Just Shut It Down and be Done with It

Major League Baseball continues to make up the rules for 2020 as it goes along.  The latest is arbitrarily postponing ten percent of the Miami Marlins season.  Granted the Marlins are a very ill team.  About half of the players have tested positive for the coronavirus.  But, why the "powers that be" at MLB chose to postpone the team's next six games rather than three or nine, I have no idea.  A person who tests positive for the Covid virus is to be quarantined for 14 days not six.  So, why then does baseball pick to postpone the Marlins next six games through Sunday?  (And keep in mind that is ten percent of the team's scheduled games.  It definitely puts Miami behind the eight ball, and is unfair to the teams that were scheduled to play them this week.  Now all of the teams involved, the Marlins, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals will have to play make up games in an already tight schedule.  But, given baseball's track record this doesn't come as a surprise.

The last thing I wrote in my previous post is Rob Manfred is an idiot.  As commissioner, Manfred should be looking out for the best interests of the game.  But, he's not.  Manfred is more concerned about making sure his band of billionaire brothers (the owners), make as much money as they possibly can in this pandemic shortened season.  Manfred and his gang of greed have also impacted the season of the Phillies and Yankees.  The Phillies played the Marlins last weekend when the news of the virus hitting the Marlins was released.  Now to be safe MLB has postponed the four games scheduled this week between the Yanks and Phils.  That means those teams will have to make up four games down the stretch on open dates.

 This is crazy.  The schedules are not fair, and the owners are placing their earnings ahead of the players' health.  If the owners won't shut it down, maybe the players will.  This week's postponements are just the tip of the iceberg.  Please, shut it all down now!