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THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers
The Saturday Survey offers the opportunity to weigh in on a relevant topic.
So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our passionate readers.
Today, we center the discussion on the Tigers? 3 major league free agent signings.
As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons (4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!
MLB and its owners presented an offer to the Players? Association to delay the season this year. Their goal? They want fans in the stands as much as possible this year so revenue may be generated. They offered players 154 games with full pay instead of the 162-game season.
However, the current CBA already guarantees the players full pay no matter how many games are played in 2021.
The current proposal would run into mid-November with more double-headers and fewer days off. It would put increased pressure on the players and create concerns over a ramped-up schedule in which the risk of players becoming exhausted ? and injured ? would grow.
The players, on the advice of their lawyers, turned down the offer because it would put them at a legal disadvantage this season and set precedents in favor of the owners ahead of the upcoming CBA negotiations. Agreeing to MLB?s offer would allow the Commissioner to interrupt or cancel the season at any point which would also either prorate or cancel the players? salaries.
The players? biggest concern, however, involves their already-implemented training schedule. Delaying the season would once again force them to shut down and then ramp up again, increasing injuries and surgeries. Last year, when this happened, record numbers of players, especially pitchers, became injured and had season-ending surgeries.
Should baseball return to a normal schedule for the players? sake? Or should the season be delayed because of the pandemic and the owners? need to earn revenue?
With whom do you side?
1. Owners
2. Players
3. It's a tie
4. I'm torn
VOTE
THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers
The Saturday Survey offers the opportunity to weigh in on a relevant topic.
So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our passionate readers.
Today, we center the discussion on the Tigers? 3 major league free agent signings.
As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons (4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!
MLB and its owners presented an offer to the Players? Association to delay the season this year. Their goal? They want fans in the stands as much as possible this year so revenue may be generated. They offered players 154 games with full pay instead of the 162-game season.
However, the current CBA already guarantees the players full pay no matter how many games are played in 2021.
The current proposal would run into mid-November with more double-headers and fewer days off. It would put increased pressure on the players and create concerns over a ramped-up schedule in which the risk of players becoming exhausted ? and injured ? would grow.
The players, on the advice of their lawyers, turned down the offer because it would put them at a legal disadvantage this season and set precedents in favor of the owners ahead of the upcoming CBA negotiations. Agreeing to MLB?s offer would allow the Commissioner to interrupt or cancel the season at any point which would also either prorate or cancel the players? salaries.
The players? biggest concern, however, involves their already-implemented training schedule. Delaying the season would once again force them to shut down and then ramp up again, increasing injuries and surgeries. Last year, when this happened, record numbers of players, especially pitchers, became injured and had season-ending surgeries.
Should baseball return to a normal schedule for the players? sake? Or should the season be delayed because of the pandemic and the owners? need to earn revenue?
With whom do you side?
1. Owners
2. Players
3. It's a tie
4. I'm torn
VOTE
