The thing that many baseball insiders said would happen at the end of the 2021 Major League Baseball season has happened.
The owners have locked out the players as the MLB Players Union and the league failed to get a collective bargaining agreement secured on Dec.1.
The two sides now enter what could be a lengthy work stoppage that hasn't happened since 1994, when the MLB Player's Union went on strike in the middle of the season. That stoppage cost the sport the World Series and a generation of fans who left the game.