Baseball ⚾️

Not sure about you, but I’m beyond aggravated with the owners who won’t budge and have threatened the season.

Thing is, it might be crazy anyway.

We obviously are not out of a first wave of the virus and we are most certainly headed to a sad fall and winter.

The worst possible scenario might be that they get going and actually bring us all back in and then they have to cancel it anyway because players are getting sick.

Fauci is saying that he thinks football is impractical too.

 

The Tampa Bay Lightning just shut down their training facility.

There are at least 8 positive members on the Phillies.

I’m sure there have been a lot more cases as well, but that’s all besides the point.

The real problem is that the owners are trying to bust the union. They want to work this into the strife necessary to lock out the players when the agreement comes up for debate.

Ridiculous.

The owners are billionaires. They have made record profits each of the last ten years, but we won’t know how much because they won’t open up their books.

Now, certainly there is a loss of revenue due to the fact that there won’t be fans at the games, but the players still have to get ready.

They take the illness risk on top of the usual injury risk.

Many are well-compensated but a whole bunch of other players are making the minimum.

Minor league players have been released. Some teams aren’t even paying their low wage stadium workers anymore.

In a 50 billion industry!!

 

The Mets and Marlins recently sold for more than a billion dollars.

Thing is they are pissing all over a game that was trying to draw young fans.

That may not ever happen now.

If the game disappears for a year and a half a lot of people will give up on it.

 

Probably not me, but it does sadden me.

What a mess.