Today, I’m not going to talk about specific baseball revenue figures or other numbers that have been put out there by various sources. There are just too many different numbers for any of us — and we don’t have access to any of them, really — to make an informed decision or for me to parse them.
Instead, I want to call your attention to one reason we’re probably heading toward not having a baseball season at all in 2020, summarized here by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich at The Athletic:
Nearly one week after the two sides met digitally, the familiar distrust between the sides already is coloring the talks.