There was talk of moving games to alternate sites if the coronavirus impacted opening day around Major League Baseball
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00:00 Opening day is two weeks away, Mets fans, but Citi Field won't be the stadium rocking.
00:07 Instead, it could be Clover Park in Port St. Lucie.
00:11 Reportedly, Commissioner Rob Manfred is meeting with different teams
00:17 and looking at the possibility of alternative sites for opening day,
00:23 with Seattle being struck the hardest by this coronavirus outbreak.
00:28 The idea has been that teams will return to their spring training facility
00:33 in Arizona or in Florida to host opening day.
00:38 While certainly it's not an ideal situation for anyone,
00:42 and baseball fans would look forward to a packed house with all the fanfare,
00:47 it certainly is a better solution than what the NBA has adopted with empty arenas.
00:53 But then again, MLB has the luxury of falling back on their spring training facilities,
00:59 while the NBA has no other choice.
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