minor league baseball agreement

 i had read multiple things about negotiations between major league baseball and their minor league affiliates. i found three articles, saying the agreement expired at the end of september. they are from ballpark digest, baseball america, and the boston globe. there is mention of one league that will become a wooden bat summer league for college players, the appalachian league. rob manfred, the commissioner of the major leagues, has spoken of 'one baseball'. the plans are to contract teams, down to 120 clubs, where each major league team has 4 affiliates. short season and rookie league teams are the most likely to be cut. congress has weighed in on it, sending a letter saying they are opposed to any contraction. i liked seeing the history of minor league baseball being covered, this is mostly done in the ballpark digest article. the national association dates back to 1901, in a meeting at a chicago hotel. sounds like this is tied to what was happening in the major leagues, where the american league declared itself a major league to challenge the national league, which led to a peace agreement that spawned the world series in 1903. it sounds like independent leagues have signed on as 'partners' to major league baseball, not sure what this means. when there was a short season for the majors, and most minor league teams did not play due the pandemic, it has been a weird year for the sport. it remains to be seen what all of changes will be. previously, there was talk of the st. paul saints becoming an affiliate, but the saints like their independent status too much so that would be a hard sell. 

it was a busy day at work, as the two biggest files were a total of nearly seven thousand checks to print. all were printed by lunchtime, although i still needed more time to run them through the stuffer. but i liked how i was caught up by the end of the day. it helped that i waited on doing the UPS labels. i tend to get into a rhythm when doing them, so just as well on trying to do most of them back to back. found out i have no key card access to the file room on the other side of the fence, as expected. somebody from payroll asked me if i could let them in to look for a box, but the system wouldn't allow it. in the evening i went on a walk and picked up 25 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when howard played in a band with raj and burt at a bar mitzvah. it was followed by when howard was using a robot arm and it led to him going to the hospital.