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Sounds like an interesting study- do you have a link?
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Mountain West joins the MAC in cancelling fall sports.
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I think this is a very good take if this is the plan going forward. I'm holding out hope that when Knebel gets back to form, they'll go back to using Hader in the role they did in 2018 when he was soooooo useful.
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Early reports that the Big Ten members voted 12-2 for the cancellation, with Nebraska and Iowa the dissenters.
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It is always about money. Well future money in this case each year that they are not playing means less for the players professionally. For the players looking to go pro having this season even if it is shortened is essential. Draft stock for some players may tank. Where someone who might sneak into the first round instead of the 2nd or 3rd is a lot of money. Depending on the position like RB you may only get one big payday and that is it. Yep. And it can only make things harder for the players in the future when they go from 'we're not going to play because you're not protecting us from this virus' to the conferences responding with 'you're right, the safe thing to do is delay the season until the spring', and the players essentially respond with 'Wait, what? We didn't REALLY mean that we weren't going to play due to concerns about the virus'.
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Interesting that the narrative has completely changed from 'Players organizing regarding player safety and won't play if issues aren't addressed' to 'Players organizing to try and change the mind of conferences that want to delay or cancel the season' in just a matter of days or even hours...
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I think the fact that Scooter couldn't even get a job on a 60-man roster is telling about how MLB teams feel that his 2019 was indicative of a permanent dropoff, rather than an outlier.
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Thanks for doing the legwork on that, homer. In this case, it's not just about judicial precedent, it's also about enforcement precedent. If they had routinely enforced a 'no photo' policy in the past, they'd have had more ground to stand on. Absent that, which is almost certainly the case, it becomes a selectively-enforced 'speech discrimination' issue, and that's a problem for the district in any case.
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Sure there is. I don't know anything about the school but if this was a violation of a pre-existing policy they can suspend the kid. Going viral itself can't be the reason, and the principal looks like a doofus, but this absolutist statement just isn't fair. The kid can be doing the right thing and still be justifiably suspended. I remember when I was in HS a bunch of kids got detention for 'walking out' to protest the Iraq War. It's not quite the same, but there is still a reason she can be suspended. I actually agree here. There apparently is a 'no sharing photos' policy in the student handbook, and the school seems to be within their ability to suspend her for violation of that policy. Now, what is actually going to cause serious problems for the school is that there will prove to be a zillion other examples of students violating the same policy without any sort of disciplinary action. Any competent lawyer/legal advisor for the student in this case will be able to correctly argue that she was singled out because of both the negative publicity of the school (as the principal's subsequent announcement so stupidly gave a clear case for), and to punish her for expression of an agenda that went contrary to that of the principal or district. You can correctly argue that they have standing to suspend her, but you can certainly argue for legal and possibly ethical reasons it was a really bad idea to do so.
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I'm not surprised by that at all. But there's going to be an astounding difference between what actually possible/realistic vs. what such a survey suggests. 98% of men would date Heidi Klum, and then there's what's actually possible... I'd think what's going to be really important for parents in the end is certainty and schedule dependability. The in-person or 'hybrid' model for reopening in this environment can only provide the opposite for the reasons outlined previously. If districts had outlined a concrete plan this summer, parents would have been given weeks if not months to at least come up with some sort of feasible contingency. But what is going to happen is the opposite- districts that try to re-open will likely fail and have even more angry parents when in-person instruction is cancelled 8-12 weeks into the year following who knows how many 'two-week quarantine' cancellations.
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That was exactly my point. You don't know whether it's a cold or whether it's COVID until it's too late, so you have to shut it down as a precaution until you're certain it's not COVID. As such, what percentage of classes will be shut down as a result of a symptom come November? 70%? More? At that point, the school will just be better off shutting down anyway...
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Yep. It's this problem that will completely destroy any real possibility of legitimate in-person instruction for any extended length of time. I think you'll see that most districts that start with 'hybrid' virtual/in-person plans initially will fold to completely virtual by the time the cold and flu season starts, and probably will stay that way well into 2021. The districts that are starting completely virtual with language of 'until the end of the first quarter' or something like that will be removing that qualifier shortly into the school year, I'd think.
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Current Roster Unfortunate For Short Season
PeaveyFury replied to RobDeer 45's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I think this is unnecessarily dismissive of his .400 OBP, which would be good on any team in baseball. -
It’d probably be reasonably fair to compare it to Teddy Higuera basically never pitching effectively again after getting his big deal or Ben McDonald getting hurt in the prime of his career with his career ending just a year after establishing himself as a legit ace. Obviously, it’s not likely to unfold that way and is likely to be closer in comparison to the drop off of Braun, but when the Brewers have put themselves out there in the past for some players, it has in fact bitten them a bit.
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Marlins and Phillies’ seasons shut down for now, Yanks and Orioles to play each other this week instead.
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I agree, except I would argue social distancing in baseball is all optics. During the game itself? Yes. But these guys are together far more hours every day than any other sport off the field. This is very fair and certainly accurate. I think the ‘distancing on the field’ thing is most relevant in preventing exposure to the other team/umpires, which is arguably more vital than just preventing intra-team spread.
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I'll agree that it would be a complete disaster if the Phillies have positive tests as a result, and it would likely cause a re-evaluation of what is done from here. If the season is 'paused' at this point, it would indeed be a complete failure, as it shows that the 'precautions' they took were completely inadequate and flawed from the get go. It also shows that it's extraordinarily unlikely that NFL or college football is really going to happen this year. Baseball is arguably the major sport where social distancing is most possible, and they've found a way to screw it up after one series.
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Planning for them is one thing, we'll see what reality actually brings. The NFL still has over a month before they'll have real games, so that stance may change or be forced to change by then. But, I also didn't think there was a way MLB had baseball without in-person fans, but here we are.
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Based on my recent pre-mandate trips to places like Home Depot, I'd guess this is fairly accurate. Those people who are way too close to you in the aisles at stores were probably doing so before they were required to wear masks as well.
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Wait, is this the old vintage Perry Mason episodes, or did they reboot the series? If so, I might have to look into this. What network? Reboot on HBO as a miniseries. I believe reviews have been good. Tim Van Patten is involved, as he is with most of HBO’s really good shows.
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There's a whole first season out there from 3-ish years ago that should tide you over a bit, stoutdude. Be warned that it's very, very dark, but well done.
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I've always assumed that those are all the same person....
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You're correct in that any case would require reasonable proof that the person contracted it at their employer for it to be valid if it actually went to court. IE, the person was isolated in all other situations save for work, etc. But I will practically guarantee that we'll see a case brought to court similar to this against some employer over the next several months, and as with any sort of unprecedented situation like this, you'd have to wait and see how the courts rule to know how prevalent that will be going forward. I'm unfamiliar with what case law might be out there for quasi-similar circumstances with other infectious diseases to know if there's already a basis that could be used. Very true. Cities/municipalities are very unwilling to go to court on stuff like this, which is why there are often settlements reached for police cases, etc.
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The Disney World example isn't an apt analogy, as you'd be voluntarily choosing to go there. Many companies, and likely a lot of school districts, are concerned about requiring employees to choose between their own safety and losing their job, especially if those employees have a condition that makes them high risk. There's a very valid possibility that an employer could be held liable if an employee is 'forced' into a high-risk situation as a condition of employment and becomes gravely ill or dies. And yeah, homer is right about the liability issue of the property owner being responsible for what happens there.
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I assume the announcement is a precursor to an updated schedule, as I assume they'll still try to play 12 games. Really no reason why they couldn't just have everybody play everybody, basically.
