{"id":16297,"date":"2020-06-23T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16297"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:17:14","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-2\/wf_barren\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15840\"><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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren.jpg 750w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wf_barren-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>After weeks of corona virus related delays and petty bickering back and forth with the MLB Player&#8217;s Association, MLB owners voted last night to proceed with an abbreviated 2020 season under the terms of their March 26th agreement.\u00a0 The agreement gives Commissioner Rob Manfred the power to implement a schedule that will likely be between 50 &#8211; 60 games.\u00a0 Because the two sides could not come to an agreement, none of the proposed changes (universal DH, expanded playoffs, uniform ads, extra innings nonsense) can be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is for the MLBPA to determine if players can report for a second &#8220;spring&#8221; training starting on July 1 and to agree on the health and safety protocols.\u00a0 Following that, a strange season will unfold starting in late July and grievances will be filed, followed by another winter of sanctimonious arguing leading in to a labor war that will engulf the 2021 season, the final season of the current CBA and will likely lead to the sport&#8217;s first work stoppage since the disastrous 1994 strike.\u00a0 What a time to be a fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of corona virus related delays and petty bickering back and forth with the MLB Player&#8217;s Association, MLB owners voted last night to proceed with an abbreviated 2020 season under the terms of their March 26th agreement.\u00a0 The agreement gives Commissioner Rob Manfred the power to implement a schedule that will likely be between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[77,8844,2244,7026,8883],"class_list":["post-16297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1994-strike","tag-corona-virus","tag-mlb","tag-mlbpa","tag-rob-manfred"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16300,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions\/16300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}