From: rrhersh@gmail.com
On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 7:47:35 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:
> Richard Hershberger wrote
>
> > If you just want my personal baseless opinion, Fay Vincent was the
> > last (and perhaps only) Commissioner to take the "best interests of
> > baseball" seriously, and not as really meaning "of baseball owners."
> > He didn't last long. Manfred? He has had poor baseball sense all
> > along. There is no reason to be surprised at poor medical sense as
> > well, or not having the sense to listen to people who know what they
> > are talking about. His job, of course, is to protect revenues. This
> > is due for a crash anyway, entirely apart from Covid-19, as television
> > contracts come up for renewal in light of falling cable provider
> > revenues what with cord cutting. That will be a longer term shock
> > than botching the 2020 season.
>
> Thanks, this seems like a reasonable take.
>
> Since crowds aren't a factor, I'm sort of surprised they didn't do
> something like the NBA. Maybe choose four stadiums, divide the league intor
> four groups, keep all of the teams and their families in a few hotels, skip
> all of the travel, and just play three inter-group games a day in each
> stadium.
>
> I'd think a combination of testing, isolation, quarantines and contact
> tracing ought to be pretty effective. Obviously you run the risk of someone
> escaping like the NBA player who got caught, but it doesn't seem completely
> unmanageable. It seems like the current plan is completely unmanageable.
Just spitballing, but I would guess that the number of people involved in a
baseball game field operation is about two to three times what you need for
basketball. You have not only the players, but officials and groundskeepers
and so forth. I have my
doubts about how sustainable the NBA bubble is. An MLB bubble would be much
harder to maintain.
Richard Hershberger
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