Perspective: As the pandemic recedes, “it’s the perfect time for baseball.” If only MLB could see that.
Instead? A good day for baseball is a group of lawyers who can barely disguise their disgust for each other entering a room, then exiting sometime later to spin the situation to their side’s advantage., no updates, no word on when or whether an already delayed Opening Day will happen.
“It’s the perfect time for baseball to capture America after we’ve lifted the veil of covid, and they’re shooting themselves in the foot. I’m gutted that now we’re going to have a shortened season for the second time in three years. I can’t help but feel as a fan that we’re at the bottom of the pole here, that no one is thinking of the fans.”
The contraction of the minor leagues by 42 teams, leaving fans in some areas without an affiliated farm team. “My favorite sport, my children’s favorite sport,” MSNBC commentator and longtime Boston Red Sox fan Mike Barnicle said, “has been turned into a hedge fund.” The last time there was a work stoppage in baseball, the players’ strike of 1994-95, it resulted in the cancellation of the 1994 World Series and the hemorrhaging of millions of fans, and it took a decade for the game to regain the attendance it lost, helped along the way by the goodwill generated by Cal Ripken Jr.’s consecutive-games streak and later the home run explosion of what is now known as the “steroid era.
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