Just four days after the start of the season, MLB is encountering all the impossible questions of playing during a pandemic because of an apparent outbreak on the Miami Marlins.
Fourteen members of the Miami Marlins organization, 12 players and two coaches, have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Baseball is a sport where the kind of social distancing and safety precautions that might guard against this stuff seemed at least possible and perhaps even plausible. Baseball teams and leagues are operating fine in Asia — albeit with far fewer community cases surrounding them. Lou Williams of the Los Angeles Clippers plays basketball, not baseball, but his story from over the weekend caused as much concern inside sports management as it did jokes outside of it. Here was a 33-year-old, longtime veteran who during an excused absence from the NBA bubble to attend a family funeral in Atlanta, couldn’t or wouldn’t help himself and his league. He wound up in a gentlemen’s club — claiming he was just getting takeout chicken wings, not that it even mattered.
There is a reason the Canadian government, which has far lower numbers of virus cases, wouldn’t let the Toronto Blue Jays participate in this experiment at home . It’s worth noting that Canada had no problem with the NHL’s bubble plan, however.
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