Hey I know you really want to watch TV at night, but here’s a question from A’s pitcher Jake Diekman. The bold is mine.
“I want to play just the same as anyone, otherwise I wouldn’t be throwing and working out,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle. “But if they’re going to test us all the time, are we taking tests from people who really need it?
“I don’t want us to get tested every other day and basically snake all these tests because they want to put on MLB, and yet let’s say the hospitals in Oakland, we’re borrowing theirs, if 50 people a day can get tested but it would be 100 if we weren’t taking them.” (via Reuters)
That is a really good question. Where WILL all these tests come from? Can I have one? Can I have one every few days? Why are we diverting these to a baseball team?
Seriously, where will MLB be getting these from, and is it the best use of tests. I’d love it if EVERYONE could get tested, but a certain someone told us 15 cases would be down to zero and everything was going to open up by Easter….so we wasted time at the start and we still haven’t tested everyone.
But hey mistakes happen and we don’t have a time machine. Here and now, where will MLB get these tests from? I’d really like to know. Baseball just isn’t that important.
