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What about spacing 15 or 20 thousands fans in a 45-50 thousand seat stadium? Is that apossibility?
When they are in their seats sure. But entering and exiting the stadium, concession stands, bathrooms, etc. Not likely.
If we are still worrying about this in July at this level, we will have a lot bigger problems that how to space out baseball fans.That is what scares me the most about coronavirus.
We will be worrying about this in July.
Depends on how we worry. If you believe that it won’t be good enough by July to have spectator sports, I’m fearful the economy will be in utter collapse. Millions on millions will be unemployed and the implication on social, political and economic order will be huge.At some point, this country has to take a calculated risk and return to normal. Otherwise, the pain and suffering we all will face will be beyond anything we’ve experienced since the dawn of the 20th Century. I hope we come up with a vaccine but even if we don’t, at some point life has to return to something close to normal.The people who need the economy to function best (and who know the least about what I’m talking about) will be the people hurting the most.
People will be back to work. Bars and restaurants will be open to some extent. Spectacular sports wont be around for awhile.
It sucks. At some point, we need baseball. We need a warm summer afternoon (OK, blazing hot summer evening if you’re in St. Louis), below average food, plenty of ice cold Budweiser, great baseball by guys with a birds on bat logo on their shirts and a great seat that I copped a bargain for.As much as I love baseball (and I truly do), television baseball is like video porn. It’s a whole lot more fun to be there than it is to watch it on TV.
The Marlins, Rays, A's, pirates, O's have been doing this for years.
White Sox
Maybe no concessions, monitors for bathrooms and for entering/exiting?
Brother Fluff, I hope you’re right. I really do. But we’re operating without a playbook right now. And bureaucracies don’t function without a playbook. The dribble I keep hearing is that this is going to last and last and last with no end in sight — and we’re all going to have to stay locked up and away from our communities until ____________ (fill in the blank with your favorite commentator’s fear mongering).There has to be a balance of risk taking between medical, social, economic and even political factors. At some point, we’ll stop seeing this as the Andromeda Strain and see it more as a particularly aggressive flu.That’s when baseball will be back!
Coleman, I don't think you have a bad plan here, but I don't see how they can do an All-Star game. Too much travelling from one group back to another. Part of the hold up will be that players don't want to separate from their families for an extended length of time.
How many of these guys still want to be home with their families?For every Zobrist, there’s 5 Palmeiros.
Whether they like it or not, the Fact of the matter is they are used to being gone from their families half of the time from February through October anyway. 4 months straight isn’t that much worse.