Don't worry, Major League Baseball will not really go bankrupt, and this season may still have a chance of a rematch. However, the scattering and arrogance shown by the team, league, and union practitioners this past few days may be pushing this sport that Americans once loved ones away from everyone's attention. I hope you remember one thing, one day ten years later, when you suddenly realize that you haven't paid attention to the American professional baseball game for a long time and can't read the starting list of your team that you once supported, all this started this year.
2020 is the year when Major League Baseball began to decline. As a baseball fan, you can blame all this on the epidemic, the political and economic situation in the United States, and the chaos, but the real culprit is those who should protect the professional baseball team and revitalize the industry with all their might: team owners, leagues, and players, and of course, including players. But they only think about themselves.
In the past few months, we have experienced the suspension of professional basketball NBA. A professional sports league that is about to enter the playoffs and can collect a large amount of playoff broadcast premiums has been interrupted. The same is true for the relatively few professional hockey NHL. They announced their suspension when there were only more than three weeks left in the season; and the competition for the championship prize cup Stanley Cup in the professional hockey playoffs is recognized as the most shocking playoffs in professional sports in the United States.
Their losses are clearly there, they are real real money, and the season that started was interrupted and suspended; and their efforts to resume the game have never stopped. But have we ever heard professional basketball, professional hockey teams, leagues, and players quarrel over the lost salary, ticket income, and broadcast premiums?
is not, only these baseball players have not played a game, and they have been making a big fuss. From the original opening day, how many versions of the major league proposals have we heard in the past two months? There are 140 games, 100 games, 80 games, 114 games, and there are 50 games that have retreated to the bottom line this week; it’s not for anything, just because the teams understand that the real focus is the playoffs. As long as the schedule can be promoted to the playoffs as soon as possible, the team still has a chance to regain some revenue.
Fans who care about professional baseball know that the key point now is that the team originally promised that they are willing to reduce the players' salary in a proportion according to the number of games of the schedule. For example, if the salary of 162 games was 10 million US dollars, then the salary of the players would be 5 million in 81 games. However, as the proposals for the season games are deleting lower and lower, the players' salaries have been greatly reduced, but the team still proposes to further reduce their salaries, which makes the players unacceptable. They said they risk their lives when playing on the court, so unless the team is willing to keep their previous promises, they would rather not play.
But no matter how legitimate the reasons of the team and the players are, for fans, all this is just the word "absurd". As Americans say, this is a war between billionaires and millionaires; and bystanders are a group of ordinary people who have to face the epidemic, be locked up at home by a confinement curfew, and may have been unemployed and unable to pay rent. What we have seen in the past two months is that these baseball people are quarreling. They are busy exposing each other's bottom and asking each other to make all the documents and accounts to see who makes money and who loses money. Yes, that's right, a certain player's annual salary of 10 million US dollars will be cut to five million because of the halving season. It's really miserable; then the team said they would look down, maybe they would have to cut to only two million. Oh my god! Where does the law of nature come from?
Professional basketball and ice hockey are both indoor sports, and the content of the game also has intense physical contact. Unlike the baseball field, even if the offensive players get on the base bag, they will still have a considerable social distance from the defensive players.Among the mainstream professional sports in the United States, there is no more suitable for re-starting under the threat of the epidemic than baseball. However, the Major League Baseball has been too disappointing during this period. The professional baseball needs to be warmed up for the rematch. Two or even three weeks of "spring training" is inevitable. With the screening time after the movement, if the Major League wants to start the season in early July, the team owner and the player union must reach a consensus now and prepare for the season rematch together.
Professional basketball NBA has not been cancelled, and professional hockey NHL has not been cancelled. As the threat of the epidemic gradually eases, they are all planning silently, hoping to have a chance to resume the season and then enter the peak of the playoffs. And the American Professional Baseball League, which has not been played in a game, is actually considering canceling the season. Major League Baseball President, whether it is Rob Manfred or Wu Zhiyang, should sit down and think about it carefully. NASCAR, a professional racing car, has resumed on May 17, and the professional golf season has begun. What is MLB wasting time?
Next If both the NBA and NHL announce the resumption standards that meet the consideration, the professional American football NFL that is currently firmly determined that the season will definitely be normal, and although the schedule may be adjusted. If the American professional baseball team does not start the resumption until June and July, it will be difficult for me to imagine how likely professional baseball will win. The lengthy game, slow pace, and lack of top stars with national influence, are all weaknesses that everyone is already familiar with. Now you can add a greed for money and selfishness. Regardless of whether such an accusation is reasonable or not, this is already the biggest challenge for MLB at present.
Think about it, if the attitude of the professional baseball team is so dispensable when the fans are most eager, then when the professional baseball team really decides to start again, the fans can of course be dispensable with this sport. One day ten years later, when you suddenly realize that you haven't paid attention to the American professional baseball game for a long time and can't read the starting list of your once supportive team, I hope you remember that it all started this year. 2020 is the year when Major League Baseball began to decline.
