If you have been paying any attention to baseball recently (and I wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t), you’re probably more than ready to stop paying attention. The owners and the players have been squabbling over how to start up the 2020 season, if at all (the latest seems to provide some optimism on that front, but nevertheless). The basic narrative is that the owners are crying poverty because of the COVID shutdown and they want the players to take a pay cut to help cover the losses. The players already did take a pay cut when this whole disaster started back in March, so they don’t feel obligated to take another.