@Henry posted:Hang on. I have to look up knitting terms to keep this joke going.
It's been a few years since Home Ec, but I seem to remember words like "Knit" "Pearl" "Dropping a stitch" "I hate this..."
@"We"-Ka-Bong posted:Once we start getting 95% of the population wearing masks, we should be able to easily run a full season starting in September
In Murica? About as likely as Henry turning down the chance to blow me.
That’s a sex tape that would sell.
12 seconds of bliss.
@PackerHawk posted:If I were laying money on it I wouldn't take the over on 0.5 NFL games or 3 weeks for the MLB season. NBA is the only one with a fighting chance.
The only glimmer of hope is the NFL is going to do daily testing compared to MLB's half assed approach to testing. But having these guys out in the real world instead of inside a bubble means it's just a matter of time before players start getting infected. Then you have the 2 week contact quarantine and it just snowballs from there.
And yet the bubble concept is possible in the NFL. Get everyone down in Texas where even the high school fields are NFL ready.
That’s the problem. Traveling from city to city just increases your chances of infection. Not to mention lack of decent controls in place like sending players to play despite waiting for test results (thanks MLB).
No way football can survive unless they pick a bubble or a few bubbles because the self control will not be there and player movement has to be reduced if not close to eliminated for this to have a chance. Not to mention if star players choose to opt out it would cripple some teams.
I give MLB maybe 2 more weeks and they will shut it down
@fightphoe93 posted:Put me on the ZERO train. After seeing what’s happening in baseball, it just looks like 2020 is a lost year. I am just hoping and praying this thing is under control in the US by Spring 2021.
Well, 3 weeks after posting this, I am feeling a bit better about the NFL’s chances. The season won’t be smooth, but by testing everyone daily, they have a fighting chance of making the season happen.
There will be positive tests to be sure. When they happen, if it can be contained quickly, they can keep the ship afloat. They can learn from the mistakes that baseball has made hopefully.
Testing daily is fine, for the players. However, players will be interacting with people outside team facilities who aren't getting tested regularly and aren't following CDC recommendations (mask, SD, disinfecting...).
There will be cases and at least 1 team will have a STL Cardinals type outbreak. Then what?
I appreciate the efforts, but I believe it's unrealistic to think they are going to play a meaningful number of games to the point they can crown a Superb Owl.
I guess they could play 7 or 8 and just take the TV money?
"players will be interacting with people outside team facilities" this will be the key. NFL does have some restrictions on players: https://fansided.com/2020/07/2...-activities-in-2020/ but the "small" parties and "intimate" encounters will be hard to control
Serious question: Given the number of players opting out, and the unknown number who will test positive and how many games they will miss, and how key those contests might be, how meaningful will the Superb Owl even be?
Any way you look at it, it just won't be the same as if the year were a regular year. Yes, injuries happen during a "regular" year, but this time healthy guys are out and if it's anything like MLB, batches of guys may be out at the same time.
It means that this is probably the Vikings only chance to win it all.
Leave Maris alone!
The biggest asterisk needs to be next to Barry Bonds name.
@Tschmack posted:That’s the problem. Traveling from city to city just increases your chances of infection. Not to mention lack of decent controls in place like sending players to play despite waiting for test results (thanks MLB).
No way football can survive unless they pick a bubble or a few bubbles because the self control will not be there and player movement has to be reduced if not close to eliminated for this to have a chance. Not to mention if star players choose to opt out it would cripple some teams.
I give MLB maybe 2 more weeks and they will shut it down
Yeah, 2 weeks could be it for MLB. This Fall is supposed to get nasty for Covid-19. And then throw in the Flu season, on top of that. Time to find out when Flu shots are available...Early September, I'd guess.
@Blair Kiel posted:Leave Maris alone!
The biggest asterisk needs to be next to Barry Bonds name.
Or with McGwire...
@Blair Kiel posted:Leave Maris alone!
The biggest asterisk needs to be next to Barry Bonds name.
I don't know what it is... maybe I was too naive as a youngster, but baseball sucks these days. It's so different now as it was in the 1960's (and before). How can players today compare to players like Mays, Mantle, and pitchers like Gibson and Palmer? They can't... unless they're on the juice.
The last great complete player was Pete Rose. The last great pitcher was Ryan.
JMHO. Others may vary.
woooo!!!!! hoooooo!!!!! Timmy
remember Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese early 60's game of the week on CBS Thats the baseball I grew up with. How would you like to face Mantle and Maris every day ? too bad it was always the damn Yankees.
@Timmy! posted:I don't know what it is... maybe I was too naive as a youngster, but baseball sucks these days. It's so different now as it was in the 1960's (and before). How can players today compare to players like Mays, Mantle, and pitchers like Gibson and Palmer? They can't... unless they're on the juice.
The last great complete player was Pete Rose. The last great pitcher was Ryan.
JMHO. Others may vary.
Ken Griffey Jr
Mike Trout
Ricky Henderson
Frank Thomas
Greg Maddux
Tony Gwynn
Ichiro Suzuki
Randy Johnson
Madison Bumbgarner
Mariano Rivera
Lots of great players without PED issues since Rose and Ryan.
@ammo posted:And Sousa.
You can’t say that about Sosa. He’s white now
Cultural pigment appropriation!
Costco dispensing vaccines is just strange.
It's like the movie Idiocracy, the guy gets his law degree from Costco.
Actually my employer prefers I get my Rx from Costco, and they gave me both pneumonia shots, Shingrix, MMR.... no co-pay.
I think we should pass a law that all the anti-vaxers have to be the first to get the COVID vaccine. That way if it makes them grow a third eye or additional testicle, we can then just say, “That’s for not getting your damn kid a measles shot.”
@YATittle posted:Love Idiocracy
Taken out of context, this kind of sounds like a Trump ad.
I still think they won't have games this Fall. I can see games postponed until Spring, if the virus is under control, by then. If they do postpone games until Spring, it will be interesting to see how they broadcast those games. Every network seems to be jockeying to position their broadcast schedules. What do they do if they are obligated, by contract to air an NFL game when they already have signed on to broadcast an MLB game? Sure, it may be unlikely this happens, but who knows in Covid Country?
The myocarditis risk from COVID19 will be the thing that shuts games down, if anything does.
https://www.espn.com/college-f...tion-linked-covid-19
That's at least two athletes that have been diagnosed with this. This Georgia State kid and the #1 pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
Of course, football is a game where a significant percentage of players get CTE later in life, so they may look at health risk differently than other athletes (NBA or MLB) or normal people.
@BrainDed posted:Ken Griffey Jr
Mike Trout
Ricky Henderson
Frank Thomas
Greg Maddux
Tony Gwynn
Ichiro Suzuki
Randy Johnson
Madison Bumbgarner
Mariano Rivera
Lots of great players without PED issues since Rose and Ryan.
Is Christian Yelich not at the great player level yet?
Clayton Kershaw
Verlander, Scherzer, CC Sabathia
Andre Dawson gets no love, and I might throw Robin Yount on that list.
Several teams being hit with multiple positive tests this weekend. Turns out they are "false positives" all coming from one testing lab in NJ.
NJ fucked something up? Well that's a first.
Christ, do they want the Jets and Giants to win that bad???
@Blair Kiel posted:I’ll start.
ZERO
Tell me why I’m rong.
BTW...baseball will be shut down within 3 weeks.
There is a reason I don't gamble.
