It’s not important anymore, and only one side is telling this version of the story, but two days ago commissioner Rob Manfred, a veteran of decades of successful labor negotiations, believed he had reached the framework for an agreement to play the 2020 baseball season. He was wrong. He might’ve been right. I wasn’t there. But then he was wrong, because two days later his adversary — the Players Association — was still negotiating.
(This, by the way, coming five days after the union declared it would no longer negotiate, thus introducing the snappy “when and where” movement that is, today, still a nice T-shirt.