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I guess we shall see how the courts decide. Renters should absolutely should have some protection from catastrophic things happening that prevent the agreement from even happening, nevermind two.

=ashie62 post_id=37315 time=1590367745 user_id=90] No soup for Noah Bad optics dude

Have at it and welcome. Also, fake draft date pushed back to 7/1.

I mean, bribing..sorry, showing your PBA card, is SOP in these situations isn't it? Plus damn, real profession and classy to leak that she dropped his name. guy must be a Yankees fan too, so surprised it didn't work.

no sympathy for money-hungry landlords.

the way the country is going re: reopening, it seems like players might actually be safer playing.

Vancouver, Portland, two in Mexico City. for travel reasons. Hell, do 4 more. This would also lengthen the draft, something that's attached to some concern about the barrier to entry for all but the most talented children.

And also why did this need to take place in the early 20th century? Joaquin Phoenix is 45. I don't know what age Joker was supposed to be but that seems about right. That means Joker, in the future when Batman is Batman, is like a 60ish year old man? That doesn't really seem to track. It is meant to mirror the IRL late 70's-early 80's NYC of Taxi Driver. In regards to the age difference between Joaquin's character and Bruce Wayne. It can be seen as one of several indicators that this is not The Joker that will be Batman's greatest arch enemy (though this character may have inspired that Joker to come) and/or there is a point after the subway murders that everything that happens is in Arthur's head. Sort of like Robert Pupkin's story in The King of Comedy. I've never seen Taxi Driver, and yeah that's kind of my point, that it wasn't a Batman movie. They should've just called it/him something else and left out the Wayne stuff and suddenly it's a much better movie. That it takes place in Gotham, in Batman's world, is undeniable. Hell, that they decide to shoe-horn in the Batman origin story pretty much insinuates that it's real. Unrelated it'd be interesting to see a NEW movie/comic/hero franchise to take off from the villain standpoint. Like have a Joker movie that's less origin story and more him terrorizing Gotham in the years prior to Batman becoming Batman, in fact, he's the impetus for BECOMING Batman. As Batman emerges he's constantly criticized "stay down, don't you remember what happened to OTHER HERO" and comics being what they are, the hero would have the constant self-doubt as the big bad villain keeps reemerging. "Have I even made a difference? I can't get rid of this guy! He was the whole reason I'm here"

early 80s, i see from Google, okay, fine. although time is clearly fungible in this movie. the smoking in hospitals (and everywhere) and the Chaplin movie had me thinking it was maybe much earlier. Though clearly not a real place so they could've played with it some. (I always forget how stupid-recent it was that smoking was banned in places) I'm not question super heroes aging, they age whenever for plot points, but specifically the referenced age difference between Batman and Joker in the movie. The movie spent a lot of time setting up different visuals and scenes it really wanted to play out, without worrying too much on whether or not it made much sense. That's where it loses me.

caught this one last night (HBO has it). It was. long? fine? It was better if it wasn't a Batman movie. But it hits too many tropes for a villain and really dulls the mystique of Joker. Good/Evil Bad Guy/Villain Batman/Joker. nah. too narrow. The timeline of the movie is a little choppy at times too. And then part of it isn't actually real. I mean, it was a well made movie. But I didn't turn it on to see a well made movie about how a villain is made, I turned it on to watch Joker do proto-Jokery stuff and it takes mostly all movie for any of that to happen. And also why did this need to take place in the early 20th century? Joaquin Phoenix is 45. I don't know what age Joker was supposed to be but that seems about right. That means Joker, in the future when Batman is Batman, is like a 60ish year old man? That doesn't really seem to track.

we really don't know for sure what the economic hit is, as we're not privy to the private negotiations the owners have with various places, and we don't know if certain deals with TV/etc will be halved for a half season or if they play they get the full kitty, etc. I think the empty stadiums is a concession to the idea that they've be playing in locked down states. by not opening up, they're just filming an internal company meeting or whatever, not opening up a public building?

they talked logistics though, that's the important part. I haven't seen (though I haven't really hunted for it either) if there have been any leaks into specifics. It does seem testing everyone is part of the 'plan'.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=36749 time=1589257716 user_id=68] This is way too much to expect from a cruel and incompetent banana republic. Like Trump's America. Plus, regular people can't get tested unless they're on death's door but suddenly, if you buy a ticket to a fucking baseball game .....?

Edgy MD wrote: You're assuming that, given a chance fuck things up, we'd somehow not. I'm no pessimist, at least I thought I wasn't, but it seems dysfunction is baked into the cake these days. I get more and more pessimistic as this all progresses. But that's why I'd tie tickets to testing, hopefully that way when it all gets fucked up it just means no one gets in or they fail to implement it properly or whatever. But it seems like they're not even really going to try that. There seems to be no real plan for the way forward at all, by anyone, even outside of baseball.

=metsmarathon post_id=36745 time=1589252508 user_id=83] now imagine a long, high fly ball being hit deep into the stands, right smack down between two sets of social-distancers...

assuming we're not just ignoring testing and tracing altogether, which i'm not convinced can happen, it doesn't seem like they _have_ to play empty stadiums. Test people. You could probably socially distance 2000 people, maybe more if you factor in families that don't have to be distanced, fairly easily in the ground level of most stadiums. keep all the concessions and such closed, have a handful of mask-laden guards for security. Only allow day-of tickets purchased that require proof of a negative test. (or perhaps a positive antibody test, depending on if we have info on that being meaningful) No one would come in contact with players. Chance of anyone being infected is low, and if you mandate masks worn to come and go from your seat things would be pretty safe. It wouldn't be the same, but there'd be enough crowd noise from that, noises in the right spots even if not as loud, to make things feel a little more normal. I think it'd help. Ultimately baseball doesn't really care about making it feel normal for the players, and the mesley income from that, perhaps merely $40k or something is junk change to them anyway. Unless they made this a super-premium experience I guess, and they probably could, and milked it for like $100 a ticket. You could probably get a few hundred thousand that way.

Lefty Specialist wrote: What'll happen is the speeding up of things some people (not necessarily fans) want. The universal DH. The realignment and the elimination of the American and National Leagues. Expansion of the playoffs. Expansion of rosters. Banning reporters from the clubhouse. All things that will be hastened by a Covid-shadowed season, whether it's this year or next. Yyyyyep. It'll be like the sporting equivalent of these random immigration restrictions/industry subsidies the federal government is shoehorning into COVID-19 relief bills and such. It's funny because all the small business/people relaxing ones will be QUICKLY rescinded. "okay, 'all better', gimme 6 months of rent/mortgage NOW!"

my German coworker/boss says they announced they're opening the biergartens a week earlier than everything else.

I don't think I can handle that emotional investment, as much as I want baseball. I'll try to watch when the times work out but I think i'll just enjoy the games and competition without picking in advance. perhaps someone will woo me.

in that he never failed a test that MLB administered as part of the collectively bargained joint drug testing program and therefore didn't violate their rules and laws? I'm not changing the subject i'm just shitting all over the hall of fame and the bbwaa at any opportunity. garbage. Bond is undisputedly the home run king and one of the best of all time. He was pretty close to that even without the last 5 or so years of his career that put him over. He has a billion records. Those records count. If he's not in because of some murky 'advantage' than you can't put Jeter in either, because you can't really quantify how much steroids helped him, even if it was just lineup construction or getting extra postseason time because of them. Hell, he probably doesn't get 3000 hits if he spent his entire career with the Royals.

it's not a court of law. it's baseball, we have the numbers. they're extremely good. historic. Best ever. home run king. undisputed. MLB started putting in drug testing programs for PR purposes, and Bonds was basically black-balled out of the league by then.

Different building.

I mean, we're talking an arbitrary classification of baseball players in a wing of a building. 'laws' are whatever we make them. also Bonds never failed a test. neither did Piazza but he had to wait too.

It's absolutely not preposterous. It's actually more preposterous that drugs that help your body recover and heal faster are banned, but ones that let you mask pain to dangerous levels are okay. Drugs that enhance your workout are banned. 91 exemptions for amphetamine-laden ADHD treatments were issued though. I'm sure some, maybe even many, are legitimate, but I can't imagine it's hard for an athlete to find a doctor willing to diagnose that either. MLB, and all sports really, are abusing drugs under the guise of competing and getting players back out there, and it's hard to think the way some of these things are used is safer than a regimented workout program that includes a banned steroid.

some voters are, yes. Except for Jeter who is purer than the whitest snow (spoiler alert: that's the cocaine).