I thought I would be right there with you at this point, but I'm not. The disappearance of baseball is causing a vague sense of unease but nothing serious. However, if this goes on until June, I suspect I'd feel differently.

can someone explain why they can't play baseball as normal without the fans in the stands?

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The closest I heard as an answer was even just players, coaches, training staff and umps is more people they can safely have together yet.

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The same reason they can't play baseball as normal and let people make their own damn decisions of showing up or staying home?

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This is idiotic. In that case it will be years before they play baseball.

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I will never understand that thought.

In that case, why not just bat 8 and skip the worst fielder in the batting order?

Just bat the nine guys on the field. I really hate the DH. Make your pitchers better hitters.

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I worked extended spring training and gulf coast league games for a season. There were no fans, just players, staff and the umpires. These were still minor league and even major league rehabbing players and it was AWFUL to watch. Do it right or don't do it at all. People will be all fired up to watch this on tv the first week and then they will say fuck this and watch HGTV.

I would rather watch half of a real season than any of this crap they are proposing.

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I don't think this is true.

Watching a game on TV is not really impacted by whether there are fans in the stands or not?

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2020 civilization is on the wrong side of history. We wrecked the economy and society over a worst case scenario of 99.97% of human beings surviving. Or, as the wrong siders say, 234 million dead

I am thinking more in terms of the players and just the atmosphere of the game. That will translate to the play and the product won't be that good and then people will grow disinterested. No crowd noise, no players high fiving or chest bumping after an inning, no one in the dugout without 6 feet of separation, no home run celebrations, 7 inning games, 40 man rosters. I would rather miss baseball for a season than remember that stuff happening forever. There are also players that seem hesitant to leave their families and go into season long isolation. I believe Trout and Kershaw are both in that group.

I would honestly rather watch a home run derby circuit where guys go to different empty parks and crank bombs once a week. Have some pitchers or even position players use this new robot ump technology and compete to hit pinpoint targets in the zone.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

You have been quarantined to long.

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I don't care in what form it comes back in, I just need baseball. At any level.

And the NBA.

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I honestly miss it most when I’m in field and I can listen to it on radio. The cadence of a good radio plat by play is... I don’t want to say poetic but there is a rhythm to it that’s hard to replace. Without fans in stands though.. I doubt it would be the same but I do miss it.

Peter Gammons was on Mully and whoever this morning and he's saying he doesn't think there'll be baseball in 2020 at all, and no fans when it comes back in 2021.

That's depressing.

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That would really be awful.

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If baseball does come back this season it seems possible the minor leagues do not.

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Does Peter know he is still alive? He kind of reminds me of Lee Corso now.

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Red Sox punishments: Loss of a second round draft pick, Alex Cora gone for what he did with Houston, replay operator suspended

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/290 ... ng-scandal

That's how White Sox radio used to be.

I couldn't quite place why I enjoyed the Cubs radio broadcast so much more as a kid. Then i realized, it was the microphone hanging below the booth. That crowd noise piped along with the announcers made all the difference.

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How can these guys piss away that kind of money with such a short career? Insane.

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Whatever shit contraption of a season they cobble together it will still outdraw the NBA.

That would be depressing, the thing I worry about, is say they said tomorrow, like the NHL and have a date, even start playing games, if 1 person gets sick and tests positive, does that mean it's over.

Gammons is doom and gloom now.

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Some people get off to things being cancelled. You cant take all of it seriously.

He lets his political views influence him too much now.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

He also was talking about how ballpark vendors and concessions are basically over.

Just a little melodramatic.

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Americans aren't going to stop shoving food in their face everywhere they go.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/296 ... estigation

Good stuff from Joe Kelly

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He's a hero.

MLB continues to protect the Astros players to try and maintain some legitimacy to their fake title.

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The Astros players were led by MLB. The result was never in doubt about who would be left holding the bag. What were they supposed to do? "NO, it was mostly us. Now suspend us"