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Ultrarunner wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:59 am

mdecav wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:51 am

It only takes a few owners to be skittish that a draft/auction can’t occur. I think it is more likely than not Opening Day will be pushed. Given that, we should delay all live events until we know what is what. My guess is that is what happens. We can always do these things online.

And if the season starts as normal and MLB does what the NCAA is doing with live events with no spectators beyond players’ families? What then?

DOUGHBOYS wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:39 am

Uncertainty, certainly adds intrigue to this weekends drafts and next.
Not only are we evaluating baseball players and their skill sets, but also injected into the thought process are our opinion in when those skill sets will be put to use.
If feeling certain that MLB will start at a later date, then players such as Clevinger and Judge become more attractive with each day pushed back.
If feeling that MLB will start on time, they're not attractive at all.
Man, I love the process.
At the same time, it sure is a pain in the ass.

Gekko wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:49 am

**At least two NBA teams have advised players, coaches and team personnel who might have been exposed to an opponent who later tested positive for coronavirus to self-isolate themselves as they await test results.

This is just the beginning. Not that far fetched to believe sooner or later MLB teams will be quarantined.

I'm guesstimating a July start date for MLB; with a possible pivot to the season being cancelled all together

Yankees2009 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:49 am

Maybe because I have 5 stents in my heart. Perhaps it's having cancer. Could be at 72, I don't know how many fantasy baseball seasons I have left. I believe in free will. For ballplayers as well as fans. I agree wholeheartedly with Ultrarunner. MLB is NOT the nba or mls, where each sport spent a lot of time in China, Italy and other parts of the world.
My biggest concern is not that I or anyone else will contract coronavirus, but that Manfred will follow the sheep who are so politically "correct" to allow a media driven panic to dictate his thought process. The flu causes countless more Americans to get sick and die, and no one has ever raised the notion of suspending or cancelling the baseball season on that basis.
What ifs and the unknown are part of life, and we all have our own personal choices to make. I've heard the sky is falling many times in my lifetime, and can't remember when it ever fell. Of course, the media reminds of the epidemics throughout history which killed millions, such as the Spanish flu of 1918. Medicine and the world has come a long way from that, and based on everything I've heard about the Coronavirus, it is easily treatable, and essentially will afflict the elderly and infirm. We all have vast greater knowledge about how to stay healthy than ever before, and nothing is certain, and life in this country does allow (or should allow) for free will.
I apologize if I offended anyone with my take on this matter

Yankees2009 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:49 am

Maybe because I have 5 stents in my heart. Perhaps it's having cancer. Could be at 72, I don't know how many fantasy baseball seasons I have left. I believe in free will. For ballplayers as well as fans. I agree wholeheartedly with Ultrarunner. MLB is NOT the nba or mls, where each sport spent a lot of time in China, Italy and other parts of the world.
My biggest concern is not that I or anyone else will contract coronavirus, but that Manfred will follow the sheep who are so politically "correct" to allow a media driven panic to dictate his thought process. The flu causes countless more Americans to get sick and die, and no one has ever raised the notion of suspending or cancelling the baseball season on that basis.
What ifs and the unknown are part of life, and we all have our own personal choices to make. I've heard the sky is falling many times in my lifetime, and can't remember when it ever fell. Of course, the media reminds of the epidemics throughout history which killed millions, such as the Spanish flu of 1918. Medicine and the world has come a long way from that, and based on everything I've heard about the Coronavirus, it is easily treatable, and essentially will afflict the elderly and infirm. We all have vast greater knowledge about how to stay healthy than ever before, and nothing is certain, and life in this country does allow (or should allow) for free will.
I apologize if I offended anyone with my take on this matter

Yah Mule wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am

All this bravado will really age well if a few members of our group succumb to this illness or suffer tragic family losses.

Social distancing is important so we don't overload hospitals. If you are afflicted with Corona, it would be nice to have a bed or, if need be, a ventilator to save your life. Getting everybody sick at once will take up hospital resources that are necessary for the regular patient load you would expect from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, accidents, etc. So, the Corona death toll will not be limited to the disease and being stupid and selfish about things isn't going to help anybody. You're not going to get to do a draft or drink beer with your friends? Some people are going to be burying loved ones next week.

Done with this thread. Keep parroting the comments of a worthless sonofabitch like like trump if you like. I love all you guys, even the most stubborn assholes in this fraternity, and I don't want to say goodbye to any of you over Zack fucking Wheeler.

Yah Mule wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am

All this bravado will really age well if a few members of our group succumb to this illness or suffer tragic family losses.

Social distancing is important so we don't overload hospitals. If you are afflicted with Corona, it would be nice to have a bed or, if need be, a ventilator to save your life. Getting everybody sick at once will take up hospital resources that are necessary for the regular patient load you would expect from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, accidents, etc. So, the Corona death toll will not be limited to the disease and being stupid and selfish about things isn't going to help anybody. You're not going to get to do a draft or drink beer with your friends? Some people are going to be burying loved ones next week.

Done with this thread. Keep parroting the comments of a worthless sonofabitch like like trump if you like. I love all you guys, even the most stubborn assholes in this fraternity, and I don't want to say goodbye to any of you over Zack fucking Wheeler.

Gekko wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:32 am

Announcement expected shortly that MLB will be suspending operations. More details to come.

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/statu ... 7383359488

Baseball Furies wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:47 pm

I think that it is obvious that there will be some sort of delay to the start of the MLB season, but there WILL be a season. It sucks that it may be abbreviated, but this may come with the territory no matter what in other extenuating circumstances that could come up. We all know that going in whether we care to acknowledge it or not. At this point we are all in the same boat, and on the same level playing field. Hold the damn drafts whether people want to do them on line or live in small, controlled gatherings (it's not like there is going to be more than 100 of us max in any one confined space and for one morning at most), and let the chips fall where they may. We all have to cope with a shit situation. Why make it worse my adding more misery to it my cancelling something we all look forward to and love when it can be managed sanely and safely? And if anyone thinks this is still too dangerous, then you shouldn't really be leaving your house at all until this all blows over, which it will believe it or not.