Posted on 04/10/2020 8:54:08 AM PDT by Meatspace
Major League Baseball is considering a plan that would eliminate the traditional National League and American League alignments for the 2020 regular season if and when it takes place, a high-ranking official told Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY Sports.
Under this scenario, all 30 teams would return to their spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona. The teams would only play games in their respective states and with no fans in attendance. The divisions would be realigned based on the proximity of spring ballparks for ease of travel during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Giants win the cactus!
The Giants win the cactus!
The Giants win the cactus!
About 70 games give or take.
Enough that by the time the playoffs started you could go back to a 25 man roster.
A League of Their Own
NCAA and NFL are already looking at playing in the spring
We should open everything up gradually. Open the country up on May 1st. Limit to 100 people. June 1st. Open up everything. All the sports, concerts, conferences, you name it. Let’s get herd immunity while sheltering our senior citizens and most vulnerable the whole time. By August, it will be safe for a 80 years old person to attend a baseball game.
I got 2 words for you.
Real Doll.
Heard about it on Howard Stern 20 years ago.
Now the got a robotic version, saw it on the TV. Could be the end of marriage if they can teach ‘em to make steak and eggs.
And there will be bench clearing brawls.
Cannot play your division I n rivals that much without guys getting angry.
Add in baseball on TV 6 days a week with Momday travel days and doubleheaders 2x week.....they can make some of the ad revenue back.
You tell me this at 12:30 on Good Friday?!?!
Remind me Monday!!!
Don’t forget.
dp0622’s the screen name to mail to
I like your idea. And I am a staunch traditionalist.
“the TV ratings will be off the charts, which will suit the owners...”
You are being led by the media. If the owners don’t make money, then the players don’t either.
TV contracts make up a bulk of the advertising for MLB which sells to the public everything from pennants, jerseys, and soft drinks across the board to other products and services. And the television people pay a premium to get to set up their cameras to televise. For example, the Phillies currently possess a 25-year, $2.5 billion dollar deal that begins this year. Instead of assuming they will receive $100 million every year, I am assuming they will receive around $60 million this year with 4% yearly increases over the course of the contract. That pays a lot of millionaire player contracts.
And teams have their own networks to televise. Yankees own the controlling percent of YES, according to a separate statement. The team will have the largest piece, with 26 percent. They will televise Yankees and nets home and territorial games.
This isn’t baseball, it’s business and has been for a half century. And when the owners score, so do the employees, the players, and the janitors that sweep the stadium. If the sport is not in business, many thousand of people don’t eat. And not in just the baseball related areas.
Investments, owned businesses, and the (hint) stock market are involved. This is what happens when supply and demand goes on steroids.
rwood
The designated hitter would likely become universal...
A-HA! That's what this whole COVID-19 hoax has been about! I finally see.
Especially if the hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin+zinc combination works to keep the virus in check.
The main problem is preventing the healthcare system from breaking under pressure.
But if that drug regimen works well, and it seems that it does work well, then the “vaccine” they are all talking about already exists. People will want to avoid the virus, but if they catch it and this regimen works to suppress replication and symptoms, then anyone who does catch it will develop an immunity to it. No need to invent anything new. We develop our own antibodies and eventually “herd immunity”.
Would be a miracle if that truly works. And since it seems to work, makes you wonder why so much resistance to it and why some of our ‘betters’ want to keep up all locked up and dependent on them for months on end and season after season of outbreaks “until a vaccine is invented”.
As a Cardinals fan, I wouldn’t put it past the American League. Or maybe the Cubs.
Oh yeah sorry.
Abstinence for Lent?
There better be or we'll have a depression that will be far greater than the virus.
Friggin’ Cubs.
Go Cards!
Make it truly competitive by allowing unlimited roster moves up and down, 2 pitch rule and put the mound back to the original height.../s
Assuming a vaccine that can be invented, it may not be until 2022 until things will return to “normal”.
You’ve convinced me. I think that’s how it should happen. Modified baseball is better than no baseball. If we can get more brawls, that’s even better!
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