***Official A-League Fantasy Baseball Keeper Thread II***

[SoutheastBeast1]

Update on Kevin Maitan

The Angels have taken him and run him into the ground.

At 19 last year he hit .214 in A ball

[saaltydog]

They’re seriously talking about August now

Baseball season is over. Life is over.

At what point do we start questioning wtf is going on?Yeah I get the next month or so. Let's see where the peak is and go from there. But why the **** are we talking about 5 months? Seems like the people in control want to take advantage of a bad situation. Inb4 US goes full blown socialist.

Majority of people have healthcare insurance through their employer. If no one is working no one has healthcare. Seems like the perfect opportunity to capitalize and nationalize a lot of industries.

[Jyeatbvg]

At what point do we start questioning wtf is going on?Yeah I get the next month or so. Let's see where the peak is and go from there. But why the **** are we talking about 5 months? Seems like the people in control want to take advantage of a bad situation. Inb4 US goes full blown socialist.

Majority of people have healthcare insurance through their employer. If no one is working no one has healthcare. Seems like the perfect opportunity to capitalize and nationalize a lot of industries.

It seems like the states and even municipalities have too much power to run things. Leaving it to the municipalities to decide on whether to invoke shelter-in-place is ridiculous as there's just too much uncertainty. Meanwhile the prices of ventilators are skyrocketing as you have the feds, states and private hospitals bidding against one another to get their hands on some.

As baseball fans we will absolutely not see baseball until covid has been contained, and right now we're only entering upswings in the first few spots (e.g. NYC). The fact that every neighbourhood it seems has different guidelines doesn't bode well for our prospects since this thing might decline in some areas while others are on the upswing. Florida hasn't even declared shelter-in-place yet and it's one of the oldest states, if I recall.

[SoutheastBeast1]

At what point do we start questioning wtf is going on?Yeah I get the next month or so. Let's see where the peak is and go from there. But why the **** are we talking about 5 months? Seems like the people in control want to take advantage of a bad situation. Inb4 US goes full blown socialist.

Majority of people have healthcare insurance through their employer. If no one is working no one has healthcare. Seems like the perfect opportunity to capitalize and nationalize a lot of industries.

Their August model predicts 80,000 deaths and they act like that's some catastrophic number. I'm not trying to devalue deaths but that is not a big number when you consider other causes of death in this country.

[Jyeatbvg]

Their August model predicts 80,000 deaths and they act like that's some catastrophic number. I'm not trying to devalue deaths but that is not a big number when you consider other causes of death in this country.

The models generally aren't accurate since the numbers will depend on the measures taken by the government and people actually listening to those measures. If everyone self-isolates as they should the deaths could be half that; if people don't give a chit and continue to have spring break parties and massive church gatherings, deaths could be in the millions.

And the immediate issue now is that healthcare systems are overwhelmed. You bring up other causes of death...all of these causes will increase as well since hospital ICU's will be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. Imagine getting shot and having to wait for a bed since they're all taken. People undermining this virus don't seem to realize that there are much larger implications than "just the flu, I'm young, yolo".

[SoutheastBeast1]

The models generally aren't accurate since the numbers will depend on the measures taken by the government and people actually listening to those measures. If everyone self-isolates as they should the deaths could be half that; if people don't give a chit and continue to have spring break parties and massive church gatherings, deaths could be in the millions.

And the immediate issue now is that healthcare systems are overwhelmed. You bring up other causes of death...all of these causes will increase as well since hospital ICU's will be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. Imagine getting shot and having to wait for a bed since they're all taken.

They said if people didn't follow the guidelines deaths would range 100k-200k

Still not very overwhelming


Hospitals don't need 5 months to get their sh*t together and keep up pace. That's pathetic. It shouldn't take more than 6 weeks to give them the space they need to ramp up and handle the rest when it opens back up. This August talk is horsesh*t.

[saaltydog]

The models generally aren't accurate since the numbers will depend on the measures taken by the government and people actually listening to those measures. If everyone self-isolates as they should the deaths could be half that; if people don't give a chit and continue to have spring break parties and massive church gatherings, deaths could be in the millions.

And the immediate issue now is that healthcare systems are overwhelmed. You bring up other causes of death...all of these causes will increase as well since hospital ICU's will be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. Imagine getting shot and having to wait for a bed since they're all taken. People undermining this virus don't seem to realize that there are much larger implications than "just the flu, I'm young, yolo".

Don't work that way boyo

[SoutheastBeast1]

Bateman's not gonna make it to august guys.

That's 1 death right there. And that's one more death from our group than COVID-19 is likely to claim. Now project that number out to 340 million. 1 in 14 here die from cracking under 5 months of lockdown

That's a big number. You're looking at 30 million vs. 100-200k



Edit:

Someone needs to send Trump the model I just created so he has all the facts

[Jyeatbvg]

Don't work that way boyo

explain then

[saaltydog]

explain then

You can't turn every room and every floor in the hospital into an ICU ward. You need negative air flow rooms. If rooms aren't properly pressured, airborne contaminates can escape putting everyone in the hospital at risk.

Hospitals have med surg floors and rooms that are not negative airflow. They can't be used for Covid patients. When you hear about lack of beds it's not actual lack of actual beds. It's lack of beds in these negative airflow rooms/floors.

For the most part these med surg floors and rooms in hospitals are quiet right now. Doctors aren't admitting people for stupid ****, elective surgeries are cancelled, and the quarantine is reducing accidents. I highly doubt you'll have to worry about being treated if you get shot.

[TheBateman]

Bateman's not gonna make it to august guys.

That's 1 death right there. And that's one more death from our group than COVID-19 is likely to claim. Now project that number out to 340 million. 1 in 14 here die from cracking under 5 months of lockdown

That's a big number. You're looking at 30 million vs. 100-200k



Edit:

Someone needs to send Trump the model I just created so he has all the facts

lol not just 1, im taking others with me

[SteezeFactory]

The biggest problem with this virus is that you don’t even know if you fukkin have it for up to two weeks. If it was like the normal flu and you were sick when you felt like sh*t it’d be easy enough to deal with. America has a stupid low average number of hospital beds per 1000 people or whatever the rating is and with 350 million people + a two week asymptomatic virus that fukkers up your lungs that’s a bad combo. We aren’t built to handle pandemics.

Also this sh*t is so weird. I see so many out of shape people walking and biking and hiking now. Like these fat fukks weren’t on their ass watching TV all day every day after work pre quarantine. All the sudden they’re like oh gee guess I’ll enjoy the GOAT Arizona spring weather for the first time in my life. Normally I’d be happy people were enjoying the outdoors but there’s too much foot traffic on my favorite mountain bike trails. Go back inside fatties.

One of my side hobbies is gardening (come at me m8s it’s relaxing) and I’ve got a fukk ton of tomato and all sorts of pepper seedlings going, I’ll send my A League boys salsa and pasta sauce rations to make it through a baseball-less summer. If you guys have space start growing some random sh*t, it unlocks some peaceful caveman seratonin/dna. I go out back 2-3x a day for a break to play with the dogs and then dick around in the garden for a bit. Will help keep your sanity. Bacon you can grow some spaghetti squash and use them as kettle/dumbbells just drill in a handle.

Gonna be weird not seeing the teams we drafted play. The forgotten season of 2020.

[Jyeatbvg]

You can't turn every room and every floor in the hospital into an ICU ward. You need negative air flow rooms. If rooms aren't properly pressured, airborne contaminates can escape putting everyone in the hospital at risk.

Hospitals have med surg floors and rooms that are not negative airflow. They can't be used for Covid patients. When you hear about lack of beds it's not actual lack of actual beds. It's lack of beds in these negative airflow rooms/floors.

For the most part these med surg floors and rooms in hospitals are quiet right now. Doctors aren't admitting people for stupid ****, elective surgeries are cancelled, and the quarantine is reducing accidents. I highly doubt you'll have to worry about being treated if you get shot.

But the point still stands that this pandemic is causing a shortage in resources for our healthcare industries, whether it's negative air flow rooms, labour or supplies. Hospitals don't have teams of waiting doctors or nurses, or ICU's, in case a pandemic occurs. These resources are being overwhelmed by coronavirus thus causing shortages elsewhere. In Canada they've started asking retired healthcare workers back into the workforce to assist, while in Italy they expedited medical student exams so they could start working.

[saaltydog]

The weather ain't that nice around here right now. Which is making this quarantine even worse. Besides a couple nice days here and there it's been pretty ****ty weather. Today is 40 and rain all day.

[saaltydog]

But the point still stands that this pandemic is causing a shortage in resources for our healthcare industries, whether it's negative air flow rooms, labour or supplies. Hospitals don't have teams of waiting doctors or nurses, or ICU's, in case a pandemic occurs. These resources are being overwhelmed by coronavirus thus causing shortages elsewhere. In Canada they've started asking retired healthcare workers back into the workforce to assist, while in Spain they expedited medical student exams so they could start working.

Never said the healthcare system isn't being strained. My wife originally got one N95 mask per shift. Now she gets one a week. They have to keep them in a bag and reuse them all week. One of her co-workers has already tested positive.

I was just pointing out there's a difference between med surg hospitalizations and Covid hospitalizations. A lot of nurses on the med surg floor are being let go because they just don't need them. A lot of them aren't trained for ICU so you just can't move them over.

[Jyeatbvg]

The weather ain't that nice around here right now. Which is making this quarantine even worse. Besides a couple nice days here and there it's been pretty ****ty weather. Today is 40 and rain all day.

We had our first nice day this past weekend and this was the result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/com...his_afternoon/

[SoutheastBeast1]

JY why am I giving up the best player and the highest draft pick in that offer?

Lmao this looks like a Bateman offer

[Jyeatbvg]

The biggest problem with this virus is that you don’t even know if you fukkin have it for up to two weeks. If it was like the normal flu and you were sick when you felt like sh*t it’d be easy enough to deal with. America has a stupid low average number of hospital beds per 1000 people or whatever the rating is and with 350 million people + a two week asymptomatic virus that fukkers up your lungs that’s a bad combo. We aren’t built to handle pandemics.

Also this sh*t is so weird. I see so many out of shape people walking and biking and hiking now. Like these fat fukks weren’t on their ass watching TV all day every day after work pre quarantine. All the sudden they’re like oh gee guess I’ll enjoy the GOAT Arizona spring weather for the first time in my life. Normally I’d be happy people were enjoying the outdoors but there’s too much foot traffic on my favorite mountain bike trails. Go back inside fatties.

One of my side hobbies is gardening (come at me m8s it’s relaxing) and I’ve got a fukk ton of tomato and all sorts of pepper seedlings going, I’ll send my A League boys salsa and pasta sauce rations to make it through a baseball-less summer. If you guys have space start growing some random sh*t, it unlocks some peaceful caveman seratonin/dna. I go out back 2-3x a day for a break to play with the dogs and then dick around in the garden for a bit. Will help keep your sanity. Bacon you can grow some spaghetti squash and use them as kettle/dumbbells just drill in a handle.

Gonna be weird not seeing the teams we drafted play. The forgotten season of 2020.

Gonna hold you to this brah - pasta sauce has been flying off shelves here. Would kill to be in AZ/Utah right about now - biking dem trails in Moab specifically would be the best quarantine activity.

[SteezeFactory]

Gonna hold you to this brah - pasta sauce has been flying off shelves here. Would kill to be in AZ/Utah right about now - biking dem trails in Moab specifically would be the best quarantine activity.

Moab is straight up shut down to non residents last I saw because they don't the medical facilities needed if their town gets hit hard, my dad and I were gonna go there in mid April to rock crawl with my land cruiser at a big jeep event but that's all fukked. But still have plenty of places in AZ we can hit. I've done 2/3 of 'the whole enchilada' at Moab with a buddy (top third was snowed out), such a beautiful backdrop to bike at with great trails.

And might be a few months before they're actually producing enough to make some but if I get enough for a batch I'll send ya some brah. If you can get roma tomatoes, heavy whipping cream and basil and also have olive oil/garlic/salt/pepper/chili powder/cayenne powder that's basically all you need to make a good recipe. Bunch of olive oil in a pan on med heat while you slice roma tomatoes in half (hotdog direction boiii). Put them soft side/skinless side down into the olive oil once it's hot and throw salt/pepper on the top and mince garlic over them. Cook for prob 5-10 mins until the bottoms get soft, flip them over, more s&p and garlic on top for another 5 mins or so until they get soft. Once both sides are cooked and soft you crush/mush them up - I have a plastic utensil specifically made to crush them up (https://www.amazon.com/Pampered-Chef.../dp/B0011UFPXU) which I would suggest getting chit is handy.

After they're crushed you can pour in some heavy cream (I just eyeball it, probably a couple tablespoons worth, it'll turn it orange), chili powder, cayenne (if you like some extra heat) and then more salt/pepper/olive oil if needed. Let it cook a few more mins, mix that sht up and bam. It's delicious. Friend of mine who used to be a chef showed me that recipe after a bike pub crawl like 6 years ago and I've been making it since. Anything involving tomatoes just needs olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and it will be good lol.

I made this lil appetizer yesterday as well https://youtu.be/4arNJoJ98Og and it was delicious and I'm usually not a big tomato by themselves fan. GF and I usually go to mellow mushroom for happy hour because it's cheap AF and they have great wings/apps, so I'm gonna make that bread, hot wings and have Abita Purple Haze for at home happy hour. We love korean bbq and recently learned how to make our 3 favorite dishes at home, so that's coming in clutch too.

[SoutheastBeast1]

“I ain’t seen the Braves play a game all year”

No truer words spoken for 2020

[SteezeFactory]

“I ain’t seen the Braves play a game all year”

No truer words spoken for 2020

What about '2020 will result in bacon's highest placing Misc A-League finish since 2014 if the season gets canceled'

[SoutheastBeast1]

What about '2020 will result in bacon's highest placing Misc A-League finish since 2014 if the season gets canceled'

At least I can point to a year where I’d have a higher finish still, even if it is 2014.

Tied for first would be a new high for nearly all of you, yourself included

[SpeedDemon9]

They said if people didn't follow the guidelines deaths would range 100k-200k

Still not very overwhelming


Hospitals don't need 5 months to get their sh*t together and keep up pace. That's pathetic. It shouldn't take more than 6 weeks to give them the space they need to ramp up and handle the rest when it opens back up. This August talk is horsesh*t.

It’s another way to keep the economy wrecked before the election.

[propreffered7]

i dont think this is going to get THAT much worse. i dont believe america's testing is that far off. while infections will increase they're increasing significantly less than predictions

peak will be like 2 weeks away, and in theory if everybody is isolated. that should leave most of the sick isolated as sick themselves and or recovered. huge problem would be if reinfected and no immunity

but i would have to imagine by that point since spread is less.. the people who are healthy are only ones interacting with each other. i guess it depends on what they do with the infected. are they allowed to commingle? that could be bad. however, if immune the spread should be less

i also dont think baseball will be done for the year. these owners want money. too bad idk all the intricacies in regard to stadium funding, employee payments, contractual obligations, marketing, etc.

are baseball players being paid right now? is that money coming out of the owners pockets? cause if so, that's a huge burden on the owners, no? just constantly losing money

simultaneously baseball players could be getting fuked if they're not being paid

that whole contract chit with players like mookie and the dodgers trading for him is messy as fuk

[Jyeatbvg]

i dont think this is going to get THAT much worse. i dont believe america's testing is that far off. while infections will increase they're increasing significantly less than predictions

peak will be like 2 weeks away, and in theory if everybody is isolated. that should leave most of the sick isolated as sick themselves and or recovered. huge problem would be if reinfected and no immunity

but i would have to imagine by that point since spread is less.. the people who are healthy are only ones interacting with each other. i guess it depends on what they do with the infected. are they allowed to commingle? that could be bad. however, if immune the spread should be less

i also dont think baseball will be done for the year. these owners want money. too bad idk all the intricacies in regard to stadium funding, employee payments, contractual obligations, marketing, etc.

are baseball players being paid right now? is that money coming out of the owners pockets? cause if so, that's a huge burden on the owners, no? just constantly losing money

simultaneously baseball players could be getting fuked if they're not being paid

that whole contract chit with players like mookie and the dodgers trading for him is messy as fuk

lol you mean peak in NYC is 2 weeks away. This thing is going to hit every corner of both our countries and peak at varying times. Some major cities only have a few cases still.

I think there's a chance there's baseball this year still but only for the players to get paid, and games would have to be played without fans. If we don't see games by September it's looking forward to 2021 IMO.

[SoutheastBeast1]

lol you mean peak in NYC is 2 weeks away. This thing is going to hit every corner of both our countries and peak at varying times. Some major cities only have a few cases still.

I think there's a chance there's baseball this year still but only for the players to get paid, and games would have to be played without fans. If we don't see games by September it's looking forward to 2021 IMO.

No boyo.... he means the US as a country will peak in two weeks exactly like he said.

Get your fear mongering facts straight.

Taken right from CNN

“The model, which is updated regularly, predicts that 224,000 hospital beds -- 61,000 more than we'll have -- will be needed on April 15, when the US is estimated to reach "peak resource use."”

[propreffered7]

lol you mean peak in NYC is 2 weeks away. This thing is going to hit every corner of both our countries and peak at varying times. Some major cities only have a few cases still.

I think there's a chance there's baseball this year still but only for the players to get paid, and games would have to be played without fans. If we don't see games by September it's looking forward to 2021 IMO.

my job was shut down like march 14th when the cdc guidelines shut down gatherings of 10 people or more. same with my mother - who owns dance studios. and that was schools too

so, ive been in "isolation" quite a bit. but yea, there are some ****s who haven't listened. but i do think it was more taken care of 2 weeks ago.

i know britain was retarded and didn't shut down, but i think # of cases for u.s. will peak, rather, i guess we're talking rate of infection will peak in 2 weeks. the # of cases total will obviously still keep increasing. as that only takes 1 more

in 2 weeks we SHOULD have been at a month of shutting down everything but essential businesses

[saaltydog]

According to the new projections there will be less than 100 deaths per day by June 9th. 10 deaths per day by July. At what point do we say this is enough and get back to something that resembles normalcy? What's the acceptable amount? 100 deaths per day is not that much when looking at other causes of death.

If we can't watch baseball because 100 deaths per day fuuuck

[SoutheastBeast1]

I don't really give a sh*t about baseball. You want to ban large gatherings of thousands upon thousands until August or September? F*cking go for it.

But they gotta open up the day to day businesses. I know people work at those stadiums and big events too but shutting those things down for a summer won't tank the economy. The issue is we're too scared to let people go to restaurants that maybe hold a couple hundred people at once. GTFO with that sh*t. Those types of places need to all be opened end of April or the people need to start rioting.

[SoutheastBeast1]

At what point do we start questioning wtf is going on?.

I'm not one to agree with conspiracy theorists but it's hard not to think something is off at the moment.

Sweden is just chilling not doing jack sh*t with restrictions and they've only got 4k cases and 100 deaths total... LMAO

And their first reported case was January 30th same as UK. So what gives? Germany as 71,000 cases and these countries are legit just a stones throw away from one another