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A disaster in progress, MLB's 2020 season might depend on the next twist

The current plan, according to ESPN, for the coronavirus-quarantined Miami Marlins is to have all of the team’s infected players, coaches and staffers board a few sleeper buses in Philadelphia, where they’ve been holed up since they began testing positive nearly a week ago. They would then embark on a lengthy (17 hours at least) ride back to South Florida ... which, of course, is about to be hit by a hurricane.

They said the coronavirus would kill the summer movie blockbuster but here comes something out of a Jerry Bruckheimer production for everyone to watch, free and in realtime … a bus full of infected people, in the middle of a global pandemic, barrel into a natural disaster.