Negotiations between Major League Baseball and the players’ union are getting ugly.
Well, they might already be pretty ugly, if the players’ reaction to the league’s financial proposal made just Tuesday is any indication.
Fans are unlikely to have any patience for billionaires and millionaires fighting over how to divvy up billions of dollars during dual public-health and economic crises that have left 100,000 Americans dead and tens of millions more without a job. But that’s exactly what’s happening, with the players not having the owners’ proposal for salary reductions.
The strongest public statement yet came late Wednesday night, with Max Scherzer, one of the best pitchers in recent memory and the Washington Nationals’ union rep, taking to Twitter to voice his displeasure.