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TheBigA said:
Looks like baseball is in trouble. The players have rejected the league's call for a pay cut:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...nal-pay-cuts-resoundingly-rejects-league-plan
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Perfect storm, as the virus has hit the year before a new CBA is to be negotiated. It is going to be hard for Americans to forgive and forget if baseball, of all team sports, is the only one that doesn't have a season this year. It would be nice if both sides could swallow their pride and forget about the potential nuclear winter of 2021 to provide fans some escape from the overload of misery and paranoia that 2020 has been so far, but all involved are blinded by decades of mistrust. Thanks a lot, MLB and MLBPA, you miserable so-and-sos.
 
TheBigA said:
I agree...it appears we'll have basketball and hockey very soon, and football right after. It's all the same to me. I just want something new.
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You mean you are tired of Gunsmoke and I Love Lucy reruns?
 
I've tried watching Korean baseball, but ESPN has run into horrible luck with the games it chooses to show -- blowout after blowout.
 
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...plea-2020-season-play-common-good/3156226001/

A self-described "AAAA player" -- too good for the minors, not good enough to become a regular in the majors -- pleads for his union and Major League Baseball to salvage something out of 2020 "for the common good." I've felt this way all along and it's nice to see a player saying the same thing. Of course, as a union member, he requests anonymity. Seeing as how he sent his op-ed piece to the Detroit Free Press, he most likely is a Detroit Tiger, which means he could be one of a dozen or more players, since much of the Tigers roster consists of marginal major leaguers.
 
TheBigA said:
ESPN's Buster Olney explains what has to happen next for baseball to begin:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29275541/olney-how-major-league-baseball-save-2021

From his perspective it needs to be tied to a plan for 2021 as well.
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No vaccine, no cure, no vaccine, no cure ... it's the steady, depressing drumbeat that will remain the rhythm of our existences for who-knows-when, and makes the idea of planning for 2021 much harder than you'd think it would be. Both MLB and the union need to be ready for a future of games in empty stadiums, which may very well be unsustainable for all leagues after this year is over. But what if it takes science two years, or three, or five, to come up with a vaccine that passes all the tests, then is distributed to all, even, somehow, to the increasing number of tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy believers who swear they will never be vaccinated? Can spectator sports continue long-term with no live crowds and abbreviated seasons conducted in cheerless conditions of daily testing and off-field isolation?

Baseball's problem is now. The other sports may just be kicking their individual cans down the road. If science fails to stop this virus, sports may just have to wait for herd immunity to kick in, and that could make 2021 the real year without sports.
 
CTListener said:
Baseball's problem is now. The other sports may just be kicking their individual cans down the road.
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Baseball's problem is bigger than the major leagues. There's the whole farm system that's at risk. I know people who work for minor league teams who are all on furlough. So while the millionaires argue about their contracts, there are lots of other people who make a fraction of the money living on unemployment right now.
 
At the end of the latest NASCAR race all these people were together in groups. Maybe they had masks on, but it seems they could have been more spread out.

As long as no one gets sick, that's all that matters.
 
I saw that Friday was the anniversary of the murders O.J. Simpson was acquitted of.

I only got to see the first installment of the ESPN documentary about his life, and it was great.

The Michael Jordan series is scheduled to wrap up next week, and it too has been pretty amazing. I wish ABC could air the O.J. documentary after they finish.

If you haven't seen "The Last Dance" and you think MJ is this great guy and wouldn't want to ever hear anything bad about him, stay away.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I saw that Friday was the anniversary of the murders O.J. Simpson was acquitted of.

I only got to see the first installment of the ESPN documentary about his life, and it was great.

The Michael Jordan series is scheduled to wrap up next week, and it too has been pretty amazing. I wish ABC could air the O.J. documentary after they finish.

If you haven't seen "The Last Dance" and you think MJ is this great guy and wouldn't want to ever hear anything bad about him, stay away.
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That stuff is on the espn plus app im pretty sure on demand.
 
https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/SB-Blogs/Breaking-News/2020/06/MLB.aspx

MLB and Turner Sports in talks for a broadcast deal

Major League Baseball has agreed to broad terms on a new rights deal with Turner Sports at around a 40% average annual increase, sources said.

Nothing has been signed formally, but this new deal will see Turner pay an average of around $470 million per year from 2022 through 2028 for a rough total of $3.29 billion. Its expiration will sync with a Fox deal signed in November 2018. Turner now pays an average of $325 million a year under an eight-year deal that expires after the 2021 season.

Turner’s 40% increase is in line with MLB expectations, especially considering that Fox agreed to a similar increase just 20 months earlier.

Live sports content has become even more valuable to TV networks during the pandemic when no sports are being played. The increasing popularity of streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix has siphoned away entertainment viewers from linear TV. That has left networks fighting for viewers who still watch traditional TV for sports and news, even as they face weakened balance sheets because of the current crisis.
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