Friday, May 15, 2020

Blogger's Note

I'll be away for a couple of days.  Next post Saturday evening or Sunday.

Thanks for reading and commenting, everybody!

DrB
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  1. AnonymousMay 15, 2020 at 3:40 PM

    Hope you can enjoy yourself in this treacherous time, you medical people deserve whatever good you can find.
    The BIG story when you get back may be the Failure of a deal between the Owners and the Players.
    The Owners seem dug in to protect the predictable losses resulting from no crowds and concessions. I suspect that in normal times they all make money one way or another but the loss of gate and crowd revenue is onerous (to them). Thus the Revenue Sharing plan that the other sports have and the Players don't want.
    The Players are grieving from a 50% cut by playing only half the games and aren't buying Revenue Sharing − that was what cost a season not too long ago. To them it's a Salary Cap, and potentially an end to really large contracts (or at least, some of them). They feel the owners have been squeezing them in free agency lately although the 2020 season which might not even happen reversed that trend some.
    Unless the Owners back off and the rich teams share (privately) with the poor teams (if that's not collusion), IMO, there won't be a season because the Players aren't going to let what they call the "Salary Cap" muscle a foot into the slightly open door even for a one-off season.
    Besides, who's to say the 2020-2021 virus season won't be worse sans the elusive vaccine?

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