NEW YORK _ Calling any more negotiations "futile," Tony Clark is daring commissioner Rob Manfred to make good on his threat to set a schedule on his own _ absent an agreement with the Players Association.
Just this week, Manfred publicly guaranteed there would be a season "one way or another." But after Friday's 72-game proposal again failed to deliver full prorated salaries to the union, the players decided Saturday that they are done talking.
They're ready to do this the hard way. And with MLB suggesting that all the owners can afford is roughly 50 games, that may very well be the schedule.
