SI's Bri Amaranthus and Chris Halicke discuss the report from ESPN of a plan that could have the MLB season starting as early as May.
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00:00It's been about a month of sports hiatus because of coronavirus and nobody really knows what the 2020 MLB season will look like.
00:10Although most likely some games will be played without fans.
00:14However, the MLB and the Players Association has come up with a new plan that says they may start as early as May.
00:22Chris, what's the latest on this?
00:25We got our first glimmer of hope when it comes to potentially having a baseball season.
00:29ESPN reported on Monday night that the MLB and MLB Players Association are working on a plan that could potentially have games start as early as May.
00:41If they played all in the Phoenix area at the Arizona Diamondbacks home at Chase Field and at the spring training parks in the Phoenix area.
00:52How realistic that plan actually comes to fruition.
00:56It seemed a little far-fetched as you read through the report.
01:00You're starting to read things like that players might have to be separated from their families for as long as potentially four and a half months.
01:08If the pandemic continues and doesn't get better and they can't go back to their home stadiums and plus a number of other things.
01:17Major League Baseball actually issued a statement Tuesday morning saying that they had not come to any kind of decision whatsoever.
01:23That they haven't set in stone anything that they're doing right now.
01:28They've discussed a lot of different contingencies when it comes to salvaging the baseball season.
01:33For right now, this is a report that is out there.
01:38We're going to assume that there is a little bit of validity to it.
01:43That at least it is at the least an idea that officials in Major League Baseball are considering.
01:50But obviously there's a lot of different options they can weigh at this point.
01:53They're going to continue to work and do whatever they can to try to salvage the season if at all possible.