Thursday edition. How kicked the coverage podcast. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I asked the question right off the jump is baseball really this dumb can players and owners millionaires and billionaires truly not find a way to get back. We got a loaded show for you. We'll talk with Frank. I sold a Dr David.

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I just keep thinking major league baseball the players and the owners can't be this dumb. And by the way I keep thinking the same thing about the NBA.

Yesterday we got news that Lego land the universal studios in Orlando. Disney worlds magic kingdom animal kingdom and Epcot are all going to be open by July 15th.

Next week you are going to be able to go to Harry Potter world and you're not going to be able to watch major league baseball or the NBA on television without fans present.

Little league baseball is starting back up in many parts of the country by June 1 or middle June basketball is starting up in many parts of the country.

Parents are going to games and sitting and watching their kids play and yet pro sports can't get their act together right now the focus is on major league baseball.

But why in the world is the NBA saying they hope to be back by the end of July or early August. This should take no time at all.

Both sports should be back sooner rather than later there's no reason why every player out there couldn't agree to be in training camp by June 1.

This is all lunacy major league baseball in particular because right now they are focused on entirely money and let me be straightforward and clear and not leave any shadows or uncertainty here.

If major league baseball players and owners cannot quickly come to an agreement here to bring back baseball they will forever cripple the sport.

There are 40 million people who are unemployed or there will be by later this morning when the newest unemployment report comes out.

Of the people who have kept their jobs almost all of them have taken pay cuts or alterations in their schedule in some way.

This is one of the worst looks that I have seen for any pro sports league in my lifetime to be unable to figure out how to be back.

Major league baseball should already be back if they had a good strong union and leadership among the owners this would have been worked out months ago.

The risk from a health perspective to players is negligible there is virtually none you are under more danger driving to and from the stadium than you are from the coronavirus if you are young and healthy person in pro sports.

You are under more likelihood of being struck by lightning if you are under the age of 24 than you are of dying of the coronavirus.

This is not complicated this is straightforward this should have been worked out months ago.

The latest comments came from Max Scherzer last night who is on the Major league baseball committee that responds to the owners and he said as I follow last night after discussing the latest developments with the rest of the players there is no reason to engage with MLB in any further compensation reductions.

We have previously negotiated a pay cut in the version of pro rated salaries and there is no justification to accept a second pay cut based upon the current information the union has received.

I am glad to hear other players voicing the same viewpoint and believe MLB's economic strategy would completely change if all documentation were to become public information.

Here is the deal we don't care this isn't complicated owners and players management and labor have been arguing for all of mankind about what players should receive in compensation what workers should receive in compensation compared to management.

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