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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.
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Gary Livacari
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