Two students decide before first period that they have such long-standing hatred and distrust that finding common ground on a persistent, ultra-vital issue feels impossible. So they are going to fight at 3 p.m. in the schoolyard.<\/p>\n
Classes go on around them, but all the other pupils fan those flames period after period until there is no way either side could back out at 3 p.m. and avoid humiliation and other retributions. So it just becomes how beat up and bloodied one or both parties must be to concede \u2014 and the worry would be very beat up and very bloodied.<\/p>\n
This analogy was offered by a top team official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because MLB labor is such a tinderbox that public comments could bring blowback. <\/p>\n
But as the executive said, \u201cWe have spent four years talking about Johnny and Bobby at 3 p.m. in the schoolyard, and now both sides have to show up and how does anyone cave and save face? MLB has so clearly wanted a salary cap, and if they don\u2019t get it now, why would the union ever take them seriously again? If (Players Association interim executive director) Bruce (Meyer) caves to a cap too early, he will never work for the union again. There is like no chance they don\u2019t fight and fight for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two students decide before first period that they have such long-standing hatred and distrust that finding common ground…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,215841,471,5237,482,82,2091,2089],"class_list":["post-557325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-preview-2026","tag-pete-alonso","tag-rob-manfred","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}