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Nah

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Yes. Opening Day around July 4th

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Too late, we need opening day in early June

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Oh, there will be baseball... The one constant through all the years.... has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.

Frank is 100% right on this one.

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Memorial day weekend or bust.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Assuming there is no minor league baseball, will they keep the rest of the 40 man in extended spring training and send pretty much everyone else home until next year?

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Nah. As much as I would love that, the pitchers are in January mode and need a month to get stretched out. Best case the Govs of FL and AZ give the OK in the next few weeks to fire up camp. If the true timeline is mid June physically, they will push opening day to July 4. For obvious optics reasons.

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have any of the baseball faciltiies completed dugout extension work? i mean you have 15-20 people in the dugout at times so 15 x 6ft that's at least 90 feet long. is rickets OK with losing seats to do this?

Nice Vader.

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I say half a season. Just a normal second half and playoffs.

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They are going to need some sort of spring training. Probably not a full month, but at least 12-15 games or so. I think best case scenario would be season starts mid June, and "spring training" starts around Memorial Day weekend.

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At this point, there are too many young pitchers who don't have access to their typical training facilities. I think that pitchers and catchers report June 1, everybody else a week later, and games start July 4. The only question is where they will play, it's too warm to play in the spring training stadiums, even at night. Years ago, I went to an EXST game at Sloan (free, maybe 100 people there other than players and coaches). It was 104 degrees, I had cold drinks with me, and I still had to leave in the sixth inning. The pitchers were all on roughly 40 pitch counts.

I think that no matter what happens with where the regular season is played, the playoffs will be neutral site to allow the regular season to be extended through October.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

This seems like the most realistic option.

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Nope, whole season will be gone, followed by contraction of two to four teams.

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Hopefully one of them is the Cubs.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I dont see contraction now. Too much money put into most stadiums, and combined with now inevitable MiLB contraction it will piss off enough legislators to threaten antitrust. And without antitrust they are totally fucked.

But if there is no season, and no college football season, I think the entire RSN landscape changes forever.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

What baseball related topics would the Subdivision talk about then?

2005

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And you are basing this on what? The commissioner said in the article that he was confident there would be baseball at some point. I get why people think there will be no end to the NHL and NBA season, but baseball would have just been a month into the season today. There is a lot of time to salvage some type of a season.

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Who's going to the games? Everyone thinks the next person they see will kill them and all their loved ones, and they also have no money. Sure, empty stadiums, but baseball isn't a TV show like football, they rely on parking/beer/ticket revenues. (Hockey relies on them even more.) You can do that for a game or two because of race riots, but for 80-100 games? The math doesn't add up. Everything is fucked forever.

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So you seriously think there will be no more sports ever?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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No sports will be a tough sell in two months when the virus is gone thanks to the heat and humidity. Look at Florida, hardly anyone is dying and they are grand central station for old fucks in this country.

It won't be as we knew it for a long time. Not really a market for luxury goods anymore, which baseball tickets have somehow become.

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I don't think they will let us have them for years 2 -3 at least.

Minds are changing..my observation is 80% of people now think this is all over hyped bullshit and a good portion would rather take their chances with the virus and die rather than live in this nurtured down cuck ass, Baby McNown society that Bill and Karen Gates want us to live in for two years.

I just do not see how that is possible.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Curious Hair is the ultimate Chicken Little.

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#ExtendLafleur

Maybe he's trying to fill the void left by Ogie? Someone should ping him for thoughts on the 2nd Amendment, 3D Printers and David Portnoy.