MLB's Plan to Move New York Games to Florida Completely Ignores Reality

The MLB is trying to figure out what the truncated 2020 season will look like once the coronavirus pandemic dissipates and games are allowed to resume, and commissioner Rob Manfred has one noticeably odd and unhelpful idea to mitigate the risk of infection at an MLB game.

Potentially wary about playing games in New York City, which has seen tens of thousands of confirmed coronavirus cases, Manfred is considering moving early-season games to Yankees and Mets' Spring Training sites. Playing at Tropicana Field or Marlins Park is also being considered.

Consideration will be given to staggered start (start in some places delayed) or moved games depending on hot spots/local orders. At moment 1 obvious hot spot is NYC. As an example early games could be moved to Florida — to spring sites, Trop/Marlins Park. Everything on table.
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) March 27, 2020

Hopefully Manfred realizes that this decision makes no sense sooner rather than later.

While New York City is currently the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in America, Florida is confirming more cases by the day, and its residents have shown a remarkable disregard for decorum, spreading at a monstrous rate during unencumbered beach days. If the rate at which the amount of confirmed cases in Florida continues to escalate like it has, it could become just as much of a hotbed for the virus as New York is. Moving games to this state serves and benefits no one.

Florida getting worse by the day
— Paul D. (@degiap01) March 27, 2020

Playing games in New York City, which has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any other STATE in the country, could be a bit problematic no matter the timeline, but the league needs to have a better plan than this, as Florida is going to be just as big of a COVID-19 hotspot as New York is.