then coronavirus happened, 2020 baseball

So wait, we have two 2020 season threads?

Cubs Install Cardboard Cutouts Of Fans Pissing All Over Streets Outside Wrigley Field https://t.co/jqOTzB6U1x pic.twitter.com/W2Gv7aZlvm

— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 24, 2020

looool

Despite no minor league season this year, there will be professional baseball in upstate New York. The Blue Jays announced they will play the "majority" of their 2020 home games in Buffalo (former home of the Triple-A Mets).

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) July 24, 2020

i thought this was the general news thread, the other one is 'rolling game action' or somesuch

gonna get a world series between two 78-win teams with zero great players between them

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 24 July 2020 08:02 (thirteen hours ago)

In all fairness though, 78 wins this season will be rather impressive.

lol matt adams is back with the braves

he just keeps cycling between the same 3-4 teams

i saw max muncy last night and thought he was matt adams for a second

Yoenis Céspedes has a 3-game home run streak.

And those three dates:

May 13, 2018
July 20, 2018
July 24, 2020#Mets

— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) July 24, 2020

orlando arcia just hit a single, and once he was at first base, anthony rizzo pulled out a bottle of hand sanitizer and offered him some

Moustakas "woke up sick" and is now on the 10-day IL, and while there's nothing official stating COVID, yahoo! fantasy awarded him the red badge of COVID... are fantasy site updaters more in the know?

It's related to Matt Davidson's positive test, I think

Sources: Marlins new positives include Cooper and Ramirez in addition to Urena, plus Alfaro had been positive. So they’ve now lost their starting RF, DH/1B and C in addition to one of their better pitchers. @ByRobertMurray 1st on some names

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 26, 2020

If I was an opposing team, I’d be worried just sharing a field with them. MLB should step in and make these guys wear facemasks whenever they’re around other players.

amazing scene in st louis - first on-field argument i've seen. dyson got tossed (i think?), and the pirates manager (shelton) came out to argue with the home plate umpire. the camera showed both men pausing to put their masks on. halfway through the argument, shelton takes his mask back off, then put it back on a few seconds later.

sorry, not "amazing", exactly. just very weird, sign of the times, etc

If MLB has a number of simultaneous positive tests on a team that would shut things down, they haven’t made it public. But an epidemiologist @jaysonst talked to before the season started thought that number should be three or four. https://t.co/5Jv4ohyaqT https://t.co/TFkN4jA9vg

— Emma Span (@emmaspan) July 26, 2020

there was some question of whether (pirates manager) shelton would be ejected from a game before winning a game, and how often (if ever) that had happened

this seems bad

Four Miami Marlins players have tested positive for the coronavirus, including Sunday's starter, Jose Urena, according to sources familiar with the situation, leading the team to delay its postgame trip home amid concerns about a possible outbreak.

The Marlins will be without the services of Urena, catcher Jorge Alfaro, who was placed on the injured list before their season opener on Friday, infielder Garrett Cooper and outfielder Harold Ramirez. The news of the positive tests was first reported by baseball writer Robert Murray.

It's possible that the infections occurred Wednesday on the team's trip to and from Atlanta, where the Marlins played the Braves in an exhibition game. Since leaving Atlanta -- after a flight delay -- the Marlins have been in Philadelphia all weekend for the team's opening series.

i didn't watch a whole lot this weekend, but i still saw spitting, unmasked people hanging out closely in the dugouts, etc. not throwing the ball around the horn doesn't seem likely to cut it

in bosox news, E-Rod with myocarditis, a heart inflammation caused by covid. Darwinzon Hernandez and Josh Taylor also both recovering from cv-19

Marlins next series is cancelled.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29546814/sources-marlins-cancel-game-virus-spreads

b-b-but what about the tax squad?

taxI

Sources: The Phillies are quarantining their entire visiting clubhouse staff after exposure to the Marlins this weekend. Some were tested yesterday and waiting for results. Yankees brought their own clubhouse staff to Philly last night.

— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) July 27, 2020

waiting for the other shoe to drop, 2020 baseball

yankees-phillies also postponed tonight

also, am i crazy or is the fucking NHL about to re-start games? how is that even possible

GREAT SEASON SO FAR

NHL is putting everyone in two bubbles fwiw

Ya. The thing they said mlb should do but the players, in their infinite wisdom, decided was not for them.

something tells me that's not going to work

this was pretty inevitable but less than a week in wow

move both Florida teams to ...?

buffalo obv

I find talk about fixing the MLB process strangely dystopian

The problem is not MLB's failure to hermetically seal in a baseball Arcology. The problem is there's an essentially uncontrolled pandemic raging through the country. Maybe we should fix society, then worry about sports

— Dan Brooks (@brooksbaseball) July 27, 2020

also, am i crazy or is the fucking NHL about to re-start games? how is that even possible

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, July 27, 2020 9:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

nhl just put out a statement that claimed there were 2 positive results out of 6000+ total tests. plus, they're doing a bubble, and they're in canada, not coronamerica

Marlins’ group text message decided game vs. Phillies would be played Sunday after COVID-19 outbreak https://t.co/ixGIxNu23F

— Philadelphia Inquirer Sports (@phillysport) July 27, 2020

xp

that's good! 43 NHL players tested positive during "Phase 2" of re-opening process, though, from June 8 to July 12. are the players allowed to see their family or any other "non-bubble" people during the season? if they truly are isolated, maybe they'll be able to pull it off.

xp i can't wait until official team physician yadier molina is asked to make the call about whether or not cardinals games should be played when members of the team starting going down. something tells me he's going to say they can play

did anyone in the marlins group text think about asking the phillies if they were cool with playing?

i have to say i've been shocked that the entire team doesn't kneel during the national anthem. with the bosox i think it's just jackie bradley jr. it looks like his teammates don't agree with him, or are hanging him out to dry. completely bizarre to me.

by way of contrast, soccer teams in the premiere league are ALL taking a knee, every player, before every game. little something called 'team spirit', look it up

last week some giants reliever was asked why he didn't kneel; his response was 'because i'm a christian'

sounds like he follows andrew sullivan on twitter

Another concern for Phils: Due to incubation period, tests they are taking today and tomorrow might not show whether they were positive from contact yesterday. Team supposed to travel to NY tomorrow night, but how confident can players be knowing results will not be up to minute? https://t.co/fPs9Cgm1xI

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 27, 2020

i guess i could be wrong, but it's hard not to feel like today or tomorrow will be the last day of baseball for 2020, at least in this godforsaken country

lmao if this season ends after 3 days and this aborted season data is just trapped on Fangraphs and BB Ref forever

Is there a baseball-ready diamond at Guantanamo Bay?

This is indeed the plan, though it is fluid, sources say. Orioles flying back to Baltimore from Miami tonight. https://t.co/99Unoq2cm1

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 27, 2020

Orioles showing tremendous foresight as they made the decision months ago to jettison most of the major league roster and put the practice squad on the field