Baseball is now facing a difficult sprint to attempt this afflicted season, in the face of a relentless pathogen, after a bitter negotiation that’s left everyone a little tart. Hard to imagine a more disheartening “Play Ball” cry, writes ShiDavidi.
TORONTO – In the hours before players voted against a back-to-play framework and Major League Baseball owners voted unanimously to proceed with a 2020 season, I watched Toronto Blue Jays Rewind on Sportsnet, featuring a 10-9 win over the Boston Red Sox from May 28, 2016.The competition. The characters. The crowd. The vibe.
Remember, owners initially floated a 50-50 revenue share that was essentially a masked salary cap, only to offer the same salary percentage in different ways multiple times before, last week, breaking a self-created impasse by agreeing to honour what they’d already agreed to.
Cincinnati Reds ace Trevor Bauer summed it up pretty nicely in the following tweets from a thread after word broke that the players association had voted down MLB’s offer, and Manfred again pushed back his threat to impose a season.
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