DALLAS — It’s official. You can make alternative plans for my birthday party. The Yankees aren’t coming to town on March 31. And neither are the Texas Rangers.
By now you know that after spending nine days in Jupiter, Fla., the owners and players behaved as if their brains are from Mars. The first week of the Major League Baseball season has been canceled, not postponed. If you don’t count the stalled start in the almost equally embarrassing negotiations prior to the 60-game pandemic season of 2020, it’s the game’s first true work stoppage since 1995.
Baseball writers have beaten up MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and the owners’ side in this travesty enough that I don’t think any more needs to be said about their greed. My focus is on the players and their misguided approach to these negotiations. Simply being the lesser of two evils does not constitute a victory.
