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Yes, there will be a lockout Posted: Wednesday March 27, 2002 2:01 PM
There is a reason that the baseball season opens on April Fool's Day this year: the full 162 games on your pocket schedule aren't going to be played. Remember that when the umpires shout that famous command "Play Ball" on Monday. Add the words "For Now." If there ever was a doubt about the fact that there will be a strike, a lockout, some kind of work stoppage this year, it was removed this week when commissioner Bud Selig issued a statement that there wouldn't be a work stoppage. Not if he and the owners had anything to do with it. Knowing public relations and government-speak as we all do in these savvy media times, this was nothing less than an inverse promise of what will come. No, taxes won't rise under my administration. No, drugs were not involved in the situation involving my famous Hollywood client. Yes, we have no bananas. The big guns are being aimed and calibrated around baseball's economic future as surely as if this were the Golan Heights. Bud is laying out the case for the beleaguered, penniless yet charitable men of commerce who own the 30 teams of our land. The players union, under Donald Fehr, another civic-minded lad, is vowing not to surrender one taillight on one Mercedes in one six-car garage to help the future of the game. I don't know about you, but all this tells me to put in an order for a Parchesi set and maybe the collected works of Danielle Steele because come August, maybe September, there's going to be some free time for all of us. Play ball, for now. Leigh Montville's commentaries appear regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated.
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