Because of a positive COVID-19 test in the Minnesota Twins organization, Saturday’s game has been postponed. The state of Sunday’s game is still unknown.
Tonight’s scheduled game between the Angels and the Twins at Angel Stadium has been postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing involving members of the Twins organization. Major League Baseball will continue to provide updates as available.
— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) April 17, 2021
Does anyone know if you are allowed to bring small bottles of water into the stadium???
The COVID protocols don’t say one way or another.
https://www.mlb.com/angels/ballpark/information/2021-health-safety-protocols
I think you can if they are factory sealed.
Thanks!
Bundy pitching tomorrow
OHTANI pitching Tuesday, probably batting
Quintana wednesday, Shohei probably not batting.
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Tim Mead news…
https://halohangout.com/2021/04/18/la-angels-tim-mead-steps-down-hall-of-fame-president/
Huh. Alrighty then.
“Family issues” has been used plenty of times before to allow a graceful exit when something has happened causing unexpected departure, hopefully it truly is just that.
Hmmmm, I wonder if some news is going to break in relation to the Tyler Skaggs death, investigation, and court proceedings. I sure hope Tim Mead had no knowledge of anything in regards to that mess.
Was my exact thought but didn’t want to say it.
1st thing to cross my mind too. That’s too bad. Mead is a good guy.
That would sure explain it.
I guess Mead’s last day at the HOF isn’t going to be until sometime in May so any adverse news in the Eric Kay/Tyler Skaggs case must not be too imminent.
I think the tell tale sign is what happens to Tim after his May departure. If he takes another high profile job with Arte or someone else in the near future back in the southland this is much ado about nothing. But, since I don’t sense he is ready for retirement, an indefinite hiatus would certainly be telling.
This Dodgers/Padres series has been just fantastic baseball. Gonna be a must watch rivalry.
A blacked out rivalry for me.
Take to the high seas, matey
Dodgers were lucky to escape with two wins. It could have easily gone the other way.
Angels will credit your account for tickets purchased off angels.com. For postponed games. Not even waiting for make you date or cancellation.
If you buy third party you could get screwed. Angels will refund original ticket purchaser and it’s up to you to get money back. Stubhub/geekseat were still selling tickets to today’s game but I’m sure credit you back.
You could have even received tickets for Saturday or today’s game(s) via Craigslist, another app and just be out of luck if seller doesn’t get back you.
Just FYI.
let’s go, Padres!
The baseball world is going to be centered in SoCal this year. So fun.
Twins also postponed for tomorrow’s Oakland game
Twins most likely postponed for 10 days or so.
Wow. Rescheduling nightmare for sure.
They should just have them forfeit the games. It sucks for them but rescheduling will be unbelievably difficult.
If you can’t field a team, then why isn’t the game forfeited? At some point the league will run out of available dates to reschedule – or they will need to push the regular season deeper into the fall. Is this about owners “needing” $$ from ticket sales?
Tend to agree. Why should the Angels be penalized as a team by being forced to play extra games in an already crowded summer calendar? This f’s up our bullpen and our pitching in general..,
Plus, we miss the opportunity to play the Twins without Buxton and Simmons. They SHOULD have to forfeit since THEY were the cause of the cancellation. We should have W’s for 4/17 and 4/18 !!!
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/04/twinsangels-game-postponed-due-to-covid-19-issues.html
Here’s the latest. 4 cases within Twins clubhouse. All of them variant cases. That’s not fantastic news. Hopefully they will do well as the players are likely vaxxed. That’s a high concentration of people getting the variant while vaxxed.
MLB Trade Rumors mentioned that the Twins are 85% vaccinated, but it takes 14 days for full immunity. Looks like they got the virus not too long after the shot.
Jim do you have a link for that info? I can’t find it.
As for the timeline- what are you basing your belief on regarding these specific players and when they were vaccinated?
By the way we know Simmons was not vaxxed because he has stated on social media (before getting Covid) that he refuses to do so. What an idiot endangering his teammates.
Sorry, it was the Athletic. 82%, not 85.
https://theathletic.com/2526525/2021/04/18/twins-series-with-angels-canceled-amid-minnesotas-covid-19-outbreak/
Calling him an idiot is a bit harsh.
Not in my opinion. A team is like a community. Simmons owed it to his teammates to get vaccinated to protect himself and them. I realize I have very strong opinions on this and find anyone who is refusing to get vaccinated- from a professional baseball player who puts his teammates at risk to a member of society that puts others of risk – to be an idiot. Let me restate that IDIOT. I have heard excuses ranging from there being microchips to cleaning products in the vaccine; from Bill Gates to Big Government following you. It’s all conspiracy bullshit. Anyone who buys into this conspiracy crap needs to have their head examined.
I would hate to be microchipped and have Big Gov and Bill Gates following me.
I also carry a phone with me everywhere!
Ha! True
Look, if the US government and/or Bill Gates wants to monitor my life, go ahead. They’ll see a lot of me doing accounting, coaching Little League, and watching sitcoms with my wife. I don’t think they’re going to find it worthwhile.
Our cats and dogs are microchipped, but they always lose their phones.
Uh Huh . A vaccine that was developed in record time with limited overseas clinical trials utilizing genetic engineering techniques that there is absolutely ZERO data on long term effects to our health including our nervous system & reproductive organs?
Shouldn’t athletes who are still in their physical prime and may not have even started a family yet be given the choice whether or not to take the vaccine? And why waste anyone’s time talking about the maintenance vitamin regiments and therapeutics that have proven to be extremely reliable in preventing and treating the virus?
But I’m sure You’re right they should all just roll up their sleeps and smile while they get their little pin prick. How dare they try to take away our daily entertainment watching a silly little game with small white hard ball and stick of wood played on a freshly manicured green field. Just STFU & DAQ’s!
Sorry – I’m too busy listening to some other guy telling me the world is flat.
Look, I advocate approaching any vaccine with skeptic caution, and I reflexively rebel against social pressure. But in this case, I say that it is a civic responsibility to get vaccinated. There may be ZERO data on long term effects to our health from these vaccines, but there is greater than zero data on the possible long term effects to our health from COVID-19 infection. Thus, there is less risk from the vaccine than there is from the illness, according to current data.
I am not scared about COVID-19 personally, although I should be because of my health situation and the fact that I am regularly in the company of health professionals.
I am terrified that I might pass it on to someone who might find it fatal. That’s why I got vaccinated at the first opportunity.
PEOPLE CAN DIE FROM COVID-19. And they have. So get vaccinated, for goodness’ sake.
So wTF is the point of skeptic caution when you claim we all have a civic responsibility to get the vaccine? Does that mean we can close our eyes when they jam the needle into our arm?
Yes. Close your eyes and get the jab. Fall backwards and help society. It’s time to think broader than individual concerns or suspicions. Think of this as war. To do your part for society – get vaccinated. The worries you expressed are the stuff of social media threads. These vaccines were able to be created quickly because they were built on the collective knowledge of the last 2 decades.
Yes like the war we are now abandoning in Afghanistan and Iraq after almost 20 years at the cost of Trillions of dollars and thousand and thousands of human lives? Please spare me “for the good of society” bullshit.
I can certainly respect your opinion regarding the vaccine. If you want to blindly follow the government and the medicinal industrial complex (et al) thats your business. You don’t know any more than the next guy regarding the long term ( or short term ) effectiveness of these vaccines or any other therapeutic as it relates to the virus. So stop trying to force the “its your Civic duty” obligation down everyone’s throat. People are intelligent enough on their own to make proper decisions when provided all of the facts. Its this kind of Woke “we know whats good for you” mindset that is now ripping this country apart.
Well I understand and respect your perspective. We just disagree. Science, public health and vaccines have nothing to do with “woke” culture in my opinion. It has mistakenly been included by many who attempt to argue against getting the vaccine- in fact it’s a rallying cry. The idea that personal freedoms appear to be in jeopardy by a cancel-culture is something completely different from the vaccine question. But it is being lumped into personal freedoms- like it’s my right not to be jabbed! Except that’s where I completely disagree. I think there are times where personal freedoms give way to the greater good. That is why I used the war analogy and I should have said World War. Young men willingly made the ultimate sacrifice in the 40s and for that we have dubbed that generation the ‘greatest’. They thought of society and were willing to do what was best for it. Is there a leap of faith here – yes. Must we trust institutions that have arguably not necessarily earned our trust – yes. That’s what the greater good and science is all about.
I hate cancel culture. I don’t like many of the things going on in society. But I feel these vaccines are revolutionary and I trust the scientists who spent decades training and researching with only scientific endeavor and public health as their motivator. I trust them not the big companies. Just like I trust the airline pilot not the airline company.
I have heard and understand the argument you put forward. I respectfully think it’s one of convenience and puts ‘me’ in front of ‘we’.
There is such a thing as civic responsibility, regardless of whether the concept has been abused.
I don’t want to get into an argument with anyone. But let me be clear. I am not claiming that we all have a civic responsibility to get vaccinated. I am stating it. It’s my opinion. If you disagree, that’s fine. I do understand your objections. All I’m saying is that the COVID-19 vaccines survived my skeptical caution.
Today’s game is postponed as well, rescheduling them is going to be difficult not to mention that it will mess with the rotation. On the bright side, the Halos are alone in first place.
Seven-inning doubleheader at some point means we might actually see a complete game from one of our starters though.
We have a starter who can go 7 innings? Unpossible.
I think the only way these games get made up is part of 2 double headers during the Angels visit to Target field July 22nd through 25th. So it looks like we will have twin Twin City twin billings against the Twins but don’t worry, we’ll be the home team for 1/2 of these games.
Now that they can have fans in the stands, I’m not sure what the rules are for providing a home town advantage for the visiting team other than having them bat last ( As we all found out about last year with Victor’s premature walk off call) Will they prevent the fans in the stands for these makeup games to root for the “visiting team” ? I guess it will be like Angel home games when the MFY or the Chowds and their annoying fans come to town. And what other advantages do the interim home teams get? Do we get our own ground rules ( I hope they leave the yellow line back in Anaheim) or what about the players walk up music ? Do only the Angel players get their tunes and not the Twins?
There needs to be rules for these things.
This is NOT fair. Unless they keep fans out of our “home” games at Target Field.
And even if they did keep fans out (which I doubt they’ll do since ownership loses ticket and concession revenues) we still won’t have the “home cooking” intangible advantages of playing in Anaheim.This is above and beyond the crowd.
Manfred is a horrible Commish if he allows this to happen. As Bluto said the Twins should have to forfeit.
To be fair The Angels will be taking advantage of some of this unfairness themselves when the Blue Jays come to Anaheim in August as the home team to make up last Sunday’s Florida rainout.
Good point. And the Jays should complain about that. But that was due to a rain out and not someone on the other team coming down with COVID due in part to their own negligence. So the context of the reschedule is a little different…
Well technically it was due to the COVID. The Blue Jays were forced to play at their spring training facility instead of their Weather proof domed stadium because of the Canadian government’s draconian rules.
Yes, but the game we had scheduled with them and did not play was due to an incessant thunder storm. Sure not our fault.
Another bright – not “side” but “thing”: I now see Ohtani penciled in to start on Tuesday against TEX. Guys testing positive and games cancelled: BAD; Blister Report: GOOD.
Here’s the wierd thing – aren’t the players vaccinated? I’m feeling very unsettled about the reality of the protection gained from vaccination.
If the vaccine stances among MLB players are anything like the Marine Corps (relatively similar demo – lots of young jocks) then maybe not. It only takes a few to cause a problem.
Also possible they’re having the same difficulty getting it most are. Some could be between doses when they’re still susceptible, etc.
Big yikes stats. My (Army) recruiting station has 13 people… only 4 people volunteered to get the vaccine (myself being one of them). Three of those who said no previously had Covid. Wild stuff.
Could be due to variants that aren’t as well shielded by the vaccines that were designed a year ago. The CDC tracks these cases and calls them breakthrough infections. So far they’ve identified about 6000 breakthrough infections out of 77M fully vaccinated people. About 30% of those were entirely asymptomatic, and most of the rest were very mild. In cases where the vaccine doesn’t prevent infection, it still helps prevent severe illness and speeds up recovery.
I was going to my first Angels game in over 18 months tomorrow. My boys were bringing their friends, we had bags of peanuts and boxes of crackerjack ready to go. And now nothing.
I am pretty damn frustrated.
I’m doubting they will play tomorrow.
Me too. But you can still buy tickets
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-vs-angels/2021/04/18/634441#game_state=preview,lock_state=preview,game_tab=,game=634441
Anybody planning on going to the game should call before making the trip. It’s likely tomorrow is canceled too.
Why? If the COVID was in the Twins clubhouse and all Angels players test negative tomorrow morning there is no reason the Texas game should not be played…
I meant today’s – meaning Sunday’s game. Didn’t realize it was Sunday when I wrote that.
Are we certain it’s a Twins issue only?
Stubhub still has them for sale.
I’m so pissed. Drove my family 3 hours to the stadium and they turned us right around. Couldn’t MLB have notified people more than an hour and a half before game time? Really not cool.
On the bright side, they did NOT lose tonight.
I’d rather see them lose than waste 6 hours driving
I hear you. Not only was the ball dropped on that (although I don’t know what they could’ve done different) but I don’t know what they’re going to do for make ups/refund. I should’ve known something was up when Minn didn’t release their lineup.
Seems like they could have notified people through the MLB app they make you use to get tickets.
Totallly agree. If they are testing it should be early in the day or morning for just this reason. They should NEVER cancel a game 90 mins before the first pitch like they did yesterday.
This is totally inexcusable.
https://twitter.com/TaylorBlakeWard/status/1383608018395226113
It seems like there are more Covid cases around the two leagues this year than last year.
That’s a reflection (in my opinion) of a false sense of security over the status of the pandemic.
Phew, that was a close one. We were all almost exposed to Covid watching the game on TV. Thank science we’re saved! I didn’t see any of Garlicks at bats last night so Covid didn’t leach into my rods and cones that way either.
What we need is team branded hazmat suites….. or we could be more stylish AND more obviously submissive and compliant if they made team branded BDSM gimp suits. Keep that mouth zipper zipped if you really care about Covid. Nothing keeps you safe from super spreaders like a latex body suit…. and they’re durable, so Cali can bring back Covid restrictions again and again for years and we won’t need a new one.
Is there a T-Spring for body suits?
Bro, no one calls it Cali. GTFO
People who are too lazy to type out the whole word do. Those same people are too lazy to GTFO too. What’s next? I can’t call LA La La Land? Can’t call SF Frisco? We should start calling Fresno F’ NO.
No.
No.
We totally should. Fresno sucks.
I drop in a “Frisco” line every so often just to needle my wife who is from NorCal.
Fresno, city of light, city of magic!
Hey, my nephew went to Fresno St.!!!!
You should pick up the new book by “Dr. Rick” from the Progressive commercials. We need it to keep up with these “young whipper snappers”
that constantly change the language. He goes over it in chapter 8,
“We all see it….We all see it…”
Blue Hair!
“Do you need a ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign in your house?”
You saying you have an extra you’d like to give me?
LOL
Whatever shall we call that city in Colombia, then?
Or my least favorite flower?
Big fan of Profar tonight.
You’d think with everything going electronic (ballpark app for tickets, food orders, parking) that there would be a way it could notify you that your event is postponed. I don’t even care the reason.