Baseball players and owners have
reached an agreement that addresses at least some of the issues that have
surfaced in the aftermath of postponing the season’s start. I guess that’s a good thing.
The players get their service time
and the owners some financial relief.
And the fans? Maybe they’ll get
some baseball, maybe not. It’s not as if
they have any skin in this game, right?
Maybe a brave new world has finally arrived, and games will forever
after be played in empty stadiums. The
payroll savings would be considerable, and the commissioner could set up retraining
classes for concessions’ people and other employees not deemed vital to the
game.
Players want to play, owners want
to profit. Nothing new there. But both sides could at least go through the
motions of caring how the fans will be affected by all this. Is that too much to ask for?
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