Wow the baseball financials must be a looming mega-disaster if they are considering this plan on this timeline.
All the games would take place in Arizona.
So guys like Vulgar Pete Alonso would get to live a life of Holiday Inn confinement (or more likely the Arizona Biltmore, a very nice place) and 14 inning baseball days in 100 degree heat in front of no fans.
Hotel, bus, baseball, bus, hotel, repeat. Away from your family. Constantly with your teammates. Down the hall from the other teams. That will go well. Sounds like five star baseball prison.
How would the television work? Are we making Keith Hernandez and Howie Rose subject themselves to this life? (PLEASE DO) I guess Keith and Howie could call the games off the monitor from their homes or SNY WFAN Quarantine Central- a lot more sports than you realize is already done this way, especially things like the Olympics, but I kinda like the idea of Keith’s life being Holiday Inn and the Quarantine bus.
Some of the nuttiness:
• Implementing an electronic strike zone to allow the plate umpire to maintain sufficient distance from the catcher and batter
• No mound visits from the catcher or pitching coach (THIS SHOULD BE A RULE ANYWAY!!!)
• Seven-inning doubleheaders, which with an earlier-than-expected start date could allow baseball to come closer to a full 162-game season (THIS SHOULD BE A RULE ANYWAY. 7 INNING GAMES SHOULD BE THE NORMAL FUTURE)
• Sitting in the empty stands 6 feet apart — the recommended social-distancing space — instead of in a dugout
I will believe all this when it happens.
