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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Now it’s baseball seas — oh wait

Clayton Kershaw’s high school buddy won the Super Bowl, so now we can give our full attention to the lockout! Yay lockouts!

So…

In the run-up to Saturday’s big MLB/MLBPA meeting, Rob Manfred worked hard to change the narrative that the owners weren’t negotiating in good faith. In a press conference on Thursday, he said that the owners had agreed to universal DH and elimination of draft pick compensation, among other items.

"...a perfect representation of the spirit of the session: A line that was technically true—or, at least, not explicitly untrue—while being wildly, eye-roll-inducingly disingenuous.