re: MLB owners should cancel season

The thing about it is, and this is why I’m beginning to be further alienated from the modern professional athlete, is nobody seems to be acknowledging how fricking bad this looks to the fans. Especially from the players’ side. Jobless claims report are at 40 million....40,000,000. People have lost their livelihoods, lost careers they’ve spent years upon years building and the players are acting as if they’re paid in peanuts.

The most recent proposed deal was drastic, but the league’s highest player was slated to make $36m this year would’ve made a “paltry” $7m. That $7m is more than most people would make in their entire lives and he’s acting as if he would go broke “only” making that much.

The league minimum before the virus was $563.5K. The proposed paycut to the league minimum for this year would bring it to $262K. Both numbers are still more than 95% of this nation makes a year.

The owners are being ridiculous and should shoulder a lot of blame here. But the players will be (and rightfully so) the ones that look bad in this. 40 million+ Americans out of work and they’re arguing about money.

ETA: I know I’m going to be on the minority side of this argument; but all this money haggling between both sides ruins the game for me and muddies the water too much. I’d play this game for free every single day of the week if I could. Call me a purist, call me old fashioned, but that’s just the way I see it.