Perspective: Amid a pandemic in a divided country, baseball has managed to make us feel worse
. Two weeks later, the two sides reached an agreement that provided the players with $170 million in advance payments that would provide some funds should there be no season. MLB agreed to pay players a prorated portion of their salaries — if, the sport believed, there were fans in the stands. It quickly became clear that playing a season with no fans was the only possible path to a return. And so the sides dug in.
Suspend disbelief for a second. The sport was on hold. It’s important to remember how fast the world was moving as March turned to April: states of emergency followed by stay-at-home orders, with many of us becoming accustomed to social distancing and mask-wearing and staying at home all the time. But it doesn’t mean that baseball couldn’t have been more progressive about finding solutions.
Still, baseball should recognize the urgency afoot. The 16 months between now and the expiration of the current CBA can’t be filled with the same tone-deaf rhetoric and posturing that has characterized the past three months, infuriating fans who are desperate — in these uncertain times — for the small sense of normalcy sports would represent.
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