MLB postpones Cardinals' series against Pirates after more test positive for Covid-19

[groundloop]

Source: CNN

Major League Baseball has postponed scheduled games between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates after additional members of the Cardinals' team and staff tested positive for Covid-19.

The Cardinals organization told CNN Sunday that John Mozeliak, the team's president of baseball operations, confirmed one additional Cardinals player has tested positive.

A total of 17 members of the organization -- 10 players and seven staff -- have tested positive for the virus, resulting in the postponement of the three-game series between the teams scheduled for Monday through Wednesday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The Cardinals have now had 13 games postponed. The team has not played a game since July 29.

At least three teams in the league have had games postponed since the start of the shortened season after members tested positive for the virus.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/us/cardinals-covid-emergency-room-spt/index.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Kick the Cardinals out of the season. Obviously they didn't take the virus seriously.

MLB had the right idea when they wanted to do the whole thing in one or two bubbles max. That's what the NHL is doing. A bubble in Toronto and another in Edmonton.

But no, MLB had to keep travelling and going to different stadiums with different protocols and different hotels, etc.

[lark]

2. Yes and this is why football will fail as well, and fail bigger & faster.

Football has twice the roster and little/no controls, just like MLB, and will fail worse. I love college and pro football, but am resigned to not having a season this year. My guess is I will get to see 1-2 Gator and Jaguars games and then after that there will be so many out, it will be meaningless if they even play. Only the NBA & maybe NHL bubbles seem to have any chance.

[greenjar_01]

6. Correct move - you cancel out more than two series, you're gone

Let the teams who are doing it correctly compete.

Or, count the games as forfeits (which they are!) and let the standings reflect it.

[roamer65]

17. Gary Bettman of the NHL has done a great job.

Smart cookie.

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. Sorry, but at a certain point the Cardinals will have to be eliminated

They are forcing everyone else to have to make up these games later in a short timeframe. Not fair. Fuck off Cards.


(Pirates fan)

[Efilroft Sul]

4. On the bright side, the Bucs avoid being swept.

[greenjar_01]

7. I LOLed

[Wuddles440]

8. As did I...

and I'm a Pirates fan (low self esteem and masochistic tendencies)!

[BumRushDaShow]

5. This is a carbon copy of what happened with the Marlins.

They eventually had to replace 17 players with new ones before they finally started playing again - https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article244546152.html

[jayfish]

9. The Only Way To Do This Right...

is how the NBA is doing it. Unfortunately the NBA is, probably, the only league/sport that can do it this way.

[Gore1FL]

11. I'm going with the "War Games" approach.

"The only way to win is not to play."

[Gore1FL]

10. This whole season is a dangerous joke.

For 60 games, all of the teams are putting millions of player development dollars on the line to expose the players to potentially life-long organ damage.

The Cardinals should forfeit the rest of the games, but there shouldn't be any more games. It's just stupid.

Sports are like the reward of a functioning society.
--Sean Doolittle, Washington Nationals.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. They should forfeit the games.

Create consequences for this stuff, and don't let the teams do all of their own testing to avoid it (by lying).

Or just cancel all the MLB games and forget about it!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Been Saying This Too

Not enough healthy guys to field a team? Forfeit!
Rate of spread too fast, risking the other team? Forfeit!
That will provide the teanpms, players, and field management to start taking this seriously.
This Cardinals thing started with guys going to a casino on an off-day. Going to a casino!
If that doesn't suggest lack of seriousness, I don't know what is.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. I'm not too surprised by athletes doing that kind of stuff...

... anymore, but it's time to make them pay for such reckless behavior! Forfeit!

It's pretty crazy that they're playing these games at all, of course.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Ordinarily, I'd Agree

But, these players are already losing 5/8ths of their pay.
What part of losing 62.5% of their money because of a pandemic, do they not get? It has affected them directly and no behavioral adjustments?
And, BTW, there are 12 teams (out of 30) with ZERO cases.
IOW, it's possible to do this safely. 40% of teams are doing so! So, the problem isn't in the trying to have a season.
It's the failure to incentivize safety. Forfeits might just provide that.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. True.

Other people are expected to return to work and follow safety protocols, even when not at work. (Like healthcare workers berated for going to bars.) So it seems like baseball players could do it given the distancing the game naturally allows.

Edit: Not that I need to see them play!