In a letter to those covered by the uniform employee contract last week, commissioner Rob Manfred wrote: "While I fully anticipate that baseball will resume this season, it is very difficult to predict with any accuracy the timeline for the resumption of our season." In the letter, Manfred told the employees -- managers, coaches, scouts and other non-players -- that he planned to suspend the contracts this Friday, allowing teams to not pay them if they so desire.

Yes. Opening Day around July 4th

Yes. Opening Day around July 4th

Frank is 100% right on this one.

Memorial day weekend or bust.

Oh, there will be baseball... The one constant through all the years.... has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.

Memorial day weekend or bust.

They are going to need some sort of spring training. Probably not a full month, but at least 12-15 games or so. I think best case scenario would be season starts mid June, and "spring training" starts around Memorial Day weekend.

At this point, there are too many young pitchers who don't have access to their typical training facilities. I think that pitchers and catchers report June 1, everybody else a week later, and games start July 4. The only question is where they will play, it's too warm to play in the spring training stadiums, even at night. Years ago, I went to an EXST game at Sloan (free, maybe 100 people there other than players and coaches). It was 104 degrees, I had cold drinks with me, and I still had to leave in the sixth inning. The pitchers were all on roughly 40 pitch counts.

I think that no matter what happens with where the regular season is played, the playoffs will be neutral site to allow the regular season to be extended through October.

Nope, whole season will be gone, followed by contraction of two to four teams.

Nope, whole season will be gone, followed by contraction of two to four teams.

Hopefully one of them is the Cubs.

What baseball related topics would the Subdivision talk about then?

Nope, whole season will be gone, followed by contraction of two to four teams.

And you are basing this on what? The commissioner said in the article that he was confident there would be baseball at some point. I get why people think there will be no end to the NHL and NBA season, but baseball would have just been a month into the season today. There is a lot of time to salvage some type of a season.

Who's going to the games? Everyone thinks the next person they see will kill them and all their loved ones, and they also have no money. Sure, empty stadiums, but baseball isn't a TV show like football, they rely on parking/beer/ticket revenues. (Hockey relies on them even more.) You can do that for a game or two because of race riots, but for 80-100 games? The math doesn't add up. Everything is fucked forever.

So you seriously think there will be no more sports ever?

So you seriously think there will be no more sports ever?

I don't think they will let us have them for years 2 -3 at least.

So you seriously think there will be no more sports ever?