2020 MLB SEASON

[DrTorch]

i argued with a friend the other night about the 2020 mlb season and he said it was going to be a total schitt-show and i was like nah bro it will be cool, lots of rookies and at least they're playing and Boba Chette man and yeah base-BALL

but i think he is right, all these guys opting out, players getting covid in the middle of the "season", no fans...i get the feeling it is going to be a disaster

[Willard Fillmore]

As Urban would say, "a clown show". Do you let a team play in the post season if half their roster comes down with the virus the week before it starts?

[maplecityjake]

Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland A's types just say no.

[DrTorch]

This about sums it up.

Texas Rangers outfielder Joey Gallo says he doesn't know if he actually had the coronavirus despite two positive tests, since he has never had any symptoms and also had multiple negative tests.



"I wish I had an answer," he said Saturday, a day after he was able to join the team. "I don't know. I really don't know."

pulled from ESPN article here:


www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29447049/rangers-slugger-joey-gallo-sure-had-coronavirus

Gallo said he planned to have a more extensive antibody test to be sure after a finger-prick test didn't indicate that he had COVID-19 at any point.



The 26-year-old All-Star slugger missed the first week of the Rangers summer camp and isolated from teammates for two weeks after two positive tests that sandwiched a negative result during intake testing. He had two negative tests on his own outside of the MLB testing program, but wasn't cleared to join the team until consecutive negative tests under the protocol.



"It was a strange process to go through. There wasn't much anybody could have done because the test came up positive," Gallo said. "It was weird, it was hard to get real answers on if I really had it or not. ... As of right now I am coming up negative and that's how I am hoping to stay the rest of the season."

i mean what are we doing here people?

[sportsjock]

I have been getting a lot of reports of false positives, where there is no symptons whatsoever and subsequent tests prove negative.
False negatives are something to worry about, of course.
It makes one wonder, how accurate are the charting data?

[BellevueBuckeye]

So what do you guys think about the 2020 playoff expansion that was approved at the last minute yesterday?

16 teams make the playoffs. In each the league the division champs are seeded 1-3, the 2nd place teams are seeded 4-6, and then there are 2 wild card spots seeded 7 and 8. First round of the playoffs will be 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 with the higher seed hosting all games in a best of 3 series. After that round whittles the field down to 8 the playoff format continues like normal with 4 best of 5 series in the LDS round followed by the best of 7 LCS and WS.

[Willard Fillmore]

Giving out participation ribbons.

[maplecityjake]

Jul 24, 2020 21:53:23 GMT -5 Willard Fillmore said:

Giving out participation ribbons.

Or, being like the NHL back in the day when 4 of 5 from each Division made Postseason.

In Dodger news, and NorCal loves this, LA has blown the doors off Giants thus far to the tune of 17-2 in two games.

[DrTorch]

Jul 24, 2020 19:57:34 GMT -5 BellevueBuckeye said:

So what do you guys think about the 2020 playoff expansion that was approved at the last minute yesterday?

16 teams make the playoffs. In each the league the division champs are seeded 1-3, the 2nd place teams are seeded 4-6, and then there are 2 wild card spots seeded 7 and 8. First round of the playoffs will be 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 with the higher seed hosting all games in a best of 3 series. After that round whittles the field down to 8 the playoff format continues like normal with 4 best of 5 series in the LDS round followed by the best of 7 LCS and WS.

Great!

Baseball is going to expand to 32 teams soon.

[shelbyrr11]

Jun 30, 2020 11:28:12 GMT -5 Willard Fillmore said:

As Urban would say, "a clown show". Do you let a team play in the post season if half their roster comes down with the virus the week before it starts?

Let's find out the answer to this one very soon. Marlins getting put on hold and the Phillies, at minimum, compromised temporarily.

I think the MLB HAS to get the TV deals to allow the end of the season to be pushed back for this to work. 60 games in 66 days was already an extremely high task. The fewest number of games on any typical day last year was 4. This year it is 9. There was never any real room for margin, especially since this is surely not an easy "day off" the Marlins and Phillies players are having. I have no idea how many are / aren't symptomatic. 

The ratings have been extremely well for baseball. The season opener was the highest viewed game since 2011. Surely the MLB has leverage in such a strategy, especially with college football and the NFL being uncertainties. 

[Willard Fillmore]

The most telling is showing which teams have players that MUST go to bars and carouse and refuse to eat their meals only by having room service bring it. There is ABSOLUTELY no reason for a player/players to become infected if they're thinking FIRST about their families, teammates and THE TEAM.

[DrTorch]

Padres 2020 Unis are bada$$.

[maplecityjake]

Joe Kelly being suspended 8 games is rich

[DrTorch]

RIP