(07-27-2020 09:27 AM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote: Alright, who had 5 days from the start of MLB season till a team had to close down? Anyone? Less than 1 week?!
Someone call the bookie, I’m pretty sure less than a week was the favorite.
The MLS had 2 teams (Dallas and Nashville) shut down prior to their MLS IS BACK tournament. They had to reconfigure the tournament (although very minor changes).
And this is only one series in. Imagine if this was a week or two in: instead of the Phillies/Yankees also getting postponed, we could be looking at two, even three, other series getting postponed too. We'd be looking at nearly an entire section of MLB getting shut down (East).
The disappointing thing is that if this still occurred with all of the expensive and costly measures in-place to prevent this, this doesn't bode well for college/HS sports for Fall either (as Stever points out). Colleges (at least very few) do not have the same resources and financial backing to commit to these radical measures long-term (several months, full year) like billion dollar professional leagues do. However, even if you do commit to a bubble strategy (like the NBA), all it takes is one Lou Williams to wing it and strip everything down.
NFL teams are larger, with more staff, and with greater physical contact. If baseball can't do it successfully, I'm not sure how other sports do as well.
(07-27-2020 11:46 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote: This is a good reason to just cancel the Marlins permanently. Replace them in a few years with an expansion team in Montreal or Portland.
Portland?
Ha Ha who wants to support a team in that sh!thole
(07-27-2020 11:15 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote: And this is only one series in. Imagine if this was a week or two in: instead of the Phillies/Yankees also getting postponed, we could be looking at two, even three, other series getting postponed too. We'd be looking at nearly an entire section of MLB getting shut down (East).
The disappointing thing is that if this still occurred with all of the expensive and costly measures in-place to prevent this, this doesn't bode well for college/HS sports for Fall either (as Stever points out). Colleges (at least very few) do not have the same resources and financial backing to commit to these radical measures long-term (several months, full year) like billion dollar professional leagues do. However, even if you do commit to a bubble strategy (like the NBA), all it takes is one Lou Williams to wing it and strip everything down.
NFL teams are larger, with more staff, and with greater physical contact. If baseball can't do it successfully, I'm not sure how other sports do as well.
(07-27-2020 11:46 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote: This is a good reason to just cancel the Marlins permanently. Replace them in a few years with an expansion team in Montreal or Portland.
Portland?
Ha Ha who wants to support a team in that sh!thole
Plenty of people - Portland is a better city than most.