It’s now February. A new CBA isn’t even close. This is sad for baseball. Dare I say pathetic? On Monday, Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich reported that spring training is already clearly in jeopardy, while if an agreement isn’t reached in the next couple of weeks, Opening Day will be too.
https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1488249112143314953?s=20&t=YtX11U-Lrfss6EOiswRyyw
I get it. Negotiations aren’t easy. There’s a lot on the line. But nobody wins if games start getting canceled. Not the owners, not the players, not the fans. And especially not the sport. There are people predicting that soccer will surpass baseball in popularity in the United States by 2026 when the World Cup comes to America.