Baiko and Aspe are immersed in a complex period to which companies from other sectors are not strangers, among which some cannot even maintain activity due to measures to curb the pandemic. The television contract allows the professional ball to keep going even if the box office income has fallen to zero in the last month. The promoters delayed the resolution of the Couples Championship and the Manomanista dispute to fall in the hope that the public restrictions would be relaxed. They have grown frog. They have collided with a second wave of coronavirus positives that deprives them of two of the best pieces of cake of the year: the full ones in the finals of these two tournaments.
No one is able to discern how long this crisis will last. Limitations of a greater or lesser degree will continue. Aspe reached an agreement with his pelotaris to adapt their emoluments to the current economic situation of the company. Baiko has also adjusted employee salaries.
The duration of the contract between Euskal Telebista and Bainet, which owns the rights to Baiko and Aspe, extends until 2023, which gives a buffer to two companies under an ERTE between March and June. ETB’s management is aware of the difficult situation. After a strike in Baiko that shook the structure of the LEP.M, holding on seems essential to think about a viable future that requires the review of various sections, also sports.
Overcoming this crisis requires paying attention to what is happening on the pitch. Aspe today chained his eighth consecutive title in major competitions, at the expense of what the final of the longest Couples Championship in history holds. The worst thing for Baiko is that he has not placed anyone in the semifinals and that the difference between the two squads does not stop growing. Balance has been and will be fundamental on this journey. Someone must maneuver yes or yes in search of real competition.
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