Shank
does what he can given minimal recent sports events - here he gives us an update on the eventual restart of Major League Baseball:
Picked-up pieces while waiting for the final two hours of “The Last Dance” . . .
▪ This is a crucial week for Major League Baseball. Owners finalized a return-to-play plan Monday and will offer it to the Players Association Tuesday, but it’s going to get ugly if the parties engage in a public spat about player compensation.
The pandemic has reminded folks how much they miss sports — even baseball — and there is no public appetite for one of those well-worn, old-fashioned, players-owners scraps over compensation. Citizens are dying in large numbers and a huge chunk of America is out of work, so this would not be a time for millionaires to haggle over finances. Commissioner Rob Manfred and the Players Association need to work this out nicely without their customary sabre-rattling.
The issue is going to be proposed player pay cuts motivated by playing games without fans. The players and owners have already agreed to pro-rated salaries based on the number of games played, but owners are going to want additional cuts if they stage a product with no fans.
He keeps this fire burning:
▪ It was announced Monday that Richard Seymour won the fan vote to gain admittance to the Patriot Hall of Fame. This means Bill Parcells is still out. Embarrassing. The Krafts circumvented the fan vote/popularity contest and inducted Billy Sullivan and Gil Santos independently. Will they ever do the right thing for Parcells?
...and you know the rest from there.
For him to say that is an insult to Gil Santos
ReplyDeleteRichard Seymour is a good choice for the Patriots HoF. Parcells deserves to be there, too, and he will likely see his name added somewhere down the line. In the end, though, Parcells has two Super Bowl rings and a Football Hall of Fame career on his resume. Whether or not the Patriots honor him probably make little difference to him.
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