I was thinking, this season is shaping up to be like the Hunger Games. Last team standing indeed.
My question has been answered: MLB, union agree to play 7 innings in doubleheaders - ESPN
Starting Saturday, all doubleheader games will be 7 innings. The runner-at-second rule at the start of each extra inning will apply starting in the 8th inning of these doubleheader games.
I really wish you were joking.
I’ve taken everything this season in stride (3 batter rule, runner on 2nd), and even applauded some changes (universal DH). But that’s REALLY dumb.
Way more opportunity for no hitters.
Unfortunately, I don’t think you’re going to have to worry about these rules for long.
Agreed, on both counts.
Good grief. The Cardinals are in Milwaukee; they were to have played the Brewers in a series beginning this afternoon. Due to positive COVID tests among the Cardinals’ party (unknown if any players tested positive), the team is now self-quarantining at their Milwaukee hotel. Today’s Cardinals/Brewers game has been postponed, and the rest of the weekend series is also in doubt.
Manfred is also proposing that in any game that goes more than three extra innings, the batters hit off a tee.
But they have to run the bases wearing Bozo the Clown shoes.
You heard it here first! 
They are now saying two players tested positive. The tests were conducted Wednesday, before their game against the Twins. The Twins are still playing, for now.
I think that, for each extra inning, teams should have to pull one player from the field. So you maybe start the first extra inning with two outfielders, then in the next one you pull second base, and so on.
Rob Manfred had a call with MLBPA director Tony Clark today, indicating that he may shut down the season if the outbreaks among the teams can’t be brought under control.
I’m really enjoying the games, but I understand fully they might need to end this.
I think that it’d be a prudent move to go ahead and cancel the season. I don’t see how it’s a good idea to keep playing.
Given that the pandemic in general is not slowing down, it’s ridiculous the season has not been cancelled.
Good try, guys. Just stop now. It’s getting absurd.
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred remains confident the 2020 season can continue, telling ESPN’s Karl Ravech on Saturday that “there is no reason to quit now” despite positive coronavirus tests that have led to the postponement of 17 games in 10 days.
“We are playing,” Manfred told Ravech. “The players need to be better, but I am not a quitter in general and there is no reason to quit now. We have had to be fluid, but it is manageable.”
Damn the torpedoes…
My view is the MLB & the NFL continuing their seasons serves an excellent and noble purpose that must continue.
They are celebrities teaching the rabble that masks & distancing works, and lack of masks and distancing doesn’t. And how the wheels inevitably fall off any complicated interlocking endeavor as long as folks keep getting sick. It’s a microcosm of the economy at large. A highly televised, commentated, and most importantly followed microcosm.
Lots and lots of television coverage of brand name people laid low is the ONLY thing that might, just might, possibly penetrate the brain cells of the “masks are useless” crowd.
What does Manfred mean by “Players need to be better.”? The players need to recover from the virus they’ve been unnecessarily exposed to because, for economic reasons, we’ve decided to continue this sham of a baseball season? Or, they need to start hitting or pitching better because they suck?
There is no reason to quit now, despite positive coronavirus tests that have led to the postponement of 17 games in 10 days, in an already heavily redacted season. Will a death reverse this dumb thinking? That poor fucker who dies to demonstrate the obvious.
Apparently the players/teams aren’t being very consistent in following the agreed-upon rules:
Report: Manfred threatens shutdown if teams don’t follow COVID-19 rules
Government officials are concerned by the lack of attention players are paying to the rules outlined in the return-to-play manual, Passan adds. Broadcasts have often shown players high-fiving and not wearing masks inside the dugout.
One high-ranking official said “there are some bad decisions being made,” according to Passan.
I can’t find it now, but one of the articles I read also implied that there are off-field activities of concern to the League.