On Friday, Major League Baseball team owners told players to accept a 60-game schedule or else.
On Monday, the players chose “or else.”
Players rejected the 60-game offer, essentially telling the league for the second time in nine days to “tell us when and where” to report for the 2020 season. In between, the owners rejected a 70-game proposal pitched by the players.
That would appear to leave the owners with three choices, in order from least likely to most likely:
• Cancel the season, an option opposed by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, but already favored by a small faction of the owners, who are his bosses.