MLB optimistic about starting season in late June

[thewupk]

How soon till MLS takes over MLB as #3?

[Horsehide Harry]

I read it as players guaranteed 50% of pro-rated salary, not 50% of full season salary. So, if there is a 81 game season, then the players are guaranteed 50% of 50%.

[CyYoung31]

I read it as players guaranteed 50% of pro-rated salary, not 50% of full season salary. So, if there is a 81 game season, then the players are guaranteed 50% of 50%.

Yep. Slap in the face.

[CrimsonCowboy]

The way this is going on, how bad are the upcoming CBA talks going to be?

[jpx7]

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.

As has been noted, you’re wrong about what ownership is “offering”—it’s substantially less than prorated. As Cy said, it’s a slap in the players’ collective face.

It’s owners that need to come to their senses, or they might not have any product on the field for a long time, given looming CBA negotiations.

[SJ24]

Per Passan

New proposal is 89 games at prorated including expanded playoffs

Owners need to take this.

[CrimsonCowboy]

[CrimsonCowboy]

[CrimsonCowboy]

How soon till MLS takes over MLB as #3?

PGA is about to pass MLB, if it hasn’t already

[Skeeter31]

Per Passan

New proposal is 89 games at prorated including expanded playoffs

Owners need to take this.

But I thought your source already said everything was worked out and the season was coming back real soon???

[Slippyjms]

Per Passan

New proposal is 89 games at prorated including expanded playoffs

Owners need to take this.

This is a non starter for the owners. If we see any baseball at all this year it’s gonna be the 47 game season. Personally I’d rather just see the season scraped at this point.

[thewupk]

[SJ24]

But I thought your source already said everything was worked out and the season was coming back real soon???

He did.

The rest of that reply is completely unnecessary. Simmer down-CC

[Skeeter31]

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[salmagundy]

PGA is about to pass MLB, if it hasn’t already

Isn't MLB no higher than 5? NFL, NBA, NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball.

Just guessing.

[thewupk]

[CyYoung31]

Manfred says there’s “a 100% chance” that there is a baseball season this year.

Might as well just go straight to the playoffs if it’s only 50 games.

[jpx7]

PGA is about to pass MLB, if it hasn’t already

Baseball has been, continues to be, and will remain the best sport. I have it on good authority—the best authority, really—that anyone who says otherwise will be very, very banned.

[CyYoung31]

Baseball has been, continues to be, and will remain the best sport. I have it on good authority—the best authority, really—that anyone who says otherwise will be very, very banned.

I have serious doubts if you even love baseball.

[TheBravos]

Braves sign two stars to long term deals and then lose two of the cheapest three years because of Covid and a union strike.

That’s so Braves.