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Major League Baseball Players Association launches $1 million fund for stadium workers as owners’ lockout drags on

NEW YORK — The players are stepping up and giving back to those unfairly affected by MLB’s lockout.

Tribune News Service

A Most Disappointing Week in Baseball

Now what? That’s the question I keep asking myself in the days since Rob Manfred canceled the first week of the regular season. We’re now in the third month of the lockout that he and the MLB owners implemented, and it’s difficult to know when exactly we’ll watch major-league games…

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SF Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow on MLB Commissioner Manfred: ‘He’s got to go’

Opening Day is officially canceled, but lead negotiators from Major League Baseball and the Players Association met again Thursday as the two sides continue to lay the groundwork for a new collective bargaining agreement.

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Deesha Thosar: Major League Baseball is picking up where it left off in 2020

NEW YORK — When you want to catch a thief, watch their hands, not their mouth.

Tribune News Service

MLB, union negotiators try to figure out next step in labor talks

Negotiations broke off Tuesday after the ninth straight day of meetings in Jupiter, Florida, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that opening day and the first two series for each team this season had been canceled.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jason Heyward broke down how Rob Manfred and MLB owners always planned to cancel games

It was so obvious.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Baseball Fans, Players Not Happy With Manfred Laughing During Tuesday Presser

It came as he announced the cancellation of the season’s first two series.

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Tim Cowlishaw: Rob Manfred, owners have shared brunt of MLB lockout ire, but misguided players aren’t free of blame

DALLAS — It’s official. You can make alternative plans for my birthday party. The Yankees aren’t coming to town on March 31. And neither are the Texas Rangers.

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Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred canceled opening day, then spoke about it. Here’s what he should’ve said.

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, after negotiations broke off between owners and players in Major League Baseball, and three months after owners locked out players, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced he had called off opening day. Manfred did address reporters, but this is what we would have liked to hear:

Los Angeles Times

Scott Lauber: Cost of MLB owners’ gamble will be more than just canceled games

PHILADELPHIA — The sun came out Wednesday. Children went to school, businesses opened, spring grew one day nearer. Life moved right along.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Trout directly called out Rob Manfred for Major League Baseball’s collapsed CBA negotiations

Mike Trout went directly for Rob Manfred. Wow.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mike Trout Comments on Rob Manfred Canceling Games: ‘We Need to Get This CBA Right’

Trout: “We need to get this CBA right.”

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While MLB season hangs in the balance, commissioner Rob Manfred works on his backswing

The photo has been mocked as a sign that Manfred hasn't taken the negotiations seriously.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Rob Manfred Dodges Question About MLB-MLBPA Labor Negotiations Timeline

The commissioner wouldn’t give a straight answer on why negotiations weren’t ongoing for months.

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The Guardian - US

MLB becomes literally unwatchable as baseball self-sabotages again

The start of the new season has been lost after talks between players and owners broke down. Baseball is in danger of fading further into the background of US culture

The Independent UK

Fans chant `We want baseball!' but won't get it anytime soon

As Rob Manfred stood behind a podium in the left-field corner of Roger Dean Stadium, fans chanted at the baseball commissioner from outside the spring training home of the Miami Marlins and St_ Louis Cardinals: “We want baseball!”

The Independent UK

Sad, not shocked: MLB fans take gut-punch of canceled games

Baseball fans reacted with a mix of resignation, dismay, sadness and anger when MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that opening day on March 31 has been canceled over a labor dispute

The Philadelphia Inquirer

MLB cancels first two series of regular-season games after players reject final offer before deadline

Rob Manfred stood behind a podium Tuesday in Jupiter, Fla., and announced the cancellation of the first two series — five or six games per team — of the Major League Baseball season. Nearly two hours after the commissioner's decree, veteran pitcher Andrew Miller was asked if the players were…

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Sports Illustrated

Rob Manfred Pens Letter to Fans After Opening Day Delayed

This is the first time since the 1994 season that regular season games will be missed due to a work stoppage.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Major League Baseball Got You Down? Try The Mountain West.

MLB and Rob Manfred might be canceling games, but Mountain West baseball is already in full swing with plenty of stories to follow.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Hurtles Itself Deeper Into Danger

MLB has never been in a more weakened position to withstand a work stoppage than it is now.

Los Angeles Times

'Manfred gotta go': Players throwing high heat at MLB's decision to cancel games

LOS ANGELES — By the early hours of Tuesday morning, hope seemed to be pulsing throughout baseball.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Fans Express Outrage on Social Media After Rob Manfred Cancels Games

Baseball fans were not pleased with the commissioner after he announced he was canceling the first week of regular season games.

Sports Illustrated

This Is the Path MLB Chose

Rob Manfred made it sound as if the league had no choice but to lock out the players and cancel games. That isn’t true.

Sports Illustrated

MLBPA ‘Disgusted’ by Cancellation of Games, Delivers Scathing Response to Decision

The MLB Players Association released a statement via Twitter denouncing the cancellation of games as the lockout drags on.

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