[Right_Wing_Madman]

Well, it’s tough to pay people if you don’t have the revenue. And if the players won’t take that into account...there won’t be a season.

I think I'm with the players on this one. Even with the proposed 50/50 revenue split between owners and players, because of the total loss of gate revenues, the players are looking at receiving 10-20% of their regular pay for playing half a season. That's a bad deal. I don't think I would do that. And it's not the owners' fault - it's just the economic reality of the situation.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I read the baseball is a 10 billion dollar business and roughly half of that Revenue comes from ticket sales.

So if they have to play games in front of empty stadiums, ticket Revenue will decline about 166 million dollars per team.

Whatever agreement on splitting revenue or prorating salaries they come up with, all the teams are looking at absorbing huge operating losses perhaps in the tens of millions of dollars this year.

We hate to think about it, but the owners would come out way ahead financially if they just scrapped the season.

They have got to be able to sell tickets this season, even if they cannot sell out the ballpark , and have to do social distancing and not sell all of the tickets. They desperately need that Revenue in order to pay all of their operating expenses, of which player salaries are probably the biggest single expense that they have.