Labor peace in baseball is in peril. Of course it is, because the sides can't help themselves.
Owners are threatening to lock out players next week because, reportedly, talks are going too slowly for the owners' liking. They're making a leverage play a week before the Dec. 1 deadline for a new collective bargaining agreement. That's sound negotiating, but it's really bad optics for a $10 billion (give or take a few million) industry.
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Let's be frank: Owners want to nickel-and-dime their way to higher profits whenever possible, and they're willing to go back to the bad old days to do it.