<div dir="ltr"><div>Jeff Winick assures me there will be baseball this year.  Maybe only 50 games, but baseball nonetheless.  Bring it on!</div><div><br></div><div>Impatiently,</div><div><br></div><div>-Andy<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:36 PM Bill Strotman via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">What kind of fly by night league didn’t address this ??    Who wrote that damn thing ??    Ambulance chasers.    <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 11, 2020, at 8:31 PM, springkerb via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Good question and I dont see that it's addressed in the constitution.  Is it a 10-way tie, or just a write-off?  If it's a 10 way tie, do we just draw lots for the draft?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mark</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-2439880606577357139composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:rgb(87,87,87)" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Frank Luby via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> </div><div>Date: 6/11/20  5:30 PM  (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: USML Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> </div><div>Cc: Frank Luby <<a href="mailto:zachfehsvater@yahoo.com" target="_blank">zachfehsvater@yahoo.com</a>> </div><div>Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fwd: The latest from Jason Gay </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
        <div dir="ltr">The bigger question is: what do we do if there is no season? Pretend there actually was one, and then redraft for 2021 with all contract statuses changed as if there was a season?</div><div><br></div>
        
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                    On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 4:24:24 PM CDT, Bill Strotman via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:
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                <div><div id="gmail-m_-2439880606577357139ydp6020ff05yiv6529445989"><div>They ain’t gonna play <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 11, 2020, at 4:22 PM, springkerb--- via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<h4 style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:16px;font-weight:300;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;line-height:22px">A flag is unfurled in the outfield before a July 4 game between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers in 2019.</h4><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;text-transform:uppercase"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">PHOTO: </span>MARK BLACK/ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></div>

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<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px">Round and round it goes, with counterproposals, dramatic claims of permanent damage and no solution in the offing. The situation veers from pessimism to optimism to screaming into the void, depending on the hour. The owners are using a familiar tactic, trying to corner the players as greedy and hoping public opinion turns against them. The players think the owners aren’t being fair—or financially transparent—in trying to renegotiate.</div>

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Live sports are starting to come back after months of coronavirus-enforced standstill. Among the changes: quieter stadiums, ubiquitous face masks. The WSJ’s Andrew Jeong attends a baseball game in South Korea to see how they play through a pandemic. Illustration by Crystal Tai</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px">What a swing and a miss. As Jared <a shape="rect" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseball-had-a-chance-to-be-the-first-team-sport-back-it-blew-it-11591700401" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(2,116,182);outline:currentcolor none medium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrote the other day</a>, baseball had a chance to get on the diamond before any other major American sport came back. With a nation climbing out of virus-driven lockdowns, it was a golden shot for an old sport with shrinking public mindshare to earn good will and the attention of casual fans.</div>

<div style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:17px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-family:Exchange;line-height:27px">Think about it: This has been a long, challenging spring for this country. People are exhausted; lives have been derailed. I don’t buy into that treacly <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">baseball is a metaphor for life</em> mumbo-jumbo, but the sport is undeniably a soundtrack of the summer. Wouldn’t it be nice to turn on the radio in July and hear a ballgame?</div>

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