Major League Baseball cancels second week of season after discussions fail to produce CBA

[Auggie]

Major League Baseball canceled the second week of the regular season Wednesday after days of discussion with the MLB Players Association failed to generate a new collective-bargaining agreement.

The international draft, long part of negotiations but not until recently a central issue, scuttled talks Wednesday afternoon. A day earlier, the league had proposed tying an international draft that would cover amateurs from Latin America and Asia to the removal of direct draft-pick compensation, in which teams are penalized draft picks for signing top free agents.

Players balked at the idea, rejected proposals from the league to address it and sent a counteroffer. The league then canceled another week of games.

The fallout could be enormous. The league had tied a deal this week to playing a 162-game schedule with full pay and full service time for players. The MLBPA has said that if the league refuses to agree to full pay and service time, it will remove expanded playoffs -- a key to a new basic agreement for MLB -- from its proposal. With the sides already unable to agree on core economic issues, the potential removal of a vital gain for the league and an additional item to bargain for the union -- full service time is paramount -- would add even more difficulty to the already-terse discussions.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33464040/major-league-baseball-cancels-second-week-season-discussions-fail-produce-cba

I think that makes opening April 15th: Jackie Robinson Day. The San Francisco Giants would open in ... Cleveland.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. **sigh**

[Auggie]

3. I was looking forward to the S.F. / Cleveland series ...

it's in serious jeopardy of being played now.

S.F. is my adopted team; Cleveland my birth team.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. That would be awesome, Auggie

I hope they’re playing by then!

[Danmel]

2. Tone deaf assholes

[rsdsharp]

5. Mighty Manfred.

What a leader.

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Sports & The Integrity Of It Don't Really Matter

Money Does.

When these Rich clowns, on both sides, say how important the game itself is, and the honor that comes with winning championships, is what they're there for, you know that they're Full Of It.

Eventually, this will be settled, and THEN, the Sucking Up to the Fans will begin. And we'll hear how the Owners are so glad that the Fans can return, and the Players will say how important the Fans are to them.

Now that they've taken out Opening Week, and also the 2nd Week, it's all gravy at this point. Heck, what's another week or two. Or three. Already down to near a 150 game season. You would think that having just scrapped 102 games only 2 years ago, they'd want to avoid losing some this summer. Guess not.