Both of these things are true, which is why we seemingly are about to start the most illegitimate baseball season in history.
So congrats to the owners and players for doing the impossible — creating widespread disgust among their fan base when all they had to do to satiate the masses was agree to play a half season or so and put the games on TV.
Instead, we’ll probably get about one-third of a season, turning the time-honored marathon into a sprint and spoiling the very essence of the game.
Who knows? Anyone can play lights out for a 50-something-game stretch, as the 1977 Cubs proved when they were 25 games over .