14 players / Front office staff have tested positive for the Marlins. At what point does MLB stop the season or force a team to forfeit/quarantine ?
MLB says they have no intention to stop the season. Good move IMO. What would even be the point of restarting? They knew the possibility of this existed.
“The Marlins played against the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia on Sunday despite four players testing positive for the novel coronavirus. According to Jayson Stark and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, two "infectious-disease specialists" said the four cases qualified as a "clear outbreak." Yet MLB and the Marlins did not seriously consider not playing on Sunday, according to The Athletic.” “Marlins manager Don Mattingly said, “We never considered not playing [Sunday]. We are taking risks every day.” I mean how stupid and Irresponsible? Mattingly sounds like an idiot. This is a highly contagious virus that you pass on to other people. Never thought of the team they were playing? Their staff? The Umpires? Etc.. Why is it up to teams to decide this? MLB should have Protocol in place. Marlins should get into some kind of trouble for knowing they had a problem and going out there & playing anyway. While watching the games there was no Uniformity. You had some wearing mask, others not. Some had mask that weren’t wearing right. Spitting..touching surfaces.. touching their face. I didn’t see any steps taken with respect to be more hygienic. This was a given.
The season is three days old and already there is a disastrous outbreak for one team. I don't see any way that they're going to get through the season. It's even less likely for the NFL, by the way.
The NFL problem Is there’s just too many people involved to do what the NBA is attempting. They have a billion players on a team, coaches, staff, Medical Personnel, refs. Just too many people.
Contact tracing would imply that the Braves have to be shut down (the Marlins played an exhibition against the Braves right before the season started), which means the Mets have to be shut down too. Of course, for the Mets that's probably a good thing ...
Fauci speculated a month ago that the NFL re-opening could only work if the players were kept in isolation during the season. That to me seems the most realistic way of being able to have a full season. Teams and players have so much money on the line quarantining themselves, team personnel and families for 4 months seems to make a lot more sense than risking large outbreaks.
yeah, but something tell me with young testosterone laden dudes with pockets full of cash, that isnt going to happen....
I am really interested to see this number. 18 Marlins now have tested positive which allegedly at least 2 are non-players. In an outdoor stadium with very limited contact one would think the Phiillie players should be safe and with over half the marlins testing positive it is an interesting science experiment. I would also be interested to see how many of these athletes require hospitalization. I have read that 20 percent of those that test positive nationally require hospitalization. One would think it would be much much lower not only because of health but because everyone is getting tested.
Good first sign that Phillies have no positive tests. Of course that likely doesn’t mean much considering the incubation period but any good news at all is uplifting.
MLB should have done what the NBA is doing. All this traveling back and forth to troubled states is going to get more teams infected. MLB should ditch this season and try again next year.
Two staffers have tested positive for the Phillies. They have cancelled all activity at their ball park
MLB has announced that starting August 1 double headers will consist of two 7-inning games. The reasoning is clear, but what is more striking to me is that they are obviously making this up on the fly. Did they really not think that a team having a major outbreak was certainly possible, if not likely? This should have all been decided during the four months they had to figure it out.
