Mets-Nationals Opening Day game postponed due to coronavirus

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The Mets’ new era will have to wait a bit to get started. Thursday night’s scheduled opener in D.C. is being postponed because of positive coronavirus tests on the Nationals, MLB announced. The game won’t be played on Friday’s scheduled off day either.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the game will not be made up on Friday,” the league said in a statement that pinned the postponement on “ongoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals organization.”

A Nationals player tested positive on Wednesday, knocking out four other players due to contact tracing. Another Washington player may have tested positive on Thursday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-opening-day-covid-postponed-20210401-gwdlooty3jchvaxxzeoqawkq2u-story.html

[NightWatcher]

1. Everyone should've been vaccinated by Spring Training

Not jumping anyone in line, they could've been covered and we wouldn't be dealing with postponements.

[dem4decades]

2. In one way I agree but are you saying an elderly person should wait so a baseball player can be

protected? That's a tough call, the rich first?

[NightWatcher]

3. No, the age limits have been dropped most places (that I know of). There's other ways.

I've got mine (45 years old) and so have my family with the exception of my kid.

There are places around here that were begging people to show up before they had to throw them away. Each team could hang out at Publix and CVS throughout Spring Training and they'd be good by now.

[pwb]

4. If trump didn't call the pandemic a hoax all games would be full.

So there's that.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Now MLB has postponed the entire series.