After MLB‘s owners and players could not come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement ahead of the league‘s Tuesday afternoon deadline, commissioner Rob Manfred announced he would be canceling the first week of regular season games. Players from around the league were incensed—and so were the fans.
As big-name players took to social media to rip Manfred and the league for allowing the standoff to reach this point, fans did the same, creating a wave of social media content wrought with negativity at a sport that’s already done much to alienate its supporters.
