re: MLB owners should cancel season

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What's unfair about the previous deal?

It was negotiated under the standard bargaining process, and it's not like the owners don't have adequate representation in that process.

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I used the term 'fair' and I shouldn't have. I should have said equitable.

There is nothing unfair about ANY deal that is negotiated and accepted.

However, the reality does exist that circumstances beyond anyone's control has changed the landscape. It would be like the owners deciding they were going to force players to play during the shutdown because they were under contract, even though there was significant health risk.

"If the players didn't want that, they should have negotiated it during the CBA."

That's retarded. The current deal doesn't work for the owners. To what degree that is true, I don't know. But, for the sake of argument, let's pretend that the owners are staring at two options:

* play the season under the existing agreement and take a loss

* cancel the season, collect whatever insurance they can get, and take a smaller loss

To me, it's a no brainer what they would do. Meanwhile, the players would get zero salary this year, and probably would not accrue a year against their contract or toward free agency/arbitration.

OR, the parties can come to some interim agreement for 2020, make as much money as they possibly can, and move forward.