Cubs: MLB to players ‘take more cuts or no baseball’ is nuts

Rob Manfred / Chicago Cubs (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Chicago Cubs fans are waiting and hoping for a season, shortened though it may be. Any baseball is better than no baseball. But no baseball is exactly what fans might get if MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred continues with his nonsense.

There is a deal already in place for the Chicago Cubs. It stipulates that players must take a prorated salary in the event of a shortened season. Sounds reasonable. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid, even if, as in this case, the reason for not working has nothing to do with the players not wanting to work. Tens of millions of us are in the same boat.

But now, Rob Manfred and his minions at MLB…