Tick, tock.
Yes, the digital clocks you now use almost everywhere don’t make that sound. But I’m sure you can hear it ticking loudly on the chances to have a 2020 baseball season.
Monday, MLB owners made another proposal for a season which contained specific financial numbers for player salaries, as well as some other conditions for play. ESPN’s Jeff Passan helpfully put all these on Twitter, so let’s take a look at them one by one.
A 76-game season isn’t great, but it’s only six games fewer than the 82-game proposal that we had all hoped would start around the beginning of July and five games fewer than half a “normal” 162-game season.