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Originally Posted by Ocotillo
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.
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I’m thinking it will be closer to a 80 or 100 game season given how adversarial both sides are, but I’d be surprised if this goes on all year. Owners won’t give up that playoff revenue at the end if they can help it (and they certainly can help it).
The Jays project as one of the best teams in the league this year, so it would also be nice to get something in for that reason too.