Kovacevic: Revenue sharing in baseball? Owners’ ploy transparent … and awesome

PITTSBURGH — There's hope that the Pirates will retake the field at PNC Park for a de facto second spring training by mid-June, based on a brief talk I had last night with a longstanding source at 115 Federal.

It’s hedged hope, though. Not outright optimism.

And the reason for that hedging, depressingly enough, isn't the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that continues claiming lives across the globe but, rather, Major League Baseball's archaic resistance to a salary cap.

Oh, let’s not pretend this latest flap, one that’s had the owners and players publicly sniping the past 48 hours over an economic proposal toward playing a restructured season in 2020, is about anything else. When it comes to this crew, and again I’m referring to both owners and players, it’s always, always, always about a cap at the core of any economic issue.

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