Brian Dozier is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

<p>Don’t get us wrong, we here at NCiB love us some <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/nationals/former-national-brian-dozier-helped-turn-cul-de-sac-neighborhood-sandlot">Brian Dozier</a>, and the community building he is doing in his neighborhood would be drink-worthy adorable if it wasn’t in the middle of a frickin’ pandemic. But it is, and it’s a great example of why a shortened MLB season outside of a BioBubble is way too risky. Plans are moving forward, with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/21/players-union-responds-mlb-health-safety-proposal-delayed-2020-baseball-season/">players’ union responding to the health and safety protocol</a> proposal, Governors weighing in on letting baseball happen under strict guidelines (and sneaking in a dig at the DH), and MLB scheduled to present their plan for the season to the union imminently. Right, and Homeland Security is allowing foreign athletes back into the US because “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-athletes/us-to-exempt-foreign-athletes-from-coronavirus-related-entry-bans-idUSKBN22Z03D">Americans need their sports</a>.”</p><p><br></p><p>Almost a week of breakfast baseball rainouts in Taiwan made us a little grumpy, but hey did you hear that the <a href="https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/59077/moonshot-what-a-taiwanese-juiced-baseball-scandal-can-tell-us/">CPBL tested their baseballs</a> MID-SEASON, and is correcting for the juiciness? Our <a href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200520000752315?section=sports/sports#none">cross-training segment</a> gets Pottymouth from Little League to sex dolls in about ten words. Turns out some of those mannequins in the fan-free stands at Korean soccer matches are actually sex dolls advertising an adult toy manufacturer. In Nicaragua, the tragic <a href="https://havanatimes.org/features/nicaraguas-baseball-finally-suspended-after-coachs-death-from-covid-19/">I Told You So.</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bleacherreport.com/artic