As soon as the Major League Baseball Players Association declined the league’s request for federal mediation, a wave of player posts swept across Twitter.
Many of them bore the hashtag, “AtTheTable,” a jab at the owners for requesting mediation earlier this month but not making the counteroffer they’d promised. Some union leaders, such as association representative Max Scherzer, took the opportunity to lay out the MLBPA’s goals. Others, including Cubs catcher Willson Contreras kept the message short and sweet:
