SLACKISH REACTION: For someone who writes a smart-aleck blog, I don’t feel very smart-alecky this morning.
Let’s start with the NBA suspending play. I want to watch my tone here, but clearly baseball has to be really questioning if they play. It’s not just that the NBA stopped playing, but the dramatic fashion in which it happened, as recapped here by the Times.
The Jazz were seconds from tipping off against the Thunder at Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Arena on Wednesday night when the game was delayed for about 30 minutes, then called off. It was not immediately clear what was happening; in a bizarre scene, a member of the Thunder’s medical staff sprinted onto the court and spoke to the referees. Players from both teams then left for their locker rooms.
In a statement, the Jazz said that an unidentified player had been tested for the coronavirus after tests for influenza, strep throat and an upper respiratory infection came back negative.
Yikes. That must have been scary times in the arena.
So we wake up to a stock market free-fall as we have a leader who is not up to this task, and a reminder that we were lucky to go three years without a crisis under this guy’s tenure. He’s going to be tested now, and I don’t think he’s smart enough to properly lead, and a lot of legacy knowledge has left DC…..but hey if you think Jared Kushner should be in the middle of all this, go ahead and bail on this site and go read the AAIMBR.
I do have two snarky thoughts:
- 1. Wait until baseball finds out what country the Blue Jays play in. Is international travel gonna be cool with the players? With the US Federal government?
- 2. I see other blogs are now writing about baseball possibly being delayed. Really? As they say in Die Hard, “Welcome to the party, pal.”
OK snark mode off.
I did my usual google search for “Mets” this morning and yeah I guess we could talk about Conforto or Wacha/Matz (Wacha is with CAA), or “deGrom’s four terrific innings!” but it all seems so silly right now.
Yesterday I had modified my position to thinking baseball would choose to play in empty stadiums rather than give back TV money. Today, I think they should just declare “hey we’re following in the NBA’s path…” (they would never phrase it that way ego-wise) “….and calling time out for a few weeks.”
A 130 game or 100 game or 0 game schedule will be fine. Right now I’m not thinking about JDG’s 4 innings, I am thinking about my kids schooling from home.
