Play Ball

Major League Baseball’s owners and players need to stop squabbling and get the season started already

I am not happy. My husband is not happy. Our 10-year-old daughter is not happy.

We want baseball.

It doesn’t even have to be “official” games. We’ll take Brett Gardner banging on the dugout ceiling for three hours. Just give us something.

Before this horrible Covid-19 situation began, my family had big plans. We were going to continue our nationwide tour of Major League ballparks, take our third annual trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and go to as many Yankee games as possible in between. (Shout out to Section 106. We miss you guys.)

Now we’re stuck at home watching Korean baseball, rebroadcasts of classic games, and YouTube videos of guys pulling pranks.

Commissioner Manfred, you need to stop all this nonsense and come to an agreement with the players’ union already because we can’t take it anymore. (Though the video of Corey Kluber trying to do an interview with Fox Sports while his teammates pelt him with sunflower seeds from off-camera is stellar.)

I was feeling so hopeful on June 10th when you said you were “100 percent” sure there would be a 2020 season. But a few days later you expressed…