Baseball players are dickheads
That’s it. End of blog.
No, but it could be. Latest news out of MLB negotiation camp? The Players continue to play the role of petulant child on the floor of the grocery store refusing to get up unless a toy is purchased.
There won't be expanded playoffs or a universal designated hitter in Major League Baseball this season, sources told Evan Drellich of The Athletic.
Both the league and the players' association consider the issues to be dead, and no further discussions are planned, Drellich reports.
Pitchers will therefore resume hitting in National League contests and the playoffs will return to the 10-team format in place from 2012 to 2019.
Their most recent move was finalizing the decision not to have a universal DH and in turn eliminating the chance at expanded playoffs.
Fine, whatever. Screw 15 players out of a job worth 10 or so million dollars for spite. No Problem. And aparently you don’t care how the playoffs affect your own bottom lines either?
Owners, meanwhile, are pushing for an expanded postseason because of the financial windfall it would bring them. Had the 2021 playoffs been expanded, MLB would have been given a $100-million credit from television partner ESPN, a source told Drellich.
In January, MLB reportedly offered to institute the universal DH in exchange for an expanded postseason. The MLBPA turned it down.
Someone tell me why this deal was not made other than the fact that MLB players are dicks? I’ll wait.
