News: MLS Suspends season due to Coronavirus

Liverpool is truly cursed.

 

(Ismitje leaves his house in Pullman WA one day for work in Moscow ID, is prevented from returning home.)

 

You may have hit upon the one positive for preventing travel into WA.

 

I told you all for years Seattle, and the state of Washington in general, was the devil.


Y’all didn’t believe me.

 

Preventing anyone from experiencing Pullman? You have a point...

That must make Oregon purgatory...

 

To answer a question up thread, the players will continue to train, according to Fleming and Balboa. Nice series of videos discussing the situation:

Earlier today, @MLS announced that it too is suspending league play due to the coronavirus. @FlemingSport and @MarceloBalboa17 discuss. 1/3#Rapids96 https://t.co/ZGQasAegGJ

— AltitudeTV (@AltitudeTV) March 12, 2020

 

Meanwhile:

 

The Sports Landscape is starting to resemble central Siberia.....just after the Tunguska Event

 

The PGA just tapped put

 

The pga tour suspended their events through at least April 5th

 

Nope.

Breaking: The PGA Tour announced it has canceled The Players Championship. pic.twitter.com/g1WgeycF5h

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 13, 2020

 

Not the way I imagined it but I'll take it! xD

On that note, yesterday the US did a total of 8 tests....for the whole country.
University of Washington can do 4,000 tests a day if the feds let them. At some point they need to just say "we're taking care of our own, we're testing."

 

That makes me wonder, how would they even enforce that? Like if you drove from Idaho would you encounter National Guard at the border? It's easier to seal off Western Washington than the whole state.

 

Im an idiot. I didnt even notice it lol

also for completeness sake

WWE is doing Smackdown from their training center tomorrow and All Elite is pulled off the road for the next couple of weeks and will do their wednesday show at their home office in Jacksonville.

 

Indycar and NASCAR are the last hold outs. They plan on racing without fans at the tracks.

 

What about F1? Australian Grand Prix was scheduled for this weekend.

 

Its off too

 

Training moratorium for MLS until Monday:
https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/mls-mandates-training-moratorium-until-monday-for-all-teams/

 

One of the McLaren crew members tested positive, so F1 had to cancel. They'll almost certainly cancel the races in Bahrain and Vietnam too. (And that's gotta be a disaster for the Vietnam organizers, having their first race cancelled. Hope it doesn't ruin their chances going forward.)

As for the Aussies, cancelling it as people are standing in line waiting to get in is pretty uncool. Likely the correct decision, but the timing was just awful. Almost as bad as cancelling a basketball game at halftime.

 

Im not losing money. Im just not spending it someplace else.

The amount of money businesses I interacted with occasionally might be significant to them. Not me.

Thx,

Jay!