Hello, youth of America. Welcome to your first Major League Baseball labor shutdown. It’s been 26 years since the last one.
What’s that? You’re too busy scrolling your Facebook feed? Checking your Chrome browser on your iPhone or Android? Burning hours away on YouTube? Running killer computer animation games on your iMac? Streaming the latest EDM tracks on your Bluetooth speakers?
You haven’t heard the baseball news? That owners locked out the players with the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement at midnight last night? Understandable, given that we live in this age of the Attention Economy, in which never have so many entertainment options vied for a piece of our finite attention.