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  1. #426
    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow View Post
    Why have games at night, nobody is coming anyway.
    TV revenue. It's the blood of the sport.
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  2. #427
    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    TV revenue. It's the blood of the sport.
    Is anybody really watching the games. There are no boobs to look at in the stands. You can't even look forward to a bench clearing brawl anymore.
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    In the wake of several games being postponed because of the Miami Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak, the league and MLB Players Association plan to play seven-inning doubleheaders to make up time, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Thursday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    In the wake of several games being postponed because of the Miami Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak, the league and MLB Players Association plan to play seven-inning doubleheaders to make up time, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Thursday.


    Seems like something you'd read on The Onion.

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    I have to say that the Mets did a great job making it sound like a game being played in front of real fans.

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    I caught 30 seconds of NYM/BOS. Just curious to see the cardboard people. Silly. Just silly. It would look odd with empty stands, but ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    I caught 30 seconds of NYM/BOS. Just curious to see the cardboard people. Silly. Just silly. It would look odd with empty stands, but ......
    They're missing an opportunity. They should have people sized cardboard placards of famous characters from the movies - Gozer & the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man, the Alien & the Predator, E.T. The possibilities are endless. Fill out the rest with celebrities from the Sgt. Pepper's cover and other historical figures. Nero playing the fiddle. Trump next to him, watching. Have some fun with it.

  9. #434
    ^^ That would be a legal nightmare without first getting the rights to use people's likenesses.
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  10. #435
    From the NY Post:

    A Phillies coach and a member of their home clubhouse staff have both tested positive for the virus, the club announced Thursday. No players were found to be positive in Wednesday’s latest round of testing, but the two cases forced the team to cancel all activity at Citizens Bank Park “until further notice.”

    The Phillies were not going to play until Saturday at the earliest as they awaited test results. Now, their series against the Blue Jays has been postponed, according to Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo. The last time they played was Sunday, when they hosted the Marlins, who are now up to 17 players and two coaches who have tested positive for COVID-19.


    Actually, I think the Marlins now have 19 infected players.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    ^^ That would be a legal nightmare without first getting the rights to use people's likenesses.
    Oh, I know that. Time is the one thing they've had a lot of, and they could have "sold" it to the relevant parties as free promotion.

  12. #437
    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Oh, I know that. Time is the one thing they've had a lot of, and they could have "sold" it to the relevant parties as free promotion.
    Not sure the broadcasters would go for that.
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    ^ Well, they wouldn't be promoting a product as such, so the broadcasters would just be acting like spoilsports.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    ^ Well, they wouldn't be promoting a product as such, so the broadcasters would just be acting like spoilsports.
    They're greedy and people will try to game the system. Yankee Stadium will not have cardboard cutouts of fans. They are laying tarps over the seating areas. I fully expect to see ads on them, like we're seeing in other stadiums.
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    And now the Cardinals. Shit, this whole thing is going to collapse in two weeks.
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    If that happened to Jose Canseco, that would have been over the fence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerjo View Post
    And now the Cardinals. Shit, this whole thing is going to collapse in two weeks.
    tick-tick-tick
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    If that happened to Jose Canseco, that would have been over the fence.

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    No shit....

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    Unsurprisingly, a league investigation discovered that several Marlins players violated protocols while in Atlanta for two exhibition games. A rain delay that kept the players huddled in the dugout likely helped the virus spread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by polmico View Post
    Unsurprisingly, a league investigation discovered that several Marlins players violated protocols while in Atlanta for two exhibition games. A rain delay that kept the players huddled in the dugout likely helped the virus spread.

    Goddammit. Why can’t we have nice things?
    We can't, as long as there are dumb people out there. Our country can survive 30% of the population being morons. We can't say the same with a pandemic.
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  25. #450
    33 games have been postponed in the first nine days.
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