MLB cancels 2022 Opening Day, games will be lost to labor dispute for first time since 1995.
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday announced he has canceled Opening Day and the first two series of the 2022 season, as the league’s lockout lurched into March with no new collective bargaining agreement – which could result in the first regular season games lost to a labor dispute since 1995.
The announcement comes 90days after the previous CBA expired at midnight on Dec. 1, whenMLB imposed a lockout of players and weeks of infrequent, haphazard and often brief and rancorous negotiations commenced.
With spring training games canceled and a semi-official MLB deadline of Feb. 28 looming to strike an agreement or cancel the March 31 openers, MLB and the MLB Players’ Association. met for nine consecutive days in Jupiter, Florida, but the final flurry of negotations – covering 20 hours stretching from Monday morning into Tuesday afternoon – finally broke down.
Sports all SNAFU. Meh.
If I was a kid I’d be disappointed as hell. Turns out I don’t hardly care about this anymore.
And Joey’s been practicing that opening pitch for weeks!
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I remember the impact the 90s strike had on the sport!
Now I know where the saying “Stupider than Jupiter” comes from!
The owners and union aren’t going to gain any fans, they have been loosing them for years. Just keep shooting each other in the foot.
that’s ok … most of us cancelled MLB Opening Day years ago, ever since they tried to compete w/ foozball’s ‘wokeness’
besides … billionaires cancelling out millionaires …. ho hum
Let’s replace it with Curling…I mean seriously…We’re just there to swill
Beer anyway..
I just can’t understand why the owners don’t want to pay every baseball player $20,000,000 a year? So what if it then costs you $1000 to go watch a game? Oh, wait….
I’ve never been interested in pro baseball.
Sandlot, weekend kegger ball, etc. was way more fun than counting errors and walking people.
Played a lot of hardball as a kid. Those game were fun, exciting and full of friends.
I can’t afford to go to games anymore.
I listen on the radio and everytime I eat a hot dog and have a beverage I throw $20 outside into the wind.
Next best thing to being there.
No loss, waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy over paid.
Meh!
It was in ’95 I decided never again watch or in any fashion support MLB. A bunch of crying babies had turned America’s favorite pastime in a money grubbing circus.
Since then I only was college (not big conference) or farm teams.
MLB is dead. DEAD!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nobody cares.
My love of baseball came from watching the Tigers on TV with my Dad (one of the few things we did together). He took me to one game (to watch Mark Fidrych (the Bird) pitch). I was so excited.
When I lived in Minnesota and my little sister lived with me for a couple years, we would go to the Twins games, pay $5 for a seat in the upper bleachers behind first base. Very fun. My favorite player was Kirby Puckett.
The last time I watched MLB was when the Twins won the world series in ’91. No interest since then.
I may be callous for any number of reasons BUT….
I really COULD NOT care less.
Tou broke my heart once. I won’t let you do it again. Time for us both to just walk away. Good luck to you.
MLB could permanently cancel all games in April, and perhaps the first week of May, and it may improve the game. 162 games is too long of a season, and there is generally no drama in baseball until the last two weeks of September.
I heard a baseball business guy state that many owners don’t care if the April games are cancelled this year – attendance is generally low due to the weather and games are frequently cancelled or postponed due to weather as well. Shorten the season by at least 20 games, and baseball could become more exciting (or at least less boring).
Who gives a flying fuck?
Fun to play boring as hell to watch!
People struggling to put gas in their cars and food on their table. Ukrainian’s are fighting for their lives. These entitled, greedy pricks want more to play a game while the rest of us go to work.
Nice visual. GFY
I go to the minor league games. A lot more fun, and family friendly.
This spring it’s besebol, the Russian version everybody is talking about.
Pitcher who give up home run in 9th inning – kaputski for you and you go play besebol in Siberian Winter League.