The past two decades have been an unprecedented calm of equitable and amicable diligence for major-league baseball in my lifetime. Not only has there not been any kind of strike or lock-out since the one which prematurely ended the 1994 season, it doesn't seem we came anywhere close to one. Over that time, the three other major sports have all had significant disputes of one form or another, most recently in 2011, when at one point in July, both the NBA and NFL were on lockout.
But, it appears, MLB's cease-fire may be coming to an end. Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports says, "The owners will consider voting to lock out the players if the two sides cannot reach a new collective-bargaining agreement by the time the current deal expires on Dec.