Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 16, 2002
Strike Date:

ESPN.com is reporting a strike date has been set (but not announced) with a very poor front page graphic. We're at war, and they're drawing a baseball as a bomb being lit by a hand. Please.

In the actual article, there is an interesting sidebar, detailing the previous work stoppages. I handn't realized that only three of them resulted in lost games. Seems like 1/2 of the stoppages occured during spring training, and we still got a full season in. One mid-season strike was 2 days and resulted in no games lost. Just goes to show how things in baseball are spun as negatively as possible by the media.

I think the strike deadline is a good thing. Now we'll know who's really serious about getting a deal done.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:54 PM | Baseball