Virus Schmirus

[D-train]

I'm sorry... it's not really baseball until we're past this virus. I'm still playing golf but it doesn't feel right, and there's a dark cloud over everything. I need my fix of MLB baseball as much as the next fan, but it's so different as to render the game silly, unwarranted or even un-American in these times. No fans, no cheering, no hot dogs, no garlic fries. I don't even think the players could get their heads into it. They're calling this a war. My reading of history says baseball was suspended during WWII.

Baseball carried on during WWII. There are several excellent books about how it adapted.

Amazing some of the best players went to War and the lesser players stayed back and played. Imagine that happening now.

[Double Mocha Man]

My bad. I could've sworn they didn't play. But play they did. But without the likes of Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Hank Greenberg, Bob Feller, and Joe DiMaggio.

[D-train]

I swear I have been living in the Twilight zone this year..........I woke up on Jan. 1 in a forest at Raser St park near Concrete WA. I now live in a concrete Jungle invested with a virus 3k miles away. Can't make it up. lol

[Moe Gibbs]

One of the guys who played MLB during WWII only had 1 arm ...and he was better than some of the players we have tried to man left field.......he hit 5 HRs one year in the minors..How do you hit 5 one armed HRs in a lifetime...?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Gray

[Moe Gibbs]

Ted Williams lost 5 years to WWII and the Korean War.

[Hanjag]

The pandemic label is causing a false sense of panic. I gotta call BS.
Flu kills 12k to 61k in the USA annually from 2010 to current.
As of today, the US has 325 deaths.
The 1st confirmed case in China was Nov 17, 2019. Today they are basically reporting no new cases.
The 1st know case in the USA was Jan 21 (Seattle), Yay we are #1.

This "pandemic" has been blown way the fk out of scale.

[Donn Beach]

For example, assume there is a hopeful break in the pandemic as the nation inches toward May or June and that every big-league city gets there at about the same time, and it begins to appear there can be small or even large gatherings again, which means there could be baseball again. Clubhouses, remember, hold small gatherings. Assume there are shortened spring trainings and lengthened rosters and MLB and the players’ union have agreed on the details of who gets paid, who gets service time, who shares what. Assume everything doesn’t actually look worse in two months.

Everything, today, is assumptions.

So, the season begins. Stadiums in safer cities go back into business. They play games for three weeks. Summer breezes carry familiar sounds and scents. The game feels rushed and clumsy but that’s OK, it’s still the game. It still fills our souls. That’ll do.

Then an outfielder in, say, Chicago tests positive for the virus, which means an entire clubhouse is vulnerable, which means every team that team played is vulnerable, along with every person with whom that outfielder has come into contact in the 21 hours per day around the games.

Is there room for Then what? Can a team or two or three quarantine for two weeks while the rest of the league plays? Will the landscape change enough by then?

https://sports.yahoo.com/then-what-coro ... 07830.html

[Petert]

I'm sorry... it's not really baseball until we're past this virus. I'm still playing golf but it doesn't feel right, and there's a dark cloud over everything. I need my fix of MLB baseball as much as the next fan, but it's so different as to render the game silly, unwarranted or even un-American in these times. No fans, no cheering, no hot dogs, no garlic fries. I don't even think the players could get their heads into it. They're calling this a war. My reading of history says baseball was suspended during WWII.

Baseball carried on during WWII. There are several excellent books about how it adapted.

Amazing some of the best players went to War and the lesser players stayed back and played. Imagine that happening now.

As the best players went off, players who never would have been given a chance otherwise were mustered into service, Pete Gray (who acquitted himself respectfully, considering he was without an arm) being the most outstanding example. It partially explains how the St Louis Browns won the AL pennant in ‘44, being staffed by over-the-hill-4Fs, and alcoholics who could still huck a curve and weak fastball against weaker opponents. It also explains how Joe Nuxhall made the majors at age 15.

It was a truly fascinating era.

[Donn Beach]

you also had the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

[Coeurd’Alene J]

Yes mr train was at home and employed....not sure I would call it work lol


Wow. Your redoing everything. Nice