It’s the most wonderful season of all – lockout season!
Nothing says holiday cheer like your favorite Tiny Tim baseballers squabbling with billionaire Scrooges over how they’ll play a game.
That’s where we find ourselves today as baseball’s Collective Bargaining Agreement – the contract that legally defines the relationship between the players and owners – expires tonight at exactly 11:59 pm. Make sure you set out a plate of cookies and a glass of milk for that jolly ol’ elf Saint Work Stoppage-a-Clause, who will make his first holiday appearance since 1994.
Unless an agreement is reached today – and none seems imminent – MLB owners will lock the players out of team facilities until the two sides can come to terms.