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Tuesday 12 May 2020
AP source: MLB owners approve plan to start season in July

Continued from Front playing games in the ab-
sence of spectators or at
Teams would prefer to play appropriate neutral sites.”
at their regular-season ball- Manfred has said about
parks but would switch to 40% of MLB revenue is tied
spring training stadiums to gate, including conces-
or neutral sites if medical sions, parking, ballpark ad-
and government appro- vertising, luxury suites and
vals can’t be obtained for programs.
games at home. Toronto Union officials and play-
might have to play home ers have cited the March
games in Dunedin, Florida. 26 agreement as setting
The All-Star Game, sche- economic terms and say
duled for Dodger Stadium they have no inclination
in Los Angeles on July 14, for additional cuts. Players
likely would be called off. are more interested in me-
Teams will propose that dical protocols and testing
players receive the per- designed to protect them
centage of their 2020 sala- from and detect the new
ries based on a 50-50 split coronavirus. The proposal
of revenues MLB receives will detail the plan for dea-
during the regular-season ling with players and staff
and postseason, which like- who test positive.
ly will be among the most In this Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, file photo, Boston Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts makes a leaping Because players accrue
contentious aspects of the catch on a ball hit by New York Yankees' DJ LeMahieu during the eighth inning of a baseball salaries for the regular sea-
game in New York.
proposal during negotiati- Associated Press son only and not for spring
ons with the players’ asso- training or the postseason,
ciation. to a 7 1/2-month strike in pear to be leaning toward earned in 2019. the union may counter by
That proposal would take 1994-95 that wiped out the that option, while Arizona- But that deal is contingent asking for more regular-
into account fans being World Series for the first time based clubs are inclined there being no restrictions season games during ne-
able to return to ballparks in 90 years. to work out at home rather on mass gatherings at the gotiations that could signifi-
at some point, perhaps Rosters would be ex- than deal with June heat in federal, state, city and lo- cantly alter or possibly even
with a small percentage of panded from 26 to around the Phoenix area. cal level; no relevant travel scuttle the restart plan.
seats sold at first and then 30. With minor leagues shut- Players and teams agreed restrictions in the U.S. and The DH was adopted by
gradually increasing. tered, there likely will be to a deal on March 26 that Canada; and Commissio- the American League for
Baseball players have re- the addition of about 20 called for each player to ner Rob Manfred after con- the 1973 season but has
fused to consider even the players per club akin to the receive only a portion of sulting the union and me- been resisted by National
frameworks for the type of NFL’s practice squad. salary, determined by what dical expects, determines League owners. The play-
revenue splits that have Teams would have the op- percentage of a 162-game there is no risk to playing in ers’ union has favored it
been agreed to by unions tion of holding the resump- schedule is played. As part front of fans at regular-sea- because it would create
in the NFL, NBA and NHL. tion of spring training at of that deal, if no season is son ballparks. more jobs for high-paying
The last attempt by base- home or at their facilities in played each player would Players and teams commit- hitters in their 30s, but MLB
ball owners to gain a salary Florida and Arizona. Most receive 2020 service time ted to “discuss in good faith has looked at it as an eco-
cap with a revenue split led teams based in Florida ap- matching what the player the economic feasibility of nomic issue.q

White House recommends tests for all nursing home residents

White House strongly rec- the federal government's the U.S. that have been at-
ommended to governors strong recommendation tributed to the virus.
Monday that all residents that such testing be done. Nursing home operators
and staff at such facilities "We really believe that all have said the lack of test-
be tested for the coronavi- 1 million nursing home resi- ing has left them nearly
rus in the next two weeks. dents need to be tested powerless to stop the virus
Why the government is within next two weeks as from entering their facili-
not ordering testing at the well as the staff," added ties because they haven't
the nation's more than Dr. Deborah Birx, the task been able to identity silent
15,000 nursing homes was force coordinator, ac- spreaders among already
unclear. Nor was it clear cording to a recording of sick residents and staff not
why it is being recom- the call obtained by The showing symptoms.
mended now, more than Associated Press. Charlene Harrington, a
two months after the na- More than 26,000 residents professor emeritus of nurs-
tion's first major outbreak and staff have died from ing at the University of
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah
Birx listens as President Donald Trump holds a meeting about at a nursing home outside outbreaks of the virus at California, San Francisco,
the coronavirus response with Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, in of Seattle that eventually the nation's nursing homes said nursing homes should
the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 7, 2020, in killed 43 people. and long-term care facili- have been prioritized from
Washington. Vice President Mike Pence, ties, according to an AP the start given their vul-
Associated Press who leads the White House tally based on state health nerable populations and
DARLENE SUPERVILLE and WASHINGTON (AP) — With coronavirus task force, departments and media questioned why the testing
BERNARD CONDON deaths mounting at the told governors on a video reports. That is about a recommendation is only
Associated Press nation's nursing homes, the conference call that it's third of all 76,000 deaths in happening now.q