Baseball: Who cares?
Last week the commissioner announced that, one way or another, Major League Baseball will happen in 2020.
On Friday the owners, who are his bosses, offered their latest proposal to the players union, which detailed their plan to deprive the players of as much money as possible by reneging on their three-month-old agreement. They gave the players 48 hours to respond. The players needed just 24 hours to laugh in their faces.
So it appears we will have a 50-ish game "season," then a regular playoff schedule, with labor uncertainty looming after 2021.
Of course, there's always a chance that Rob Manfred reconsiders his decree, or that the players simply don't show up for a sham season _ which is what anything short of 100 games would be.
Will this sour fans on the game?
Will it matter, in the big picture, if baseball somehow doesn't have a season?
Hardly.
Here's why.
