For the past two months, MLB (Major League Baseball) has been trying to work up an alternate season deal. So the 'big' deal was offer roughly ten days ago by the clubs.
It would amount to a 82-game season, and a pay scale set to that (roughly half of your normal pay, since half the games are gone).
Several clubs admit it's going to be tough to profit from the season but this is the most workable deal existing.
So over the weekend, the players union came back....NO, that deal won't work.
Their alternate deal? They want a higher percentage of the salary deal, and 114 games on the schedule.
As you gaze at the calendar....to make the 114 games work, you'd need the World Series to occur right around Thanksgiving, and probably end two or three days after turkey-day.
I just sat there and started laughing.
Temperature and weather for October was already 'crappy'. To suggest that this would continue on into November and even be baseball happening (possibly in NY City) in the weekend after Thanksgiving? That's a joke.
You can imagine cities like Detroit, or Denver, or Washington DC....with games in November. A light snow falling?
What'll happen? The owners will meet and just have a good laugh and say 'no'....the season ends on schedule.
The odds of baseball not being played in 2020? At this point, I give it a 40-percent chance that no baseball will occur, and a bunch of players will be in serious debt issues by spring of 2021.
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