Now, however, as the NFL powers down, we feel the sting of this day’s arrival without its standard significance.
I reject the imminent obituaries sounded for baseball. Over 46 million people bought a ticket to a ballgame in 2021, a number set to spike in 2022 with COVID restrictions lifted, and anecdotally, young fans don’t seem as offended by the changes to a game they don’t know any other way.
Yet Manfred himself discussed the prospect of lost regular-season games as “disastrous,” and all the more so when you contemplate what could have been, the masses of sports fans riding the wave of a thrilling NFL postseason straight into the widespread good cheer that emanates from players pouring into Florida and Arizona. The only item emanating from those two states anytime soon will be the refunds coming, once MLB acknowledges that the exhibition games won’t start on Feb. 26 as scheduled.
What a downer of a day. What an unforced error for baseball, which knew within months of its last collective bargaining agreement that this cold war stood on the horizon and didn’t come close to sufficiently addressing it. How many days until pitchers and catchers? At this juncture, you’d say probably more than the 14 days or so the two sides have to avoid disaster. Yeesh.
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