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NYDN: "Baseball Screwed Up Coronavirus Like It Screws Up Everything Else"

Bradford William Davis, New York Daily News:

Baseball Screwed Up Coronavirus Like It Screws Up Everything Else

As usual ... baseball waited as long as possible to do the right thing — suspending spring training and the first two weeks of the MLB season. The decision ... [came] later than every major American sports league's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The league can't feign ignorance about the coronavirus risks of packing thousands of people into a stadium. By its own admission, the MLB was in conversation with "with a wide range of public health experts, infectious disease specialists, and governmental agencies," including the Centers for Disease Control.