You often hear about “organized labor” but rarely are the virtues of “disorganized labor” extolled. This is unfortunate for baseball fans because we are, collectively, a very powerful group incapable of organizing as we are scattered around the country with no means by which to act as “one”.
And so we sit on the sidelines as MLB and MLBPA posture and play games of chicken. I haven’t made any plans to attend spring training, because I don’t know if or when there will be one, but I did buy tickets for a trip to Philadelphia to see the A’s and Phillies in April — on the hope that the first 2 weeks of the season will play out as drafted in the current schedule.