Dodgers’ spin on COVID outbreak proves MLB will bend over backwards to not cancel season
By Mike Luciano
The Dodgers president’s comments are proof baseball will bend over backwards to not cancel the season.
The Miami Marlins might have inadvertently reignited the “cancel the 2020 season” movement after a handful of players all tested positive hours after they took on the Philadelphia Phillies. Even in the face of all these confirmed positive tests, the higher-ups with the Los Angeles Dodgers think the season can, and should, carry on unabated.
LA president Stan Kasten wants to use this as a learning experience rather than a cause for alarm, adding in the shocking tidbit that he and the organization expected an outbreak at some point during the season.
Dodgers president Stan Kasten: “Hopefully, this is the worst outbreak we have this season, because it will teach us some things. But I do think we expected something like this at some point." https://t.co/vbMgS6S8je
— Andy McCullough (@ByMcCullough) July 27, 2020
The Los Angeles Dodgers were…expecting an outbreak?
If the league, or at least decision-makers at the very top of one of the league gold star franchises, expecting almost a dozen members of one ballclub to come down with the virus in a single day, the fact that they kept trying to push a season on us is borderline criminal given the health risks associated with it. Kasten’s attempt to calm things down might have made it worse.
While the league did finally agree on a season, schedule, and testing protocol, the lack of a bubble, which has been proven to reduce the number of positive cases given the success the NBA and MLS have been having in the coronavirus swamp that Florida has become, could lead to another outbreak in the near future.
But hey, at least a truncated 60-game season played in empty stadiums will be completed in full!
"We expected an outbreak of a deadly virus" sure seems like an excellent reason to not play sports during a pandemic. https://t.co/skzXGaZa6T
— Josh Spiegel (@mousterpiece) July 27, 2020
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The flippancy and implied notion that a deadly virus ravaging America during a pandemic is an occupational hazard will rub someone the wrong way, but if you want a 2020 season no matter the circumstances, one of the most influential front office executives in the league expecting the season will carry on makes it seem like the league will try everything possible to squeeze in a season.