Baseball Olympics Reach “High Hurdles” Event

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty ImagesYou’ve been waiting months for baseball finally to stage the fierce competitions you have been craving, and it looks like today is Opening Day — of the squabble between millionaires and billionaires as they endeavor to agree on the terms of a baseball season that would begin in early July.

Today the owners will send players a formal proposal, which players will reject. That’s not me playing Nicodamus, that’s every negotiation ever. The question is whether each hurdle will be cleared, or whether one of them will prove to be insurmountable. (In real high hurdles, if a runner’s testicles graze the hurdle is the count officially “2 balls and one strike”?)

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