Major League Baseball and the players union have spent the past week in Jupiter, Fla., negotiating in hopes to end the MLB lockout and welcome the start of the baseball season. Unfortunately, that wait for baseball is going to continue without an end in sight.
MLB owners self imposed a Monday deadline to come to an agreement with the union, and those talks went into the early Tuesday morning hours with optimistic reports emerging from the league. It was all part of MLB’s plan. though.
Come Tuesday, the league said it would make one take-it-or-leave-it offer to the players or else it would start canceling games. Along with the ultimatum, the league suddenly said that the tone amongst MLB players had shifted for the worse. MLB players disputed that claim, saying that the league wanted to inspire optimism from Monday just to shift blame to the players when a deal didn’t happen.
