LAKELAND, Fla. — It felt like a funeral in a ballpark.
Less than 24 hours after MLB canceled the first week of regular-season games, the mood at TigerTown was dreary.
There were sad faces and gloomy whispers — and that was just a small group of reporters gathered between fields on a cold morning — but the Detroit Tigers still held minicamp on Wednesday morning.
"Bring positive energy!" a coach yelled. "Control the controllables!"
And nobody can control this.
Nobody has any idea how long the lockout will last.
Or when the season might start.