Major League Baseball and the players’ association remain at loggerheads on getting the 2020 season onto the diamond. The two sides seem to agree on an 82-game season beginning in early July. All of the other details are up in the air. The players want to be paid on a pro-rata basis, receiving half their salary for playing half the regular number of games. The owners say that’s not possible, and would result in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars this season. They point to the lost television and ticket revenue, in addition to being able to charge less for in-stadium advertising. The owners want to institute a sliding pay scale that would reduce total player salaries from $4 billion to $1.2 billion.