It has been 21 years since the last time Major League Baseball and its players union engaged in what has since been considered the labor war to end all labor wars.
The game was shut down for the final months of what had been an exciting 1994 season, and the bitter collective bargaining dispute wiped out the playoffs and World Series, leaving a scar on the sport that has never fully faded away.
Clearly, it was a “never again” moment in baseball history, but enough time apparently has passed to allow both sides to put a happy era of labor peace and economic prosperity at risk as the current collective bargaining agreement comes to an end.