{"id":1113,"date":"2020-07-29T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2020-07-29T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:54:21","slug":"more-than-half-of-mlb-fans-think-the-season-should-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of MLB Fans Think the Season Should Be Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Major League Baseball has temporarily suspended<\/a> the Miami Marlins’<\/strong> season, after half the team<\/a> tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically, their season has only been paused through this Sunday . . . but it’s unclear how they’d be able to resume next week, considering previous players who have tested positive have been sidelined for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally, this will cause all kinds of scheduling issues . . . and thanks to the compact, shortened season, it seems unlikely that they’d be able to make up more than a week’s worth of games.  So there are a lot of unanswered questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans were THRILLED to have sports back last week, but COVID-19 has already tempered that excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a new poll<\/a> of 1,000 baseball fans, 56% say they should just shut down the season, while roughly a third (35%) say they shouldn’t.  And about 9% aren’t sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For what it’s worth, there’s a RUMOR<\/a> that the Marlins outbreak may have been caused by a few players who went out partying in Atlanta just before the season began.  There’s nothing official on that though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball has temporarily suspended the Miami Marlins’ season, after half the team tested positive for COVID-19. Technically, their season has only been paused through this Sunday . . . but it’s unclear how they’d be able to resume next week, considering previous players who have tested positive have been sidelined for at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Getty_114198625511.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}