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Labor fights, new competition, invisible players: Why MLB may be sports' biggest loser during COVID-19 pandemic

By Gabe LacquesUSA TODAYAs professional sports peeks its collective head out from the cover of a pandemic, and methodically finds a path to re-starting its leagues, the uncertainty runs far beyond how many games they may play, whether championships will be awarded and when fans might be allowed to view it all in person. No, the greater unknown lies in what changes brought about by mitigating COVID-19 may become permanent, and how they may significantly reorder the sports landscape. And in many scenarios where a new world order emerges, the biggest loser may very well be Major League Baseball. Forget, for a moment, that the league and its players are engaged in a fight over hundreds of millions of dollars and cannot come to an agreement to play, even as fans grapple with millions of job losses, more than 100,000 American deaths in a pandemic and a racial reckoning decades in the making. No, even if MLB had its house in order, disruption in the sports industry — namely, the double-edged sword of cord-cutting and sagging attendance — already put the game’s financial model in some peril.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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