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Read More: MLB 2020 season threatened by utter compensation nonsense Clock is suddenly ticking on MLB’s 82-game season proposal MLB doesn’t make economic proposal in lengthy union meeting MLB blew its chance to lead sports’ coronavirus return
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This is no longer about the greater good of the nation, or the admittedly pie-eyed notion that baseball could ever really have been a salve for the deep fissures and fractures that plague us in these dreadful days of worry and uncertainty. That was a nice notion, a throwback to a time when baseball was …
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Rob Manfred went on national TV on Monday and delivered the wrong message. It is not just that he did such a public 180 by announcing he no longer is confident there will be a 2020 major league season five days after putting it at 100 percent that there would be one. Yep, that was …
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Trevor Bauer is calling the commissioner’s bluff. Shortly after Rob Manfred reneged on his recent “100 percent” guarantee that there will be baseball in 2020 and said he was “not confident” games would be played this year, the outspoken Reds pitcher took to Twitter to declare that the commissioner is delaying negotiations on behalf of …
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The one public service that MLB and the Players Association have provided is instruction on social distancing during a pandemic. Since the offers, counteroffers and insults have all been delivered electronically, the only threat is a computer virus. And any good tech with the correct software could prevent that. It might be forgotten to time …
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The players basically have told MLB let’s cut to the end game — the next move should be informing the union how many games the owners are willing to play at full prorated salaries. The union told MLB on Saturday it will not be making a counter to the league’s latest proposal. Instead, union executive …
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Rob Manfred pulled a Joe Namath on Wednesday. With his sport dragged down by an ugly battle over dollars, the Major League Baseball commissioner assured the game’s remaining fans that they’ll get their fix soon enough. “We’re going to play baseball in 2020. One-hundred percent” Manfred told the MLB Network’s Tom Verducci, shortly before baseball’s …
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“If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.” – Don Draper Those negotiating the restart of the baseball season define Mad Men. They are crazed in allegiance to their position and fury at each other. Plus, they are relentless sales people diligently advertising views of their accuracy and the other side’s …
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What is being lost by major league owners and players is so much more than an 82-game season and wrapping themselves in wall-to-wall games on Independence Day weekend and potentially creating new fans starved for live games. An already compromised season was going to provide MLB a hall pass to workshop extra innings that would …
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There remains no outward signs MLB and the players’ association are moving toward each other in time to begin the regular season with the optimum start, Independence Day weekend. The MLB Players Association released a statement Thursday evening saying that its executive board and more than 100 players talked via conference call and recommitted to …
Read More: MLB 2020 season threatened by utter compensation nonsense Clock is suddenly ticking on MLB’s 82-game season proposal MLB doesn’t make economic proposal in lengthy union meeting MLB blew its chance to lead sports’ coronavirus return
