Credit where it’s due: The catchphrase in the headline to this article was invented by NBC Sports’ Craig Calcaterra, and Craig usually brings it out when people say baseball’s a dying sport, yet there’s some major positive development. An example from 2017:
But this morning, the phrase has a different meaning.
This time, Major League Baseball is killing itself, and by this I mean team owners and Commissioner Rob Manfred are strangling the life out of it by playing games with the 2020 season, its length and its pay, and in so doing are attempting by public statements to shift blame for the possibility we won’t have a season to the players.