The Lockout Is a Week Old, and They’re Not Talking

It has been one week since the MLB team owners locked out the players (MLBPA), in a move the owners termed “defensive”, and whose purported intent was to move the negotiations forward for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. So far, the lockout has not achieved its desired endpoint, because the two sides are not even talking (at least not to our knowledge). From a timing...