From: howddgrhol@yayoo.com   
      
   Richard Hershberger  wrote:   
      
   > On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 7:47:35 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   I agree there are good reason to doubt even the limited NBA bubble will be   
   sustainable. I think the smartest decision they made, relative to MLB, was   
   getting rid of the travel. I realize there are bigger home field advantages   
   in baseball stadiums than NBA courts, but it seems like the way around that   
   would be to have a few dedicated stadiums for baseball games and assign   
   teams to always play at another stadium. I'm just not sure why MLB decided   
   teams had to travel when they're not playing in front of any real crowds.   
   And now they have the ridiculous result of shipping guys back home on COVID   
   buses.   
      
   At any rate, I heard the joke that anyone should have realized Derek Jeter   
   was going to be slow to react and unable to get to where he needed to be.   
      
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