comment by HCMcB4 Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:04 pm
=== Let em’ play the rest of the season. the MLB/MPBPA negotiated this and the clubs have a taxi squads. We need baseball now more than ever.===

The health of ball players.

That’s what this is about.

Ball players, umpires, support staff.

In this environment, they’re not there to risk their lives… for you… so you can feel good.

Yikes, how selfish a thought.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:05 pm
I fear the domino effect with team after team having to quarantine till they can’t play any more games.

Comment by Captain Obvious Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:07 pm
At this point it is really up to the players.
I like my Sox, but not enough to not be worried about the health of all the people that could be affected.

Comment by Back to the Future Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:08 pm
I don’t see a point in continuing. A 60 game season was already silly. Call it off and pick up in the Spring.

Comment by Downstate Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:09 pm
I’m hoping for the best and expecting the worst. I’ll just enjoy it as long as I can get it.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:12 pm
Cancel MLB, cancel NFL.

It’s the rational, safe thing to do. We’ll get this stuff back eventually. But now is not the time.

Comment by Mr. K Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:13 pm
Illinois is an island in a sea of Covid. I can see the tidal wave on the horizon. I also see way too many people waxing their surfboards. I am just not looking forward to having them wash up on my front lawn.

Comment by pete4illinois Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:20 pm
It sure doesn’t look good. Unless Mark Curran’s staff is in charge of setting the schedule.

I think it will end up the last two teams without COVID play the World Series best 2 out of 3 and call it a season.

Comment by Just Wondering Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:27 pm
MLB players are non-essential workers with the ability (and, for nearly all, sufficient wealth) to not work if they choose to. A lot of the non-essential workers supporting MLB *do* need the income - I’m more interested than what they think than the players (who can make their own choices). It’s as complicated a situation for baseball as it is for the rest of the economy.

Comment by lake county democrat Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:29 pm
World Series is now the NPB champion vs KBO champion. All games played in South Korea.

Comment by ChuckIL Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:32 pm
= We need baseball now more than ever.=

YOU need it, so the players, umpires, coaches, everyone involved should risk their lives and health? That’s pretty selfish.

Comment by JoanP Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:38 pm
This entire sports season will be uncertain and unpredictable.

Comment by annon baseball fan Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:42 pm
“We need baseball now more than ever.”

need — verb. require (something) because it is essential.

es·sen·tial — adj. absolutely necessary.

– MrJM

Comment by @misterjayem Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:49 pm
The way common illnesses get passed through a clubhouse made the attempt to play highly questionable from the start. I don’t know how they can complete the season. At least there’s golf.

Comment by SSL Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:49 pm
2 weeks tops before it’s over

Comment by Just a citizen Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:54 pm
2 weeks tops before it’s over

MJM indictment or MLB season canceled?

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 12:58 pm
It was great while it lasted.

Will there be any different results when schools reopen in a couple of weeks?

Comment by Retired and still in Illinois Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 1:06 pm
It is hard to put myself back to 23 and athletic. I think I would have opted to play. Not sure the odds of getting Covid-19 increase by playing and traveling. Don’t think I would have lived as a recluse at that age.

Comment by Last Bull Moose Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 1:08 pm
I’ll take the under.

Comment by Dotnonymous Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 1:36 pm
As relief pitcher Sean Doolittle said, “sports are a reward for a functioning society”.
We aren’t, shut it down before things get worse.
As for “we need it”, now we know who’s voting for Curran.

Comment by GregN Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 1:57 pm
Baseball is a smouldering fire of positive cases. I’m hopeful that the NBA and NHL will be proven right by operating in a bubble. Those seasons have a much higher chance of finishing than MLB does at this point.

Comment by Cool Papa Bell Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:07 pm
Seems safer than large parties , indoor dining or protests

Comment by Curious George Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:12 pm
Shut it down for two weeks. Three bubbles, East - NYC, Central - Chicago, West - LA. Round Robin season within Division and then best of 3 all the way through playoffs for top 8 teams in one bubble.

Comment by AD Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:22 pm
If any big market team (aka, New York, Boston, LA, Chicago) begins getting positive tests, then the season is kaput. And if you think all the players isolate themselves after the game….

Comment by bogey golfer Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:39 pm
That Governors and State health departments didn’t order the season not to even be started is amazing. It is only a matter of time before the other leagues catch up to MLB’s rocky start. Cancel league sports in 2020. We have a pandemic on our hands to get through.

Comment by revvedup Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:41 pm
Whether it’s baseball or bars, starting and then stopping before the virus is managed and contained serves no purpose. This was inevitable.

Comment by Pundent Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:54 pm
If A billion dollar ball club with 25 players and unlimited resources can’t stay healthy how do we expect our schools to do it?

Comment by Willie Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 2:55 pm
MLB - 2-3 more weeks
NBA and NHL - 4 weeks or after several major stars get COVID
NFL - 60-80 (players/staff) a team and traveling. The sports camps could not make it.
College FB - gonna lock 19-21 year olds in a dorm?

Comment by zatoichi Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 3:00 pm
So it turns out there are (non-PCR) tests that have been prototyped that cost less than $10 to produce and give results in an hour. When we have these, we can test the ball players every morning *before* any communal activities start, and isolate anyone who is positive. This protocol can be used for resuming in-person school and other activities. Meanwhile everyone wears a mask at all times unless eating or sleeping.

Comment by Groundhog Day Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 3:50 pm
MLB Commissioner Manfred has warned the MLBPA of a possible shutdown if they don’t do better containing virus exposure.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 4:20 pm
=MLB Commissioner Manfred has warned the MLBPA of a possible shutdown if they don’t do better containing virus exposure.=

Since we’ve changed so many other rules of the game this year and the length of the season, why not deem the last team capable of filing out a line up card the world series winner.

Comment by Pundent Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 4:28 pm
Attempting a baseball season this year was a foolish decision driven by greed. I don’t think the season will be completed.

Comment by charles in charge Friday, Jul 31, 20 @ 4:44 pm