Many sports franchises, coaches, managers and players are immune to a lot of things that tend to go on with the real world due to their focus of what they have to do to be succe sful.Theres no way now that can be the case in sports after the NBA suspended games on Wednesday night after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert for COVID-19, known as coronavirus..Major League Baseball, Trace McSorley Jersey like all the other profe sional sports leagues, have been keeping a close eye on what is happening in terms of moving forward with just Earl Thomas III Jersey a few short weeks to go before the start of the regular season.Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona was asked Wednesday about the ongoing situation with the po sible changes in the game, as well as whats going on in the country with the coronavirus. The best route we can go about this is to listen to what we are being told, knowing that can change from day to day, Francona said.We care so much about getting our team ready and winning games but I think we have to be extremely respectful of what is going on in the world and make adjustments if we are supposed to.Already the Robert Griffin III Jersey Seattle Mariners against the Texas Rangers due to the amount of cases in the state of Washington.The that a number of teams could change the venue of their opener to stadiums le s effected by the virus.Scroll to ContinueTo this point Francona says he and the team are simply taking it day by day. I have no idea, its never been broached we me, Francona said of the opener being played in another stadium. What I am trying to do today is get us ready to either play a game or hit in the cages if it rains.Were trying to have a good day today, thats what we are going to do, trying to have a really good productive day.Francona has always done an excellent job of keeping his team focused Mark Ingram II Jersey on today, not looking ahead and not looking back, and he plans on keeping that mantra up as the season get closer and he and the coaching staff have to make tough decisions with the roster.For now, the Indians and Detroit Tigers opener on March 26 is still on, and until the manager or team is told differently, thats the plan with two weeks to go. If at some point somebody asks or tells us to Ben Powers Jersey do something different, we certainly dont care le s about being a good team, but I think you got to be respectful of what is going on in the world.The players have a pretty resilient way of showing up everyday ready to go, recognizing that there is a real world, players are pretty resilient, Francona said.