MLB postpones Cardinals' series against Pirates after more test positive for Covid-19
Source: CNN
Major League Baseball has postponed scheduled games between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates after additional members of the Cardinals' team and staff tested positive for Covid-19.
The Cardinals organization told CNN Sunday that John Mozeliak, the team's president of baseball operations, confirmed one additional Cardinals player has tested positive.
A total of 17 members of the organization -- 10 players and seven staff -- have tested positive for the virus, resulting in the postponement of the three-game series between the teams scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The Cardinals have now had 13 games postponed. The team has not played a game since July 29.
At least three teams in the league have had games postponed since the start of the shortened season after members tested positive for the virus.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/us/cardinals-covid-emergency-room-spt/index.html
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)MLB had the right idea when they wanted to do the whole thing in one or two bubbles max. That's what the NHL is doing. A bubble in Toronto and another in Edmonton.
But no, MLB had to keep travelling and going to different stadiums with different protocols and different hotels, etc.
lark
(23,191 posts)Football has twice the roster and little/no controls, just like MLB, and will fail worse. I love college and pro football, but am resigned to not having a season this year. My guess is I will get to see 1-2 Gator and Jaguars games and then after that there will be so many out, it will be meaningless if they even play. Only the NBA & maybe NHL bubbles seem to have any chance.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Let the teams who are doing it correctly compete.
Or, count the games as forfeits (which they are!) and let the standings reflect it.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Smart cookie.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)They are forcing everyone else to have to make up these games later in a short timeframe. Not fair. Fuck off Cards.
(Pirates fan)
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Wuddles440
(1,135 posts)and I'm a Pirates fan (low self esteem and masochistic tendencies)!
BumRushDaShow
(129,951 posts)They eventually had to replace 17 players with new ones before they finally started playing again - https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article244546152.html
jayfish
(10,040 posts)is how the NBA is doing it. Unfortunately the NBA is, probably, the only league/sport that can do it this way.
Gore1FL
(21,165 posts)"The only way to win is not to play."
Gore1FL
(21,165 posts)For 60 games, all of the teams are putting millions of player development dollars on the line to expose the players to potentially life-long organ damage.
The Cardinals should forfeit the rest of the games, but there shouldn't be any more games. It's just stupid.
Sports are like the reward of a functioning society.
--Sean Doolittle, Washington Nationals.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)Create consequences for this stuff, and don't let the teams do all of their own testing to avoid it (by lying).
Or just cancel all the MLB games and forget about it!
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)Not enough healthy guys to field a team? Forfeit!
Rate of spread too fast, risking the other team? Forfeit!
That will provide the teanpms, players, and field management to start taking this seriously.
This Cardinals thing started with guys going to a casino on an off-day. Going to a casino!
If that doesn't suggest lack of seriousness, I don't know what is.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)... anymore, but it's time to make them pay for such reckless behavior! Forfeit!
It's pretty crazy that they're playing these games at all, of course.
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)But, these players are already losing 5/8ths of their pay.
What part of losing 62.5% of their money because of a pandemic, do they not get? It has affected them directly and no behavioral adjustments?
And, BTW, there are 12 teams (out of 30) with ZERO cases.
IOW, it's possible to do this safely. 40% of teams are doing so! So, the problem isn't in the trying to have a season.
It's the failure to incentivize safety. Forfeits might just provide that.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)Other people are expected to return to work and follow safety protocols, even when not at work. (Like healthcare workers berated for going to bars.) So it seems like baseball players could do it given the distancing the game naturally allows.
Edit: Not that I need to see them play!