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The Mariners have improved the Brewers' cardboard cutout idea:
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Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
owbc replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
There are games that count in 11 days. Is there any way they are going to be remotely ready for this? These are still glorified scrimmages. -
Honestly the "education" that she gets from her grandparents is worse than just letting her roam free on the street. Turns out Nana watches a lot of cable news. But yes, the growing income gap is a very, very serious problem that is only going to get worse in the next generation.
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My niece is raised by a single mom who is a nurse, so the rest of us are wondering what we're going to do if there isn't anywhere for her to go in the fall. In the spring she was basically passed around the family which in practice meant maybe 1 hour of instruction per day while everyone was working or on video calls. If schools going to be 'closed', they still need to provide 8 hours/day of supervision for children of essential workers. Even if it is essentially just supervision and no instruction. This is another concern of mine. Parents need to be able to plan. There isn't much for parents/family to plan here. None of us are going to quit our jobs to raise an 8-year-old full time. Either the government provides supervision or the kid gets shipped off to her grandparents' farm in another state to play with goats for 4 months. Meanwhile the parents who have the resources to send their kids to expensive private schools have nothing to worry about. Because the private schools will be open.
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The free Udacity one is really good: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud120 If you don't know Python you might want to take a quick crash course first...but if you already have programming experience Python is pretty easy to pick up.
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My niece is raised by a single mom who is a nurse, so the rest of us are wondering what we're going to do if there isn't anywhere for her to go in the fall. In the spring she was basically passed around the family which in practice meant maybe 1 hour of instruction per day while everyone was working or on video calls. If schools going to be 'closed', they still need to provide 8 hours/day of supervision for children of essential workers. Even if it is essentially just supervision and no instruction.
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Agreed with both of you, the public schools are in a lose-lose situation. At the end of the day they have to be risk-averse so I think the majority of them will go all online for the fall. Just saw there were a couple of announcements in California so I expect more will follow. I would rather they make the decision now and go about preparing for it.
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Almost every other country already figured this out! We didn't need to stay isolated until it's gone! We just needed to get the virus down to the point where we could do contact tracing. Now that the virus is everywhere again the current situation will continue for several more months until the virus numbers are back to where they are in Europe. It will take forever because we're technically already "open", we didn't go back to lockdown after all. No further opening can happen because nothing will change as long as substantial chunk of the population is unwilling to take unnecessary risks to reopen. Travel can't recover because people don't want to travel when the virus is everywhere. Schools can't reopen because people don't want to send their kids to schools where the virus is everywhere. There's nothing that can be done policy-wise to change that, except to get the freaking virus numbers down!
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https://www.theonion.com/teen-who-died-from-coronavirus-probably-had-undiagnosed-1844325600
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The best part is that the 22-3 game was at Miller Park
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At least at the university I work for there has been a strong push from students/parents to go all online in the fall. And the recent COVID outbreak at frat houses at the other UW in Seattle has only reinforced that. So that's the direction that it's going to go. As for budgeting, things are not as bad as they could be. There is apparently a high demand for college courses since people have nothing better to do. And people are going to accept that there isn't going to be a tuition discount for online classes. The dorms do not make the university much money and if they are closed they won't bleed much cash (no staff to pay). The athletics departments are the ones that are in big trouble. Really, really big trouble. They will try everything to get football games played this fall, but even so, the loss of ticket revenue will be crippling.
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My concern is more that inequality is being amplified by a situation that is straining resources. The schools that will struggle most to reopen are the same ones where the parents will struggle the most to find alternative care options. I think the government has the obligation to not progress with reopening as a whole if schools are not able to provide care 5 days/week. If it isn't safe to have kids in school than it isn't safe to open anything else up more than it currently is. If teachers are required to be in school 5 days/week and their kids can only be at school 2-3 days/week, what are they going to do on the other days? Same for any other parent that has to go back to 40 hour/week in-person work due to reopening. That's an unacceptable outcome. Some of the early promises back in March such as childcare for essential employees never materialized, or it was not designed in a way that was actually helpful to many of them.
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I think it would be completely insane NOT to send them back. The long term psychological and physical effects from children not socializing for many months up to several years are not known. They have to come up with something and it has to be 5 days a week. My niece is so much happier now that she is at summer camp. Even if they just supervise the kids running around outside all day it will be better than nothing. Nobody in the family has the time or expertise to teach 3rd grade to her.
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2020 NL Central Standings Projections (Predictions Welcome)
owbc replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
NL Central > AL Central so I'll give our division an over .500 record. As for trying to predict the winner...give me some chaos. Brewers 32-28 Reds 32-28 Cards 32-28 Cubs 32-28 Pirates 26-34 -
Wait, you think we're doing the correct thing by having our case count the way it is compared with other countries?
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It's basically a new normal but with the underlying knowledge that we're on borrowed time...my employer is bleeding money like crazy. Almost every industry that isn't tech is bleeding cash. I don't think people realize how big of a disaster it's going to be when kids can't return to school this fall. It feels like the other shoe hasn't dropped yet.
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At this point I'm so desperate for baseball that they could play all minor leaguers and call it the "COVID Fun Tournament sponsored by Rob Manfred" and I would still watch it.
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What does a news article about one study at one hospital have anything to do with what the experts say? Are the experts saying "Now hydroxychloroquine is good again.". No, they're not.
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What part of exponential growth do you not understand? I'm not seeing what is wrong with those recommendations. They seem consistent with the reasoning behind wearing masks. Masks do not stop COVID from spreading (duh). Masks do not replace social distancing (duh). These precautions can not completely prevent the spread of COVID (duh). I have felt terrible for essential employees who have to deal with customers/clients not taking precautions seriously, so I'm glad that government/businesses are finally stepping up and enforcing masks.
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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. Yep, the airline tried to get me to take credits also, I was like...no thanks, cash please. The credits are only good for a year and I already know I'm not going to be flying again through at least early 2021--everything business-related has already been canceled and there's no reason to book flights for any other reason. I don't blame them for wanting to hang onto their money, attendance revenue is going to be ugly even when the stadium opens up for fans again. It's pretty clear that there are not going to be 43,000 people in the stadium in April 2021 and if there are fans the experience is going to be quite different from the past. Since nobody knows what supply/demand will look like, any "exciting opportunity" is based on total guesswork.
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Got the refund email for July tickets. Zero incentive to not take the cash as far as I can tell.
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The inside looks like a standard, cookie-cutter MLB stadium. Hard to tell it apart from several other stadiums including Minute Maid. I'm so glad the Brewers built a unique ballpark, even if the fan-style roof caused problems for a while.
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IT'S TIME FOR BASEBALL!
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It seems like keeping the players COVID-free is going to be a greater challenge than getting a couple thousand fans into the stadium.
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I've seen the same thing but I also firmly believe that people are watching the case numbers and taking more precautions when they see the local numbers jump. And if they are gathering in groups, at least they are doing it outside.
