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I just heard on the news that 0.3% of tests have come back negative. It's ALL the Marlins basically. So shut down the season because it's one team?

ehhh why'd they agree to these guidelines? It was actually the MLBPA that didn't want a bubble. It was proposed to be a bubble in Arizona and a bubble in Florida. Apparently in Arizona they had the number of fields in a close proximity to make it work.

They declined.
 

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With the sheer vastness of these MLB facilities and resources, they should’ve have a damn bubble in place. 10+ players/crew on one team getting sick a fukking ridiculous.

NFL better learn from this shyt ASAP and basically commandeer a couple of those Vegas strip hotels
 

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With the sheer vastness of these MLB facilities and resources, they should’ve have a damn bubble in place. 10+ players/crew on one team getting sick a fukking ridiculous.

NFL better learn from this shyt ASAP and basically commandeer a couple of those Vegas strip hotels
:laff: the NFL would have to rent the whole strip


A bubble in any sport over the course of a regular season is practically jail. That’s why the NBA better have answers for 20-21.
 
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With the sheer vastness of these MLB facilities and resources, they should’ve have a damn bubble in place. 10+ players/crew on one team getting sick a fukking ridiculous.

NFL better learn from this shyt ASAP and basically commandeer a couple of those Vegas strip hotels

McCourtey on his podcast said that he's seen NFL players goin wherever treating the virus like nothing going on. It won't work.
 

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I’m sure they would play those games if needed
That's the point breh, they ARE needed. You can't have a record-based playoff without all the teams playing the same amount of games, less 1, maaaaaaaybe 2. But 5? :hhh:

At that point you might as well just bring back the BCS computers and have them pick playoff teams for us based on lowest xFIP and highest exit velocities or some shyt :francis:
 

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I just heard on the news that 0.3% of tests have come back negative. It's ALL the Marlins basically. So shut down the season because it's one team?

ehhh why'd they agree to these guidelines? It was actually the MLBPA that didn't want a bubble. It was proposed to be a bubble in Arizona and a bubble in Florida. Apparently in Arizona they had the number of fields in a close proximity to make it work.

They declined.
Too hot in those states to play for two straight months. Basically every field would be outdoors. That's why their MLB teams have domes.
 

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I just heard on the news that 0.3% of tests have come back negative. It's ALL the Marlins basically. So shut down the season because it's one team?

ehhh why'd they agree to these guidelines? It was actually the MLBPA that didn't want a bubble. It was proposed to be a bubble in Arizona and a bubble in Florida. Apparently in Arizona they had the number of fields in a close proximity to make it work.

They declined.
It’s because Florida is open, these guys are clubbing and hanging out at the beach
 

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Too hot in those states to play for two straight months. Basically every field would be outdoors. That's why their MLB teams have domes.
Facts. I've played outdoors visiting fam in Phoenix one summer. It's murder :heh: Even the early evenings when you expect it to get cooler, it can still be in the 100s.
Off topic but it's wild that MLB let the Twins build an outdoor stadium. Target Field is dope but it shoulda been a retractable roof stadium.
 

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Everyone wants them to cancel apparently and blame it on Manfred, it's the players union that wanted it this way
Arizona and Florida are not realistic options. The players would be gassed after a week. You're trying to argue otherwise so I'm not gonna engage in that kind of disingenuous back and forth.
 

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No I'm arguing that they shouldn't have agreed to this current setup.

Players refused to be in a bubble

it is what it is

A bubble isn't realistic for this many teams and players. They shouldn't have done the season. The only safe option woulda been to have all the teams in Montana or Wyoming but obviously states like that don't have the facilities to handle this. Canada too but I don't believe MLB would move the entire league out of the country.
 
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