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They are moving inches. Feet are needed. Probably yards. So more and more it is looking as if the Major League Baseball regular season will be 50-ish games imposed by the commissioner. MLB made a second proposal to restart the season on Monday and the union countered 24 hours later. Neither side liked the other’s …

The next Xbox is still slated to hit store shelves this holiday season — coronavirus be damned. In an interview with Time, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that despite the pandemic forcing employees to work from home, the next-generation gaming system will keep its original launch window. “Yes, we are on track,” Nadella said. “The …

Major League Baseball and the players association have mastered making offers that the other side claims take them further away from an agreement. MLB delivered a written proposal Monday to the players association that called for players to collectively receive 50 percent of their prorated salaries in a 76-game regular season. That would go to …

There remains no outward signs MLB and the players’ association are moving toward each other in time to begin the regular season with the optimum start, Independence Day weekend. The MLB Players Association released a statement Thursday evening saying that its executive board and more than 100 players talked via conference call and recommitted to …

On the bright side, no one calls baseball “boring” at the moment. These heated negotiations to restart the 2020 season continue to entertain, even as they present absolutely terrible optics to a country coping simultaneously with a social crisis and a pandemic. Here are three thoughts on the latest developments: 1. If you’re wondering whether …

She’s keeping up with the Kardashians in an extreme way. A plastic surgery-addicted Playboy Bunny is not letting the coronavirus pandemic keep her from undergoing operations until she resembles her favorite reality TV star: Kourtney Kardashian. The bunny’s bold proclamation comes a week after Brazil’s daily COVID-19 death toll surpassed that of the US. “I …

“It is going to be the first line in my obituary.” — Jim Joyce It is not this simple: Joyce missed a call and the Astros committed baseball sins that rocked the sport. It is not that kind of straight line. From there to here. A lot happened in between. And MLB was probably on …

The growing expectation is that the Players Association is not going to deliver a financial response to MLB’s initial proposal in time to reach an accord before Monday’s soft June 1 deadline to restart the game by Independence Day weekend. So let’s start a game of seven questions on that subject: 1. Does the deadline …

Since negotiating sessions have been rare despite much to do and a ticking clock, Rob Manfred and Tony Clark have time to take a plane flight together. That actually could help the negotiations. Especially if they see the world from 20,000 feet. Because they have myopically (and instinctually) locked into their antagonistic comfort zones — …

MLB and the players association are in a familiar situation unfamiliarly. They are fighting about money. Duh. Players and owners have done that since the inception of the game, quite publicly since the players association was formally recognized as a union in 1966. Within that frame, what occurred Tuesday is as routine as a pregame …