Marlins-Orioles game in Miami cancelled due to COVID outbreak in Marlins clubhouse [LOCKED]
According to Jeff Passan on Twitter, 8 players tested positive yesterday along with 2 coaches after the Marlins game in Philadelphia. Another 4 players tested positive before the game and were held out of the game, meaning 14 have tested in the Marlins clubhouse have tested positive since yesterday morning.
According to Jesse Rogers of ESPN, not all cases are asymptomatic (link). The Marlins haven't left Philadelphia and are staying there for now.
It'll be interesting to see what happens. Some reporters on Twitter are saying that the season could be in jeopardy. At minimum you'd have to think the Yankees-Phillies game in Philly tonight is in jeopardy since the Phillies just played Miami yesterday and the Yankees will be in the same clubhouse that Miami was.
JamesBondHerpesMeds
July 27th, 2020 at 9:45 AM ^
Gretchen, stop trying to make college football happen. It's not going to happen.
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mi93
July 27th, 2020 at 11:48 AM ^
That's so fetch!
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ThePonyConquerer
July 27th, 2020 at 12:34 PM ^
You mean the Heathers rip-off.
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Brian Griese
July 27th, 2020 at 9:45 AM ^
Welp, it was fun while it lasted. Can the Tigers be named AL central champs?
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1VaBlue1
July 27th, 2020 at 9:47 AM ^
HAA!!! That would be perfect, right? As AL Champs, they'll get one of the last draft picks.
That fits the luck of Detroit's sports franchises in so many ways...
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matty blue
July 27th, 2020 at 9:48 AM ^
sure - i think alabama is already claiming the 2020 national championship.
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mgobaran
July 27th, 2020 at 10:16 AM ^
Hang the pennant!
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Sione For Prez
July 27th, 2020 at 10:30 AM ^
UCF did it. What a Cinderella story for the tigers to finish the season with the best record in baseball.
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 10:43 AM ^
UCF had a legitimate claim per NCAA rules.
Not their fault that the system is a mess.
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Sione For Prez
July 27th, 2020 at 11:24 AM ^
Yes, the Colley Matrix makes it so technically UCF has a legitimate claim. Notre Dame was also named national champions by the Colley Matrix after getting smacked by Bama in 2012.
No argument from me that the system needs to be fixed.
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rob f
July 27th, 2020 at 11:41 AM ^
I think we finally found Scott Frost's mom's account.
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UM Fan from Sydney
July 27th, 2020 at 12:10 PM ^
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 12:31 PM ^
You are correct to say that the NCAA doesn't govern the playoff.
You are also correct to say that UCF had no claim with the CFP system (which is not what they did, btw).
You are incorrect to imply that UCF had no claim to a NCAA football national championship. The NCAA does not "proclaim" anyone to be a football national champion, but they have a short list of other parties/ methods that they do *recognize* as legitimate authorities to proclaim national champions. The AP and Coach's polls are two of the longer standing bodies, with the BCS and CFP being later bodies added to that list (note that they did NOT supercede the other bodies, but merely joined them).
The year in question, Alabama was proclaimed champion by all bodies/methods save one - the Colley matrix, which is one of the more obscure methods the NCAA recognizes, but it is still recognized nonetheless.
Officially, it was a split championship year with Alabama being the consensus champion... which is not a big deal anyway. A substantial portion of cfb national champions are technically split, which is just the nature of cfb. The problem is that people view the CFP as a final authority and definitive, which it is not (although ESPN and other entities try to push that narrative). With some tweaking it could get close, but not as is (it is simply a 4 team invitational tournament run by the NY6 bowl orgs/espn/etc that favors the teams that will give the highest ratings while nominally trying to "fairly" decide whom to include).
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A Lot of Milk
July 27th, 2020 at 12:16 PM ^
Jesus Christ can we not do this again
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LBSS
July 27th, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
As a long-suffering Orioles fan, I say: there's eight 2-1 teams, Tigers included. Let's all share the pennant! 2020 AL champs, baybee!
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1VaBlue1
July 27th, 2020 at 9:46 AM ^
I suspect MLB is currently dousing that clubhouse in bleach... The last thing they want is one locker room infecting the entire league. If the Yanks get infected by showing up, the infant season will be in serious jeopardy...
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 10:44 AM ^
Too late for bleach. Just burn everything down and start fresh.
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Njia
July 27th, 2020 at 12:22 PM ^
Did you mean the clubhouse, the entire city of Philadelphia, or both? I'm fine with it, either way.
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 1:48 PM ^
All of it.
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blueheron
July 27th, 2020 at 12:03 PM ^
Remember "security theater?" We're now experiencing "hygiene theater." Despite ample evidence that we're dealing with airborne transmission, lots of people (not necessarily you, 1VaBlue1) are obsessed with cleaning surfaces, which makes me think they're stuck in March, 2020.
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mGrowOld
July 27th, 2020 at 9:46 AM ^
I mean if baseball, the most socially distant of all sports by its very design can't make it work, how in the hell can football?
This really sucks.
Dammit straight to hell.
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ak47
July 27th, 2020 at 10:22 AM ^
Baseball failed partly because they didn’t do anything. Players lived at home with their families, etc and the marlins are in dumbass Florida.
it shows doing college football isn’t feasible because you can’t put the teams in a bubble seperate from campuses but the nfl could take a lesson learned and create a bubble if they want to play
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BlueMan80
July 27th, 2020 at 10:36 AM ^
So, community spread is really a thing. Given the high percentage of positive tests in south FL, you would have thought the Marlins would have tried something to protect the team.
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1VaBlue1
July 27th, 2020 at 10:58 AM ^
So would it be safe to say that the Marlins owners are in the 'no-mask' crowd, because they have rights and its a free country?
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IheartMichigan
July 27th, 2020 at 11:02 AM ^
Yep, wearing a mask fixes everything..
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Teeba
July 27th, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
It is one element in a comprehensive plan that includes social distancing, more frequent hand washing, temperature checks, limits on size of gatherings, contact tracing, etc.
People want there to be a silver bullet. There isn’t one. We have to do, “D) All of the above.” Sorry if that’s too complicated for simple-minded people to grasp.
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TIMMMAAY
July 27th, 2020 at 1:38 PM ^
LOL, you guys really have something against actual verifiable data.
Yes, if EVERYONE (that means you too, and you, and you) wore them, we would probably be fine to have fall sports, and schools could most likely open. But, this is America.
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DMill2782
July 27th, 2020 at 2:20 PM ^
BUT WHAT ABOUT MA FREEDOMS?!!! YIP YIP YAW!!!!!!!
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CompleteLunacy
July 27th, 2020 at 2:23 PM ^
It's why I think the NBA and NHL have a chance to complete their attempts at ending the season...moreso the NHL because they purposefully chose cities that have low local case numbers.
And it's why collegiate sports were always doomed. You can't do that in college.
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Maize and Luke
July 27th, 2020 at 9:47 AM ^
Not good news. I wouldn’t be surprised if this shuts down their season. And if that happens will it have an effect on football? Hope everyone infected has a full recovery.
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ldevon1
July 27th, 2020 at 9:47 AM ^
That Miami in that state where they never shut anything down? Interesting that they could put the whole baseball season in Jeopardy.
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UMFanInFlorida
July 27th, 2020 at 12:47 PM ^
I take it you don’t live in Florida. We did in fact shut things down just like all other states did.
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ldevon1
July 27th, 2020 at 1:01 PM ^
What do you consider a shutdown? Golf courses never closed. Beaches stayed open, with distancing recommendations. There was never a mention of mask coverings until 2 weeks ago. Everything was open other than restaurants, and malls. I was almost stuck down there in April.
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PB-J Time
July 27th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
That's real?!? That isn't even remotely a shut down
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matty blue
July 27th, 2020 at 9:47 AM ^
data point number eleventy-thousand re: why team sports just isn't going to work. see you next year.
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ak47
July 27th, 2020 at 10:24 AM ^
They’d work if our country wasn’t run by a dumbass. South Korea, Germany, Australia, England, Spain, hell even Italy have managed to have months of team sports
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lhglrkwg
July 27th, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
Oh yeah well explain Brazil!
oh wait...
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LDNfan
July 27th, 2020 at 4:16 PM ^
'MAN WOMAN CAMERA PERSON TV'
who are you calling a dumbass...
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The Deer Hunter
July 27th, 2020 at 5:22 PM ^
LOL. You aced it. Let's try something a little more difficult.
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WGoNerd
July 27th, 2020 at 9:52 AM ^
Welp...
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dcloren2121
July 27th, 2020 at 9:56 AM ^
Nice to have baseball ba--aaaaaand its gone
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TheKoolAidGuy
July 27th, 2020 at 2:15 PM ^
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Harbaugh's Lef…
July 27th, 2020 at 9:58 AM ^
I think the writers who think the season could be in jeopardy could be right, if not for the league shutting it down, cities and states could not allow games to take place due to the travel in and out of MLB cities. This is the same issue the NFL is going to run into. I think the NBA and especially the NHL (in Canada with players treating this as sleep away camp) due to all games being in one or two cities and no one in or out (except a few NBA players already, which could kill that) is going to be the only way we see sports able to continue in the current climate.
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mGrowOld
July 27th, 2020 at 10:06 AM ^
I only see two ways any sport can work right now given how prevalent Covid is in American society:
1: Say fuck it-we're gonna play and if people get sick, they get sick and hope nobody dies. Alabama high school sports is trying this one.
2: Create a bubble where nobody goes in or out like the NBA is doing. Unfortunately morons like Lou William's from the Clippers can still fuck up that plan when they decide to visit a strip club when granted permission to attend a funeral.
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 10:21 AM ^
The risk of death is a small price to pay to enjoy watching sports. Flying baseballs, hockey pucks, Aussie punters, flaming auto wreckage, soccer brawls/riots, drunks falling off upper decks... and now pandemic disease.
Sports just aren't *fun* if there isn't at least a little risk of fatality for all involved... right? Builds character.
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crom80
July 27th, 2020 at 10:26 AM ^
'Builds character'
fits profile avatar
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
Efficient living can also be fun.
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crom80
July 27th, 2020 at 12:48 PM ^
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crg
July 27th, 2020 at 2:03 PM ^
All true.
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Sam1863
July 27th, 2020 at 12:28 PM ^
" ... decide to visit a strip club when granted permission to attend a funeral."
Actually, I think I'd like to have my funeral in a strip club. After all, it wouldn't be the first time I was stiff in one of those places.
I'll show myself out.
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