Friday Bird Droppings: Mediation may be on the way for MLB

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

There was potentially big news regarding the MLB lockout yesterday. No, the owners and players didn’t have any breakthroughs in negotiations. Instead, MLB reportedly put in a request to a government agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, to serve as mediators in talks between the two sides.

ESPN’s Jeff Passan wrote that this could be a positive sign, as federal mediators helped resolve the 2013 NHL lockout and the 2015 MLS strike, though he cautioned that mediators didn’t help during the MLB strike in 1994, instead angering players and failing to create a pathway to a timely agreement. With current negotiations progressing at a snail’s pace and…