Anonymous Mets Player Has Wildly Ignorant Response About MLB Season Starting in Arizona Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Reports have emerged of Major League Baseball putting forth a radical plan to start the 2020 season in May and have games played exclusively in Arizona until further notice.

Some view it as realistic while others say it's too risky and dangerous. Some players have come out and said they were on board, but that hardly moves it forward considering this will need approval from medical experts. And we're thankful this one anonymous Mets player is NOT one of those experts.

One Mets player who asked not to be identified has concerns about the idea of 30 teams playing an entire summer in Arizona: "It's the desert," he said. "Stuff doesn't live there, it dies there."
— Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) April 7, 2020

What does that even mean?

Just because it's hot out doesn't mean all viruses die. Sure, certainly strains of viruses can't survive in the heat, but that's hardly the case with all of them. COVID-19 has already swept across the world, affecting people in all different types of climate. There's no definitive evidence, PER MEDICAL EXPERTS, that this strain of the coronavirus is significantly slowed by warmer weather.

The MLB and its players union discussed placing all 30 teams in the Phoenix area and playing at stadiums around the Valley.https://t.co/6ThgIViOfe
— 98.7 Arizona Sports (@AZSports) April 7, 2020

What we DO NOT need right now is players making uninformed remarks about the possibility of playing in Arizona with their "medical" insight. Follow the quarantine orders and wait for further direction from those who dedicate their lives to medicine. Thanks.