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They don't really have shooters. The holes on the team are a PG who can shoot well, like the modern mold of lead Gs we see all over the playoffs right now. And the rest of the guys are not great shooters outside of Middleton, Hill, and of course Korver (but he's awful at everything else so..). So you have Giannis generating tons of wide open 3s being shot by blah/mediocre shooters like Bled, Pat, DDV, Lopezes, and Wes (bit better than the rest). If you watch the rest of the league, there is shooters galore and we don't have them. For scheme stuff, the O right now is too much standing and watching just like vs Tor. There has to be more motion and ball movement. Ball screens have to happen. Big chunk of this is on Giannis for holding, dribbling and just barreling into the D. The D is obviously a mess right now. IDK if it's all scheme or what the issue is there, but they look old. For hot seat, I'd guess I was one who said no way. I'd still say that as long as they win 2 rounds, probably even so if they lose to MIA as the stoppage messed everything up. They were clear cut east faves before that, now obviously not. Lose this round, yea the chatter is gonna start. Another huge killer has been DDV turning to complete trash. He was an elite player all season. He's now awful, need him to get back or they have no shot. Him and Bled being out of it makes our G play be a joke compared to rest of league. At least Hill seems to be shooting better the last couple games, so hopefully he's back from a poor beginning to the restart. Now if they can get back on track the next 4 games and get guys like Bled and DDV back up to speed some confidence will come back.

I think I read these test still have to go to a lab. If so it would seem some of the logistical things slowing down results now could be a problem. But it could be for certain situation where you have a lab ready to handle a group. Say, the first week everyone comes back to a college campus to have everyone test a couple times. Or sports teams. And of course they could figure out a way to streamline it

Good posts. i see the logic in what they were doing. Thus far, obviously the results aren't good. But that was also a part of their plan, cheap 1 year or 1 year+option deals. They can basically reset in the offseason if they want. Their only long term financial adds were Yeli and Garcia, which isn't really much.

The Reds have not been an expected contender until this year, that's just flat out not true. And obviously it's tough to gauge/blame or make any comments on the results of this messed up weird year. Essentially if things don't click/work this year it's a free pass and can just say who knows what would've happened with a full year. Brewers obviously not looking too good. Generally my attitude is they picked the right year to do it since its all messed up. But I still give a free pass, just like I would the reds. What they did was built depth, since can't afford high end players, and that depth isn't nearly as useful in the short season. Plus, how can you blame management for this causing Yeli to be awful for 2-3 weeks. It's all messed up for all teams. Short season can just be so fluky, hope you get lucky but then wash your hands and move onto next year. Cubs playing great though, congrats, your reward is a crapshoot playoff system.

Nothing to do with the money. It's because they're already around a large number of people and outdoors on a daily basis. They are quite the opposite of cooped up. The only comment I had on money is that they are being handsomely compensated for the inconvenience, not that it would make it less stressful or annoying. I didn't comment on if playing high stakes baseball has pressure, of course it does.

They're given the luxury of being around 30 people almost every day and play an outdoor game, who they can trust (much more than any of us with the people we're around) that they're virus free due to the extra testing preferences they're given vs the rest of the world. I don't think it should really be that hard to chill in the hotel for your day off. The rest of the population is either being made go to in person work without any testing. Or, sitting at home by themselves or just their immediate family for days on end. For example, I've been around 1 person for the last 11 days. Their need to 'not be cooped up because its bad mentally' should be way less than the average person. And you know, they're being paid lots of money to do it.

And it's about exponential growth. If you let the high case amounts just keep going, then they give to more, who give to more, etc. You have to get in front of it. The goal of good leadership is to get ahead of a problem before it spirals out of control, not wait until it smacks you in the face because its too late. And the more people who have it but aren't hospitalized or in serious jeopardy and continue to pass it, the more likely someone in the danger group eventually gets it. If you just let it go because 'hey young people don't die' then basically the old people are at risk unless they're just shut in isolated. That said, I agree WI has done a good job keeping things in relative check the whole time. So yes, we don't have to live in like constant fear/caution. This should be applauded, not having the leaders of the state and two big cities be called tyrants and dictators.

No matter what your job is, it shouldn't be all you do. When you are on a 0-forever streak, you can't sit around and stew about it; that isn't healthy. There is a mental sharpness that is required in baseball and all players need an escape from the game. The optics are bad because people feel like they need to second guess the player's decisions right now. If it wasn't for COVID would anyone be complaining? No. Is golf a high risk activity for COVID? No. But still we need to second guess them... In a normal world, yes. this is not normal. When hundreds of millions of dollars are riding on everyone in the project following the rules they have to be anal to make sure everyone gets the money. It sucks, but without a real bubble it's what they have to do and why they're being paid well for it and why they're being given extra medical/testing advantages the average person isn't getting when they go to work. They're all working together here so have to suck it up for the group.

I know I've mentioned it here a few times. Saw this article yesterday, seems making this the priority would make sense to me: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/09/covid-tests-cheap-home-tests-stop-pandemic-harvard-doc-says/3325446001/

Think the only spots he'd play are LA. Angels have no room for a DH. LAD, might not have DH. But if they do they seem to have better options to rote in and out there. You'd think a compromise of some kind could be had. He's got 4 no matter what, so instead of 11 more he takes like 10 total. Something of that nature to meet in the middle.

I assume most on this topic have seen the one in MS/AL somewhere of a school with a bunch of positive tests of kids and staff 2 weeks in and something like 120 people quarantined. I did not read any details so take it with a grain of salt as sometimes there is more to the story once you look at facts/details, but doesn't look good. Seemed like a HS to me in the bit I saw.

Well that's exactly the problem we discussed yesterday and how a different plan has to be come up with, as that one is not feasible. you're right, that's what happens in a normal school. But the problem is there is no way to know if that runny nose or cough is covid for a few days. So the alternative is to just say eff it and let them keep mixing it up for days potentially spreading it to the other kids, those kids parents, etc. You're in a rock and a hard place. You saw first hand in baseball how much it spread in a group being preemptively tested every day with one day results. the situation being put together involves no testing until after symptoms and then waiting days for results. Call me crazy, but maybe we should've gotten ahead of testing instead of putting in our heads in the sand until end of March.

Or if the recently discussed symptoms/positive case happens then it's last minute scrambling by parents. Whereas if you don't come up with a different strategy on that the parents would be better off to go remote right away so they can work out a plan. Really the only thing I can come up with is a way for schools to test and get quick results. Otherwise you have the issue pointed out how you'll be mixing them together for days when someone has it or is waiting for the test to come back. You hear about these rapid response tests. I know hospitals have them. But that would require a coordinate plan/program from the government and obviously that's not going to happen if we haven't in 5 months.

If we had a daily test everyone could do in the morning, similar to a thermometer, it would go such a long way in killing this thing and of just having things open/normalish in general. I remember something 5ish weeks ago on promising signs on something like that, an in home test that would get results in 15 mins and can be used over and over. It passed some level of testing back then, haven't heard since. Or even if we just had a national testing plan after 5 months where you'd get results within a day. So that said child in this scenario would go get tested that day and you'd know the next day if they had it.

Well masks have been worn in medical for like a 100 years, it's fairly overwhelming that it helps. The asian countries that have dealt with this for years go right to masks right away. To what extent it helps, yea I'm sure that's debatable. But there is no way it can hurt to try. But even pre covid, who would've said yes to their doctor/surgeon working on them without a mask, and vice versa. To that overall topic though is another thing that's fogging stuff up. In most scientific/medical research situations this stuff is all done behind the scenes. So things that end up being incorrect get found out, clarified, then new things are tested, tweaks are experimented on, etc. Then after a long process it comes out something that is fairly sound, reviewed, large samples, tested by several groups, etc. In the current thing, the public is seeing some of the trial/error aspects in real time because everyone wants info/answer right now!! And then people who've dedicated their lives to science and helping people get called idiots, bias, and/or in a conspiracy. It's really frustrating to watch.

The ones I've been told is that symptoms count, which of course could end up as standard cold. It's also logical because it still takes days to get tests back so you'd potentially have them mixing it up for days before you know. Of course not sure the phrasing in your district. But yea it'll be a fight so you have to come up with something else. And the schools I'm talking about are also very red areas.

Agree, it'll be a big fight when they do it. So you need to get ahead of it now in some way and change that procedure. Knowing no one wants another hard shutdown is the simple reason to wear masks. Nobody wants shutdown, this is something we can do/try that really isn't difficult that will hopefully keep businesses open. Yet...

Thanks for the article on ventilation. Interesting and makes sense. Something to remember as people try to spin the surface thing as 'see the experts were wrong' is that at the time the logic was out of not knowing. so be cautious since we don't know. And it's not like it doesn't spread on surfaces, it's just not the primary or as bad as that initial push made it out to be. But at the time, before anything was known it was something we could do to help. But I agree with what he's saying in that now some of it is kind of to show you're doing something, since that can be seen being done. And it's not like it shouldn't be done, it's just the air issues should be getting priority.

Agree it's a very tough problem. Trying to look at as objectively as possible(and some of the more rural area talk we had here), I come out thinking how it could make sense to let the rural areas be open, especially for younger kids that need in person more. And the cities to be remote. But, then you get into the already (on average) more disadvantaged students getting a further disadvantage. Very tough, really doesn't seem to be a win win answer. But that overall thought is why I thought it would make sense for Evers not to do a statewide remote order, which would just lead to a big political fight, since he knows the two major cities are already remote. At least I think MKE is, I guess I'm not 100% on that. Plus, WI overall numbers aren't crazy so maybe another month if people listen could bring them further down. I'm generally on the side of getting ahead of a problem before it blows up, but in a tough situation like this you might have to try to push it a bit and see what happens. Another issue I've been told by teachers in areas doing onsite is the current policy plan is that if a kid gets covid, has symptoms for it, etc the plan is essentially to shut down for several days. To the best of my memory that would be that kids class only, not whole school. So essentially any kid that gets a cold would trigger this protocol. If that remains in place (and adhered to) you might as well just go remote right away.

Being no fans couldn't it make sense to move up start times from 7 to 6 or 630? Games are at 7 to give people time to get there and to be away from end of day rush hour a bit more. One reason I can think against it would be something in the TV contracts, and they might like 7 as a better timeslot. But in the current state of affairs I don't think Fox Sports is going to care on that.

Much easier to walk away from this prorated relative small amount in this weird situation than it is 17-18 mil if there is a normal-ish next season. Strongly doubt he does that. I also thought he looked just fine in the few games he played. And he finished last year fine after the bad start. If I could snap my fingers and be out of the contract I'd do it, but I still think h'll be a solid player.

Good point. Put that on the list of many things. However, this is a legit question with no idea or opinion on it myself. Since the idea on that was because normal flu subsides in warmer weather. Have you or anyone seen if maybe this shows the reason normal flu goes down is just because schools are closed in the summer so less mixing it up there. Or is there an actual scientific/biologic reason the virus is weaker in warm weather? I remember thinking that back then but don't recall ever seeing an answer.

If you'd have done this same type of thing 6-8 weeks ago (maybe even longer now with how long its been) Sweden should have been in the top 5. The last several weeks have really turned things for them. I'm not aware of anything specific they did which led to it. But it seems the long game could end up playing out well. Since it's impossible to know an alternate timeline it's impossible to know that if due to their advantages if they would've done more drastic steps if they'd have saved lots of lives. But it's feasible. And the same would apply to many other countries approaches in either direction. the big thing is the density. Remember UK started down this same path for a while (obviously their density is much much different than Sweden) and they got bad results they're still paying for. I guess my biggest takeaways if these trends continue is that for less dense/rural areas they can probably be less restrictive in terms of lockdowns, as long as you keep this all in mind in regards to distancing, masks, etc. But, in the US we can't even get the rural areas to say ok to that so it's a tough road here regardless. Also, it's easier to do this in their rural country and keep the international border shut so intermixing can't happen. In a big country like ours, it's still very easy to have the cities mixing in and out with the rural. Which would kind of undermine the strategy in the rural areas. Also, universal healthcare there. For what happens without shutdown in a highly dense city, just look at NY in March/April. Let's not forget that happened. If we're looking at comparing strategies. Wouldn't it be quite simple to look at the US as NY/New England region vs rest of country. They started super high, did all this very aggressively, listened and are now super low. The rest of the country started very low, didn't listen to the guidelines and are now much higher and trending the wrong way. You'd basically have exact opposite lines if you had them on a graph. Very tough to look at a graph like that and say the 'rest of the country' line is the one you'd want.

Not for me, the game itself is working just fine for me. The intensity has still been there, I'm not missing the fans at all. For sure it works better than in baseball.

Good summary. I've been generally keeping an eye on the Sweden thing the last few weeks once their drop started happening, I think I posted in here too. All their stats were quite bad for so long but now it seems it might be paying off. But even if that happens that approach just does not seem feasible in the US due to our dense large cities. I think their biggest city is roughly the size of Madison. But it would make it seem rural areas can kind of try that approach and numbers probably/hopefully will never get out of control. Another key thing missed by the faction that's been obsessed with this approach is they have universal healthcare. Worlds colliding for that faction politically haha. And another thing I've been waiting to compare to the US vs Europe is what happens when EU starts opening. If you look at the graphs obviously their process so far looks astronomically better. But, if they re-open and the same kind of boom happens that we're having now well then it seems it was kind of inevitable and we don't look so bad and we in theory would've helped our economy by going sooner. AS of now I'm still guessing starting from the drastically lower point like they're doing is going to be better, but we'll see. Plus with a vaccine hopefully not too far out the fewest people we can have die before then the better. So again, what they did would work better for that. But we'll see how the next 1-2 months go over there.