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MLB 2020: We'll Play Ball, I Guess.

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Kepler said:
That's great, but they shouldn't be opening.
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I had the MLB Network on last night (actual baseball! Kinda) and during the Padres/Angels game, the announcers were talking about the whole situation. They said they were amazed with how well each team has done protecting players and staff during this summer camp period, but each team has been practically living in a bubble. Come Friday. "We're doing this for real and getting on busses and staying in hotels..." and he kinda trailed off.

There is skepticism, but I'm really hoping each MLB team can get through this. Having a lot of these cities where they're playing flare back up isn't promising though.
 
Appears the Jays will actually be playing in Pittsburgh this year. Plus one other city because there’s one series that conflicts with the Pirates.
 
Pennsylvania Department of Health turned them down, so no home as of yet. They really don’t seem to want to play in Buffalo, so it’s possible they become a traveling team this year.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Pennsylvania Department of Health turned them down, so no home as of yet. They really don’t seem to want to play in Buffalo, so it’s possible they become a traveling team this year.
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MLB Network guys made comments about needing lighting upgrades and a couple other tweaks that would be almost impossible to achieve in Buffalo on such short notice.
 
Given that there are no plans for crowds to be a thing, just have them play at the opposing team's stadium as the "home" team....
 
Seems like all that travel will make them more vulnerable to infection, both catching and spreading.
 
Stroman ripped his calf just in time to opt out of this season.

RIP 2020 Mets, they did not die of dysentery.

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aparch said:
MLB Network guys made comments about needing lighting upgrades and a couple other tweaks that would be almost impossible to achieve in Buffalo on such short notice.
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There's an MLB caliber stadium sitting empty in Omaha. Just saying.
 
unofan said:
There's an MLB caliber stadium sitting empty in Omaha. Just saying.
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That would probably increase travel more than they want. That’s further west than all the central division teams.

Per a Blue Jays source, in order of most likely, the options are now:
Baltimore
Travel team
Buffalo
Dunedin
 
unofan said:
There's an MLB caliber stadium sitting empty in Omaha. Just saying.
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Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
 
Kepler said:
Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
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That stadium (which is beautiful and should be on every baseball fan's bucket list) wouldn't work for regular mlb games, with fans. Way too small.
 
Kepler said:
Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
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Too small for a full-time team (seats 25k-ish). And Omaha's too close to Kansas City and not big enough; metro area is about 1/2 the size of Kansas City metro, which is already one of the smaller market teams in MLB.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
That would probably increase travel more than they want. That’s further west than all the central division teams.

Per a Blue Jays source, in order of most likely, the options are now:
Baltimore
Travel team
Buffalo
Dunedin
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I agree that'd be the excuse for not doing it, but in reality it's not like they're in the Carolina League and bussing everywhere; a flight from New York to Buffalo isn't significantly more strenuous than a flight from New York to Omaha.
 
unofan said:
And Omaha's too close to Kansas City
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Huh, I guess it is at that.

I always assume western scale for everything past the Alleghenys, and assumed Omaha was 800 miles from nowhere.

If somebody was going to emerge as the Prairie Oklahoma City, what would it be? Des Moines? I've heard (dunno if it's true) that Des Moines is actually partially civilized.
 
Kepler said:
Huh, I guess it is at that.

I always assume western scale for everything past the Alleghenys, and assumed Omaha was 800 miles from nowhere.

If somebody was going to emerge as the Prairie Oklahoma City, what would it be? Des Moines? I've heard (dunno if it's true) that Des Moines is actually partially civilized.
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To the extent it's not already Kansas City, it'd be Omaha. Omaha's closing in on the million mark for the entire metro area. Des Moines is at maybe 700k for its entire metro. After that, things shrink fast.

You'd like Des Moines a helluva lot more than Omaha. But to support a top tier pro team, the population just isn't there. Maybe in 75 years when the northern suburbs of Des Moines merge with Ames, but in that time frame Omaha's western suburbs will have merged with Lincoln, so that doesn't really change the relative head count.
 
unofan said:
To the extent it's not already Kansas City, it'd be Omaha. Omaha's closing in on the million mark for the entire metro area. Des Moines is at maybe 700k for its entire metro. After that, things shrink fast.

You'd like Des Moines a helluva lot more than Omaha. But to support a top tier pro team, the population just isn't there. Maybe in 75 years when the northern suburbs of Des Moines merge with Ames, but in that time frame Omaha's western suburbs will have merged with Lincoln, so that doesn't really change the relative head count.
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It won't take 75 years. At some point a house in NYC, LA, or SF will cost more than the lifetime earnings potential of a new college graduate and all those kids dropping off the tier 1 conveyor belt, now 100% remote workers, will start colonizing places that are affordable.

We'll get mini-NoVas all through the South and Midwest. And remember, it only takes an emigrant wave of a few million to overwhelm the locals and start rescuing those places from Dumbf-ckistan. It worked in WA, OR, NM, and VA. It can work in IA, KS, and NE.
 
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