{"id":11105,"date":"2020-06-19T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/baseball-needs-a-savior-after-players-counteroffer-botch\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:09:00","slug":"baseball-needs-a-savior-after-players-counteroffer-botch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baseball-needs-a-savior-after-players-counteroffer-botch\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baseball needs a savior after players\u2019 counteroffer botch"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Baseball needs a savior after players\u2019 counteroffer botch<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Well, let\u2019s hope you enjoyed the 13 minutes in which professional baseball players enjoyed prosperity in the court of public opinion. If you blinked you missed it all, kind of like Kevin Maas\u2019 career as Yankee Clipper 2.0.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t that the MLBPA was wrong to counter the owners\u2019 60-game<\/a> schedule Thursday with one 10 games longer, one that includes a slightly larger piece of the financial pie. In a normal negotiation, in truth, that would simply be a part of the dance: you say 60, we say 70, let\u2019s meet at 64 (or 66; an even number is an imperative) and then, in the words of Rex Ryan, let\u2019s go have a damned snack and we\u2019ll meet you at spring training.<\/p>\n

But there is nothing normal about this negotiation, mostly because of the unmitigated and unyielding contempt both sides have for each other, partly because the featured players, Rob Manfred and Tony Clark, have both shown a blind spot for actually remembering what it is they actually say whenever they actually get together to talk.<\/p>\n

And partly because of this:<\/p>\n

\u201cTell us when and where.\u201d<\/p>\n

Look, we are all tired veterans of this process by now and we know that was simply an easily hashtagged rallying cry that was designed to illustrate the unity of a union that, historically, is about as unified as unions ever get. That was Clark\u2019s response to an ownership proposal last week that the players found laughable enough that they simply assumed Manfred would, as his powers as commissioner allow, impose a truncated mad dash of a season. The union chief said his rank-and-file were ready and eager to get back to work. The rank-and-file adopted the slogan. Many tweeted it out.<\/p>\n

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Tony Clark<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And a funny thing happ<\/a>ened:<\/p>\n

Through the long history of owner and player disagreement, while the players have most always occupied the moral high ground they have almost always been strangled by their own public relations. When it\u2019s come time to choose sides, the public almost always gathers behind the billionaires. This is not a new thing. Joe DiMaggio once held out for a couple-of-thousand-dollar raise, early in his career. When he ultimately had to settle for whatever crumbs the Yankees were willing to part with, he not only had to endure the harsh critiques of his bosses but had to serve an extended penance with Yankees fans, too, who booed a player they would later elevate in memory to the status of cherished secular saint.<\/p>\n

Of course DiMaggio held out in the teeth of the Great Depression, and if the terms had been invented yet he surely would\u2019ve been accused by the sports columnists of the day of being either \u201ctone deaf,\u201d or utilizing \u201cbad optics,\u201d or \u201cfailing to read the room.\u201d Similarly, this labor skirmish takes place in the midst of a national calamity so the first reaction of many was to rip the players for refusing to take an even greater haircut than the one they already took once the first half of the season was amputated.<\/p>\n

But even in more prosperous times the players have a hard time winning this fight. Everyone who ever played Wiffle Ball, stickball, porch ball or any form of organized baseball \u2014 or simply invested a soul in the game \u2014 looks at players walkouts as a fundamental betrayal. Everyone knows better, of course. Anyone with a job, asked if they would work for free, would have to stop laughing before they answered the question. Yet there is still a part of many that believes baseball players, who make their living playing baseball, ought to be grateful for every nickel.<\/p>\n

That was always a given.<\/p>\n

Except this time, it seemed, the players actually had the people on their side. Not all, no. But baseball\u2019s owners are such a distasteful bunch, and Manfred, their puppet, is such a ham-handed leader, it was hard to fall in line behind them, either. They cried poverty and, boom: a billion-dollar TV deal appears! They claim to be sportsmen and defenders of a public trust and yet \u2014 voila! \u2014 some have expressed private hope the season is never played. At best this is always an airline-food-versus-hospital-food debate, but more than ever before it felt like the players had a fair share of public sentiment on their side.<\/p>\n

Then they were told where, and<\/p>\n

Tell us where and when!<\/p>\n

Told when, and \u2026 well, they wanted more. Now it is their right to want more. It is their privilege. And it is easy to believe that Manfred and Clark, who can\u2019t agree on if water is wet, would have different interpretations of how their little face-to-face went the other day. Of course they did.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t about right or wrong. It\u2019s about perception. It\u2019s also about finding adults who can stand up and, ultimately, do what\u2019s right and, more and more, it seems obvious the players are going to have to provide that adult supervision.<\/p>\n

In the NFL, in a similar crisis, there are numerous voices with enough gravitas to help preach reason. John Mara. Art Rooney II. Robert Kraft. Clark Hunt. Baseball? You tell me who can pull that off. The best team in recent years is the Astros \u2014 not exactly a candidate to offer moral authority on anything. The defending champions are the Nats, and their billionaire owners had to be shamed by the players into not cutting off their minor leaguers. Maybe a Hal Steinbrenner\/John Henry parlay could work, but the more likely scenario is they\u2019d be viewed as big-market beasts looking after their own interest.<\/p>\n

So who is the adult? Manfred? Clark? Anyone? The players had the ear of the public for 13 precious minutes or so, but they also have an army of right-thinking, forward-thinking members who have actually shown themselves to be quite admirable these past few months. Think of the many players who have offered to underwrite minor leaguers, and the others who\u2019ve spoken eloquently in the face of the social<\/a> vitriol of the past month. Maybe someone can figure a way to talk sense into the people that make this decision. I still think if that happens, it\u2019ll come from the players side. But someone needs to do it, and soon.<\/p>\n

The game turns its lonely eyes to you, whoever you are.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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