Baseball's player lockout threatens winter escape

While the US Women's soccer stars finally succeeded in their equal pay dispute, baseball players are struggling to negotiate with owners

In Major League Baseball’s current tense lockout / Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations, a deadline of this coming Monday has been set by the ballclub owners that could see the loss of regular season games in the Spring. The prevention of players to work and prepare for the new season is entering its third month and nobody can see a way back in.

Of all weeks, it seems trite beyond belief to focus on the political intrigue of athlete pay disputes happening in US sport.

This week has been a notable one for the back-and-forth of labour negotiations in America; for US women soccer players, it was a win and for baseball players and club owners, it has been an ongoing stalemate in a lockout instituted by the owners late last year. An appropriate state of affairs for a sport commonly regarded as boring.