The MLB Coronavirus Plan is Idiotic

I know a few weeks back I dumped on baseball for its lack of starting a season. They could’ve owned the summer, could’ve had all the eyeballs of sports fans craving live sports on them and could’ve been the ticket. They missed out on all of that because both players and owners started to fight over money. It was millionaire versus billionaire fighting over money. It was disgusting and disturbing and flat out upsetting. One side would come up with something, and sure enough the other side would say no. This went on for far too long.

Just recently, it seems that both sides came to some kind of agreement. It’s worth noting that the MLB said something along the lines that players will report on a certain day, all but making the decision for them. Eventually the MLBPA agreed on the proposal because I don’t think they really had a choice. This is where I actually agree with RD, that the players are being screwed. The fact that the MLB just picked a day shows how little they care about the players. But, for the time being, they seem to have a plan in place. It’s a weird plan, drought with problems from my perspective, but a plan nonetheless.

They’ll play 60 games, have an expanded playoff and do the playoffs as usual after the wild card stuff. Now, where this gets weird for me is where they’re playing. It appears that teams will play at their home stadiums, and travel to other stadiums for road games. That’s scary. To get on a plane to go play in another city is one of the no no’s bring handed down by the CDC and WHO. It’s unnecessary travel. I don’t know about the testing, but I can’t imagine it’s what the NBA has, or what colleges are doing right now. That number of games is so small too. If they did that last season, the Nationals wouldn’t have even made the playoffs. Sixty games is nothing in baseball. That’s like playing 4 NFL games. And, I don’t think fans will be allowed, I know for a fact that Busch Stadium isn’t allowing fans. But I bet they will make concessions if numbers of the Coronavirus slow down, which will only make numbers go up. I’m also not big in the number of players they’re bringing per team. RD told me they’re going to start with 30. Thirty guys on a bench, in a locker room, on a plane together is just asking for a cluster to happen. That number doesn’t include coaches or other staff either.

This plan is reminiscent of what the NFL is doing, almost acting like the pandemic is over. It’s not. It’s far from over in fact. I feel like baseball is picking money over health and safety, just like the NFL and college football. I hope I’m all wrong about this though. I hope this works, along with the NBA bubble, the NHL restart, training camps and summer football practice. I want sports back. I crave sports coming back. But we need more guys like Adam Silver in control of this weird time we live in, and less Roger Goodell and Rob Manfred. Silver cares about his players. These other commissioners seem to not care enough, or at all.

We will see what happens with this truncated season, but it seems weird, and seems too little too late. The MLB had a shot to really take over, and they absolutely blew it. Now they’ll be fighting for viewers with the NBA, NHL, soccer, NASCAR, golf and football, possibly. They made a humongous gaffe, and I don’t think a 60 game season during a pandemic is going to help. They blew it.

Ty

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