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MLB To Cancel Field Of Dreams Game

By Jeff Todd | August 3, 2020 at 2:56pm CDT

Major League Baseball has decided to cancel the “Field of Dreams Game” it had previously scheduled for August 13. The Cardinals and White Sox were supposed to square off in the famed Iowa cornfield.

The Cardinals are currently waiting to see just how bad an internal COVID-19 outbreak turns out to be. No matter how far it has spread, a significant portion of the team will be sidelined for some time and the organization will be forced to scramble to fill out a club.

While that would seem at first glance to be a rather important factor in the decision, Rosenthal says that wasn’t the driving force. Rather, it’s “a logistical problem,” per the report. It’s not entirely clear why those considerations are only now counseling in favor of cancellation, but it was undoubtedly a tricky undertaking even before the coronavirus pandemic hit.

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  1. Halo11Fan

    9 months ago

    I saw a commercial for that on Saturday and it made no sense to me to schedule that game.
    I’m glad MLB felt the same way.

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  2. baseballpun

    9 months ago

    Better headline: DREAMS CANCELLED

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    • CursedRangers

      9 months ago

      Next headline: SEASON CANCELLED

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    • DirtbagBlues

      9 months ago

      2020: The Year of Cancelled Dreams.

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      • woodguy

        9 months ago

        Amen to that

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  3. 83sox94win05

    9 months ago

    I guess Iowa doesn’t get their MLB game. I guess they can go ahead and plant some corn in the outfield and put the field to some use.

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    • baseballpun

      9 months ago

      Iowa is more than just corn. It’s also corn-based food and fuel products.

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      • JohhnyBets67

        9 months ago

        And farm equipment!

        Case!

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      • atlas bunts

        9 months ago

        #1 state for renewable energy

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  4. Mollysdad

    9 months ago

    Why do people keep screaming “cancel the season?!” when it’s all about two teams that can’t follow the same damn rules as everybody else.
    Why should a team like the Cubs cancel their season when they are doing everything right? They haven’t had a single case, David Ross is a leader and has his players under control.

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    • 83sox94win05

      9 months ago

      @Mollysdad

      Stop making sense. You’re only making it harder on yourself. They’re going to attack you like a pack of wolves. They hate common sense with a passion.

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      • Technically correct

        9 months ago

        Ease his pain

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      9 months ago

      Because there’s already two-teams with outbreaks 1 week into the season. I think it’s foolish to assume there won’t be more.

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      • Technically correct

        9 months ago

        Go the distance

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        • tedtheodorelogan

          9 months ago

          We should just ask James Earl Jones what he thinks should be done.

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        • Captain Dunsel

          9 months ago

          Why, join him in the dark side of the force, of course.

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    • smuzqwpdmx

      9 months ago

      The other teams aren’t doing anything right, they’re just lucky so far. Don’t know the Cubs, but just watching Blue Jays games, I see:
      – The entire starting rotation sitting in the stands chatting with each other the whole game, masks usually down, only one empty seat separating them and they’re usually draping arms over those seats or turning to face each other. One of them gets sick, they all go down.
      – Lourdes Gurriel Jr is literally the only player, coach or umpire I’ve seen using his mask in a way that does any good. The others are pulling it up and down so much it may even increase their infection chances from all the extra face touching.
      – Nobody at all (not even Gurriel) is making any effort to keep 6 feet distance in the dugout. Not even some of the time. Not even 3 feet distance, which would be enough to help.
      – Dante Bichette (coach) likes to wear his mask on his hands while gathering a group around him in the dugout to chat.
      – Managers are not staying 6 feet from umpires when going out to talk to them… partly because umpires like Joe West won’t let them.

      Every team I’ve seen, it’s evident that one infection will take out half their clubhouse. All those guidelines intended to prevent a single infection from spreading are worthless in the way they’re being semi-observed. The only chance a team has right now is for nobody to get sick, and in the absence of a strict bubble that’s largely luck.

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  5. Megatron2005

    9 months ago

    It should be a white Sox vs cubs game anyway.

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    • 83sox94win05

      9 months ago

      @Megatron2005

      Hopefully if they ever have this game, it will be Sox vs. Cubs. That matchup makes far more sense.

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  6. FSogol

    9 months ago

    If you build it, they will cough.

    Good move by MLB. Stay safe everyone.

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    • Captain Dunsel

      9 months ago

      Outstanding! Let’s hope they can Go The Distance.

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      • Losbravos69

        9 months ago

        Go the social distance… I’ll see myself out now

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  7. Hitnrun

    9 months ago

    MLB should start bubble preparations for playoffs immediately. If that works out then maybe go back to stadiums for series participants.

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  8. jdolan74

    9 months ago

    Field of Germs canceled? Not a huge shocker.

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