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Topic subjectI'm quickly giving up sports hopes: 10,000 people for 4 mos.
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2714044, I'm quickly giving up sports hopes: 10,000 people for 4 mos.
Posted by smutsboy, Thu Apr-16-20 11:46 AM
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2020/04/14/16045/heres-when-and-how-sports-leagues-are-pretending-they-will-start-up-again/

ESPN’s Jeff Passan, who first reported last week that MLB was looking at playing whatever it can salvage of a season entirely in front of empty stadiums in Arizona starting as early as May, now says “it seems like it’s going to be Arizona or bust for major league baseball,” at least to begin the season. Added Passan: “And they have to get to the point with themselves where they say ‘this is what we’re going to try to do, even if we can’t ultimately pull it off.'” Given that USA Today has calculated this would require quarantining nearly 10,000 people (counting players, support staff, food and hotel workers, etc.) for four months, and testing them constantly with tests that don’t currently exist in quantity and aren’t likely to anytime soon in part because of a medical Q-tip shortage, that’s an important “if.”