{"id":16144,"date":"2020-05-14T06:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T01:14:18","slug":"light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Light At The End Of The Tunnel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15840\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>Major League Baseball owners have allegedly approved a plan that could see the 2020 season start around Independence Day.\u00a0 With a second spring training starting in mid-June at each team&#8217;s home ballpark, an 82 game schedule would start in July and would be limited to regional opponents. \u00a0Teams would only face opponents from their own division and the same division in the opposite league.\u00a0 Teams unable to open in their cities due to legal restrictions would temporarily relocate, either to their spring training facilities or major-league parks in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>There are some major roadblocks on the way to implementing this plan, chief among them government participation in states like California and Illinois and the pesky issue of player compensation.\u00a0 The owners would like to see a revenue sharing plan implemented, since there will be no gate revenues, at least at the beginning of the season, while the MLBPA has rejected that outright, likening it to a salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>Does this plan put us closer to baseball coming back?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 But, it isn&#8217;t a sure thing and it is just as likely that the 4th of July comes and goes and America&#8217;s pastime remains on the sidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball owners have allegedly approved a plan that could see the 2020 season start around Independence Day.\u00a0 With a second spring training starting in mid-June at each team&#8217;s home ballpark, an 82 game schedule would start in July and would be limited to regional opponents. \u00a0Teams would only face opponents from their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[729,2244,7026],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-independence-day","tag-mlb","tag-mlbpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16147,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions\/16147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}