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Could MLB start in Arizona ... in May? Answering the big questions

Could there be Major League Baseball games as early as May? It's not entirely out of the question. The league and the players' union are discussing a plan that could land all 30 teams in Arizona amid the coronavirus pandemic.

MLB responded in a statement Tuesday that it's just one of several contingencies being considered and that the league has "not settled on that option or developed a detailed plan." Still, the baseball world is buzzing over the possibility.
Baseball has been canceled, you're welcome
 

UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)

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The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, announced that they have cancelled the induction ceremony for both Derek Jeter and Larry Walker scheduled for this summer. Their induction will be added to whomever is inducted in 2021. I am a lifelong Red Sox fan but I am also a baseball fan and it is a shame that Jeter will not get his moment as he played the game the way that it was supposed to be played. Yes, he will come back in 2021 (and he will bring half of the Bronx with him), but it will not be the same.

For those of you who have never been, this is a trip worth taking. The Hall of Fame is just one part of a very tourist oriented town. Well worth the drive.
 

tonyexpress

Whac-A-Troll Patrol
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AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start season in July

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players’ union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans, a plan that envisioned expanding the designated hitter to the National League for 2020.

Spring training would start in early to mid-June, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the plan were not announced.
 
AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start season in July

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players’ union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans, a plan that envisioned expanding the designated hitter to the National League for 2020.

Spring training would start in early to mid-June, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the plan were not announced.
Do you really think we're going to have any sports this year? And if we do or any fans can be allowed at the game?
 
Who the hell knows... Baseball is trying to start without fans, we'll see. :clubbing:
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tonyexpress

Whac-A-Troll Patrol
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Major League Baseball is making the error of a lifetime

The perennial hand-wringing over Major League Baseball’s waning popularity and relevancy amid the hastening pace of American life, a tradition dating back more than a century, is not entirely without merit. Average attendance at major league ballparks hit a 16-year low in 2019. Little League participation is down. A Gallup poll shows baseball, which ceded the practical if not symbolic mantle of national pastime to the NFL decades ago, is falling behind basketball in popularity among fans in the United States. The median age of fans for last year’s World Series inched upward yet again from the year before to 56.9.

A year without MLB could drive home a point that no one involved should want in the public domain: that we can live without it. While baseball’s place in our past is indelible, far less certain is where it belongs in our future. Both sides have made it clear they’re taking its place in the American consciousness for granted. After punting on its time to shine and an unprecedented opportunity to bring in new fans and , baseball can only shift its focusing on holding on to the ones it’s got.
 

542thruNthru

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Major League Baseball is making the error of a lifetime

The perennial hand-wringing over Major League Baseball’s waning popularity and relevancy amid the hastening pace of American life, a tradition dating back more than a century, is not entirely without merit. Average attendance at major league ballparks hit a 16-year low in 2019. Little League participation is down. A Gallup poll shows baseball, which ceded the practical if not symbolic mantle of national pastime to the NFL decades ago, is falling behind basketball in popularity among fans in the United States. The median age of fans for last year’s World Series inched upward yet again from the year before to 56.9.

A year without MLB could drive home a point that no one involved should want in the public domain: that we can live without it. While baseball’s place in our past is indelible, far less certain is where it belongs in our future. Both sides have made it clear they’re taking its place in the American consciousness for granted. After punting on its time to shine and an unprecedented opportunity to bring in new fans and , baseball can only shift its focusing on holding on to the ones it’s got.


He forgot to add...

Dodgers suck! :)
 
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