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Dieter Kurtenbach: MLB's shift ban is the first good thing to come from the lockout

This Major League Baseball lockout has gone on far too long, it's poised to go on for weeks, perhaps months, yet, and I fear the collateral damage of it will relegate the sport to a second tier in American society.

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Benjamin Hochman: Texting baseball and testing baseball — a look at the lockout from on-the-fence fans

It’s happening, in real time, on my text chain — and perhaps on yours, too? In just the first week after Major League Baseball canceled some 2022 games, casual fans are second-guessing the sport. During the lockout, they’re testing their allegiances, they’re asking tough questions, they’re wondering why they truly…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Sullivan: Don’t let the Major League Baseball owners’ lockout spoil your spring, Chicago

Wrigleyville was humming on a sunny Saturday morning with the first real hint of a Chicago spring in the air.

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How MLB’s luxury tax became the sticking point between owners and players

The Competitive Balance Tax (CBT), better known as the luxury tax, is a sticking point in the ongoing labor negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Players Association. The CBT is said to be the major hot-button topic blocking both parties from reaching a deal on a new Collective Bargaining…

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SF Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow on MLB Commissioner Manfred: ‘He’s got to go’

Opening Day is officially canceled, but lead negotiators from Major League Baseball and the Players Association met again Thursday as the two sides continue to lay the groundwork for a new collective bargaining agreement.

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Deesha Thosar: Major League Baseball is picking up where it left off in 2020

NEW YORK — When you want to catch a thief, watch their hands, not their mouth.

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Michael Hiltzik: The rich men who control baseball show they don't care about fans, again

It's easy to say that in labor negotiations each side must give a little. That won't do in the case of Major League Baseball.

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Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred canceled opening day, then spoke about it. Here’s what he should’ve said.

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, after negotiations broke off between owners and players in Major League Baseball, and three months after owners locked out players, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced he had called off opening day. Manfred did address reporters, but this is what we would have liked to hear:

Los Angeles Times

Mike Trout directly called out Rob Manfred for Major League Baseball’s collapsed CBA negotiations

Mike Trout went directly for Rob Manfred. Wow.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Major League Baseball cancels start of season over dispute with players

MLB have confirmed they have cancelled the opening two series of the 2022 season as the lockout between players and owners continues.

Daily Mirror

Ant-Man to Avengers: why there’s more to Anaheim than Disneyland (but it’s a good place to start)

With everything from a Major League Baseball team to a live music scene, you’ll find the city of Anaheim is a destination in itself – and that’s before you check out the new Avengers Campus

The Guardian - UK

Major League Baseball Got You Down? Try The Mountain West.

MLB and Rob Manfred might be canceling games, but Mountain West baseball is already in full swing with plenty of stories to follow.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Deesha Thosar: MLB’s proposed luxury tax is designed to punish the Mets

NEW YORK — The luxury tax, or Major League Baseball’s well-disguised salary cap, is being designed by owners to punish Steve Cohen and the Mets.

Tribune News Service

Next generation watching as MLB cancels games, lockout continues

With no CBA deal on Tuesday, Major League baseball canceled the first two series of the regular season schedule.

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Ben Frederickson: Have MLB owners underestimated fan angst if regular season gets postponed?

Whenever Major League Baseball decides to stop treating its fans like spent sunflower seed shells and chewed-through bubble gum, it’s going to have to lure them back to ballparks to buy tickets and overpriced everything else.

The Independent UK

MLB extends deadline to salvage openers to 5 p.m. Tuesday

Major League Baseball gave itself and the players’ association six hours to salvage opening day

The Philadelphia Inquirer

MLB, players meet into Monday night to avoid canceling regular-season games

A few weeks ago, when Rob Manfred memorably said that missing regular-season games because of the owners’ lockout would be a “disastrous outcome” for Major League Baseball, the commissioner also touted his reputation as a master negotiator and, in fact, a deal-maker at the bargaining table.

The Independent UK

MLB: It's deadline day to save opening day, 162-game season

Major League Baseball negotiations to end the lockout are extending to the limit

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

MLB rejects players’ latest proposal, all but guaranteeing the season won’t start on time

Never mind whether Major League Baseball and the Players Association will come together on a collective bargaining agreement in time to avoid the cancellation of regular-season games.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, union head Tony Clark meet, as more spring-training games get canceled

Welcome to Deal-or-“Disaster” Weekend — to use MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s word — for Major League Baseball.

Miami Herald

Greg Cote: MLB players are on right side in labor dispute, but baseball has far bigger problem to fix

MIAMI — Major League Baseball slogs, regrettably, avoidably, toward the eighth season in its history to suffer a reduced schedule and shortened season.

Tribune News Service

Hal Steinbrenner and Gerrit Cole square off during unproductive lockout meeting as deadline looms

In a week defined by long, ultimately fruitless meetings, Thursday’s 1 p.m. negotiation session between Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association was over by 5:00 p.m. By all accounts, it was yet another day of little to no progress, and things ended earlier than usual because both sides felt…

The Independent UK

MLB 4 days from deadline to cancel games and shorten season

Another negotiating session produced only minor movement and no proposals on big-money issues, leaving Major League Baseball four days from management’s Monday night deadline for a deal to salvage opening day and a 162-game season

Tribune News Service

Dieter Kurtenbach: MLB owners, players fight proves they’ve forgotten about the fans

As we approach the end of the third month of Major League Baseball’s lockout of its players, we also head towards the first moment of actual reckoning.

The Independent UK

MLB: Season to be shortened if no deal by end of Monday

Major League Baseball gave locked out players five days to salvage March 31 openers and a full season, telling the union that games would be canceled if a labor contract is not agreed to by the end of Monday

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