Owners and players must come together to move baseball forward through the pandemic crisis and the years-long rebuild to come.
The process could start this week as the two sides try to negotiate the financial terms for reopening Our National Pastime.
But bargaining got off to a rocky start Tuesday with the owners proposing to pay top-earning players significantly less than their pro-rated salary for the remaining games.
As you expect, this offer did not please the MLB Players Association.
If the owners and players can cut through the usual bickering and forge a deal, they could build mutual trust and gain momentum towards a new collective bargaining agreement.