Honey, I Shrunk the Season: A Definitive Timeline of Every MLB Proposal So Far

Nash Walker · June 10, 2020

I’m pretty over it, honestly. I’m just ready for some baseball. 50 games grosses me out but what better alternative is there? Opening day 2021?

h2oface · June 10, 2020

As much money as the owners have made, and the fleecing of fans every game at the concessions and making them pay to park to see the game, it is time for them to take a hit...... "for the love of the game".

saviking · June 10, 2020

The whole affair turns me off. As big a fan as I am pretty soon I'll have golf back, basketball back, college football and the NFL.

And if the players don't get more realistic they will get paid nothing, zero, nada. Sorry, I never feel sorry for someone that shoots themselves in the foot. Major League players have way over valued their barganing hand. If they lose their entire salary this year they will, never, never get it back. Just like an emply airline seat when a plane takes off this season is close to taking off (flying away} and I'm not going to shed one tear ..

Besides, I might never feel safe enough to go to a Minnesota sporting event again.

ashbury · June 10, 2020

Like it or not, the people who make it to the ranks of sports-team ownership did not do it by adopting a financial strategy of accepting short term losses in the name of a larger long term gain. Show a profit every quarter (if you're publicly traded), and let the future take care of itself. If a loss looms, minimize it.

If no games are played, the owners will collectively lose $X million. It flies in the face of their accumulated logic to lose even 1 more dollar than that, by paying the players to play the games.

Sad but true.

Trov · June 10, 2020

You clearly side with the players by highlighting the "agreement" of prorated pay. However, there is much debate as to the specifics of the agreement. One side says it was with the assumption fans would be in seats. The other says it was not with that assumption. If the owners are even close with the numbers they claim that 40% of revenue comes from fans in seats, then clearly the owners would have assumed the deal for full prorated was based on fans being in the seats. I have not read the actual agreement, but have heard the two arguments and both seem to have some weight. The important thing, is that the owners have the ability to pick the amount of games at the full prorated pay.

You also mention the opt out of worried players, but fail to include the full pay for "high risk" players who opt out, and the players get to decided who is considered "high risk" with the league getting NO say. Therefore, the players could say if any member of their family, even if they do not live with them but may come in contact with them is high risk the player can opt out for full pay. So if they have a member of their family over 60 they could most likely opt out. How many players do not have that?

Matthew Taylor · June 10, 2020

This makes my head hurt.

jkcarew · June 10, 2020

A reckoning was coming at the end of the current CBA, regardless. The pandemic starts bringing things to a head sooner. Is it possible that if an agreement isn't reached to play in 2020, at least we surface the ugliness early enough to salvage an at-risk 2022 season? Revenue sharing and salary cap, anybody?

That's my glass half-full look at this depressing situation.

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