When it comes to this ongoing battle between Major League Baseball’s greedy owners and greedy players, three words are beginning to come to mind more and more: Enough. Of. This.
Enough of billionaire owners cooking their books to show negative earnings when there’s no way these business-savvy guys would ever own these teams if they were really losing all the money they say they are.
Enough of millionaire players – whose average salary in 2019 was $4.36 million – saying they won’t play for far less than that for one season when the average American worker makes a little more than one one-hundredth of that ($49,000) each year.
This country’s hurting. A lot. Financially. Emotionally. Mentally. Physically.
And baseball could help. Maybe not in person, at least not in front of a lot of people. But just having it on the television each night would bring some sense of normalcy back to the most abnormal year of our lives.