![]() And the players will have a lot to say about this. Just trying to figure out, OK, how do we make this better so it doesn’t happen again. But what I care about is making it better. Doesn’t mean you don’t get disappointed with each other or even mad at each other sometimes. And we talked about it a little bit as a team even today, and we’ll deal with it like we always do. ![]() “I still think as a group our guys have done an extremely good job and they’ve been very conscientious,” Francona said. He has undergone several procedures related to a gastrointestinal issue since the spring and said Tuesday, “I can’t promise this is going to go perfect but I’m certainly going to give it the best shot I can.” He praised his doctors and added, “As long as they keep trying I’ll keep trying” to solve it.Īnd if you for a second think that every person on every roster has otherwise adhered to the operations manual, that the only errors in judgment have led to postponements and apologies and promises to be better, then you’ve not heard about the young men are bulletproof and beer is beer thing, which is weird because it may as well be our new national motto. ![]() (AP Photo/Jim Mone)Īlso, in their own dugout, two Cleveland coaches have opted out of the season and Francona missed eight games because of health issues that are not resolved. League discipline came Tuesday, but the consequences won’t be known for two or three testing cycles, at best.Ĭleveland Indians' pitcher Mike Clevinger watches the flight of a home run ball off the bat of Minnesota Twins' Eddie Rosario in the first inning of a baseball game Friday, July 31, 2020, in Minneapolis. Two teams were rolling around in the dirt in Oakland on Sunday afternoon. The Pittsburgh Pirates had no one to play against Tuesday night. The Toronto Blue Jays were a true home team Tuesday night for the first time - in Buffalo. Louis Cardinals, whether by untidy behavior or bad luck, haven’t played a baseball game in August. They presumably were aware the Miami Marlins had nearly lost their season to a few among them who made their choices, too. The players presumably measured their actions against risks that include teammates, coaches and a manager who are vulnerable to a very mean and pertinacious virus. Plesac and Clevinger, grown men, educated, aware of the world and significant figures in the micro-culture that is a baseball team, which means they care for the others, made their choices, which neither president Chris Antonetti nor Francona detailed during a call Tuesday. So, Rob Manfred gripping the inside-out umbrella, Tony Clark chasing the gown train, bride skating, makeup running, bouquet slumping and then the pictures come and everyone laughs and asks why they didn’t park closer to the door to begin with. Because men are men and young men are bulletproof and beer is beer, it will look like a transition in the way a wedding-day bride transitions from the car to the church door in a rainstorm. They’ll call it a “transition” into the bubble(s). This is a fine idea, given people have a practice of acting quite like people, which is sometimes really great and other times they can’t help but sneak off to The Lodge or some such sudsy Eden. They’d shrink the game from 30 mobile bubble-ish habitats to one or two or three, a plan they hope would safeguard first the playoff money and then the poor souls generating the playoff money. ![]() Everything after breakfast is a crapshoot. The word they use is “contingency,” so nothing is for sure, because nothing is for sure anymore. They’re contemplating October baseball in a bubble. ![]()
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