Now what? That’s the question I keep asking myself in the days since Rob Manfred canceled the first week of the regular season. We’re now in the third month of the lockout that he and the MLB owners implemented, and it’s difficult to know when exactly we’ll watch major-league games again.
Over the last seven weeks or so I’ve written extensively about Manfred’s callousness and about the owners’ apathy toward the cancellation of games. Many other writers, at SI and elsewhere, have also provided excellent context and commentary about how Manfred, the league and the owners are the ones to blame for what could be our second baseball-less spring in three years. They’re the ones who could end this lockout at any time, either without a new CBA, or by agreeing to any of the reasonable proposals the players have made thus far. We know by now that’s not going to happen any time soon.
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