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Bartles

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  1. Jeff Passan column on damn-near everything MLB related Too much to even pull some quotes. I like that MLB is keeping an open mind to a bunch of different formats based on when it's possible to play (without fans sounds like a given). If it gets pushed back well into summer, they might even try a World Cup style tournament to determine a champion as opposed to a regular season. The collective bargaining and minor league subjects are a little depressing. Passan thinks the bargaining will be ugly but somehow resolved because there's too much on the line. The minor leagues are in trouble though, not sure what can be done there.
  2. Just getting COVID at all can really screw up their careers though...respiratory damage that can be permanent
  3. So frustrating. They make incredible decisions on UDFAs and regular FAs to fill out the roster, but the drafting is fucking ridiculous. You can't use Hurts in short yardage, Wentz is already really good at that and it's supposed to be "his team". Hurts couldn't really pass at the NCAA level much less NFL. I guess we have a great scout team Dak for the two Cowboys games at least. Was OK with the Reagor pick in round one, he'll catch some balls and that's better than surrendering whatever resources were needed to move up for CeeDee.
  4. That South Carolina guy sounds like a shot at the Pac-12 or at least the Bay Area health director who pretty much already said no sports before Thanksgiving. Long way to go. The good news is college sports leadership sounds very aligned to making football happen even if it has to be delayed. The bad news is everyone is counting on both the COVID curve and testing/treatment to drastically improve in the near future and that may be too much to ask based on results as of now.
  5. This is a really good discussion of the 90s playoff teams, mostly focused on '96. I always thought Johnny Oates was the perfect manager for that type of team, mostly veterans but some really important young guys too.
  6. The thing about that...
  7. I hope they don't spend a bunch of time next season on some scheme against Howard
  8. The dominoes will fall en masse sometime in May. No one wants to go first and risk a few days bad publicity. Still a few weeks where some sort of Hail Mary mass-testing news could land, so no need to rush the announcements yet
  9. Korea Baseball Org has been approved to start exhibitions this week and regular season in May (no fans though)
  10. Comprehensive column on return of sports by an epidemiologist My takeaways: We MUST stick with lockdown for a while; the better we do now, the sooner we get sports (attn: state capitol stormers this week) Testing, tracing and treatment advances will obviously be key When sports do come back, the fewer people involved, the better (i.e. no fans, golf/tennis before team sports) The "bubble" leagues are possible but really tough to pull off safely Pro will be easier to bring back than college
  11. I looked up the local venues that I tend to go to shows, and if they have an employee fund then I have donated. Hopefully some of them got in on the small business relief last week, or at least can grab a low-interest loan later this year. It will be a tough year but at least they have a proven business model that will certainly be viable again when the time is right.
  12. To be clear, I do think most campuses will stay closed for fall. The message from the sports side has been this stuff won't be decided until mid-May or so, which makes sense as we are still seeing a high volume of new cases each day. Just like with the conference basketball tournaments, at some point the medical reality will hit everybody like a wave. That said, I also think the "can we open just for athletes" question will pop up again. Maybe for basketball if it looks like they can safely play their normal schedule.
  13. Several of the Philly small venues have been emailing with new dates for various tours starting this summer. I guess unlike sports leagues, there's not much PR downside if you release a schedule and end up having to cancel it again. Not sure if the venues are trying desperately to scrounge up some advance ticket sales or what. I can't see many people grabbing up tix for The Frights on July 19 right now
  14. Steve Earle 30-min show (it has video despite the still shot below) of mostly material from his upcoming album
  15. (Nobody in college sports is saying any of that) Maybe Duke's small size, big money and lack of football interest is exactly why they'd be fine sitting out the entire fall. There's just not as much physically happening on their campus anyway. The hospital would of course be busy in an important way. But let's also note, with all due respect to TreatOak's daughter's friends, I don't think we've heard anything close to an official report that any major school is close to a decision on fall closure.
  16. Good track and video here - those giant ass softballs are a real thing in Chicago
  17. Anyone know or educated guess if Masters future bets (made in January) will still be in action when the tourney is played in November?
  18. Petsmart? Tell me she was carrying fishtanks supplies
  19. Couple comments in the article about football travel made me wonder, can schools use force majeure clauses to get out of all those future non-league games if they want? Not that it would be a big issue, but if a new AD decides he'd rather not make a long trip five years from now, maybe he could blame the virus and back out?
  20. @ProFootballTalkIn 2018, Vince McMahon said that XFL 2.0 would be "strictly funded" by him, with no WWE involvement; the XFL bankruptcy filing shows that the WWE owns 23.5 percent of the Class B stock
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    SNL 45

    You gotta lower the bar a ton for them right now. They did a nice job with editing and graphics. The Ego Nwodim (had to look her up) makeup bit and the teen film reviewer were pretty good imo. Still, I'd rather they took a couple more weeks off to work on the next one. But I guess NBC can't resist the ratings potential with everyone stuck at home.
  22. That's a great point about not trusting the coaches. It should be taken out of their hands, but Nick Saban isn't going to let some doctor tell him his best pass rusher can't play the morning of a game. And I agree the mass testing looks impossible as of today. But the leagues that are doing serious planning at the moment are counting on it. Another thing I know sounds preposterous today: at some point we will have "public life" again, pre-vaccine. It will be dangerous, but the goal is for immunity, testing and treatment to make it low risk.
  23. They're tested at least once per week. (Again, this is minimum four months from now, probably more like 10 months. Ideally most of the population is being tested regularly at that point.) Temperature and symptom checks daily. Still somewhat social distanced, like no mingling in large crowds. Schooled on hygiene. So chances of them getting COVID and having time to spread it widely should be very small. Maybe that's crazy talk. Hard to visualize it now, but things could look quite different as the months go by.
  24. "As soon as someone tests positive" is understandably a big talking point NOW, but the idea is for testing & treatment to get to the point where one positive COVID is no different that one positive winter cold popping up in the past. Yes, it might take out more than one person for a brief time, and yes we all know it can be fatal for some people. But the medical consensus is we can reach a good comfort level on sports prior to a vaccine. Not sure the doctors want to talk about full stadiums yet, since that crowd could include at-risk, untested fans.
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