Opinion | Danielle Sepulveres: Baseball players deserve better than MLB's proposal to restart the season mid-pandemic. - NBCNewsTHINK
So the argument that baseball players are being greedy for not wanting to reduce their salaries even further than the pro-rated amount already in place doesn’t fly with me. I love baseball and miss it so much that there’s an ache in my gut when I go to turn on the TV at 7:10 p.m. and realize there’s no game on, and the same when I wake up and see there are no highlights to catch every morning.
Every winter, baseball fans bemoan the cold months we slog through with no dingers or bench-clearing brawls, and yell about trades or trade rumors that make us sad or giddy — all in anticipation of the upcoming season. And now we don’t have one. But the health and safety of the players are what should be most important to all of us, baseball lovers or not.
It’s not greed giving these players pause; it’s showing real concern for what they’re being asked to do. And to every player on every team concerned about their health, or being asked to risk their health for less than their full salary, I say: Don’t shut up. And don’t play if doing so doesn't make sense to you.Danielle Sepulveres is a freelance writer based in NYC contributing to The Washington Post, NY Magazine, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, SELF and various other outlets.
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