One of the first things MLB Commissioner, Rob Manfred, said was an apology to the fans of baseball. After the announcement that the 99-day baseball lockout was over. Yes, the very people who support the game with buying tickets, merchandise, and other ways, such as tuning into MLB games on those networks that have paid millions and billions to some major market teams that have a big metro area.

While we’re all jubilant that ‘baseball is back’ fever has set in, suddenly we’re hearing about players’ names again, and yes, even those $100M and up contracts that have already been signed ‘pending physicals of course’ since the announcement of the agreement.
Baseball came very close to becoming semi-extinct with some fans, whereas if this agreement wasn’t made when it was, it may have led many to turn their back on baseball. And who could blame them? Yes, there are many that are still in that mode with a sour taste towards the way baseball has been changing and highlighted with this lockout again. But many just will shrug it off, and forgive and forget as this writer in San Francisco has written about.

Let’s even look at those who didn’t want to ratify the agreement between the players and the owners. How about two of the biggest teams in the league, the NY Yankees and the NY Mets, for these teams, they voted ‘no’ to an agreement (the other two teams voting ‘no’ were the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Houston Astros). What does that say about those teams? I’d really like to know why they voted that way. And on the player’s side, the whole executive board members of the MLBPA all voted ‘no’ as well. But better sense prevailed, perhaps proving that the MLB Executive Board was perhaps out of touch with what their membership actually wanted.
So people complained about the baseball lockout, they just wanted baseball. Some said they would never go to another game(liars), and a day after CBA is signed people are tweeting against their teams, and what they don’t want to see. Sad for those people.
— SheilaG/BU (@SheilaGChewning) March 12, 2022
Did the fans come away with a ‘pawns on the chess board’ type of feeling? Or does their ‘love’ for the game of baseball transcends the players and the owners – and those two entities are just currently in charge, we had already experienced the thousands that have come before them, and their will be thousands that will come after them. Baseball will go on. It may be tweaked and pulled between new rules and regulations the likes have never have been done before with the game, but it will still be baseball.
What will you do? Can you wait to go see a game? Or will you watch from a distance? Fans don’t have unions or maybe baseball, the game would be in trouble. We don’t want to pay $25 to park, we don’t want to pay $125 or more for a game ticket, we don’t want to spend $12 for a beer or $8 for a hotdog.