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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Clearly the actions of those who wanted the season to start on time. The owners will undoubtedly start seriously shifting their positions in a few months but not before then.
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Yes, technically the owners could have kept business as usual.
If anyone has been following this, both parties had adversarial talks for the shortened pandemic 2020 season. Since spring 2021, they've made no progress in talks for this CBA up until Dec. 1, 2021.
There's no way the owners and MLBPA would have made any head way on a new deal without the pressure of a lockout or a deadline.
If they chose the business as usual route, a strike could have happened in August and been a repeat of 1994.
I would rather get this dark cloud of that way first so we can have five years of labor peace. There's still a chance they get something done and we get a respectable 154-game, 142-game season.