Statement from the Players Association saying their prepared to get back to work July 24th. The players will be getting their full prorated pay. The season will last for two months and a week prior to the post season starting in October (MLB Players Association image)

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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi Gonzalez

There will be baseball. An abbreviated regular-season starting by the end of July and ending by the end of September. The only hurdle left is the unpredictability of this Covid-19 virus. Because of the history of the two protagonists, you could have predicted the final result. And there is no winner here. If you believe there was a winner then you are a great candidate to buy beach front property in Tennessee.

Anybody that loves this game, now feels like when you wake-up the morning after with a terrible hangover after a party, that was not really what you where hoping for. Unlike other sports, a game that ends in a tie is not part of the game of baseball (for now anyway) and after three months of negotiations just regurgitated all the distrust between both sides, we are going to play for about two months and a few days, plus playoffs.

In a season of this kind, teams like the Seattle Mariners, who have never won a World Series since their franchise was born in 1977, have the best chance. Ironically the Mariners last year had a 13-2 start; something very rare in baseball history, they were the 17th team since 1900 to win at least 13 of their first 15 games. If they repeat such start during a season of some 60 games, they might just do it.

Hopefully the two month and a week season will go without a hitch, since the navigation would be a virus that is still without a vaccine.

Nobody won. At the end, there was an even bigger loser than the owners, players, and the fans.

Stay well and stay tuned.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Museum at the Oakland Coliseum and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com