re: MLB owners should cancel season

The owner's position is that the players' salaries are based upon playing full seasons with fans. Approximately 40% - 50% of a team's revenue comes from fans in the stadiums for 80 games. So, they reason, you can't simply pay the players their full, albeit pro rated, salaries.

The players, on the other hand, are reluctant to give anything back to the owners on the eve of new contract negotiations.

There has to be a middle ground. Pay them 75% of their pro rated salaries while no fans and 100% of their pro rated salaries if and when the fans return this season. Stipulate this is a one year precedent only due to the once in a 100yr virus.

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they made a movie based on a book about the A's being creative in roster building.

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Right, which portrayed the owner as being cheap, thus forcing the GM to get creative with roster building.