Good news for a lot of folks. If baseball is as american as apple pie, it seems only fitting the owners want to restart the league on the weekend of july 4. Mlb owners have reportedly approved a proposal to have opening day on fourth of july weekend. The plan will now be presented to the Players Association on tuesday. There are still plenty of hurdles to clear but here are some key points. A 50 50 revenue split between owners and players, thats going to be a sticky proposition. Spring training would start in early june at the teams home ballparks rather than arizona and florida, the regular season would be cut down to 82 games in the postseason will expand from 5 to 7 teams in each league, the 30 clubs, five of which call California Home will follow the rules of their respective states. I talked to the commissioner of majorleague baseball and he said we want to anything thats not consistent with state guidelines so im not concerned about what they do, as long as is consistent with sta
Savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So good to have you with us on thursday morning. We have craig in for matt once again. For the first time in a week, for the first time in a week, the rain has finally stopped, but of course harveys fury is still being felt across the gulf coast. Lets get to the latest. Breaking news in crosby, texas, just outside houston. Thats where fire is burning at a Chemical Plant following two overnight explosions. Its owners had warned they were unavoidable after the facility lost power and its ability to cool those potentially volatile materials. Well go to crosby live in a moment. At least 28 deaths are being blamed on the storm, but that number is expected to climb sharply in the coming days. Houstons Fire Department is beginning a blockbyblock search of thousands of flooded homes today. In texas alone, 25,000 water rescues alone have been carried out since the storm started with Ongoing Op
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