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Originally Posted by Westheim
It is absolutely possible to play sports, even contact sports. The Bundesliga (and the 2nd Bundesliga below it) just finished their season in orderly fashion. There were a couple of infections with one team before the first game of the season resumed, but they were already infected from the outside and didn't spread it to other teams. There was one moron that intentionally touched everybody's **** (the Rudy Gobert Treatment all over) and was kicked out for it.
It is *possible*. If you get your crap together, which the US as a whole, sadly, has not. I have opinions, but I assume I don't have to explain why this is and have the thread disappear into the OT swamp, too.
That still means the league can play. Strict isolation rules. If Guy X doesn't wanna play, so what, he can stay home. I don't care.
Baseball must have a substantial interest in playing any sort of season, because there is no guarantee that Corona's defeated by '21 (and it puzzles me you'd infer as much in between all your doomsaying). And if there's no 2020 season, and no 2021 season, at some point a substantial amount of people might realize that they don't need baseball after all, at which point everybody's investment (either money or an entire life of training) goes down the drain. Corona can still be here three years from now. Nothing will survive being shut down for three years.
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Is the Bundesliga located at many current ground zeroes for this infection? Nope. You seem to be assuming 100% intelligence and awareness of this virus, and how to slow it down or stop it. Unfortunately, due to enough idiots, we are dumb as rocks over here, when it comes to moving in this direction.
Also if Jacob deGrom, Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, and Seth Lugo all decide that the potential risks of playing outweigh the benefits of opting to not play, you're cool with that? This might just be the beginning of players deciding it's not worth it, and the league could get really watered down to the point of becoming unrecognizable. Now throw in a 60 game schedule, rules that appear more T-ball-ish than MLB-ish, a postseason that welcomes more than half the teams, all in the backround of a generational pandemic, an economic disaster, not to mention social issues that desperately need addressing, and things start to look profoundly dumb in my eyes. You can dismiss all that if you like, but the players certainly aren't. There are times when the importance of real world issues outstrip the escape from them that baseball/entertainment provide, and I think this is one of them, but YMMV.