MLB cancels 2022 opening day after sides fail to end lockout – Rob Manfred
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The 2022 Major League Baseball (MLB) season will not start on time, according to commissioner Rob Manfred. MLB’s financial fight cost regular-season games for the first time in 27 years when the ongoing talks came to an end and management lockout collapsed.
As a result, Manfred scrapped the March 31 openers on Tuesday, cutting each club’s schedule from 162 games to likely 156 at most and as many as 91 games were erased. This took place with the owners and players being unable to agree on a contract to replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired on December 1 last year.
“I had hoped against hope that I would not have to have this particular press conference in which I am going to cancel some regular-season games,” Manfred said Tuesday afternoon.
“Calendar dictates that we’re not able to play first two series”
“The calendar dictates that we’re not going to be able to play the first two series of the regular season and those games are officially cancelled,” Manfred said, setting up the first disruption to the MLB regular season from a work stoppage since the 1994-95 strike.
Reacting to this episode, the MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark later called it “a sad day.” He emphasized that the union, recognizing the radical scope of change it’s seeking and considers necessary, has been willing and ready to negotiate for almost a year now.
“It is remarkably interesting against the backdrop of the things that needed to be worked through to find ourselves on Feb. 28, and over the course of the last week in West Palm Beach, working through the issues that quite honestly needed to be and could have been and should have been discussed in more depth much earlier than they were,” he stated.
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