The problem is that there were not objective standards put in place that took this decision out of Rob Manfred hands, it's simply it is, I don't want to say it's a lot to ask. I just know that. If you put this decision in the hands of people who are trying to decide whether now is the moment to quit, or whether 10 minutes from now is now the moment to quit. And then an hour later is now the moment to quit. It's you're going to get Boiling water, right? Like that's the way that you end up feeling too much pressure from the people that are already there to keep going. There's inertia, right? And it keeps you from making the decisions that are the right decisions. And I feel like not having those very clear and objective standards in place, both for a single game as the Marlins and Phillies had on Sunday, and for this season is like, I don't know, by pushing the decision to future versions of themselves, they almost guaranteed that a those decisions would would be too lax would be made lax and they made the decisions too hard for themselves. I think if they had had an objective set of criteria, it's quite possible that they would have gotten to summer camp and like whatever the criteria was, it probably would have involved community community incidents of the virus. And as we saw Florida and Arizona, and Texas and California cases go up. It's very possible that you Whatever standards they had set might have triggered the end of the season a couple days into summer camp, because that's when the spikes were happening. And once you saw them sort of not even acknowledging those spikes, and just keeping on going, you realized it was going to take something really extraordinary for them to pull the plug. It's hard. It's, I mean, it's gonna be really hard for Rob Manfred, at some point, to finally say, All right now We're shutting down the billion dollar industry and sending everyone home after a month, and that doesn't make it any less necessary or any less, right. It just it goes to show why it's so important that you kind of take it out of Rob, you know, Rob Manfred hands...
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