Most people are not millionaires.

Most major league baseball players and team owners are.

Yet when it comes to negotiations between MLB and the MLB Players Association towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, “Too much is never enough.”

With so much money at stake, you would think that with the MLB lockout now into its 11th week and with Spring Training 2022 originally scheduled to begin today for all 30 MLB teams, both sides would be aggressively working – nonstop – towards a new CBA. You would think.

They are not.

Instead, today, February 16, 2022, is the 77th day of the lockout, with no foreseeable end in sight. This from USA Today‘s Bob Nightengale:

Although Spring Training is normally a wonderful time for fans and families to travel to and enjoy their favorite teams’ Spring Training in Florida or Arizona, of greater concern – and now a very real concern – is that MLB’s originally scheduled Opening Day of the 2022 regular season on Thursday, March 31, will now, in all likelihood, also be delayed. But of greatest concern is that it the two sides do not increase talks towards establishing a new CBA, there might not even be a 2022 regular season.

But regardless of how – and more importantly when – a new CBA is ratified by MLB and the MLBPA, there is one thing that absolutely positively will happen – our (so-called) “national pastime” absolutely positively will lose fans – forever; just as it has after every previous work stoppage.

Shame on you, baseball.

Come on guys – get your stuff together.

Play Ball!

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