Making haste slowly, with setbacks likely.
The Braves’ Freddie Freeman tested positive for COVID-19.
Ten days ago “some number” of Dodger players and/or staff tested positive as well.
The 2020 All-Star Game has been canceled and the 2022 game has been awarded to the Dodgers to make up for it.
…the most shocking part of MLB’s startup of summer training camps this week: Only 1.2 percent of the first 3,185 intake tests of players and other personnel produced positive results — a clear victory for league-wide discipline and apparent respect for safe practices.
On the other hand, those results didn’t include all of the intake testing done during the week. They also didn’t include the positive tests of players and staff that teams already were aware of — including at least 12 from the Phillies more than two weeks ago.
And a cautionary detail of Freeman’s case is that he reportedly tested negative during intake testing — before getting hit “like a ton of bricks” by the virus Thursday, according to his wife’s Instagram post.
NPUT
Hello, Buffalo! https://twitter.com/rgilliescanada/status/1284565261136334848?s=20
Tonight’s Dodgers game is only on Twitter and Facebook, not on MLBTV.
Puig has apparently tested positive for COVID-19, and his contract with the Barves has fallen through.
Poor guy. Can’t catch a break.
On MLBTV, all today’s intrasquad games are free of charge. I’m looking at the Gnats right now, but there’s no narration, and the camera work is not up to regular season standards.
For some utterly incomprehensible reason, Pollock has displaced Chico in the lineup. Chico’s fame has even reached Minnesota. https://www.startribune.com/dodgers-clubhouse-attendant-gets-chance-to-play-is-hero-we-need/571762112/
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1283446339251183617
More here from the LA Times. Donate to the Dodgers’ Foundation and get your name on a cutout in the stands!
Is it pro-rated if the season’s canceled?
Chico got to pinch-run, but he’s not yet managed a plate appearance. He made a brilliant over-the-shoulder catch, though, and doubled a runner off first.
Puig to the Barves. https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1283127070609092608?s=20
All this week’s practice games are available on the Dodgers’ Twitter feed.
Dodgers add 11 players to 60-man pool. Five position players and six pitchers, some with MLB experience, most with none.
Cleveland is next, then Atlanta? https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1282661817978957826?s=20
Redbirds fireballer Jordan Hicks, who has Type 1 diabetes, has opted out of the season.
Went looking for presidential popularity polls and found this:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-dodgers-legacy-may-depend-on-this-short-season/
I have more confidence in the results of a 162-game season.
I thought it was an interesting article. At present I put the chance of a 60-game season at 50 percent.
I’m not sure whether your comment is optimistic or pessimistic.
#Let Chico Hit!
Edwin Ríos has just taken Kershaw deep for his third dinger of the summer camp.
The latest on Kenley: https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1282435889688453120?s=20
We may have to get used to these occurrences.
Kenley sounds confident, but it seems risky for someone – even a young man – with a heart condition.
I’d think so too, but he’s got better docs than you and I are.
Maury hit a walkoff in this one. https://twitter.com/dodgers_cards/status/1282370288378765312?s=20
Chico in action! https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1282150218398437376?s=20
How much flak did CT3 get after being thrown out by the clubbie?
Clubhouse guy Chico has an amazing throwing arm. https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1282089174183620614?s=20
Watching the intrasquad game and baking blueberry muffins. Life is good, if weird.
From scratch? Or from this?
From scratch – and I don’t bake!
So, you eat the raw dough?
Ha! Trying to post a picture but Disqus is not cooperating…
Ha! Safety first is creating all new hobbies for those of us who still observe it.
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1282042193235054593
The intrasquad game has just begun on the @dodgers Twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/ByJamesWagner/status/1282021019415347200?s=20
When you watch them, take a look at the new batter’s eye in CF. It’s partially responsible for Muncy’s bad finger. Side-by-side comparison photos last year to this can be seen here.
Has anybody been watching the games on Facebook? Joc is off to a good start. Now has 2 home runs with the last one against Wood. Seager has been squaring up consistently.
I’ve been watching them on the Dodgers’ Twitter feed.
The Busted Poseur is dropping out.
A well-rested David Price might be worth the wait, says Cliff Corcoran of SI.
https://twitter.com/jphoornstra/status/1281039782307479552?s=20
No game thread? It might be the only chance we get in 2020.
Dodgers’ 6:40 PM (PDT) intrasquad game tomorrow will be streamed on the Dodgers’ Twitter (@Dodgers) and Facebook with commentary from Alanna Rizzo and Nomar Garciaparra. It’s expected to last three innings.
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1280267407408287744
https://twitter.com/jphoornstra/status/1280659702792122378?s=20
2020 doesn’t need a black cat to hex it; that’s already been done.
From The Athletic:
By the way, that paper? Magazine? Whatever it is, it’s been running special subscription offers for weeks. Today it’s half-price for a year.
Joe West ain’t the brightest of arbiters. https://twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/status/1280508728849113088?s=20
Um, what is it then, Joe? Divine intervention?
On the road again? https://twitter.com/darenw/status/1280275452406489088?s=20
Nick Markakis of the Barves has just opted out of the season. He says that conversation with Freeman helped persuade him. There will be more. https://twitter.com/extrabaggs/status/1280251142677491712?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheAthleticMLB/status/1280230131315945473?s=20
Puig joins in. https://twitter.com/YasielPuig/status/1279854450018942976?s=20
Someone has probably already sent him an image like this.
It’s almost surely copyright infringement, but Mick and the boys don’t need the money.
Someone has probably already sent him an image like this.
It’s almost surely copyright infringement, but Mick and the boys don’t need the money.
Surely someone has sent this to Puig by now.
https://images.app.goo.gl/jKxdydZkLPAXz7ha6
If the season ever gets started, I now expect it to end quickly.