MLB optimistic about starting season in late June

[sturg33]

Why can't be go to stadiums again?

We can. It just has to be a protest

[thewupk]

Probably not the best news but odds arent great he ever wears a Braves uniform though.

[cajunrevenge]

We can. It just has to be a protest

**** it I am still bitter. Let's go protest not starting our ace game 1. I want EVERYONE involved in that fired.... out of a cannon.

[Heyward]

Probably wont matter since it's looking like no season for baseball, even though it's not a serious injury.

[50PoundHead]

Looks like she was trying to move him off the plate.

[clvclv]

There actually is a financial silver lining for some fans if there is no 2020 season.

Pache said he wants to wear #25 to pay respect to Andruw - at least none of us will be tempted to plunk down cash to buy a Pache jersey with the wrong number on it like many did when they rushed out to get Dansby jerseys with #2 on them.

[msstate7]

There actually is a financial silver lining for some fans if there is no 2020 season.

Pache said he wants to wear #25 to pay respect to Andruw - at least none of us will be tempted to plunk down cash to buy a Pache jersey with the wrong number on it like many did when they rushed out to get Dansby jerseys with #2 on them.

If he's gonna wear 25 in CF, he better be damn good out there

[CyYoung31]

There actually is a financial silver lining for some fans if there is no 2020 season.

Pache said he wants to wear #25 to pay respect to Andruw - at least none of us will be tempted to plunk down cash to buy a Pache jersey with the wrong number on it like many did when they rushed out to get Dansby jerseys with #2 on them.

Oh, man. Pache wearing 25 makes it all worth it.

[cajunrevenge]

Screw the season. Home run Derby to determine world series winner. Every team sends 3 hitters and 1 pitcher to throw to them. Ratings would be off the charts.

[Eyeman]

Acuna, Riley? and Duvall?

[thewupk]

Acuna, Riley? and Duvall?

Make sure it's a lefty throwing to Riley and Duvall.

[thewupk]

There actually is a financial silver lining for some fans if there is no 2020 season.

Pache said he wants to wear #25 to pay respect to Andruw - at least none of us will be tempted to plunk down cash to buy a Pache jersey with the wrong number on it like many did when they rushed out to get Dansby jerseys with #2 on them.

Not sure how I feel about that because #25 should of been retired a long time ago.

[CrimsonCowboy]

[CrimsonCowboy]

And so much for that optimism

[clvclv]

And so much for that optimism

We're probably officially at the point where the season can be written off unless the players shockingly come to their senses. A little over three weeks until the hoped for July 4th "Opening Day" - Folty mentioned he and most of the Pitchers could be ready in two weeks, and you have to figure that third week will be needed to get everybody back into camps and "settled" with places to live for whatever length of time they'd be playing in Florida and Arizona. Not sure starting on the 4th is any kind of "drop dead" date, but it's going to make it next to impossible to start by then if there's no agreement in place in the next 3-4 days.

I'm worried the players don't fully grasp what blowing this season off could mean - if the NBA, NFL, and NHL play even partial seasons baseball will be so far removed from the spotlight before another game is played that anyone that isn't a real baseball nut may well have simply moved on to the other things in their lives, and they wouldn't be returning for some time.

[CrimsonCowboy]

[CrimsonCowboy]

Ah geez

[msstate7]

I don't care which side is to blame... if there's no mlb this year, screw both sides.

[FreemanFan]

I wish the whole thing could be arbitrated. Both sides present their best offer and they let a third party pick the winner. I don't care who wins. I just want live baseball.

[clvclv]

The Drellich tweet about the players' stance is what's maddening to me. Assuming the season starts around the typical All-Star break, there's roughly enough time to get a half-season's worth of regular season games in before the start of your usual playoff schedule. The owners are offering 50% salaries for players to play 50% of a season. There's no need for the owners to open their books - we don't need to see the exact numbers to understand that they'd be taking huge losses with no parking, concession, merchandise, or gate revenue being generated, so who gives a *amn what those numbers are? That money wouldn't be coming out of the players' share if they're playing in empty stadiums. The expanded playoff proposal means that 100 players (16 teams rather than 12) will draw at least one playoff paycheck that they wouldn't any other year so that there's an extra round so the owners can recoup some of those losses.

If the biggest worry is that games will be cancelled when typical flu (and presumably COVID) season kicks off, most of those (if not all) will be playoff games, meaning the players will have been compensated fairly - 50% pay for half a season - while the owners will have to refund TV and/or gate revenues in the event the networks have no games to televise or fans somehow wind up buying tickets for them.