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Wait … is the coast clear? Have the warring parties really retreated to their bunkers at last? Have we actually typed the words “pro rata” into laptops for the last time? Is it really OK to start talking about baseball again? You remember baseball, don’t you? Pastoral game. Nine to a side (well, 10 for …

After a harrowing journey, Major League Baseball finally is ready to exchange lineup cards to signal the start of action. (Actually, there won’t be any such exchanges thanks to the coronavirus, but you get the idea.) When commissioner Rob Manfred and the MLB Players Association agreed on terms of their COVID-conscious health and safety protocols …

Rob Manfred did what he did not want to do, but had to do. He told the players where and when. The commissioner implemented a season that will be 60 games if the union by 5 p.m. Tuesday signs off on health and safety protocols, and agrees to show up to spring training on July …

The near-end of a tortured process. The near-beginning of an ugly outcome. Major League Baseball announced Monday night that it would move forward with a 2020 restart, the conditions unilaterally implemented by commissioner Rob Manfred, after the MLB Players Association voted down Manfred’s last offer. The length of the regular season, if the coronavirus allows …

Even as these tortured 2020 restart talks now face an end, baseball’s troubles might just be beginning. The Major League Baseball Players Association voted Monday against Rob Manfred’s proposal for a 60-game schedule with prorated pay, and the commissioner appears poised to go to his nuclear option: a unilaterally implemented schedule, expected to be for …

The most influential players huddled virtually all weekend to discuss where they stood on MLB’s last offer, including with slight modifications that came Sunday. But all indications were they remained resolved against accepting the current version of a proposed 60-game season. That will only push commissioner Rob Manfred to more seriously move toward pressing the …

There are those who are not the lead negotiators, not the spokesman. These are people who take the texts and the emails and the calls and meet your exasperation with their own. I want to believe they are the true silent majority in the major leagues. Owners, executives, players and agents who have spent weeks …

The MLB Players Association, recognizing the coronavirus outbreaks in key baseball states, will take another day or two before officially voting on the commissioner’s proposal of a 60-game season, an industry source said. The players will use that time to further discuss the proposed health and safety protocols for a 2020 restart. The PA’s executive …

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” — Stuart Smalley What the hell are we doing here? Are Rob Manfred and Tony Clark still cursing the day the other was born? Are owners still crying poverty? Are players still lathered up over their counterpart’s wrongdoings of the past decade? Or might we pay attention to …

Four members of the Yankees organization in Tampa, Fla., have tested positive for the coronavirus, several people with knowledge of the situation told The Post. Two members work at George M. Steinbrenner Field and two have ties to the nearby minor league complex. The members were not identified by name or exact job descriptions, nor …