Kyler Murray owns his future in a truly historic sense

POWER IS SOMEONE 10 and a half hours away dropping everything at a moment's notice to come see you. It is leverage and, even more, the desire to use it. It is the ability to say absolutely nothing and still be saying everything. And in the case of Kyler Murray, who has not seen a single pitch in professional baseball, who has not thrown a single pass in professional football, and who nevertheless has MLB and the NFL frothing over the notion of him choosing their sport, power may be best illustrated by his capacity to make it seem that what he's doing isn't utterly singular.

In recent weeks, as the MLB Players Association brainstormed before a bargaining session with the league, the union…