I have been thinking about what happened during owner/player discussions Saturday, when players made what they felt was a real substantive move toward owners’ positions only to have that proposal rejected and have owners only move tiny baby steps toward the players and what I felt about and what I might say here, only to find that Evan Drellich of The Athletic said it much better than I could:
They could have postponed Opening Day a long time ago.
Two days before a deadline that MLB imposed for the 2022 season to start on time, and 86 days after the league started a lockout, the owners’ message to players remained the same: You’re not getting anything close to what you want without a fight.