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The Rundown: Baseball’s Problems Small in Comparison, Boras Uses Cubs as Example of Owners’ Greed, Sweeping MiLB Cuts, 64 Hours of Jeter

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” – Winston Churchill

The world is an inferno right now, yet baseball’s labor negotiations remain at the forefront of my news feed every morning and I just don’t get it. At a time when we are witnessing devastating racial divide, police brutality, political effrontery, and the ravages of a continuing pandemic — in real time, mind you — the impasse between owners and players seems hardly worth choosing a side.

On this Friday morning, as I scroll through seemingly endless emails from newspaper and magazine subscriptions while looking for pertinent baseball news, I can’t help but feel that the ratio of tragic to heartwarming headlines sits at something like 90:10.