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Jaxbuck said:
Anyone who lived through the '94 strike remembers how bad it was. A lot of people never came back at all, more still came back but many years later. One could argue MLB had to over index to the steroid era to generate interest in baseball again.

I've already written '20 off and am trying to just blame it on COVID and ignore what the owners and players are doing.

They are skating on thin ice though. Baseball just doesn't have the popularity anymore to be arrogant toward its fanbase.
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At this point I don't care. NCAAFB and the NFL must be preserved at all costs.
I can sit tight till Labor Day for my true love to return.
 
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Union delivers 70-game plan to MLB in counterproposal

The Major League Baseball Players Association has delivered a counterproposal to MLB that includes a 70-game season and expanded playoffs in 2020 and 2021.

In a statement announcing the proposal, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said: "We believe this offer represents the basis for an agreement on a resumption of play."

Among the details in MLBPA's new proposal, sources told ESPN;s Jeff Pasan:

  • 70-game season from July 19 through Sept. 30;

  • Full pro-rated pay;

  • Spring training to begin June 26th-28th;

  • Expanded playoffs in 2020 and 2021 season;

  • Minimum pool for playoff shares in 2020 based on rounds played, $50 million if full playoff is staged;

  • 50/50 split of incremental TV revenues for any additional post-season games in '21;

  • Salary Advance forgiveness for all players in Tiers I-III of March agreement;

  • Opt-outs -- Full service/salary for players who are high risk and those who live with high-risk individuals;

  • $10 million for "social justice initiatives" (funded from welfare plan);

  • $50 million to be transferred from joint funds (ITF) to the commissioner's discretionary fund;

  • Clubs granted permission to sell advertisements/patches on uniforms in '20 and '21;

  • Enhanced housing allowances in spring training and regular season;

  • Universal DH in '20 and '21;

  • Parties to collaborate on broadcast enhancements;

  • Mutual waiver of potential grievances under the March agreement.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29329357/union-proposes-70-game-plan-mlb-sources-say
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Union delivers 70-game plan to MLB in counterproposal

The Major League Baseball Players Association has delivered a counterproposal to MLB that includes a 70-game season and expanded playoffs in 2020 and 2021.

In a statement announcing the proposal, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said: "We believe this offer represents the basis for an agreement on a resumption of play."

Among the details in MLBPA's new proposal, sources told ESPN;s Jeff Pasan:

  • 70-game season from July 19 through Sept. 30;

  • Full pro-rated pay;

  • Spring training to begin June 26th-28th;

  • Expanded playoffs in 2020 and 2021 season;

  • Minimum pool for playoff shares in 2020 based on rounds played, $50 million if full playoff is staged;

  • 50/50 split of incremental TV revenues for any additional post-season games in '21;

  • Salary Advance forgiveness for all players in Tiers I-III of March agreement;

  • Opt-outs -- Full service/salary for players who are high risk and those who live with high-risk individuals;

  • $10 million for "social justice initiatives" (funded from welfare plan);

  • $50 million to be transferred from joint funds (ITF) to the commissioner's discretionary fund;

  • Clubs granted permission to sell advertisements/patches on uniforms in '20 and '21;

  • Enhanced housing allowances in spring training and regular season;

  • Universal DH in '20 and '21;

  • Parties to collaborate on broadcast enhancements;

  • Mutual waiver of potential grievances under the March agreement.
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29329357/union-proposes-70-game-plan-mlb-sources-say
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred quickly rejects union's 70-game proposal
 
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MLB 2020 season update: Where things stand with MLBPA preparing to vote on 60-game season

Major League Baseball and the Players Association (MLBPA) have been negotiating for almost six weeks about a return-to-play plan for the 2020 season. It looks like the two sides could be approaching the finish line. The players are reportedly set to vote Sunday on accepting the league's offer of a 60-game season.

Talks have often been contentious -- especially over salary -- but there was a renewed sense of optimism on Wednesday. A meeting between commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA chief Tony Clark has raised hopes that the two sides are headed for a negotiated settlement.

While an agreement has not been finalized, there are some notable components of various proposals that the two sides seem likely to be used in a 2020 season. They include:
  • Extensive health and safety protocols for players and team personnel
  • Larger rosters (potentially 30-man active rosters and a 20-player taxi squad)
  • Universal designated hitter
  • Regional schedule to reduce travel (ex: teams in the AL East would only play each other and teams in the NL East)
  • Expanded playoffs (with reportedly as many as 16 teams)
As the talks continue and more information becomes public, we've opted to construct a timeline of consequential news and events surrounding these talks. Below you'll find all you need to know about the state of the negotiations, and how they got there.

June 21: MLB tweaks offer; MLBPA waiting to vote
Commissioner Rob Manfred reportedly reached out to MLBPA chief Tony Clark and offered players some 2021 concessions as part of the league's latest proposal on Sunday. The league is hoping the MLBPA accepts its offer of a 60-game season. Players are set to vote on the offer, but that vote could be pushed as their side tries to gather more information about MLB's coronavirus protocols.

Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...th-mlbpa-preparing-to-vote-on-60-game-season/
 
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MLB MVPs say time to pull Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name off plaques

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Something still bothers Barry Larkin about his Most Valuable Player award.

The other name engraved on the trophy: Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

"Why is it on there?" said Larkin, the Black shortstop voted National League MVP in 1995 with the Cincinnati Reds.

"I was always aware of his name and what that meant to slowing the color line in Major League Baseball, of the racial injustice and inequality that Black players had to go through," the Hall of Famer said this week.

Hired in 1920 as the sport's first commissioner to help clean up rampant gambling, Landis and his legacy are "always a complicated story" that includes "documented racism," official MLB historian John Thorn said.

This much is true, in black and white, about the son of a Union Army doctor wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia during the Civil War: No Blacks played in the majors during his quarter-century tenure; Jackie Robinson broke the barrier in April 1947, about 2 ½ years after Landis died.

"Landis is a part of history, even though it was a dark history," Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said.

Fact is, few fans realize Landis' name is plastered all over the Most Valuable Player trophies. Most people just call it the MVP.

But there it is, prominently displayed on every American League and NL MVP plaque since 1944 -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, in shiny, gold letters literally twice as big as those of the winner.

With a sizable imprint of Landis' face, too.

To some MVPs, it's time for that 75-year run to end.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29387969/mvps-say-pull-landis-name-plaques
 
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