More thoughts on the MLB lockout that didn’t have to happen

Before I get into some of the things said at Thursday news conferences by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA lead negotiator Bruce Meyer, I wanted to share this Mets team tweet with you:

MLB owners vote unanimously to declare a lockout of players, shuts the doors, grind all business to a halt and then try to sell it to the media and fans as a “defensive lockout”. pic.twitter.com/yi0Mm9zWh4

— Allan Walsh (@walsha) December 3, 2021 The tweet from Allan Walsh (if you don’t know, he’s a sports agent with Octagon) is absolutely correct. That’s precisely what MLB did, and then took images of players off league and team websites. Presumably this is for licensing reasons, but it still seems small…