I think there was some hope, some small moment of optimism when the new collective agreement was ratified, that MLB owners would just be quiet for a while. Dick Monfort made a fool of himself during negotiations, and in general none of the 30 clubs did much to convince fans they were all that interested in providing a premium product. The CBA got done, we have baseball, can someone please stop putting a microphone in front of Hal Steinbrenner?
Then three different stories came out this week that just re-iterated the case that, if MLB is indeed dying, it is at best the victim of negligent care by the very sources of capital that sustain it.