Play Ball! After months of idiocy, schedule is in place & camps open July 1st

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Do networks get some kind of refund from all the loss of revenue?

Since they don't have to pay the league and teams for unplayed games, but our cable bills aren't dropping, they may actually come out ahead.

 

[John Price]

 

[GKJ]

I doubt we see any form of baseball until July, even that may be optimistic, up until few days ago I was hopeful by Memorial Day but no chance, this is spreading fast

Has there been any pontificating as to what a shortened season would look like? Baseball is obviously no stranger to work stoppages, but starting in July is already cutting the season in half. That's almost assuming you start July 1, after whatever postponed spring training is done, which isn't a given, but any scenario, even optimistic ones are worth thinking out loud about since there isn't much else to do. And of the sports that have shut down, unless they cut off crowd sizes, they have the largest crowds, so that will take longer.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Division Games per team | 19 -> 12 (cut 1 home series per opponent)
Non-Division games per team | 7 -> 4 or 5 (typically one 4 gamer, one 3, cut to 2/2 or 3/2)
Interleague - None

Easiest way to 88 or 98 games

Ideal would be 134, which would just be making the Division cut. Would need to start by early June and play through October.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Division Games per team | 19 -> 12 (cut 1 home series per opponent)
Non-Division games per team | 7 -> 4 or 5 (typically one 4 gamer, one 3, cut to 2/2 or 3/2)
Interleague - None

Easiest way to 88 or 98 games

Ideal would be 134, which would just be making the Division cut. Would need to start by early June and play through October.

No interleague play is now impossible with 15 teams in each league

 

[IU Hawks fan]

 

[John Price]

Sources: MLB, union weighing restart variables

 

[John Price]

Multiple players have said that they are willing to play a significant number of doubleheaders -- as many as two a week -- to make up for lost games and try to get as close to a full 162-game schedule as possible.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Multiple players have said that they are willing to play a significant number of doubleheaders -- as many as two a week -- to make up for lost games and try to get as close to a full 162-game schedule as possible.

They'd need to expand rosters to like 30 to make that work.

 

[Sharks2020]

They should definitely reduce the amount of games, hopefully the entire season doesn’t get canceled

 

[John Price]

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

 

[Canes]

So the 2020 season will start in March 2021.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

So they aren't playing this year.

 

[Preds Partisan]

The biggest tragedy of losing this season would be the inability to heckle the *stros.

 

[darko]

So the 2020 season will start in March 2021.

We hope so.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Miss talking baseball with you all...even ix

 

[John Price]

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

They'd need to expand rosters to like 30 to make that work.

Or just not use 6 relief pitchers for 2 1/3 innings

 

[MMC]

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

There are lot of obstacles. I am not holding my breath on this happening.

Above all, Arizona has to remain a state that has not been hit by a big outbreak of cases (they 'only' have about 2,500 cases). Nearly 5 M people live in the Phoenix metro area...as we've seen, these outbreaks can go quickly through the population. You can isolate the players as much as possible, they will still need people to clean the hotel rooms, clean the locker rooms, drive the buses, prepare food, etc.

Are players really going to accept leaving their families for 4+ months to live exclusively in hotels? It seems far fetched to me.

 

[EpochLink]

Sounds like a bad idea, I don’t buy it.

 

[John Price]

Until the country has gone through all its “hotspot” nightmares and hospitals too crowded to treat anyone, and until we know of the pandemic will recur next fall, and until international travel is back, this is simple:

You. Can’t. Play. Sports.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Places with low numbers likely haven't had enough testing done, anyway. As of yesterday, only ~0.5% of all in the US had even been tested, or 1 in 200.

The numbers are all bullshit. This isn't exclusive to the US, either. Current numbers in hotspots only give a bit of perspective, but hardly tell the story.