Oh cmon. Did anyone really expect the league to just pro rate salaries when there will be no fans in stadiums which means also means no parking and concessions revenue. Let’s see how the players respond. What have the owners done to demonize players? The players are the ones making the statements demonizing the owners.
Do you think when they reached the agreement in March that the owners didn’t think that having to play without fans was a possibility? Of course they did. Which makes that deal totally bad faith.
These guys have contracts. When the owners pull in record contracts, they don’t give the players extra, when they take losses the players shouldn’t have to absorb those.
The only reason it seems like baseball is “screwing this up” is because the owners released a plan that had compensation details. No other league did anything like that. It should be behind closed doors.
The owners did it so try and sway public opinion to their side. It was underhanded. I can’t blame the players for being pissed and not wanting to negotiate. Every owner move of this negotiation has been in bad faith. Why continue.
I don’t think the players will agree to play unless the owners open their books. Which they will never do. So :
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