MLB's latest CBA proposal kicking the can down the road has unique implication on Dodgers

Basically nothing is stopping MLB from declaring a lockout on December 1, when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires. Both sides, the league/owners and players, are entrenched in their positions. Owners unanimously want a salary cap; players might never accept one.

A few proposals have already been exchanged — fruitless efforts to stop or delay the inevitable — but the latest from MLB offers to delay the implementation of a cap and floor until 2028, to give teams that might need to shed payroll to fit under the new $258.2 million threshold more time to do so.

This was a losing game from the beginning. The players wouldn't care if the league promised to put off a cap for 10-plus…