Maestro is reading the aviation charts and listening to the radio chatter and deciphering all signals intelligence.

The Marlins, who delayed their flight home due to positive COVID-19 tests, are apparently going to be stuck in Philadelphia a little while longer because their charter has now been cancelled:

Maestro and I have some differing views on the Coronavirus in 2020, but I agree with his “this why you need a bubble take.”

Reason being, the bubble allows for containment and easy quarantine, while flying around the country obviously does not. Major League Soccer had similar issues to MLB when starting up earlier this month, and when a pair of teams had a rash of positive tests, they simply sent those teams home and restructured the “MLS is Back” tournament to accommodate 24 teams instead of 26 teams.

It’s similar in the NBA, where Richaun Holmes and Lou Williams are being quarantined for breaking the rules as we strive to keep intact this bubble integrity. You can’t exactly send the Marlins home right now, and because teams are travelling all over the place, we can’t create a pseudo-hermetically-sealed central environment.


In my opinion, the only safe way to proceed is to have the Marlins forfeit their weekend wins and the Phillies’ record is adjusted to 3-0.