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Reports: MLB to begin 2021 on time, allow limited number of fans
NBC Sports ^ | JAN 12, 2021 | MATT WEYRICH

Posted on 01/17/2021 11:51:52 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Major League Baseball reportedly informed teams Monday that they should expect to start spring training on time and prepare for a full 162-game campaign. The league also outlined guidelines for letting fans into games, not requiring vaccination checks or negative test results but enforcing social-distancing guidelines and other spread-prevention measures.M

USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale reported Monday that the Major League Baseball Players Association “vigorously” fought against playing anything less than a full season. The two sides bickered back and forth for weeks last spring trying to negotiate the framework for the 2020 season in a spat that spilled into the public sphere. While such a display has managed to stay behind closed doors, the MLBPA wasn’t budging in its demand for full pay after accepting prorated salaries last year.

Fans will be allowed to attend games this season with teams required to spread them out using “pod” seating where groups are separated from one another by at least six feet, Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times reported Monday night. Fans will have to wear a mask everywhere but their seats, hand-washing stations must be widely accessible and lines to get into the ballpark will abide by social distancing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcsports.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Even when the VID goes away, the wokeness pretty much killed any interest I have in all sports.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 1:53:08 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Kansas City Chiefs fans booed players during a moment of unity against racism

wokeness isn't popular with fans.

22 posted on 01/17/2021 2:00:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They still got their money, didn’t they?


23 posted on 01/17/2021 2:02:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’ll have plenty of room for new fans . . . my seat will be vacant as will thousands of patriotic Americans. Anyone supporting pro-sports is not an American that I will wish to associate myself.


24 posted on 01/17/2021 4:05:23 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They have fans?


25 posted on 01/17/2021 4:07:07 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!))
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To: MinorityRepublican

>>>Kansas City Chiefs fans booed players during a moment of unity against racism
wokeness isn’t popular with fans.<<<

Hypocrites! They still shelled out their couple of hundred bucks to be there. These would be the same people that paid good gold to watch the lions eat some Christians while all along claiming that it is against everything that is holy.


26 posted on 01/17/2021 4:08:31 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Bet they were all watching the game today.


27 posted on 01/17/2021 4:09:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yep . . . totally disgusting.

You know, I think they are so desperate that they are even advertising the games on the Pet Collective!


28 posted on 01/17/2021 4:10:41 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: NautiNurse

ping


29 posted on 01/17/2021 4:11:14 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: nutmeg

Still hopeful we’ll have tix for Spring Training.


30 posted on 01/17/2021 4:16:36 PM PST by NautiNurse (It took 20 years for FL to clean up voter fraud in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. But we did it. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

31 posted on 01/17/2021 4:54:09 PM PST by Borderline
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To: cgbg

You could up like that Orioles crowd during the Freddie Gray riots.


32 posted on 01/17/2021 4:56:15 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: IrishBrigade

And you seem to like to comment about it...


33 posted on 01/17/2021 4:57:28 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
MLB=BLM
34 posted on 01/17/2021 5:08:33 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

That can’t be for real?


35 posted on 01/17/2021 5:09:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
And yet it is
36 posted on 01/17/2021 6:04:23 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

“They’re still shitty!”


37 posted on 01/17/2021 6:06:08 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NautiNurse
Do you really think there will be a Spring Training? I have my doubts, unfortunately. The normal start time for ST is only few weeks away at this point...
38 posted on 01/17/2021 10:31:08 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I heard the baseball business lost billions of dollars last season. The San Diego Padres were said to have lost about $100 million on operations last year. These are staggering amounts. Baseball teams don’t have deep enough pockets to.absorb such losses again.

Will Governor Gavin let anybody attend MLB games in CA? I am not sure about that at this time...I think Cuomo will probably let people attend Yankees and Mets games...

Many people are employed during baseball season...Food service workers...Stadium workers...I am sure they are eager to work this year...

39 posted on 01/18/2021 12:45:27 AM PST by L.A.Justice ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

MLB sold out o the Marxist anti-American, white-hating, BLM.


40 posted on 01/18/2021 2:04:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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