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I read online this morning that Major League Baseball is considering starting their season next month, but with a big twist. All the teams would be isolated in Phoenix, and would play to empty stands at the many spring training facilities around town. The idea is that every team has its cable TV network and they'd still make money... Not a great idea.
First: you're going to try to keep 750 young men with more money than they can spend cooped up for who knows how long to trot them out every day to play ball? Yeah, you can bus them around the city to get where they are going to play, but how many hotel rooms are you going to have to reserve and for who knows how long? Where in town are you going to keep them? At the resorts? Doable but very expensive. At hotels? Cheaper but less secure in case half of them decide to go out to the store for beer at once.
Second: Phoenix does have a problem with the virus. Are you going to isolate the hotel staffs, too?
Third: You are talking May in Phoenix. I can't imagine all those millionaire ball players wanting to play anywhere in Phoenix except air-conditioned Chase field when it's over 100 Degrees F outside, and it will be. They might make a make-do field at the football stadium, but everything else is designed for March when the highest temperatures are in the 80s.
ETA: The Phoenix area has enough stadiums for half of a full schedule to be played at once. So they could have one game in the cool of early morning taped for later broadcast and one game live in the evening when it would not really be pleasant at each facility. But that would pretty much rule out extra workouts. Playing out in the heat of the day would not be ideal. Doing calisthenics outside in the middle of the day would be nuts. I suppose if they stayed at resorts there would be indoor workout facilities. But I still think the athletes getting cabin fever away from their families would quickly become a problem.
First: you're going to try to keep 750 young men with more money than they can spend cooped up for who knows how long to trot them out every day to play ball? Yeah, you can bus them around the city to get where they are going to play, but how many hotel rooms are you going to have to reserve and for who knows how long? Where in town are you going to keep them? At the resorts? Doable but very expensive. At hotels? Cheaper but less secure in case half of them decide to go out to the store for beer at once.
Second: Phoenix does have a problem with the virus. Are you going to isolate the hotel staffs, too?
Third: You are talking May in Phoenix. I can't imagine all those millionaire ball players wanting to play anywhere in Phoenix except air-conditioned Chase field when it's over 100 Degrees F outside, and it will be. They might make a make-do field at the football stadium, but everything else is designed for March when the highest temperatures are in the 80s.
ETA: The Phoenix area has enough stadiums for half of a full schedule to be played at once. So they could have one game in the cool of early morning taped for later broadcast and one game live in the evening when it would not really be pleasant at each facility. But that would pretty much rule out extra workouts. Playing out in the heat of the day would not be ideal. Doing calisthenics outside in the middle of the day would be nuts. I suppose if they stayed at resorts there would be indoor workout facilities. But I still think the athletes getting cabin fever away from their families would quickly become a problem.
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