It's selfish and irresponsible to beg for sports to come back, to entertain us, to distract us, to give us something to discuss or to debate in this climate. Baseball doesn't need to exist in 2020, and the players and the sport don't owe us anything.īut there was still a sliver of selfish hope: Had MLB taken the stage in July and been the first major U.S. MORE: Rob Manfred's flip-flop on MLB season seen by players as stalling tactic, more bad-faith negotiating Simply put, it seems petulant and egocentric to beg for the return of baseball when there are matters much more serious than tape-measure homers and nasty breaking balls. Black Lives Matter movements are creating action and giving voices to the voiceless. Coronavirus cases are spiking around the country. Civil unrest is raging around the U.S. as Americans mourn the unjust deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. We're in the middle of a global pandemic. But that three-word "When and Where" rallying cry changed it all.
It would have been one thing had the players and owners disagreed on health and safety protocols heading into the season, or MLB decided it was simply too unsafe to play games in the middle of a pandemic (things that are still true). I mean, after all, owning a baseball team is a losing-money proposition, apparently. Unfortunately, Manfred and the league's owners apparently are thinking twice about a season, if Monday's drama is any indication.
To make matters worse, Manfred's quote came after players all over the Twittersphere started using the "When and Where" hashtag to simply ask owners, well, when and where they're playing in 2020. Rob Manfred's five-day pivot from being "100 percent certain" there will be baseball in 2020 to his "not confident" comments Monday opened my eyes. MLB left me feeling embarrassed to be a baseball fan.
#Baseball stupid game free
The unwritten rules, embarrassing front office mishaps, free agency or an aversion to promoting its stars. I've fought through it.īut on Monday, they did the impossible.
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