Major League Baseball has been shut down for the past week due to a lockout, while the owners and players negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, and there’s no telling exactly how long it might last.
The two sides have a lot of differences to hash out, and tensions are as high as ever lately. This isn’t just some routine re-up of an old boilerplate labor deal everybody was happy with. Some of the topics on the table include significant changes to the business side of the sport, and regardless of the result, it’ll take a while to talk through it.