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Bartles

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  1. The dominoes will fall en masse sometime in May. No one wants to go first and risk a few days bad publicity. Still a few weeks where some sort of Hail Mary mass-testing news could land, so no need to rush the announcements yet
  2. Korea Baseball Org has been approved to start exhibitions this week and regular season in May (no fans though)
  3. Comprehensive column on return of sports by an epidemiologist My takeaways: We MUST stick with lockdown for a while; the better we do now, the sooner we get sports (attn: state capitol stormers this week) Testing, tracing and treatment advances will obviously be key When sports do come back, the fewer people involved, the better (i.e. no fans, golf/tennis before team sports) The "bubble" leagues are possible but really tough to pull off safely Pro will be easier to bring back than college
  4. I looked up the local venues that I tend to go to shows, and if they have an employee fund then I have donated. Hopefully some of them got in on the small business relief last week, or at least can grab a low-interest loan later this year. It will be a tough year but at least they have a proven business model that will certainly be viable again when the time is right.
  5. To be clear, I do think most campuses will stay closed for fall. The message from the sports side has been this stuff won't be decided until mid-May or so, which makes sense as we are still seeing a high volume of new cases each day. Just like with the conference basketball tournaments, at some point the medical reality will hit everybody like a wave. That said, I also think the "can we open just for athletes" question will pop up again. Maybe for basketball if it looks like they can safely play their normal schedule.
  6. Several of the Philly small venues have been emailing with new dates for various tours starting this summer. I guess unlike sports leagues, there's not much PR downside if you release a schedule and end up having to cancel it again. Not sure if the venues are trying desperately to scrounge up some advance ticket sales or what. I can't see many people grabbing up tix for The Frights on July 19 right now
  7. Steve Earle 30-min show (it has video despite the still shot below) of mostly material from his upcoming album
  8. (Nobody in college sports is saying any of that) Maybe Duke's small size, big money and lack of football interest is exactly why they'd be fine sitting out the entire fall. There's just not as much physically happening on their campus anyway. The hospital would of course be busy in an important way. But let's also note, with all due respect to TreatOak's daughter's friends, I don't think we've heard anything close to an official report that any major school is close to a decision on fall closure.
  9. Good track and video here - those giant ass softballs are a real thing in Chicago
  10. Anyone know or educated guess if Masters future bets (made in January) will still be in action when the tourney is played in November?
  11. Petsmart? Tell me she was carrying fishtanks supplies
  12. Couple comments in the article about football travel made me wonder, can schools use force majeure clauses to get out of all those future non-league games if they want? Not that it would be a big issue, but if a new AD decides he'd rather not make a long trip five years from now, maybe he could blame the virus and back out?
  13. @ProFootballTalkIn 2018, Vince McMahon said that XFL 2.0 would be "strictly funded" by him, with no WWE involvement; the XFL bankruptcy filing shows that the WWE owns 23.5 percent of the Class B stock
  14. Bartles

    SNL 45

    You gotta lower the bar a ton for them right now. They did a nice job with editing and graphics. The Ego Nwodim (had to look her up) makeup bit and the teen film reviewer were pretty good imo. Still, I'd rather they took a couple more weeks off to work on the next one. But I guess NBC can't resist the ratings potential with everyone stuck at home.
  15. That's a great point about not trusting the coaches. It should be taken out of their hands, but Nick Saban isn't going to let some doctor tell him his best pass rusher can't play the morning of a game. And I agree the mass testing looks impossible as of today. But the leagues that are doing serious planning at the moment are counting on it. Another thing I know sounds preposterous today: at some point we will have "public life" again, pre-vaccine. It will be dangerous, but the goal is for immunity, testing and treatment to make it low risk.
  16. They're tested at least once per week. (Again, this is minimum four months from now, probably more like 10 months. Ideally most of the population is being tested regularly at that point.) Temperature and symptom checks daily. Still somewhat social distanced, like no mingling in large crowds. Schooled on hygiene. So chances of them getting COVID and having time to spread it widely should be very small. Maybe that's crazy talk. Hard to visualize it now, but things could look quite different as the months go by.
  17. "As soon as someone tests positive" is understandably a big talking point NOW, but the idea is for testing & treatment to get to the point where one positive COVID is no different that one positive winter cold popping up in the past. Yes, it might take out more than one person for a brief time, and yes we all know it can be fatal for some people. But the medical consensus is we can reach a good comfort level on sports prior to a vaccine. Not sure the doctors want to talk about full stadiums yet, since that crowd could include at-risk, untested fans.
  18. Chris Fowler video on Instagram with "informed speculation" he is very confident there will be a season played during the upcoming academic year. He is skeptical of the normal schedule, pretty iffy on a "late" schedule that goes from fall into winter. Sounds like he's preparing for a February through May season, since it gives the medical side a chance to settle in and maybe even have fans. He pointed out that this decision will be made on the governmental level, ADs and commissioners won't have much say. That's nothing too different from what national writers have reported, but you know Fowler has high ESPN connections so his guess is as good as any. They've probably talked to him about whether he'd prefer CFB or the Australian Open which he usually does after the season.
  19. I just finished the series. From what I've read, they weren't exactly accurate on the PR girl who appeared to quit or get fired nor more importantly the Maja negotiations. But I agree, what a dickpunch life for the fans. Their 2019-20 ends (hangs in limbo, maybe) with Sunderland tied on points for the last playoff spot, but having played an extra game. Several teams bunched up ahead of them.
  20. Wow, the stories are so varied. Hope those that have beaten it are good to frolic about until well after the vaccine debuts
  21. As horrible as Trump and the federal govt has been, it seems like all governments have strong dis-incentives to testing: - Testing costs money and is logistically challenging - High positive numbers are bad PR (people freak out and think they're not being protected) - The vast majority of positives don't need to go to the hospital before they recover - Many positives don't even know they have it before it's gone - Serious cases end up in hospital anyway, so testing seems redundant Obviously, from a medical and societal standpoint, widespread testing should be a tremendous priority because we can't "re-open" without it. But I can see why even local governments would slow-walk it. Hope I'm wrong
  22. If you remember "Future Me Hates Me" from a couple years ago, The Beths have a new album this summer
  23. OK, put another way, "why he won't even get an offer from another major school"
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