It wasn’t a pandemic that landed Major League Baseball here, on the precipice of potential calamity.
It was ambiguity. Ambiguity that is almost as unfathomable as the situation itself, in which MLB’s players and team owners are seemingly going to allow their sport to absorb a self-inflicted gut punch that could contribute to diminished fan interest and decimated revenue and salaries for years to come.
The foundation on which both the players and team owners have their feet stubbornly planted is a March 27 agreement that was heralded at the time as the first step in eventually allowing the sides to play a 2020 season postponed by the spread of COVID-19.