The players have to know that if they concede the ground in their decades-long fight against a salary-cap here, they are not going to win it back
It is one of the strange truths of professional sports that the rich people involved tend to garner less public sympathy than the extremely rich people.
Putting aside all the relevant questions about how this might be done safely, and it’s enough of a season to be worth doing, not unlike what can happen after a labour dispute. MLB and its owners, though, are now keen on using the drop in revenues associated with all those empty seats to demand new terms and an equal split of whatever money baseball brings in. It’s an idea that is bound to win broad support, since the other major North American leagues already have wages that are directly tied to league-wide revenues.
If MLB goes through with the request for an even revenue split, it will be framed as a modest giveback from the players amid widespread economic calamity. But it could just as easily be framed as using a global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands as an excuse to finally shoehorn a hard salary cap into the economics of Major League Baseball.
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