Today, March 8, 2022, will forever be remembered as a very big day in baseball history … one way or another.

Late Monday evening, it was widely reported that Major League Baseball – i.e., MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and team owners – offered the MLB Players Association a new Collective Bargaining Agreement proposal that includes a full 162-game 2022 regular season with a normal 12-game (not 14-game) postseason in an effort to bring an end to the (now) 97 day old MLB lockout. The offer was made verbally via Zoom and will be presented in writing in person when the two sides meet later today in New York.

This from USA Today‘s Bob Nightengale late Monday evening and early Tuesday morning via Twitter:

Will we soon see this:

…or this?:

Regardless of which side of this argument you are on, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, will forever be remembered as the day that MLB and the MLBPA decided to have a full 162-game 2022 regular season and normal 12-game postseason.

…or not.

Play Ball!

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