That whole Marlins team should be charged with some kind of criminal offense, considering they knew about it and decided to put other people in harms way anyway. ****ing morons.
And college and NFL football think they’re going to have a season. If you aren’t in a bubble this ain’t gonna work.
David Price says MLB didn’t put health of players first NOW WE REALLY GET TO SEE IF MLB IS GOING TO PUT PLAYERS HEALTH FIRST. REMEMBER WHEN MANFRED SAID PLAYERS HEALTH WAS PARAMOUNT?! PART OF THE REASON I’M AT HOME RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE PLAYERS HEALTH WASN’T BEING PUT FIRST. I CAN SEE THAT HASN’T CHANGED. — David Price (@DAVIDprice24) July 27, 2020 https://sportsnaut.com/2020/07/dodg...lb-on-notice-after-marlins-covid-19-outbreak/
This stuff is so stupid. The players and the MLBPA agreed to all these terms. This is all a big unknown and they are learning as they go - the protocol that everyone agreed on was to quarantine the players that tested positive and keep going with everyone else, and that's what they did. Turns out maybe that was a bad idea but that would be on both MLB and MLBPA.
What should be of paramount interest is how this happened. Did the whole team and coaches fly to Las Vegas between games? Did they get Rudy Gobert'ed? Did a player(s) have a whole family infected and didn't tell anyone? Whatever it was, MLB policy, Derek Jeter and the whole coaching staff were not up to the task to prevent it. I am running out of words to describe it. Moron, idiot and stupid all seem inadequate.
It's mindboggling that idiots thought MLB's cancellation policy should be "let the players vote on it"
I think people are misunderstanding what happened here. This wasn't "well, we're all infected, so should we go play?". It was more "so the protocol is that the positive people get quarantined and the rest of us still play. Are we still OK with that?" The Marlins did what the league and players agreed to do in this situation. Maybe the policy is wrong, but that's a different argument.
Doesn't the policy call for social distancing? These players cant seem to even restrain themselves from high fiving, hugging, slapping each other, all the stuff they are used to doing, they are still doing. Isnt that at least implied in the policy?
Sure - but all teams are doing that and both MLB and MLBPA are seeing what the players are doing. If there's a problem there, it's on those two groups to address it. Unless I'm mistaken, it's nothing specific to the Marlins, right?
I'm well aware of the policy, how it came to be, and what happened with Miami. We saw positive tests go from 1 to 4 to 12 over the course of a weekend. Shockingly, it doesn't seem like the "just hold out the positives and everyone else goes about business as usual" is a workable strategy.
Keep seeing that the bubble is a better protocol or thought process. The only problem is it only takes one person to mess up and then you have every player in the league under the same roof, in a game that is a lot closer together play wise and lower numbers of player pool where one person makes a huge difference. It’s way more likely to not have any sports than one or two
No, not specific to the Marlins. But isn't that even scarier? I mean, if every team is doing what the Marlins were/are doing, then isn't every team susceptible to the same fate? Agree that MLB/MLBPA under estimated the whole thing and are responsible for a course correction. OK, I will even grant that they didn't have a crystal ball and didn't imagine a Marlin's scenario in their thinking. But what about now? Is their answer "play ball"?
Sure - but that has nothing to do with the Marlins, and MLB's policy had nothing to do with letting players vote on cancellation.
But how is that even possible? Why are they having an emergency meeting today? How do you have weeks and weeks of negotiations and planning sessions *during a pandemic* and not have contingency plans for what happens if there's an outbreak among a team?
