Keith Olbermann says that if there is a baseball strike, it’ll be over on September 8th.
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2002: During a joint news conference with Fehr and owners negotiators Rob Manfred and Bob DuPuy — but not the soon-to-be-scapegoated Selig — it will be announced that logistics will demand that the games can’t resume until Monday.
Each side will pronounce itself dissatisfied with the compromise, and that the real reason they were so willing to make such concessions was their side’s overwhelming and abiding primary concern; the one thing that has animated them throughout these 10 long days: their awareness that, at all costs, the games of Sept. 11, 2002, had to be played.
I don’t think MLB is that smart, but I also don’t care. I want my grandchildren to look up at me one day and ask “Papa, what’s professional baseball?”
