And they're still refusing.
MLB roundtable: Will the league be able to complete the 2020 season?
The recent COVID-19 outbreaks have created doubt about MLB's ability to finish the season
Resuming our pre-pandemic lifestyle without concern for COVID-19 transmission will continue to yield more infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
In a world knocked off its axis by COVID-19, in a year when so many of our familiar routines and pastimes now put us at risk, the long-awaited return of Major League Baseball was thought to mark our first steps down the basepath to new normalcy.
Unfortunately, the experiences of the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals baseball teams are evidence that conducting even an abbreviated season offers only an illusion of normalcy amid a pandemic, a mirage like the digital and cardboard crowds dotting empty grandstands for TV viewers, or the phantom crowd noise we’ve heard piped into radio broadcasts.
Seventeen of the 33 Marlins players who traveled to Philadelphia for three games against the Phillies during baseball’s opening weekend tested positive for COVID-19, which placed their season on hold for eight days after only three games.
Thirteen members of the Cardinals organization, including seven players, have tested positive and their season was tentatively scheduled to resume Aug. 7.
Meanwhile, MLB’s owners and league officials are pondering the next inevitable surge.
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