Let’s you and I talk about this Miami Marlins / MLB COVID-19 debacle

July 28, 2020 | by Eric B. Meyer

By Miami Marlins – https://www.mlb.com/marlins, Public Domain, Link

And by “you and I,” I mean “me and Jon Hyman.”

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story entitled, “Miami Marlins’ Virus Outbreak Throws MLB’s Pandemic Season Into Turmoil.” Among other things, it was reported that Miami Marlins players decided to play baseball this past Sunday against the Philadelphia Phillies despite several other Marlins players having recently contracted COVID-19.

Could you imagine a bunch of your employees taking it upon themselves to come to work knowing that they may have been exposed to COVID-19? Yeah, me neither.

So, last night, Jon Hyman and I chatted on Zoom for a few minutes about it. Here’s the video.

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