Baseball's Back: Players Reporting to Camps After Reaching Deal With Owners
Source: NBC Los Angeles
Major League Baseball players on Tuesday said they were reporting to training camp after reaching a deal to start the coronavirus-delayed 2020 season.
MLB had asked the union to respond by 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday as to whether players can report to training by July 1 and whether the players' association will agree on the operating manual of health and safety protocols. The schedule would start July 24 and would be the shortest since the National League's third season.
Spring training was suspended on March 12, two weeks ahead of scheduled openers, and the sides reverted to the familiar financial infighting that fractured the sport in the past. An initial deal March 26 called for players to receive prorated salaries and gave MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred power to set the schedule, but that agreement did not require MLB to play in ballparks without fans.
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Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)They should look at Djokovic's positive diagnosis as a stark warning to professional jocks that think they are immune for some reason.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)right now, i'm just trying to survive, who gives a rats ass about sports.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)I could have sworn they just shut em down.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,369 posts)Now, the teams can train anywhere.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Auggie
(31,194 posts)If one guy gets the virus will the whole team be quarantined and their games be forfeited?
Bad, bad idea.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)They're allowed an expanded roster (AA guys?).
If someone tests positive, 48 hour sequester, then retest.
If the test negative twice, they're free to rejoin the team.
Not the most robust safety measure.
Auggie
(31,194 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 24, 2020, 06:42 PM - Edit history (1)
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)But, that's not how they wrote the safety protocols.
I didn't say I thought it was a good plan. Merely a plan.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)if the players, coaches, and umpires can follow safe practices and be tested perhaps twice a week. Many (perhaps not all) do take their health seriously. As added incentive, testing positive should put you on disability for the rest of the season, and cause the team to forfeit games for the next two weeks (while they isolate). This could be a good advertising for what it takes to fight this virus.
Botany
(70,589 posts)This is madness.
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)There will be a huge population in this country that will pay the price for going out and trying to do stuff in a normal way during a pandemic.. if it doesn't kill them, it will kill their parents and grand parents.
Botany
(70,589 posts)Because the C-19 virus also hits the intestines and when that person who might be
asymptomatic drops a # 2 enough virus could splash up that could make somebody else
sick.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)They'll be playing without fans there.
marie999
(3,334 posts)If they have fans, are there going to be food and drinks sold and just in booths or selling in the stands?
RussBLib
(9,037 posts)MLB should do the same. Bunch of spoiled millionaires and billionaires.