How many errors can baseball make?
When does a 100% chance of something happening not mean it’s absolutely certain? When it involves Major League Baseball.
Mark Kaenel
Highland
Here’s a thought: All players agree to play this year for the MLB minimum of $564,000. The number of games, including playoffs, is easily negotiated insofar as they finish before Nov 1. Playoff and World Series shares are split equally between owners and players. The balance of total season profit to be shared with 30% to the owners and 70% split equally between COVID-19 research and salvaging minor league baseball.
Everyone shares the pain this year and baseball survives a thumbs-down grade from its fans.
Gary Engstrom
Laguna Woods
Rob Manfred’s lack of leadership is further proof that there hasn’t been a commissioner who has acted “in the best interests of baseball” since Fay Vincent.
Evan Puziss
Mar Vista
MLB should just do like Maris and make it 61* games, since this season is going to have an asterisk regardless.
Steve Ross
Beverly Hills
Hey, baseball. Stay out. Staying out is the best thing that could ever happen for the fans. Your popularity will drop below hockey, ticket prices will go down and with any luck maybe some teams will even go bankrupt. Who needs the Diamondbacks? We certainly don’t need the Astros. So please, all you millionaire players and billionaire owners, cancel the 2020 season over money. You will be doing all us fans a huge favor.
Ken Rayzor
Moorpark
I’m confident that all the letter writers that think the players are whiners and complainers and that it’s all about money would be more than happy, and thankful even, to accept whatever is offered. I’m sure they would trust their employer, who has tied their compensation to the income of the company but refuses to divulge just what that income amounted to.
Yes, I’m sure from their letters that they would accept whatever they were told and happily, without a thought that they were being used and ripped off, return to work.
Martin Wauson
Anaheim
What the NBA, NHL, MLS, NASCAR, IndyCar and international soccer are showing us all is they care about their sport, the fans and the times we are living in. Pandemic allowing, all will be back by next month providing us all with daily respites of normalcy.
Yet, MLB owners and players have proven they could not care less about anything other than themselves. I am a baseball fan. I am a Dodgers season-ticket holder. If baseball doesn’t return, I am done.
Geno Apicella
Placentia