MLB cancels opening day after sides fail to end lockout
Source: Washington Post
JUPITER, Fla. Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before managements deadline. Manfred said he is canceling the first two series of the season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most.
Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations. Players wont be paid for missed games. My deepest hope is we get an agreement quickly, Manfred said. Im really disappointed we didnt make an agreement. After the sides made progress during 13 negotiating sessions over 16 1/2 hours Monday, the league send the players association a best and final offer Tuesday on the ninth straight day of negotiations. Players rejected that offer, setting the stage for MLB to follow through on its threat to cancel opening day.
Not a particularly productive day today, Manfred said. At 5:10 p.m., Manfred issued a statement that many fans had been dreading: Nothing to look forward to on opening day, normally a spring standard of renewal for fans throughout the nation and some in Canada, too. The ninth work stoppage in baseball history will be the fourth that causes regular season games to be canceled, leaving Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium as quiet in next month as Joker Marchant Stadium and Camelback Park have been during the third straight disrupted spring training.
The concerns of our fans are at the very top of our consideration list, Manfred said. The lockout, in its 90th day, will plunge a sport staggered by the coronavirus pandemic and afflicted by numerous on-field issues into a self-inflicted hiatus over the inability of players and owners to divide a $10 billion industry. By losing regular-season games, scrutiny will fall even more intensely on Manfred, the commissioner since January 2015, and Tony Clark, the former All-Star first baseman who became union leader when Michael Weiner died in November 2013.
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JUPITER, Fla. Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before managements deadline.
Manfred said he is canceling the first two series of the season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most. Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations.
After the sides made progress during 13 negotiating sessions over 16 1/2 hours Monday, the league send the players association a best and final offer Tuesday on the ninth straight day of negotiations. Players rejected that offer, setting the stage for MLB to follow through on its threat to cancel opening day.
At 5:10 p.m., Manfred issued a statement that many fans had been dreading: Nothing to look forward to on opening day, normally a spring standard of renewal for fans throughout the nation and some in Canada, too.
groundloop
(11,488 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)(I guess other than maybe locally and on an affiliated radio station)
groundloop
(11,488 posts)Find their schedule and it'll tell you. I can watch nearly all of my alma-mater's games online for free. Some I can't get because I'm too cheap to pay $7 per month for ESPN+.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)Thanks for the reminder!
dem4decades
(11,244 posts)LisaM
(27,762 posts)The B1G, SEC, and PAC-12 networks all show a fair number of games (those are the only ones we get but I imagine there are more regional ones).
Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)In Pennsylvania, that's the Reading Phillies, Altoona Curve, State College Spikes, etc.
Jimbo S
(2,955 posts)Prefer MLB. Besides, just one team in the state and it's a mid-major. Also, too cold in the spring to sit outside and watch.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,308 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,685 posts)MLB will find they will never get some of their fans back.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)in little league.
Love watching the games, and they let little girls play too.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)I was a big fan and could tell you leaders in most statistics throughout the season. Was not going to invest that amount of time anymore. I'm all for labor, but when you have owners paying players 250 million and then getting taxpayers to fund stadiums let alone all the infrastructure involved in that, I'll pass.
Peace
kellytore
(180 posts)but now I am not taking either side. What we have here are two groups of people that are multi millionaires and don't give a damn about their customer base. I usually go to around five Braves games per year, but this year I will be performing my own strike and stay home.
Jimbo S
(2,955 posts)I would support the union in the past. This time I'm neutral. Unions in general should negotiate for the benefit for the majority of its members. MLB has a pattern of only looking out for the elite players.
The positions the union is staking out is to the detriment of small market teams, to the benefit of large market teams.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)There are no good guys in this fight.
The players' beef is that the share of revenues has fallen. But, they fight the league over every detail that might improve the product.
They ignore the data showing the fan age demographic slides up every year & that the NBA sees the opposite.
They want to be treated as partners, but they're not the least bit interested in sharing stewardship of the game.
Want to get locked in to a % of revenue, be a partner. You'd think they'd see what's happening with those tall guys. Or football's big guys. Even the NFL has more a partnership with the players. The NBA is a GLOBAL success because of the business arrangement they've created.
None of this is meant to defend the owners. But, it does make it impossible to side with the PA.
No good guys.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)my organizer said that as long as the contract wasn't expired, it remains in effect. I'm trying to understand how MLB can have a contract, lock them out and then refuse to pay because the players didn't agree to what MLB wanted. Not sure I can totally condemn the players since they are often well compensated, but I go to the park to see them, not the owners. Also, I'm old and have pretty much reduced any emotional investment I have in watching the most complex, nuanced sport ever devised at the highest level. High school games, here I come..............
melm00se
(4,974 posts)on 12/1/2021.
There is no contract in place which is why the owners slammed a lockout in place the next day.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)I found that out after I'd written my statement.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)There's no language in the CBA that extends the expired contract.
It's written such that when it expires, there is no contract.
The opposite of what you experienced.
Roc2020
(1,604 posts)Mets games and maybe the world series.
dem4decades
(11,244 posts)😆 I watch them too.
Roc2020
(1,604 posts)dem4decades
(11,244 posts)of your games?
Roc2020
(1,604 posts)for most of the season last year. A shortened season may be a good thing
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)fuck these assholes
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Ushers, hotdog and beer vendors, parking lot attendants, local eating and drinking establishments. "Normal" people will be impacted if the lockout continues.
The good news: whenever the season starts, there will be an "opening day", with all the required hoopla.
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)Stand back while I shoot myself in the foot. They need to change so much to save the game that I doubt it will ever happen...bye bye.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)There's probably too many games in a season anyway.
ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)qualifiers.
I didn't even notice the lockout.
I was a Mets fan my entire life and then the new owners put Chris Christie on their Board of Directors so I don't watch them anymore and they were the only team I cared about even though I've lived in Los Angeles for the last 22 years.
I'm a soccer/football fan now.
Love the game and the leagues all over the world.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)Don't get me wrong - I love American football, baseball, hockey, basketball, etc. It's just that the games have been completely unwatchable, with all the commercial breaks.
Soccer has always been my passion, having played since I was a kid. Now it's the only sport I'll watch on TV and/or online.
ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)commercials or breaks is too much for attention span challenged Americans.
They don't have the attention span for the game.
It's one of the reasons I love the game
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)By the time they sort out who's at fault, and the referees have scored the theatrics of agony, and everyone is in their place for a restart, you could go to the rest room, get a snack and a beer, and then the action begins.
Or, just take a break when you need to, like at a NASCAR race.
ZonkerHarris
(24,156 posts)LisaM
(27,762 posts)That kinda sucks.
Ziggysmom
(3,374 posts)It's a chore bringing wheelchair and oxygen to the ballpark, but our Brewers organization and people working at the ballpark really go above and beyond to accommodate the disabled. We can't afford the huge cost of NFL tickets and baseball has low cost options we could still enjoy.
Money changes everything- money ruins everything
shenmue
(38,503 posts)FVCK this shit!