# MLB (Baseball) Return July 23. 60 game season in 66 days **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771 "2020-06-24T16:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/141 "2020-07-27T15:12:48Z")
The Yankees vs. Phillies game tonight is also cancelled. The Yankees would have had to use the same clubhouse facilities that the Marlins just used for their series in Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/142 "2020-07-27T15:14:11Z")
This does not bode well for the season. The MLB precautions are falling short. I think we’ll see more players opt out this week and maybe just a complete cancellation. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/143 "2020-07-27T15:30:25Z")
Am I the only person who feels that the cardboard cutouts of fans that they are putting in the seats of empty stadiums are weird and a little creepy? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/144 "2020-07-27T15:36:40Z")
I suspect most people do. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/145 "2020-07-27T15:42:15Z")
MLB was effing stupid for not following the NBA’s bubble model. They spent so much time debating how much of their megasalaries the players would earn (in a season without fan revenue) that they didn’t think much about logistics. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/146 "2020-07-27T15:42:50Z")
As much as I love baseball, I think cancelling is probably the right call. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/147 "2020-07-27T15:57:33Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > MLB was effing stupid for not following the NBA’s bubble model. They spent so much time debating how much of their megasalaries the players would earn (in a season without fan revenue) that they didn’t think much about logistics . As I understand it, they thought about it and decided it was unworkable. Larger rosters, and the players wouldn’t agree. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/148 "2020-07-27T16:12:29Z")
Well the season was fun while it lasted. I think by the end of the week it will be all over. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/149 "2020-07-27T16:24:24Z")
Yeah, that was a fun opening weekend, but it’s doomed at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/150 "2020-07-27T17:04:39Z")
Sigh. Ray Charles say this coming weeks ago. I’m guessing the season is over by this weekend. NFL, College Football, are ya listening? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/151 "2020-07-27T19:07:37Z")
Given the nature of all this new shit, it’s obvious there will be a lot of postponements and cancellations (assuming the season isn’t cancelled outright). This will require a whole lot of doubleheaders. Early on, one plan was to make all doubleheader games last only seven innings, but that plan hasn’t been enacted. Why wasn’t this rule added for this year? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/152 "2020-07-27T22:57:08Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I am resigned to the reality of the DH You can become resigned to hanging by your thumbs. Doesn’t mean it is a desirable situation. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/153 "2020-07-28T19:12:09Z")
The Washington Nationals are scheduled to travel to Miami to play the Marlins this weekend. It appears that the Nats may be unwilling to do so – a source told SI that, at a team meeting yesterday afternoon, most of the Nats players expressed to GM Mike Rizzo and manager Dave Martinez that they were uncomfortable going to Miami now; Rizzo and Martinez apparently indicated that they would be taking it up with MLB. [https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/28/washington-nationals-miami-marlins-coronavirus](https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/28/washington-nationals-miami-marlins-coronavirus) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/154 "2020-07-28T19:50:29Z")
Marlins games through Sunday have been postponed. [CNN Story](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/us/mlb-miami-marlins-coronavirus-spt-trnd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/155 "2020-07-28T22:18:14Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > So, the Blue Jays play two ‘home’ games in D.C. against the Nats. Do the Nats use their pumped in crowd noise for those games? The Nats announcers just said that the crowd noise will be pumped in for the Blue Jays as if it was their home games ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/156 "2020-07-29T00:25:37Z")
No qualms, whatsoever, in seeing the Marlins outright disqualified from playing, like, AT ALL, this season, now. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/157 "2020-07-29T00:38:05Z")
And the Phillies? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/158 "2020-07-29T00:44:33Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > No qualms, whatsoever, in seeing the Marlins outright disqualified from playing, like, AT ALL, this season, now. If you have to somehow disqualify one team in the first week, shouldn’t the whole experiment be abandoned? ---
**Author:** ![ThatCanadianGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ThatCanadianGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatCanadianGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/159 "2020-07-29T00:49:42Z")
Don’t feel bad Mike. Us Canadians have been blacked out on [MLB.TV](http://MLB.TV) for ALL Blue Jays games, “home” and away. WHY?? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771/160 "2020-07-29T00:59:13Z")
That crossed my mind - just doing the whole season in. If there’s much more pretzel-bending to make this season happen - maybe so, then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-baseball-return-july-23-60-game-season-in-66-days/912771.md?page=9)