The Toronto Blue Jays are moving to the United States, but they have nowhere to live. Pittsburgh will not take them. It is not clear where they will play. Sorry guys It is not personal. This is how the United States treats homeless people. Furthermore, this is only happening because Canada does not want a group of freedom-loving Americans to patriotically bring the coronavirus to them. Losers!
Welcome to the 2020 Major League Baseball Season. It will last 60 games, unless you don’t. A team is homeless. All teams have no fans. And the big question hangs over every ballpark like a completely wasted air advertisement: Did baseball ruin this?
Commissioner Rob Manfred’s worst nightmare is no that the baseball season is canceled. Is that the baseball season is canceled while the NBA and NHL crown the champions. The leagues have been combined for about a million protocols and guidelines, but Manfred may have mistaken a detailed plan for a complete one.
The NBA built a bubble. The NHL is building two. MLB went 30, spanning four time zones and two countries, until Canada said, “No thanks.” Now, the Tiles may have to go through the storm, which would be an amazing thing, unless you’re a Tile.
With nothing guaranteed, the goal here is to leave as little as possible to chance. When a major league team rushes to find a home the day before the season starts, what does that tell you? This week, the Blue Jays wondered if the lights in Buffalo were good enough for them. I’ve seen better advance planning of people on the run.
If the virus spreads rapidly through a computer, it could destroy the entire season, for any sport. Baseball is essentially causing about 29 or 30 fires and waiting for no one to burn.
Maybe it will work anyway. A 60 game season is so absurd and unlike baseball that it doesn’t even need an asterisk; Everyone who talks about him will always notice that it was a 60 game season. A team that would be bad for 162 games will make the playoffs. A mediocre could win the World Series. All stats belong to the small sample size Hall of Fame. But this is where we are. Any baseball season is better than no baseball season.
Obviously, it’s not Manfred’s fault that the baseball season is shorter. The sport closed, along with everything else this spring, so the United States could focus on the serious matter of talking about taking the virus seriously. The problem is what happened when sports returned.
You could tell which league had a terrible relationship with its union and which commissioner did not have the confidence of its players. The NBA had a relatively smooth process, which ended with a plan that makes perfect sense. The basketball bubble in Orlando could explode, but the NBA was wise to put everyone in one place. The NHL was cautious in putting 24 teams at two centers, Toronto and Edmonton, which are currently not critical points.
Major League Baseball is coming back and going everywhere. The teams will play in their home parks. That is a very simple and obvious risk. The teams will travel a lot, not as much as normal, but a lot. Yes, the NBA ended up playing its games at a critical point, but baseball guaranteed He would play his games in hot spots keeping them everywhere. That means MLB is subject to the success of many communities and the decisions of many governments.
Bubbles in the NBA and NHL don’t just reduce risk; They serve as a constant reminder to everyone that they are in a bubble. Every day, those players and coaches will remember the circumstances as soon as they wake up. Of course they could break the rules anyway. But they would be much more likely to do so if, like baseball players, they were living at home and traveling around the country,
No one knows exactly how all this will go. But you would have to be Pete Rose to bet that baseball is the only season to end.
Creating an environment to save a season is difficult. We know much more about the virus than we did when sports closed in March … and yet we don’t know enough. We know that masks are more effective than initially thought. We don’t know where the virus will attack next or what the country will look like in September. We don’t know if any sports season will end. We know that leagues need the best possible plan to give themselves the best possible opportunity. Manfred is betting that his plan is good enough. Hopefully you are right.
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