Here’s why the owners’ lockout puts MLB’s future in peril

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and before I delve deeper into why I think Major League Baseball (and really, any professional sport) is so different from any other business, credit where it’s due. The germ of the idea for this article came from this tweet:

You’ll pardon the profanity posted above, but Joe Sheehan is exactly right. (Click on the tweet to read the entire quote from Sheehan’s article.)

Think about how you became a Cubs fan. Maybe it was a parent or grandparent or aunt or uncle who took you to Wrigley Field as a child, and you became enchanted with the ballpark and the green grass and the ballplayers, even though the Cubs might not have been very good when that…