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Bartles

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  1. 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.)
  2. 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
  3. 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!
  4. Really thought this bump was to announce he got COVID from his church choir
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. ^ 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
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Here's a decent rebuttal to Elam. You could argue it would lead to fewer upsets especially by defense-oriented teams. If given enough opportunities, the better team will climb up to the magic number.
  18. The one in Philly was for recovering COVID patients. I don't think they ever had more than a half dozen patients and it was shuttered after a few weeks.
  19. I'm not sure it effects 2020 voters, as the ones who know anything about the court surely know this seat will be opening in the next term anyway. But it definitely affects all life as we know it, starting with the ability to invalidate a Biden victory before he can be inaugurated.
  20. Dallas County somehow hit exactly 1,000 cases. Seems like metroplex has settled around its peak level if not starting to fall. It will take a while to come down with numbers that high, though. Still too much spread
  21. I think a lot of districts were jotting down concepts for the fall back in April, but couldn't really flesh them out because: they were drowning as it was trying to finish the spring in a new environment; the situation has changed sometimes daily on the medical front; districts wanted to collect evidence from overseas on what was working or not in those countries; they also wanted to survey parents and teachers over the summer before determining the best course. It will still be a shitshow almost everywhere
  22. Eh, I knew the football-only-on-campus wouldn't get much support, in real life or on the board. Didn't mean it to come across as if that is my Plan A or I think it should happen regardless of virus conditions, neither of which is true. Having football and a few other students on campus would only work in a pretty specific health environment, like a community where the virus is mostly gone but not enough for all campus to be safe. Anyway, I won't waste any more space defending it since it was never gonna happen anyway.
  23. The excellent @mattsarz pointed out that Fox only aired two Saturday night games last year, Buffalo-Penn State and OU-UCLA. Also the Saturday, Sept. 5 window remains open on Fox. So there's nothing to read into that MLB schedule posting.
  24. Ha, I'm not trying to undermine the integrity or quality of the University of Texas. UT is in a much better position to weather all this than most campuses, so I don't blame y'all for wanting to cling to ideals of amateurism and brag about the medical system budget. But the sport as a whole depends on keeping other schools/communities afloat also. If that can be safely accomplished by prioritizing football for one semester, I am in favor of doing so. As I've said before, right now it's all moot because it's simply not safe.
  25. I'm just stating the obvious. The FB money supports much more than just the 15-foot waterfall in the locker room or whatever. Entire communities depend on it, so for this season I don't have a problem prioritizing the football team. And also other essential student groups who are working on the medical and community support fronts of the virus battle. What the team does ($$$) goes hand-in-hand with medical research and local food drives in a time of crisis. Whether the players should be paid more or have to attend class at all is another topic. Yeah, the whole system has been off the rails for a while.
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