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How ‘Sex and the City’ Sent Me Down a Fake Baseball Rabbit Hole

The iconic show’s reboot sent me down the perfect rabbit hole during the MLB lockout. Here’s what I found.

Sports Illustrated

Commentary: To save the MLB season, give fans the deciding vote

In America, spring doesn’t truly begin until the first pitch on opening day. Unfortunately, the Major League Baseball lockout threatens to prolong winter. With players and owners struggling to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, a delayed start to the season seems likely.

Chicago Tribune

MLB labor negotiations to resume Monday in Florida

Monday’s session will be just the seventh on core economics since the lockout started Dec. 2, and the sides have met on consecutive days just once, on Jan. 24 and 25.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Patrick Reusse: NFL can’t be ruined by analytics like MLB

MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL might never have had a more successful season than the one that started on Sept. 9, 2021, and ended last Sunday. The TV ratings were monstrous and the playoffs were so taut that a Super Bowl won on a touchdown with 85 seconds remaining wasn't in…

Tribune News Service

MLB players embrace ‘completely new age’ to send message during lockout

Pitchers and catchers were originally scheduled to report to Spring Training this week, and fans’ frustrations with the lockout are escalating, which makes communication with those fans all the more important for the players association and MLB.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB owners make spring training postponement official amid lockout

NEW YORK — The entire MLB offseason has been shrouded in uncertainty, and even though Friday’s news can’t be classified as good news, it at least provides a concrete date.

Tribune News Service

Labor Wars: A New Hope (Well, Maybe)

With 10 days to go until the MLB lockout impacts the scheduled start of the regular season, the two sides have made little progress on a new collective bargaining agreement. Yesterday in Manhattan, where temperatures were in the 50s and the atmosphere ideal for some spring baseball, the ...

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MLB Postpones Spring Training As Lockout Continues

MLB spring training games are canceled through March 4.

Sports Illustrated

MLB cancels spring training games through March 4

The announcement came with the work stoppage in its 79th day, and a day after economic talks between the management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Eric Kay verdict is the start of a long, sad road for Angels, MLB and Skaggs family

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the very first sentence of its closing statement Thursday, the federal government made clear what it believed this trial was all about.

Los Angeles Times

Larry Stone: As MLB lockout threatens opening day, where’s the urgency from owners and players?

The sense of urgency must be coming soon, right? The lock-the-door, scream-and-shout-at-each-other-until-you-make-some-real-progress scenario? And then caucus until you get a deal done, even if it’s into the wee hours of morning?

Tribune News Service

MLB lockout: Players propose changes to arbitration system, but little progress made toward agreement

CLEARWATER, Fla. — After a meeting Thursday that was over faster than the average inning in a three-hour game, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association don’t appear to be any closer to an agreement that would enable the season to open on time.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Report: MLBPA Makes Latest CBA Offer to MLB, Sides Still Not Close to Deal

The meeting reportedly lasted 15 minutes.

Sports Illustrated

MLB labor negotiators meet for 15 minutes

On what was supposed to be the second day of spring training, negotiations aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s lockout resumed Thursday at the office of the players’ association.

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Vahe Gregorian: Tin-eared MLB posturing is threatening to alienate lifeblood of baseball ... again

Of all the harbingers of spring and the hope eternal implied with it, few seize the imagination more than the term "pitchers and catchers report." Not merely for the notion itself but for what it conveys by extension: the thaw and awakenings and possibilities entwined with the season of rebirth…

Sports Illustrated

MLB Drug Testing Finds No Opioid Violations in Two Seasons

Five players testified that Eric Kay, who faces charges relating to Tyler Skaggs’s death, provided them with oxycodone.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Matt Harvey Could Face Suspension After Admitting Opioid Distribution

Matt Harvey could be facing punishment for admitting in court he provided Tyler Skaggs with opioids.

Sports Illustrated

Madison Bumgarner, Zac Gallen Must Rebound If Diamondbacks Are to Contend

Fantasy outlook, stats and analysis for 2022 Arizona Diamondbacks hitters and pitchers.

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Benzinga

Atlanta Braves Launching MLB Stadium In The Metaverse: Here Are The Details And Why This Is Exciting

The reigning World Series champions are headed to the metaverse in a first for Major League Baseball.

Benzinga

ScottsMiracle-Gro's Subsidiary & The MLB Launch Baseball Field Refurbishment Grant Program

Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG) and Major League Baseball are accepting submissions for the 2022 Scotts Field Refurbishment Grant Program.

Tribune News Service

MLB lockout: Pitchers and catchers were supposed to report this week. What comes next?

Confetti flying at the end of a Super Bowl typically marks the beginning of baseball season.

Los Angeles Times

Spring training fueled boom in Arizona's Cactus League. Owners' lockout puts it in jeopardy.

The COVID-19 pandemic cut short spring training in 2020. It compelled Cactus League teams to keep about three out of four seats empty in 2021. A pandemic is no one's fault.

Tribune News Service

Deesha Thosar: As MLB spring training all but delayed, deadline to reach final stage in negotiations inches closer

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is walking right into the so-called “disastrous outcome” that nobody wants, but one that looks like it will happen anyway.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | MLB Goes After Minor Leagues (Again)

The league’s latest proposal is another blow to the minors.

Sports Illustrated

Report: MLB Asks to Eliminate ‘Hundreds’ of Minor League Player Jobs In Latest Proposal

In its latest proposal to the players union, MLB asked for the power to significantly trim the number of minor league players.

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