Update: Cardinals players, Phillies coach and staffer test positive - 15 Marlins players and two coaches test positive, games postponed

[Claude]

[Blarg]

9 minutes ago, Randy Gradishar said:

Good description I heard is to imagine everyone is smoking a heater. Even outside that can be unpleasant, but boxing a room for with people for 20+ minutes will definitely make you feel it.

What have you been smoking?

[AngelsLakersFan]

5 minutes ago, Blarg said:

What have you been smoking?

a heater.

[Tank]

8 hours ago, ukyah said:

just in case this hasn't been said, nobody's fighting off a virus. your symptoms may vary, but if you get it in your system, then you got it.

[Angel Oracle]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

What have you been smoking?

[RallyMo]

5 minutes ago, calscuf said:

Blarg is trying to figure out how one can smoke a fastball.

The A's can tell you all about that.

[T.G.]

To summarize...

The Marlins took a hike and got Covid-19. They tried to mask their illness, because Jeter didn't have the balls to tell his team to not play the Phillies. 

2020 sucks.

[Claude]

 

[Lou]

4 more Marlins test positive.

[RallyMo]

In person school should go well for places without previous COVID saturation.

[Stradling]

@Inside Pitch and I were just discussing this on Twitter.  He shared with me that the Marlins knew about 3 positive tests prior to Sunday’s game and those players still played in the game.  If they can prove that, and my guess is the team text would prove it, then they need to have the book thrown at them.  

[Inside Pitch]

37 minutes ago, Stradling said:

@Inside Pitch and I were just discussing this on Twitter.  He shared with me that the Marlins knew about 3 positive tests prior to Sunday’s game and those players still played in the game.  If they can prove that, and my guess is the team text would prove it, then they need to have the book thrown at them.  

They have Mattingly flat out saying they knew players tested positive, and they never once for a second considered not playing.    It's pretty brutal.

https://theathletic.com/1954316/2020/07/26/why-did-the-marlins-play-baseball-on-sunday/

 

[nate]

3 minutes ago, RBM said:

Not good if true. Who reported it? 

Reported widely.  https://deadspin.com/why-didn-t-the-phillies-get-a-vote-1844520476

[Lhalo]

As expected no Phillies/Yankees toight.

 

[nate]

The whole mantra throughout this has been "stay home, save lives" so the idea of playing sports is really pretty hilarious.

[Stradling]

2 minutes ago, nate said:

The whole mantra throughout this has been "stay home, save lives" so the idea of playing sports is really pretty hilarious.

Yet there are relatively safe ways to play sports during this, they are choosing not to.  

[Stradling]

We have 30 man rosters, but it isn’t like you need to have all 30 plus another 20 or so coaches, bat boys, clubhouse and trainer people in the dugout or the bullpen.  You have an entire stadium to create the safe social distancing you need.  Then when the game is over, they do not have to shower, they could simply go to their locker, get changed and go.  I think it was Eppler who told the players to treat the clubhouse like a closet, you go in, get your stuff, and get out.  On the road you can get back to the hotel and shower in your own room.  Maybe on the road they should take separate cabs back to the hotel.  This is all doable, if you are diligent.  

[tdawg87]

Just cancel the season.

[Stradling]

Just now, RBM said:

Yeah, widely reported the Marlins voted to play before the game on Sunday. Widely reported the Marlins did not tell the Phillies - and they should have IMO.

But this doesn’t say anything about the Marlins allowing players who had tested positive to play in the game on Sunday. 

I may have misunderstood @Inside Pitch when we were discussing it.  I assumed from our conversation that 3 players played after receiving positive tests.  

[nate]

Oh, no, the ones that tested positive did not play.

However, knowing what we know about how incredibly contagious this is, they never should have played.

[Stradling]

The more I read the more what I think IP meant was 3 players testing positive is the definition of an outbreak and the team should not have played.  

[nate]

8 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Yet there are relatively safe ways to play sports during this, they are choosing not to.  

There are but is that really worth risking lives?

Sports in the end are just for entertainment.

[Inside Pitch]

1 minute ago, RBM said:

Yeah, widely reported the Marlins voted to play before the game on Sunday. Widely reported the Marlins did not tell the Phillies - and they should have IMO.

But this doesn’t say anything about the Marlins allowing players who had tested positive to play in the game on Sunday. 

snippet from Athletic article...   

Why did the Marlins play baseball on Sunday?

By Jayson Stark and Ken Rosenthal Jul 26, 2020 476 

Multiple sources confirmed that the Marlins played despite having three players learn Sunday that they’d tested positive for COVID-19, just two days after a fourth player learned of a positive test on Friday. Two infectious-disease specialists told The Athletic on Sunday that those positive tests fit the definition of a “clear outbreak” of the virus within their team. But sources said those tests were not enough for either Major League Baseball or the club itself to give serious consideration to postponing this game.

Marlins manager Don Mattingly said his team “never really considered not playing” on Sunday. The club’s most respected veteran, shortstop Miguel Rojas, told the media afterward that all 30 players discussed the situation Sunday morning, but said not playing was “never our mentality.”

 

[Inside Pitch]

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

I may have misunderstood @Inside Pitch when we were discussing it.  I assumed from our conversation that 3 players played after receiving positive tests.  

Yeah -- that's not whats been said.  

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Inside Pitch said:

Yeah -- that's not whats been said.  

Yea, I had misunderstood.