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Other countries have citizens who take their CDC and their health experts seriously. The U.S. is the only place where medical licences are seemingly handed out by Facebook and Twitter. US has plenty of those people as well. It's hard to categorize this as anything other than a hysterical statement. The majority of people here follow the rules. In a lot of places you don't really have a choice.
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If there's any indication of a semi normal 2021, I may just take it as a chance to upgrade my seats for a year...use the credit + the $$ I would have spent next season.
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It's been odd. My rep said what you're saying about single game tickets, but then they sent that weird email later advertising an 'exciting opportunity to use credits' for single game tickets.
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I painted siding as well, though it was wood. If the house is not insanely large I would honestly do it by hand with scaffolding, it makes a world of difference as far as speed of work and just feeling safer. Mine is quite high, but it worked out with brushes. Spray indoors will be chaotic. The prep required there just makes the gun pretty useless. The guns are not as easy as it seems especially for those who haven't used them. If this is a ranch home or anything you could complete with just 1 level of scaffold it's a no brainer to use a brush IMO. I have to put 3 levels of scaffolding up to get the very, very top, but most could be done with 2.
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What are you painting? This isn't the post you were looking for, but IMO, I bought one and never will use them again. It just ends up getting clogged, and that's despite me thinking I cleaned the bejesus out of it. I've read a lot of similar complaints. Unfortunately mine was a lot more expensive than that. There is also a bit of a skill to using them and not shooting paint all over the place. Honestly what made life easier was investing in scaffolding so I could get the entire house easily without moving a ladder 700 times, and just using some nice siding brushes. Also, setting the gun to "2 coats" does NOT provide the same quality of two hand coats. IMO it's just one of those inventions that sounds great but doesn't provide the same quality of work as the old fashioned way.
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So is wearing a mask it is a self-centered choice. You may substitute your reasoning that it is for the common good but in reality you are just trying to save yourself and the ones you love. So you are still self-centered on your choice. You're losing me here. A disproportionate number of Asians have been wearing the masks in airports (in the US) for a long time and it's because they don't want to spread an illness. Like most Asian cultures, it's seen as a courtesy to others, and being courteous to others is objective #1 in those cultures. It's not something you necessarily do for yourself or to 'save yourself'. I generally don't wear the mask unless forced to, but I'm not seeing the equivalency or wearing vs. not wearing both being "self centered." I don't wear the mask unless I have to because they're mildly annoying, and it's a completely self-centered choice. If I wore one it's almost certainly a courtesy to others. In my defense though I haven't really done a lot of indoor activities in which most people would wear them. My wife does all the shopping.
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Maybe because those states are miserably hot now and people were actually outside 2 months ago?
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One thought I have about this is how will the players act in their spare time. There is a long history of professional athletes partying and carrying on while on the road. Hopefully, they will adjust their lifestyles appropriately. As an aside, I believe visiting teams stay at the Pfister. Maybe Milwaukee should start housing asymtomatic covid patients at the Pfister in hopes of decimating opponents rosters. Before I get crucified for that last comment. I know if a player on another team were to come down with covid there is a chance they could spread it to the brewers during a game and I really don't wish this disease on anybody, even a Cardinal. It was totally tongue in cheek. They won't have a choice in many places without strip clubs, night clubs, restaurants, etc., and crowd control in places that are open. One would hope the clubs will be supportive of quarantine measures so that we can actually have a season. Curfews and things like that. I believe there are basically 6 off days in the first place so there is not a whole lot of time in the first place.
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Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
OldSchoolSnapper replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Maybe they should do the right thing and only use umpires under 40 for "safety" aka eyesight. -
Area around it looks nice. It's actually fine until you get to the roof.
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I'm hopeful that an in-season outbreak won't be an issue. Baseball players are quite isolated amongst each other during the season, this will probably be even more true this year. There have already been outbreaks at the ST facilities but there's no telling what those guys were doing in their spare time. Once everyone is rolling along there is not a whole lot of time to go exploring and I'd like to hope the teams will have a tight grip on the players.
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I don't think the cost hurts but it is really a CBA issue. At the last CBA the players were assured more time off on travel days. "Sources told ESPN that the getaway-day changes will apply if a team has a game -- or even an off day at home -- the next day. The new rules also will prohibit teams from scheduling an early-afternoon game the following day if one of the clubs played a night game in a different city the evening before." It's easy to see how this becomes an issue if you are in LA and have to be in Milwaukee or Miami the next day.
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Also, someone mentioned something earlier about the CBA having travel time rules and I think that was the kicker as far as keeping everyone close.
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It doesn't really help safety and I wasn't saying that it did, it simply makes things easier, and eliminates crossing 3 time zones. Best to minimize that when cramming the season into a small window. Also, I think flying 1 vs 3 hours is quite a difference when the volume of flights is this high. It's just annoying.
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I think that would have been chaotic with many of those teams nowhere close to each other. The Brewers are very close to all of their opponents with the exception of maybe Pitt, who still isn't that far away. This will avoid the scenario where you're in LA and then Philly 2 days later. The logistics of making that equitable give me a headache just thinking about it. Geography was probably the way to go. Sucks for teams like Seattle though that really aren't that close to anyone.
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I'm all for the runner on 2nd permanently. The games are too long as it is. The drawbacks of winning a game in the 14th are significant. I know baseball has purists but the game is in dire need of modernization as a 21st century televised product. Making games accessible is issue one but the broadcast has issues too.
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Pitching is a different animal due to the evolution of an arm over the course of a normal season so something like that wouldn't surprise me. Outfielders diving for balls, yes I expect to see that, because 99% of the players are competitors before businessmen and they got where they are by being better than the best.
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I'm not so sure this is true. We've also all seen the images and videos from Lake Geneva and places like it all over the country with tons of people not distancing at all. I'm not sure how to quantify the % of people taking it seriously but I think vast majority is quite an overshot. I just spent a week crossing through five states. The hotels I stayed at in Indiana, Ohio, and PA had no mask policies at all. In Ashland, the front desk worker laughed at me when I asked her if I needed to wear a mask to go out. She just said "Nothing in Ashland requires a mask." This was the case at basically every pit stop I made, until getting to NJ, where the masks were required, but nobody, and I mean nobody, was taking even the slightest precaution at the beaches or boardwalks, or open air dining. I took a photo of the beach on Friday and thousands of people were packed in like sardines. I would say that large cities take it seriously and the majority of people outside of them really do not. These kinds of anecdotes, as much as everyone loves to share them, don't change the reality that a healthy 33 y/o is at a very low risk of anything other than being really sick for a while, if that. It doesn't mean you should go lick the nearest doorknob but I'm not sure it's grounds for shutting society down.
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I don't think it really matters, to be honest, unfortunately. Whether it's .4% or 4%, I don't see how NFL moves forward. The number of people involved before you even consider fans is just so much bigger per game. I'm on your side of this, but practically speaking I don't think the mortality will really affect sports happening or not.
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I just spent a week in NJ, granted it was south Jersey in a vacation town, away from the hot spot...they are extremely militant about face coverings there. You need them to do just about anything besides the beach, which was slammed. Outside dining was plentiful, but any shopping, grocery stores, the WaWa, you need them on. The overall experience was not really any different, with the exception of the bars are closed and dining is outside or takeout only. The boardwalks were all open and mostly thriving, in Atlantic City and Ocean City, though the amusement parks are still closed which is laughable. You are practically bumping into people on the boardwalk and groups of 20-30 are congregating on the beach but the magical line is at the amusement parks. We were able to do indoor mini golf for some reason though. The locals are PO'd about it and make a joke of it constantly but it is what it is. The hit to the bars will destroy many of them. This is the only time of year many of them are open. PA and OH were more like WI. But I definitely get the sense that the majority of south Jersey has fatigued of the guidelines. In the town I was staying I happened to drive past one of their popular restaurants and the back patio looked like St Patrick's Day; absolutely no distancing and hundreds enjoying drinks together in close proximity. Pretty sure that's still illegal right now but the enforcement was nonexistent.
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No clue, like I said, it seemed weird, and I couldn't tell if it was related to the form I filled out last week or not.
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I'd expect something like that to be build into said contingency plans, and I don't think that would be a bad idea at all. I'd expect it'll depend on the situation that necessitates the shutdown in most cases, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the plans build in a shutdown between Thanksgiving and 14 days following Christmas (school back on Jan. 11th). That part is purely my own speculation, however. I'd honestly love this for my own selfish reasons. It would open up a whole bunch of travel options.
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Well I don't respect the 81 season for similar reasons. That year after the strike, they split the year into two halves which cost the Brewers the AL East title. The teams that were in the first prior to the strike had zero pressure on them during the 2nd half. Brewers managed to win the second half but they had the best overall record in the division but had to beat the Yankees who had two months to get their team ready for one series. I hated that season and still do because the plan devalued the Brewers first ever postseason appearance. It was a joke that teams 20 games under .500 in June suddenly were tied for first in August without playing a game in between. The NL was a joke. The Reds had the best record in NL West by 4 games and the Cardinals had the best record in the East, yet neither made the playoffs. Only Oakland was truly deserving to be in the final 4 that year. Play as many games as possible to determine worthy teams. I don't respect it either. Just like I don't respect the dunk contest, but if my options are nothing and the dunk contest, I may still turn it on.
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Some will check out. But I think most say that they will, but will quickly realize it's better than nothing. It's a bit like when my toddler storms off because he can't have dessert without eating dinner, but then 10 minutes later just eats the dinner. I have my opinions on the validity and how history will look at the 2020 season if it's 50 games long, but I know that once it's rolling I'll still pay some attention.
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If they're going to do that again I hope they at least really go for it. Close everything down Jan-Feb so I can just move the whole operation to Florida for winter.
