I might be one of the few and not-so-proud baseball fans out here who is concerned that Major League Baseball’s 2020 season is in dire peril.
It might not happen. The MLB’s owners have pitched a 76-game schedule that cuts deeply into the money the players would earn from a regular season and from a playoff system resulting in the World Series.
They’re still dickering, quarreling and negotiating over the terms of the season. It doesn’t look good, at least not to these eyes.
Furthermore, it’s beginning to look equally bleak for all those minor-league teams and the communities that support them for what they hoped would be a stellar season in 2020.
Yep, that’s you, my friends and former neighbors in Amarillo, those of you who root hard for the Sod Poodles, the city’s AA franchise affiliated with the San Diego Padres.
The Soddies won the Texas League title in 2019. They had high hopes of defending their title this season … until the coronavirus pandemic shut everything down.
This hurts fans all across the land. The big leagues have their faithful fanatics. So do the minor leagues. MLB has its players union. Minor league baseball isn’t affected so much by that governing body.
That damn pandemic is threating to wipe out an entire season.
My heart hurts for the fans who have been waiting … patiently.
I’m with you, John. I want there to be a baseball season, even in the minors. I wanted to go to a game in Frisco with Pastor Todd and Loretta. Hopefully we will cheer on those RoughRiders next year. Maybe the three of us can go to a Princeton Panthers football game this fall. Who knows? Anyway, you take care.
AJ