“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” – Winston Churchill
The world is an inferno right now, yet baseball’s labor negotiations remain at the forefront of my news feed every morning and I just don’t get it. At a time when we are witnessing devastating racial divide, police brutality, political effrontery, and the ravages of a continuing pandemic — in real time, mind you — the impasse between owners and players seems hardly worth choosing a side.
On this Friday morning, as I scroll through seemingly endless emails from newspaper and magazine subscriptions while looking for pertinent baseball news, I can’t help but feel that the ratio of tragic to heartwarming headlines sits at something like 90:10.