The owners.
The players.
Greed.
The virus.
Logistics.
I won't go into each one as my posts tend to run long
but I will touch on a couple...Paramount on this list is the virus and greed. and something not on this list that'll come later.
We don't know what the virus will do. Researchers admit that it's not the most deadly virus to ever appear.
But this virus is more contagious than most virus.
That is more problematic for baseball.
If a player dies from the virus, we would be sad and move on.
But if MANY players get the virus...Goodbye baseball season.
Owners and players have only agreed on one thing through time.
And that one thing is that they want more money. Not less.
A shortened season with no fans and a chance of stoppage because of the virus does not really appeal to either side.
They say it does, but they're lying their asses off.
Owners put the front up that they want a season. So do players. A front.
Do they want to work a lot more over a short time in a risky atmosphere for a lot less money? I'm betting no.
But my opinion is only an opinion and I hope my opinion even sucks.
I'd love to see baseball again.
Although without fans, maybe less so.
Then and now, there is the one thing NOT on the list.
TIME.
Time is running out.
Agreements are never just hammered out any longer.
When, not if, a side gets pissy and wants to resume talks at a later date, that is another nail in the coffin.
And this is an agreement between two sides who, most likely money-wise, are in a lose-lose situation.
The largest impetus to get something done may come from us. Public perception.
And as usual, the owners and players will survive whether an agreement is reached or not.
It's the bar and restaurant owners around the ball parks, the vendors, concessionaires, you know, the small people who again, get hurt the most.
But owners and players will have press coverage when 'giving back' to these poor souls. Wonderful.
Like said, it's about public perception.
Its been said that baseball can play till Christmas.
Uh huh. Just like they can all play in Arizona. Insert eye roll here.
They make most of their money from tv contracts.
What are those tv folks going to say or do when baseball competes with football?
I'll tell you. They're going to cry foul.
Football is a made for tv event. Baseball, not so much.
Football would kill baseball in the ratings.
Baseball knows it. Their players know it. And the networks know it.
Baseball can 'compete' with early season football. Especially when it's a pennant race or the playoffs.
Any later than early in the football season and networks would want to be compensated.
Right now, we would be in our seventh week of baseball minus the virus.
Seventh week!
Owners see it as lost revenue.
Players see it as lost pay checks.
We see it as a loss of a hobby.
Each day that passes is a loss of time.
And pretty soon, we may be thinking this is a lost cause.