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  1. jerichoholicninja
    With the potential for 50 man rosters, every former major leaguer should be looking to make a comeback.
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    Grocery stores are now not allowing you to bring in reusable bags, and you either have to put the items back in your cart (good luck with that at the self-checkout kiosks) and take the cart to your car and pack them there or use the store's plastic bags which we have been continually reinforced over the years not to do. One of the organizations in my industry is recommending that plates/dinnerware/utensils at facilities now be disposable. Can't have someone wearing gloves put them in the dishwasher. Back to polluting the environment. I've been thinking the same thing. My wife comes home from the grocery store with 10 plastic bags now. Takeout food is nothing but plastic and styrofoam trash. Not to mention all the masks and gloves that are being thrown away. Air pollution is down but we're making up for that by filling the landfills.
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    Where else are they supposed to go, and who will pay for that? Most of the people who I heard tested positive and were sent home locked themselves in a bedroom or other spare room for two weeks and stayed away from their family. Others... don't live with anyone else. And have we established that everyone who has tested positive has the same strain, and that people who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic don't have a mutated weaker strain that isn't lethal? We just gave away, what was it, 2 trillion dollars and we're looking at tens of millions of people on unemployment for months if not years. Take those dollars and book or buy some hotels to quarantine the infected but not sick and I'm sure we would have come out ahead in the long run.
  4. jerichoholicninja
    What happens if the hospital care providers catch COVID and all of them get hospitalized/sent home for 2 weeks? I get that. But let's just send everyone home so they're free to infect their family and they in turn infect people and so on and so on? Anyone that tested positive should have been quarantined from the beginning. Not the people that don't have it.
  5. jerichoholicninja
    If you have COVID and need to be hospitalized, you'll be in a negative pressure room and attended to by people wearing hazmat suits. If you have COVID but only feel like you have a cold you'll be told to take yourself back home and stay there for two weeks with whoever you live with. This has boggled my mind since the start.
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    Honestly, I have come to quite enjoy AEW! I can always count on Chris Jericho for a good laugh!! Two words, Pineapple Pete!! :laughing I gave up on WWE about five or six years ago mostly due to not having time to watch it. I'd still read about what was going on and try to keep up with it but it turned into a horrible kid's circus show and I totally lost interest in it. I've seen every episode of AEW since it started last year and it's light years better. I will totally acknowledge it has flaws. Some of their promos and video packages are so eyeroll and cringe worthy and most matches evolve into a bunch of jumpy, flippy, divey moves but it's actually wrestling matches and wrestling storylines.
  7. jerichoholicninja
    Can we just go back to hating each other over pot, gay marriage, and guns?
  8. jerichoholicninja
    It would be stupid losing a whole season to this...both the players and owners are going to lose alot of money this year no matter what - but then again so are most Americans. If there is no season because players and owners can't reach an agreement, it will be a disaster for the sport. Large scale cancellations of youth level baseball this summer is already bad enough - this would be a travesty and I hope both parties understand that. What will be interesting is the inner-discussions of the union. All 30 owners want to play, they have major financial reasons for there to be a season. On the other hand, a good portion of the MLBPA will be just fine financially getting paid peanuts if there is no 2020. And I'm sure a lot of those players are quite happy sitting at home with their families and not out risking getting sick. I would not blame those guys one bit for playing hardball and making some serious financial demands to play this year. Will their voices outweigh the 4A and pre-arby guys who are not so well off financially? Is the 2020 season played with all "scrubs" because of this?
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    I would hope they are getting only a small stipend since they aren't providing the services that they are contracted for. If they are getting their full pay then teams are going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.
  10. jerichoholicninja
    There are just so many things to be considered with the shortened season and the possibly of never having fans in attendance and the impact of contracts, players getting COVID, expanded rosters, stadiums they can actually play in, etc. and with the things I'm reading coming out from the MLBPA I can't see anyway an agreement is reached that will allow them to play.
  11. jerichoholicninja
    Not sure where exactly to put this but I stumbled on this article about Ben Sheets from 2014. https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-unseen-magic-of-ben-sheets/ It's a shame he played on some of the worst teams ever assembled and then turned into glass or else he'd probably be in the discussion as one of the greatest Brewers ever. A couple years ago I mentioned his name to my high school players at practice and no one knew who he was, much to my chagrin and anger. He struck out everyone, walked no one, and had a personality that made him hard to dislike. He's still my all time favorite player and my son is named after him (don't tell his mother that though).
  12. jerichoholicninja
    88% of the schedule is pre-determined years in advance. Only two games are determined by previous year's results. Not directed at you specifically and maybe you weren't alluding that winning a super bowl should result in a more difficult schedule, but it's my rant that I must have heard this 50 times this week that "the NFL always gives XYZ an easy or difficult schedule." The opponents have been decided for I believe, 8 years on a rotation, minus 2 games. It's just the way the chips fell. The AFC North away and the AFC South at home. The Ravens obviously hurt their SOS, but the Texans were not all that much to write home about record-wise as the adjoining 1st place finisher. That's what I don't get either. All of the opponents are selected with a predetermined formula. There's no person or group who picks the opponents. Only the order of opponents and location of the games is picked by people and they're supposed to factor in travel for the whole season and past locations but some teams defiantly get it worse than others. Like the 49'ers playing in New York back to back weeks and why are the Jets and Dolphins playing each other in consecutive games, even with a bye week in between? Those two things are just stupid.
  13. jerichoholicninja
    I haven't golfed in 5 years. If that's the only thing I can do this summer I'll probably give it a go again at some point. Maybe I'll get back into it and that will be my change forever.
  14. jerichoholicninja
    Is there a chance some of the highest paid players in baseball will be asked to take a pay cut or deferral the next couple years? I'm sure that teams will have enough to pay them but not the rest of the guys they will need to fill out a halfway decent roster. Just looking at the Nats, not sure exactly how the deferrals work out but they will be paying Scherzer, Strasburg, and Corbin $90M total the next few years. That's over half their current payroll for just those 3. Then they have arby raises or extensions for Turner and Soto.
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    More TV show related but the whole or most of the "Dark Side of the Ring" documentary series is on Youtube. I've watched the first two episodes and it's pretty good.
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    But which data is actual? You can find data to suit your views, the information is so vast, there is just no way of knowing which data is factual, which data is agenda driven and which data is nonsense. This is so the truth. There's a great interview with Pete Townshend of The Who (well, just about all of his interviews are great) and he was asked about Greta and climate change. He's very much a lefty, progressive, whatever you want to call it and a big proponent of efforts to fight climate change but he says (and I'm paraphrasing) "She says just look at the science. I want to see the science. But I can't just go to google and type in show me the science and get all the same science. You get a wide variety of science. How am I supposed to know what is the right science?" I agree with trust your instinct when confronted with conflicting information but my instinct and your instinct and the guy in the corner's instinct are very likely to all be different. Of course it's easy to just fall back on politics as the reason a person thinks or feels a way about something but that's just a lazy way out and then we end putting everyone into one of two boxes when the majority of people truly would fit into neither. And so we wind up in a country like we are now where anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot who's just parroting the talking points of the political party I don't like.
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    More than likely it will "artificially increase" the number of negative tests and drive the positive rate down but I don't think that's the right take away anway. Testing is being done so haphazardly and on only select groups of people that the numbers are meaningless. Statistics are only meaningful when the sample is a good representation of the whole population. That is not what we have so far.
  18. jerichoholicninja
    Isn't this happening already? At least now it would be out in the open and we can stop pretending all the amateur student athlete nonsense.
  19. jerichoholicninja
    Cool. But don't expect a bailout. Capitalism has risks. I agree. The government shouldn't be giving money to businesses for any reason. Even the small business bailouts which was really just about making businesses handle unemployment claims for the government.
  20. jerichoholicninja
    It also doesn't make much sense for businesses to keep money in the bank and earn little interest and pay taxes on that money when they could spend (invest) it on employees or new facilities, equipment, etc. and deduct it.
  21. jerichoholicninja
    https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238456/centralized-isolation-coronavirus-hong-kong-korea If there's one place the US has really screwed the pooch on it's this. Anyone who tests positive should have been isolated in some way. I don't understand how you can just send someone back into the world that you know has it. Unless this person lives alone, they're going to spread it to other people. The few times my wife has been sick in our marriage I don't want to be anywhere near her and she gets offended at the idea that I want to sleep in a different room till she gets better. I'm sorry, but spending 8 hours with your face breathing a foot or two from mine is going to get me sick, there's no way around that.
  22. jerichoholicninja
    I'd add that kids who don't get it as fast as others might be more inclined to ask for help without feeling stupid. That's right. She did mention that too.
  23. jerichoholicninja
    Let's be honest here, there is so much unknown about the virus and the information changes everyday that no one really knows what's the best course of action - scientist or politician. There isn't even a clear end game. Is it to flatten the curve, is it to keep people from getting sick, or is it to eradicate the virus? The COVID numbers are almost useless as not everyone is being tested, not everyone with symptoms is being tested, there are quite likely thousands of people that have it and show no symptoms, and there is such a huge variance in what exactly COVID does to a person that it's impossible to make any sort of conclusion from them.
  24. jerichoholicninja
    I had a Facebook teacher friend recently post that she hopes that some sort of online teaching continues after schools are opened. I'm not sure what grade she teaches but it's like upper grade school. She records her teaching the lessons and the students watch it at home. Students that need more time to understand can rewatch the parts they need to do and the students that get it can skip the parts they don't need. Basically, everyone is able to learn at their own pace and the fast learners don't have to spend time doing nothing waiting for the slower learners to catch up. Makes sense to me. I remember being in school and there being that one kid asking 100 questions because they don't understand while everyone just sat around twiddling their thumbs.
  25. jerichoholicninja
    It will be interesting to see which things we thought we couldn't live without before, and then had to give up, we decide weren't really that important after all. I'll be honest, I thought not coaching baseball this spring and watching it on TV would be excruciating but I really haven't even noticed I'm missing it.
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