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SPORTS USA TODAY z THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2020 z 5C MLB, players must play ball, make deal Bob Nightengale Columnist USA TODAY PHOENIX – Stop it. Enough already. We want to watch Yankees ace Gerrit Cole face Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez at Yankee Stadium, not MLB Commis- sioner Rob Manfred and players’ union chief Tony Clark arguing behind closed doors. We’d rather listen to the banging of trash cans at Minute Maid Park in Hous- ton than the eerie silence of major league ballparks across America. There are 36 million Americans who filed for unemployment the past two months during the coronavirus pan- demic. Do you think they really care who is right or who is wrong as owners and players debate the economics of playing baseball without fans? The last thing anyone can stomach is listening to billionaires and millionaires arguing over money before they can start the 2020 baseball season. If the season was unable to start be- cause of COVID-19, with too many play- ers and employees fearful of their safe- ty, it’d be perfectly understandable. If the season couldn’t start because governmental and health officials re- fused to open their municipalities, that’s their prerogative. But when MLB and the union are ac- MLB is hoping for a 2020 season that could see sights such as the Braves and Freddie Freeman celebrating a run. tively discussing an exhaustive safety ADAM HAGY/USA TODAY SPORTS and health plan that might be restrictive but perhaps necessary with states re- opening and governors are welcoming words to legal teams. proposal MLB wants to offer. tion of the salaries this season only to professional sports back, baseball can- No one wants to hear it. MLB will tell you that if the union provide economic relief. not be shut down simply because of in- Not now. flatly refuses any revenue-sharing plan, Maybe the players will be willing to fighting over money. The owners want to start the season then the union should propose an eco- assume part of the risk if a second wave If there is no Major League Baseball by the first week of July, playing at least nomic plan. of the coronavirus prematurely ends the played this year because the owners and 82 regular-season games, but insist it’s It’s possible this will come to an end season, wiping out about $1 billion in players can’t agree on salaries, it would economically impossible to play with- this week. Let’s hope. anticipated postseason revenue with make the cancellation of the 1994 World out fans unless the players agree to fur- Manfred and MLB attorneys plan to the expanded playoffs. Series feel like a doubleheader rainout ther salary reductions. present an economic plan to the union Maybe it’s as simple as the owners in June. The players want to play tomorrow, if by Friday, two people with direct knowl- guaranteeing more regular-season It would destroy the sport. they could, with at least a 100-game edge of the negotiations told USA games to the players, or even giving the Look, everyone in the game is going season, but have difficulty believing the TODAY Sports, perhaps outlining with union a cut of the postseason money. to lose money this year. owners will lose $4 billion this season if greater detail their projected losses in There is no drop-dead deadline for Teams are projecting losses between their salaries remain the same. They 2020. The officials spoke on the condi- negotiations, the two sides say, but the $84 million to $312 million. simply can’t buy the notion that teams tion of anonymity because they were longer it drags out, fewer games will be Players will lose nearly half of their will lose more money by playing than unauthorized to publicly discuss the ne- played, and more money will be lost. income, with their up-front payments – having no season, even without fans. gotiations. They each are hoping an agreement paying players with guaranteed con- Yet with hopes of teams gathering for The union is eagerly awaiting the can be reached by June 3. The players tracts $4,750 a day – ending May 24. spring training by June 15 and playing proposal and then can spend the Me- report to spring training on June 10. The Team employees, from club presi- games by July 4, the two sides still have morial Day weekend poring over it, for- regular season starts July 1. And the en- dents to their amateur scouts, are hav- not had a single exchange of a proposed mulating a counterproposal. tire postseason is completed by Hallow- ing their salaries slashed, with others economic plan. The players want the owners to at een. being furloughed until the winter and MLB owners agreed to present a 50- least prove their economic duress, It’s still unfathomable, no matter many fearing they’ll be terminated 50 revenue-sharing plan 10 days ago, which they formally requested a week how much the rhetoric is put on public when their contacts expire in October. but once Clark and agent Scott Boras ago. If the owners demonstrate their display, to believe that baseball won’t be It is ugly. It is terrifying. It is heart- publicly decried the proposal, saying it projected financial losses, the players played this summer. breaking. would be immediately rejected, the might be amenable to softening their It will happen. So please, now is not the time to try union hasn’t received a proposal. stance on restructuring salaries, which Really, there is no choice. to win a public relations battle with The union might still scoff at any idea already is costing them about $2 billion. But the clock is ticking. the fans, leaking internal documents to of a revenue-sharing plan but will tell Perhaps there can be a compromise if It’s time for baseball to save itself be- the news media or waging a war of you they are open to listening to any the two sides can agree to defer a por- fore it’s too late. 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