Thursday Bird Droppings: The lockout is two weeks old edition

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty ImagesHello, friends.

There are now three months and 15 days remaining until the next scheduled Orioles game, which is Opening Day 2022. It’s only two months to go until pitchers and catchers are supposed to report to Sarasota for spring training!

These countdown days continue to assume that the owner lockout will be resolved before any disruptions to the schedule. Perhaps that’s an optimistic assumption. The Athletic’s Evan Drellich reported on Wednesday night that there aren’t expected to be any further talks on the “core economics” of a new bargaining agreement until January. There are maybe six weeks to go to settle things before the calendar gets knocked…