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A sport to keep us going in dark times: full-contact MLB negotiations!

It took me awhile, but I finally figured out what was bothering me about the lack of sports in this country:

It’s that there isn’t a lack. One sport actually is playing games.

That would be baseball, which, due to a complete absence of self-awareness, is embroiled in an ugly spat over money during a pandemic. You can’t teach that kind of cluelessness, which I suppose is the reason we’re all watching so wide-eyed. Who says there are no spectators in the stands these days?

The game that Major League Baseball and the players’ union are playing is one the two sides have been playing forever.