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Bartles

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  1. Do any pod-curious parents consider finding a lower-income student to include in their group? I know you'd have to carefully vet their family situation to make sure they weren't living in unsafe conditions. But it shouldn't be too hard to find a disadvantaged/minority student whose home life is structured enough to keep everyone safe. I know it's a sensitive question so it's not directed personally at anyone on here. The pod topic is a national thing and it has dire implications for students who were already disadvantaged. I'm just curious if anyone has heard of efforts to somewhat diversify the pods.
  2. By that logic, he should never have accepted due to Freeman who was in bad shape as mentioned, or Aroldis Chapman/Eduardo Rodriguez who haven't been able to get back on the field due to COVID. Or what you guys may really be saying - and it's a valid argument - is MLB simply shouldn't be playing because it's too dangerous. If the administration really felt it was dangerous, they should have stepped in and prevented it. I still think we should celebrate or at least observe that the sports leagues are pulling off their plans successfully...with TESTING! The "messaging isn't good" applies to the government, not the leagues IMO.
  3. You could go the other way and say the MLB protocols are working. Soto is asymptomatic and was the only positive test, so they isolate him until he gets two negatives in a row. Freddie Freeman among other key players has recovered from COVID and is back on the field without causing an outbreak. The system is designed to snuff out mass infections, there will always be the occasional positive but teams have been together for a few weeks now and the machine is rolling along.
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    2020 MLB thread

    Hopefully just one of those residual readings from an infection that was no longer contagious, or just a false negative positive.
  5. Remember when people gleefully assumed the Pac-12 would be totally shut down while the SEC surfed atop the virus wave to a full season schedule? Look who's first in the water now! Mentioned in the Pac-12 thread, the league is expected to announce a 9-10 game conference only schedule next week. Would begin on Sept. 19 and have three possible December dates for their Vegas championship game. They admit they are counting on an improved medical situation in some of their markets (presumably LA, AZ). But it gives them almost a month from now before practice even starts. Jon Wilner/San Jose (as usual) full story
  6. That doesn't raise to level of even "semi-reliable". So three ADs would be comfortable not playing Texas? And the conference would be fine just not crowning a champion? And they honestly think other P5 leagues wouldn't leave them in the dust by having a playoff without them? Sorry, what you suggest is not on the table. If we get fewer than 10 games, it will be because the virus intervenes mid-season.
  7. ^ Astra definitely not public before 2021 according to BBC. But that would be awesome anyway. I've posted before, won't use the term "herd immunity" but something is going on in the northeast among other places where the virus just isn't jumping around like it used to. But every time we let up a little, especially with opening bars/indoor dining, we get a reminder that it is still just as dangerous as in the spring. I agree school openings will have the same effect. Just really hope Texas is over the hump and will soon be in that category where being careful and sensible is enough to ward it off. (Except for those Brisket mentioned, and there's a bunch)
  8. I don't get why people start their arguments with the death rate so much. We're not storming Omaha Beach here. There are infinite options for keeping almost everybody safe to buy time for our medical community to overcome the incompetence of the federal government.
  9. Not sure what y'all are talking about re: NFL is keeping things quiet but making progress as rookies begin to report this week. They haven't announced any test results yet. UT will not be selling 50 percent of the stadium if there are games in the fall. Just something Abbott said 5 weeks ago
  10. ZERO positive tests from week one in the NBA bubble, which is probably the toughest week as players could have been infected back in their home markets before arriving. I wish people would realize sports are a shining example of how to create and execute a safe plan to return to normal. Imagine if hospitals, schools, etc. were given the resources to do this at some point during the spring/summer. Yes, it requires frequent testing which costs money and is logistically challenging. There have been two (?) massive relief bills passed, the money has been there all along. A new relief bill might not be so badly needed today had testing been part of the plan from the start. And the Defense Protection Act has been sitting right there to create a massive testing infrastructure. We're like the island whose population died out when their crops were destroyed by drought, because their society didn't consider fish to be edible. (That may not be a real thing but I remember reading about it.)
  11. ZERO positive tests the first week in the bubble. Which is probably the biggest hurdle as it included a few days back in all 22 home markets, some of which are still hot spots. I won't cloak room this, but I do hope people start to see what sports is doing as a shining example of how to create and execute a plan for safety. It requires frequent testing, and yes that costs money. I won't say more because no CR
  12. Testing every other day means it should not "invade in force." Although they do need to wear masks for their brief plane and bus rides, that's the time where a bunch of guys could get infected at once if someone is unknowingly positive. Here in Philly, we start off with the Marlins from one of the nation's most out of control hot spots. Bienvenidos a la virus!
  13. Really thought this bump was to announce he got COVID from his church choir
  14. It's a horrifying video, and certainly it is taken in a hospital somewhere stricken by COVID. But the comments have some pretty clear evidence that was taken in Italy, Mexico or Ecuador. I'm sure the actual McAllen ICUs are pretty bad though.
  15. I made a "two weeks behind Italy" post about that video, but looking closer and reading the comments, I'm not sure the footage is from a US hospital. But it definitely looks like a COVID stricken hospital, wherever it is, and shows what can happen when it gets out of control.
  16. Not a stretch to see Nov. 3 roll around without a single college football snap taken. I'm cynical AF, but even I struggle with the notion of how easily he will win: AL, LA, OK, SC and most likely also GA, OH, TX (who knows about FL). And the blame really will fall on this one asshole's incompetence. COVID testing denial/suppression IMO is the worst of all the horrible things he's done
  17. They don't have to announce, but it often gets out. Freddie Freeman sounded bad but now he thinks he can play next week. Scott Kingery was also public about his symptoms but he's back now too. If a regular player ends up in the hospital, that will be hard to keep under wraps.
  18. The urban polling plan already works like a charm. Open late, machines don't work, everyone in line for 8-12 hours in whatever weather, run out of provisional ballots by mid-morning. My guess is this is more of a dry run for future George Floyds so local PDs don't have to do all the violence themselves.
  19. No one ever came clean on who the DC guys were a few weeks back, right? I assumed national guard especially the ones in matching Texas shirts. Or maybe whatever Blackwater is called in 2020. And now these pricks pull this right there in the Bundy/Ruby Ridge region. So much insanity going on, but I hope someone can dig up the details on these scumbags. Plenty of video of rental car license plates. Follow the money.
  20. Well, I figured out how fast-fwd works on Peacock at least. Like so many quarantine-made shows, I give them full props for the effort and providing us brief glimpses of the past magic. I'll sacrifice Kenneth being not funny for everyone else being pretty much spot on from the heyday.
  21. I'm still optimistic they'll get the season and playoffs done. There will be new positive cases, maybe key players, which will be handled per protocol. Something bizarre will happen like a team having to skip an entire road trip or something, and people will freak out. There will be talk of asterisks. But this was never about making a perfect copy of a normal season, it's mainly about money but with the helpful side effect of keeping the sport as intact as possible, and giving millions of fans a pleasant diversion from our living nightmare.
  22. If women are scared to go on record talking about being propositioned on the job, there's no way any employee would go on record talking about ref payments or drug/hooker parties if such things existed. Sports fans react with a shrug, but it's important stuff like this gets out. We always complain about dopey media guys, it would be nice if there was a safe environment for competent women to take their jobs.
  23. ^ That's what I was thinking. They barely got anything to hit in that whole clip. Also love the recklessness of not having a cage and of course no fan netting. Older coach was hitting fungos like 5 feet away from the plate, other guys standing around where a foul ball could kill them. When men were men
  24. Does that team even have any news leaks that would be worth a female journalist trading sexual favors? Plus that is a thing that pretty much never happens, so to me those tweets kinda discredit the whole thing. I can certainly believe they cover up sexual assaults, but without a paper trail (police reports? internal emails?) that would all just be flinging poo at them. None of it seems like it would break in the Washington Post on a Friday.
  25. I think those guys will be inside with a/c as in the past. Looks like the glass-enclosed area above the word "Home" and down towards 1st base from there, which is how the old ballpark was set up for media. The boxes above "of the Texas Rangers" are TV/radio. So it still looks like the new place has left blank an area where pretty much every other stadium would have four large sections of the top level infield seating. That's a bunch of revenue. It's quite possible that's a paid party area or something. I'm just intrigued because I can't think of another stadium that has a seating gap in that spot. Edit: It's between 315-316 on the seating map. Watching the overhead video on the web site, looks like there is some type of seating, possibly a restaurant or maybe it is indeed media seating.
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