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Spring Training cancelled; Opening Day delayed -season starts July 24 for 60 Games

https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/you-asked-10/
YOU ASKED.
Totally Tigers

Welcome to another edition of You Asked ?
While we wait for baseball to resume, do you have questions and/or topics you?d like to see addressed? Submit them in the comments section and receive credit when Totally Tigers selects your entry. We?ll address your questions every Thursday.
Today, we have chosen questions from Robert Richardson and Sprocket.
Thanks for participating everyone!

1. I?d like to have you discuss how the indefinitely delayed 2020 season will cause more young players to go to or stay in college rather than sign a MLB contract, and how shortening the number of draft rounds this year and next could impact our minor league teams.

2. Read at Foxnews.com that Armando Galarraga just did an interview with the ?Athletic? magazine about the possibility of MLB going back and awarding him with a ?perfect game? in retrospect. They interviewed the ump and he said he thought they should. Armando also said he thought they would someday anyways and wanted to be alive when it happened. Might be a good debate topic for an upcoming TT issue.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/rapid-fire-3/
RAPID FIRE.
Totally Tigers

Be careful what you wish for! You, dear readers, have told us how much you like this new blog so it?s a keeper until something better ? or actual baseball games ? comes along.

We?re taking one hot issue, 2 bloggers and 5 questions to get your Friday off to a conversation-ready start. To make it even more interesting, Kurt and Holly have a maximum of 2 sentences in which to make their points.

MLB and the MLBPA continue to debate the details that will hopefully allow for a 2020 season to be played. In any case, it will be a short season and most likely approximately 80 games will be played. Given this, our 2 bloggers will address how a shortened season will impact the Detroit Tigers.

To make the discussion a little more difficult, answers are limited to 2 sentences for each question. Let?s cut to the chase?.
 
Baseball and the MLBPA just don't seem to get it. They could be the only show in town and they can't come to an agreement.
 
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/espn-baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/e/70213023?autoplay=true
Stitcher Podcast: Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian on His Daily Baseball Fix, Bad Blood... 35 minutes.

Episode Info:
Tim Kurkjian joins Buster to talk about the process behind his Daily Baseball Fix (2:23). Then the guys express disbelief and embarrassment at the state restart negotiations between players and the league, and discuss how the disagreements between the two sides date back to the 2016 CBA.
Later, Todd Radom joins to talk about the Great American Ball Park and to administer the weekly quiz (21:42).
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/the-saturday-survey-85/
THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

The Saturday Survey offers another way for readers to weigh in on a relevant topic. So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our baseball-lovin? and starvin? and pleadin? for the crack of the bat peeps.

Today, we center the discussion on the negotiations between the owners and the players and what appears to be a bleak situation when it comes to having an actual season this year.

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!

The latest reports have MLB owners and the Players Association at a stalemate about playing this year, with money now being the primary issue.

Back in March, the 2 sides agreed to prorating salaries which now figure to be approximately a 50% cut in salaries for half a season. But now, because there will be no fans for part or all of the season, owners are asking players to take an additional cut. This means that players would receive only 20%-30% of their contract salaries.

Owners obviously will lose money without fans but they can recoup some of their losses through radio and tv contracts. Baseball has the advantage in that they will be the only sport operating this summer.

Owners are crying poor but requests for them to give any financial documentation to prove their point have been denied.

Most of the players are saying that a 50% salary cut is enough and they will not take any less. Many of them also cite hazardous working conditions and severe restrictions placed upon them, including health issues, isolation from their families and confinement to their hotel rooms when they are not playing.

The biggest criticism against the players is that they should feel fortunate to draw any kind of a paycheck. That they should accept whatever it takes in order to play this year.

The biggest criticism against the owners is that they make all their money off of marketing their players and share none of that with them. But now they are asking the Players Association to share in the losses.

Please participate in the poll in order to share which side (if any) that you support.

Which side will you blame the most if the 2020 baseball season doesn?t happen?
1. Owners.

2. Players.

3. Neither side.

4. Both sides equally.

5. Not sure.
 
I understand both sides of the argument. The owners will lose money every single game they play...the more games they play, the more money they will lose. The players have contracts...they deserve to get paid on a per game basis. They play 1/2 of their games they deserve 50% of their contracts.

I wonder why nobody is talking about the people that work at the stadiums on game days. These people will be earning nothing and none of them are millionaires.
 
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