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Major League Baseball was not the first American profe sional sports league to return to play during the pandemic when it started the 2020 season on July 23. By then, both the National Women's Soccer League and Major League Soccer had gotten tournaments off the ground. Since Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered the ceremonial first pitch, the Women's and Men's National Basketball A sociations, as well as the National Hockey League, have all lit their candles.What was, and what MLB remains, is the only of those leagues to take its show on the road. The other five have not sent their clubs traveling to and fro acro s the country ( ). Instead, they have been tucked away in secured bubbles. The WNBA, , and MLS made their homes in various parts of Florida; the NWSL held a tournament in Utah; and the is off and skating in Canada, which has a better handle on the pandemic than the United States does.It is perhaps not a coincidence, then, that MLB is the Brandon Graham Jersey only one of those leagues whose resumption has become endangered. Last week, commi sioner Rob Manfred reportedly told MLB Players A sociation head Tony Clark that the season could be scrapped soon if the COVID-19 situation didn't improve. Manfred's warning came after the had suffered an outbreak, but before the St. Louis had engendered one of their own. The season was not canceled on Monday, a presumed potential stopping point by those privy to the conversation. Whatever spirit that had inhibited Manfred days earlier was gone by the weekend, when he told Milton Williams Jersey ESPN's Karl Ravech that, among other things,Maybe not, but Manfred is the overseer of a league that has had, in two weeks' time, two COVID-19 outbreaks; that has had to sideline 20 percent of the league due to those outbreaks (or related complications); that has a team who is unable to enter its host country; that has seen more and more veteran players instead of playing on; and that has already seen lost for the season due to the heart ailment developed because of a bout with COVID. Manfred may not have plans to quit, but perhaps he has regrets. Between MLB's season teetering on the edge and the comparable succe s of the other American sports league, it's fair to wonder: did MLB err by eschewing a bubble? CBS Sports spent the past week asking various MLB front-office types what they thought. Here's what came from those conversations.It's important to remember that MLB did consider the bubble concept. A month into the pandemic, . MLB would have had teams stationed acro s Arizona, Texas, and Florida, ostensibly playing a regional schedule (similar to the current agreement) at various big-league and minor-league stadiums. MLB was said to have after the experienced an outbreak at their spring-training facilities in mid-June.The accepted explanation around the league is that the bubble concept was left on the drawing room floor because the players were not on board with the idea. One source, who indicated that the owners are responsible for much of what ails the league, said this aspect of the season falls on the players. Another nodded to the length of the season as a reason why players objected. A few players were vocal about their reservations, including , the outfielder who doubles as the sport's best player and de facto face." Being quarantined in a city, I was reading for -- if we play -- a couple of months, it would be difficult Genard Avery Jersey for some guys. What are you going to do with family members?" . " The mentality is that we want to get back as soon as we can. But it has to be realistic. It can't be sitting in our hotel rooms, and just going from the field to the hotel room and not being able to do anything. I think that's pretty crazy."The players' reluctance to leave their families behind for months at a time was understandable. So was their optimism that the country's pandemic response would allow for improved traveling conditions later in the year, paving the way for a season that was shorter but more conventional. "I think it would be a weird product on the field, guys wouldn't be as motivated, we'd be playing in 100 degrees in the summer of Arizona," pitcher . "Why don't we wait a month, get it to more of a safer place, and play a little bit le s games."Unfortunately, that hope was wasted. The pandemic was in a worse state when the league started play in July than when it shuttered operations nearly four months prior. There were 17,656 new positive tests nationwide on March 26, the originally scheduled Opening Day; comparatively, there were more than 33,021 positive tests on July 24, Opening Day 2.0, .The league and its owners were not responsible for the pandemic's re-ignition. What they were responsible for was the seemingly disproportionate amount of time that was spent on finances Boston Scott Jersey instead of health protocols. (Even now, the two sides are having to play catch-up on seemingly obvious manners, like the hiring and installation of compliance officers.) They were responsible, too, for creating an untrusting, confrontational environment rather than the collaborative one shared by other leagues, wherein players were more accepting of the bubble. : how it, despite being a respiratory disease, affects the pulmonary system; how it is more likely to spread through the air than on surfaces; how it incubates, with better estimates on the lag time between infection and contagion, between infection and a positive test, and between infection and the onset of symptoms; and so on. All that additional information, plus lived experience, has led to some course-correction.Marlins outfielder , who was one of the 18 Miami players to test positive for COVID-19, suggested last week that MLB should consider changing lanes. "Right now a bubble is a good idea," , "that could avoid something like Miami's outbreak ."The majority of the front-office types surveyed by CBS Sports thought that a bubble was preferable, but not everyone in the game agrees that it was doable, or that it would've worked ( ). Independent of the players' consent, the main argument against the bubble's viability concerns logistics. MLB's needs are so different from other leagues, in terms of size and scope, that it is thought that a complex approach would not be feasible.There is some mathematical validity to this point. One NBA team's roster comprises 15 players; a complete MLB squad, the 30-player roster plus the alternate-site reserves, is 60. If a Patrick Johnson Jersey single MLB team equals four NBA teams, then the entire MLB would equate to about four whole NBAs. The intake proce s, where the players are tested upon arrival and then quarantined for a length before they're permitted to congregate and resume practice, would have required four times as many hotel rooms and beds, four times as many meals, and four times as much diligence."It would've been an incredibly ma sive undertaking," a National League executive said. Under the three-hub proposal, MLB would've split the teams and spread the demands. The league still would have had