Coronavirus and the 2020 Season (Season Postponed, pg3)

[CardsofSTL]

[heyzeus]

One Brett Cecil contract could probably pay all the concession and stadium workers for a good amount of time. MLB owners, get this done now. Your fans demand it.

[Jocephus]

[Magneto2.0]

82 game season

[Famous Mortimer]

If they paid those staff members throughout the shutdown, it would generate enormous goodwill and cost them, like's been said, less than a crappy injured reliever's contract. So will they do it? Of course not.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

DeWitt has already promised up to 8% of the $10k he took from Jack Flaherety has been pledged to park attendants, grounds crew and so on. I don't know what else he could possibly do.

Plutocrats have to be careful not to set a precedent of helping people just because things are disastrous and they have so much leverage and power over them and wouldn't possibly miss the money.

[Jocephus]

[tlombard]

If the [expletive] Kroenkes are doing the right thing and paying arena employees during this crisis, I'm sure the Cardinals will too.

[heyzeus]

I think I have to change my vote. I don't know if there will be a season.

[jack76]

My family is young and relatively healthy. We've canceled visits from our in-laws to promote their health. The kids are fortunately having remote classes with their school this week, and my wife and I are telecommuting. I haven't been to a store in 5 days. For the past week, the family has gone on bike rides (the weather in the DC area has been fantastic), occasionally to talk with neighbors from a distance. Yet, I see teenagers congregating at picnic tables, neighbors huddling in tight groups while their pre-schoolers play, and friends coughing into their hands. You can't tell Americans to do anything. I think this hits America harder than other countries because we cling to our freedom and distrust even our most experienced scientists because they are part of the government.

But I am an optimist. Once the curve continues to spike and it becomes impossible to flatten the curve, our healthcare system will suffer, elderly and immuno-compromised citizens will suffer, the economy will suffer, but eventually there will be baseball.