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Category: COVID-19
Unlock with PatreonSome MLB teams still haven’t promised to pay minor leaguers in August
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MLB failed its first real coronavirus test
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Canada doesn’t want any part of MLB’s 2020 pandemic season
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Why is coronavirus-denier Joe West umping MLB’s 2020 season?
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Sports aren’t taking coronavirus resources from the public, unless they are
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We have been assured, again and again, that there are enough coronavirus tests available that athletes being continually tested throughout the return of sports won’t be taking away tests from the public. This is a point I have a hard time believing on its face, because no one has bothered to show the math on that yet, but I’m willing to acknowledge that it might be the truth. The thing is, though, that this line, that there are enough tests to go around and resources aren’t being taken away from the public in order to test and retest and retest athletes yet again, is still misleading. Because even if there are enough tests, it’s clear there aren’t enough or robust enough labs to analyze all of the tests: it doesn’t matter if you have enough tests if you lack the machines or technicians to analyze them all in a timely fashion.
Priority is being given to athletes over regular people, and that is where the resource issue is.
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Taxi Squad concerns, and nearly half of MLB isn’t paying MiLB players in July
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There will be an MLB season in 2020, but should there be?
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Please stop both-sidesing the MLB labor battle
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With MLB commissioner Rob Manfred now saying he can’t 100 percent guarantee that there will be Major League Baseball games played in 2020, we’re about to witness a flood of “if only the two sides, equally at fault, would work together” sentiments. This was a take I was marinating even before Buster Olney woke up this morning and decided to both-sides what have very clearly been bad faith negotiations by the league:
There's no chance '20 baseball happens unless the two sides collaborate and try to make it work in the face of unprecedented circumstances. And both sides probably cannot get there unless they introduce new brokers to the conversation — likely impossible given time constraints.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 16, 2020
Olney, at this point, is either willfully ignorant of reality, or incapable of comprehending what’s going on. It doesn’t matter which it is: the material damage is the same.
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MLB considering allowing fans mid-pandemic another sign money is all that matters
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