The Lockout is Over Everything You Need to Know Thread

The lockout is over! Baseball is back!

After months of an enforced lockout on the players, the MLB owners and Player’s Association agreed to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Thursday.

With it came an end to pointless bickering, posturing before the media, late nights waiting on Bob Nightengale Tweets, and last-minute surprise additions to the negotiations that derailed deals. It was frustrating. It was painful. It was soul-sucking. It made many of us hate what baseball was for a while.

All that is over.

Thursday was a day of joy and excitement. Because, really, all we want is the game we love. Yes, we want the players to be fairly compensated and we want to make sure teams are trying to…