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2020 Blue Jays General Season Thread

Peter D. said:
This season is going to collapse like a house of cards, isn't it.
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Honestly, I'm a little surprised it hasn't already. It's come pretty close, but, it hasn't quite caved in on itself yet. It does keep getting closer, though.

https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1289196459502342144

https://twitter.com/markasaxon/status/1289203974336200706

At least one positive test for the Cardinals.
 
https://twitter.com/markasaxon/status/1289217039282782209

https://twitter.com/DanielAlvarezEE/status/1289209823695904774
 
Frank E said:
Season is starting very well for the Jays, another loss yesterday.
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To be frank, Frank. I really thought the opening games would be killers.  Never do well at Tropicana, the place that Jays go to die. Nationals are defending champs and all.  Easily could have won two more of their games, one for certain.  So in the end being 4-3 is not a disaster.  Just hoping Giles doesn't need Tommy John and that Ryu doesn't become our next Dickie.  Looks like Pearson may be our Ace earlier than expected.
 
I?m not to fussed about this, but I have been thoroughly unimpressed with Guerrero. I know he?s still young but he doesn?t appear as someone who is taking the majors seriously.

In any case, it?s hard to get too worked up because I don?t consider this a real season, and I?m not even sure they?ll complete the 60 games.
 
Joe S. said:
I?m not to fussed about this, but I have been thoroughly unimpressed with Guerrero. I know he?s still young but he doesn?t appear as someone who is taking the majors seriously.

In any case, it?s hard to get too worked up because I don?t consider this a real season, and I?m not even sure they?ll complete the 60 games.
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How can they with the protocols they have in place? The covid bomb is ticking.
 
The conjecture is the season will be cancelled on Monday.  To bad, I was enjoying me baseball but if these guys can't keep safe, better to cancel it.
 
Highlander said:
The conjecture is the season will be cancelled on Monday.  To bad, I was enjoying me baseball but if these guys can't keep safe, better to cancel it.
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100%. The league thinking they could pull this off with barely any restrictions Inacountry where the pandemic is raging was always foolhardy.
 
Bender said:
Highlander said:
The conjecture is the season will be cancelled on Monday.  To bad, I was enjoying me baseball but if these guys can't keep safe, better to cancel it.
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100%. The league thinking they could pull this off with barely any restrictions Inacountry where the pandemic is raging was always foolhardy.
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I think people are being a little unfair to MLB here. I agree that they probably should never have tried but the whole "It's so easy to do, just look at what the NBA/NHL are doing" stuff seems to really not have a grasp on what the issue really is. Realistically the bubble can work for a short amount of time. If, however, you're trying to schedule a season that could last 6 or 7 months and requiring guys to either be with their families during a time of pandemic or say goodbye for half a year or more, you'd have had massive amounts of opting out.

You couldn't realistically enforce some of the restrictions necessary for this to work so ultimately any real attempt was doomed to failure. So, yeah, give MLB a hard time for trying this but the idea that doing this was ever going to be easy or that there's a way to do it they simply didn't have the brainpower to figure out doesn't seem fair.
 
Nik said:
Bender said:
Highlander said:
The conjecture is the season will be cancelled on Monday.  To bad, I was enjoying me baseball but if these guys can't keep safe, better to cancel it.
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100%. The league thinking they could pull this off with barely any restrictions Inacountry where the pandemic is raging was always foolhardy.
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I think people are being a little unfair to MLB here. I agree that they probably should never have tried but the whole "It's so easy to do, just look at what the NBA/NHL are doing" stuff seems to really not have a grasp on what the issue really is. Realistically the bubble can work for a short amount of time. If, however, you're trying to schedule a season that could last 6 or 7 months and requiring guys to either be with their families during a time of pandemic or say goodbye for half a year or more, you'd have had massive amounts of opting out.

You couldn't realistically enforce some of the restrictions necessary for this to work so ultimately any real attempt was doomed to failure. So, yeah, give MLB a hard time for trying this but the idea that doing this was ever going to be easy or that there's a way to do it they simply didn't have the brainpower to figure out doesn't seem fair.
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Aren't they also allowed to go out to restaurants while travelling? Do they have restrictions when they aren't playing?
 
Bender said:
Nik said:
Bender said:
Highlander said:
The conjecture is the season will be cancelled on Monday.  To bad, I was enjoying me baseball but if these guys can't keep safe, better to cancel it.
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100%. The league thinking they could pull this off with barely any restrictions Inacountry where the pandemic is raging was always foolhardy.
Click to expand...

I think people are being a little unfair to MLB here. I agree that they probably should never have tried but the whole "It's so easy to do, just look at what the NBA/NHL are doing" stuff seems to really not have a grasp on what the issue really is. Realistically the bubble can work for a short amount of time. If, however, you're trying to schedule a season that could last 6 or 7 months and requiring guys to either be with their families during a time of pandemic or say goodbye for half a year or more, you'd have had massive amounts of opting out.

You couldn't realistically enforce some of the restrictions necessary for this to work so ultimately any real attempt was doomed to failure. So, yeah, give MLB a hard time for trying this but the idea that doing this was ever going to be easy or that there's a way to do it they simply didn't have the brainpower to figure out doesn't seem fair.
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Aren't they also allowed to go out to restaurants while travelling? Do they have restrictions when they aren't playing?
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Gentlemen's clubs?
 
Bender said:
Aren't they also allowed to go out to restaurants while travelling? Do they have restrictions when they aren't playing?
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I don't know but that's sort of my point. MLB can't just unilaterally impose those sorts of restrictions on players.
 
Nik said:
Bender said:
Aren't they also allowed to go out to restaurants while travelling? Do they have restrictions when they aren't playing?
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I don't know but that's sort of my point. MLB can't just unilaterally impose those sorts of restrictions on players.
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Then they aren't on the same page. Either they get that level of buy in and they keep playing or they don't and the season is over.
 
Bender said:
Nik said:
Bender said:
Aren't they also allowed to go out to restaurants while travelling? Do they have restrictions when they aren't playing?
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I don't know but that's sort of my point. MLB can't just unilaterally impose those sorts of restrictions on players.
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Then they aren't on the same page. Either they get that level of buy in and they keep playing or they don't and the season is over.
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Well, yeah, no kidding they're not on the same page. Remember the MLB and the PA weren't able to reach an agreement on how the season would go. MLB wouldn't budge off 60 games and eventually the PA stopped negotiating in favour of just reporting to work and deciding to file a labour grievance.

Again, I'm with you that absent being able to come up with a good plan they shouldn't have gone forward. I'm just saying that, realistically, there was no way to get the sort of thing you're saying they should have.
 
Not a perfect start but still some great stuff.  Some of those 99MPH fastballs were just unhittable. 

Charlie Montoyo can?t fill out a lineup card correctly so we can add that to the crap pile that is his job as manager.
 
I always looked at Charlie as a 2-3 year shepherding manager, that once all the new stars had a year or two under there caps, that a new manager would come in and work this team into champions.
I like Chuck M a lot, but some of his decision making is head-scratching.
 
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