On Monday afternoon, four major American professional sports leagues announced collectively that media would be indefinitely banned from clubhouses as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Many sportswriters did not like this move. Andrew Baggarly, the San Francisco Giants beat writer for The Athletic, was particularly incensed.
"Asinine," Baggarly wrote on Twitter. "This is opportunistically restrictive and not grounded in common sense at all. In what other transactional relationship is this going to be the policy? Do players have to maintain 6-8 feet from waiters, bank tellers and the dude behind the Starbucks counter, too?