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How Do you Feel About the Proposed 60-Game Season?
After contentious negotiations with the Players’ Association, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has mandated a 60-game baseball season. The tentative plan is for each team to play only within its own region. For example, the Yankees would play the other teams in the American League East and also games against the National League East.
We’re all big baseball fans, but this is something we’ve never seen before. If the coronavirus does not end up closing baseball down again, how do you feel about the plan and the 60-game season? 
In the featured photo, we see a game played on April 29, 2015, between the Orioles and White Sox with an empty stadium due to civil unrest in Baltimore. Take a good look – this might be what we’ll be experiencing for the foreseeable future in baseball.
In the photo at the top of the post, we see baseball being played with masks during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. This is also what we may have to get used to seeing.
Recently, we ran a poll about different proposals for the shortened 2020 baseball season. The entry that got the most votes was: “I’ll be watching for sure, can’t wait for the start-up.” This response got over 35% of the notes. Now that the 60-game proposal seems to have won out, we’re again polling our readers asking for their thoughts.
Personally, I’m finding that I have little interest in the startup. With no fans, I’ve coined the term “Ghost Baseball” (or what may be better, “The Ghost of Baseball Past”). I agree with Bill Gutman who said to me a while back that anything less than 81 games would not be a good idea. So what do we make of a 60-game season?
So be sure to voice your opinion in our new poll. You may make multiple choices from our wide-ranging responses.
Feel free to add comments below.
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Seventh Inning Yawn
“Take me out of the ballgame,
Take me out of the crowd,
Buy me no peanuts or
crackerjack,
I don’t care if I ever go back.
Cause it’s root, root, root for
no home team
If they don’t win, I don’t care
For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out
In your old lawn chair
That’s very good Paul. And I agree, I have little to no interest in what I’m calling “Ghost Baseball.”
Very clever, Paul! I’m with you on some of it.
Will look forward to the Mets core of spirited young players, and might get into “the old ballgame” if they start winning.
Fear the animosity from the negotiations will last awhile, though.
Bill S.
I can’t see how they’ll be able to pull this off. 100 pages of protocols, 60 man “roster”. Players sitting in the stands; broadcasting down remote in a studio.
A whole list of ‘don’t s’ that players are used to that they can’t do. A recipe for spreading the virus if not religiously adhered to. Then what?
The Nationals would not be World Series winners last year under this format as they were under .500 after 60 games.
Bill, how about this mantra for the Metropolitans this year:
“Alonso and de Grom,
a sixty game scrum”.
…”with Lugo and Davis,
right there to save us.”
I will watch some games but how can anyone watch a baseball game when no fans will be in the stands. It will be a dull season of going through the motions for the players. A season lost. Thankfully I have Baseball History Comes Alive and another website called Baseball’s Sweet-Sixteen, 1901-1960 to keep up my baseball interests.
We’re here for you!
I left football after the ” take a knee ” nonsense. The fact the owners and other players didn’t call the jerks out on the act is as disturbing as the act itself and will not be back. In addition, I agree with and support all those who do not buy NFL merchandise. The price of tickets drove me from the game as well: even though I can afford to attend. And then there is the Washington Redskins. Hopefully Mr. Snyder will go with Washington N.A.’s ( Native Americans ), what would be the harm in that ? If anybody has a legitimate complaint with their treatment in the country, it’s the Native Americans.
I left Baseball after the strike many years ago, but weakened on that count and went back after about ten years. The absurd money they receive today is slowly forcing me away again. Do not enjoy watching someone who makes thousands per at bat or per pitch, especially now, when so many in the country are struggling just to eat and shelter. Maybe the Virus will give people a different perspective on the imbalance in society in general. CEO’s fall in the same category as well. In the 1950’s, a CEO would make only eight to ten times what the average worker, not the current factor of hundreds or thousands.
I personally have switched to watching high school and college games ( and not Division I ) and enjoyed both games more than watching the professional athletes. Anybody else in the same spot I am ?
i will watch m.l.b. this season, but really different with no fans — the season should b 140-154, with no interleague games … and NO designated hitter
personally, being in multiple softball leagues, i think slo-pitch is more exciting, more hitting, less time between pitches, and more for “love of the game” … i’m 71
i’ve got lots more recommendations, but don’t wanna get into it right now