The current deal expires on 1 Dec 2026.
My humble view is that two sides will talk....up to spring-training starting (sometime in Feb 2027), and then the lock-out will start.
Zero movement for spring and summer.....after July....it's a bit rough for the players union.
The question is....there are thousand of hours of TV 'open'. How would you fill it?
Pro-wrestling? Roller-derby? College baseball? Japanese baseball?
First, German news started to talk about China's outbreak of 'something'....early January. I spent several hours browsing (I'm retired....I have time).
I happened upon this YouTube video....PhD Brit bat-scientist....around 2018 clip....15-to-20 minutes....talking over his foundation-funded lab in Wuhan. Most of the piece covered the lab...but in the last 8 minutes or so....the guy has his 'team' out (5 Chinese guys) in the hills....way out away from Wuhan.
The 'boys' are netting bats.....probably forty at a time. Don't know the pay-scale....but obviously....they were happy capturing some bats for the lab.
About two months go by....Covid is in Germany now, and I go to search for the video....to find the name of the lab.
Well....the clip ISN'T there. I even use YouTube history.....wasting a full hour for early January....it's simply NOT there. Problem number one.
What was the lab? I suspect there were three or four hyped-up labs....one sponsored by Fauci.....a couple paid by foundations out of Europe. 'It' escaped out of one of them.
Then comes the mask issue.
Around mid-March....Germans are hyped-up....Covid has arrived. They run a hour-long show....couple of 'experts' (medical type....PhD-level).
So they (the moderator) asks about masks.
The PhD guy says....it's not really helpful. You pull mask number one at 7AM....ride the bus with it, and work for an hour or two....it's humid, and the effective nature of the KN-95 surgical masks is zeroized by 10 AM. So you go to mask number two, and by 3 PM....you are onto mask number three. There's simply not enough masks for the whole of society. He also hints....Covid get on your hands, and you change masks....you'd likely get a 'dose' that way.
As the show ended....I got on Amazon, and ordered 50 masks. My wife went nuts....you don't need it. Yeah....you can start counting 60 to 90 days...mandatory masks
Six weeks pass....masks....cloth-type are now mandated. You wear them all day...washing in vinegar at night...re-using.
Two months pass....KN-95 type are now mandated. Grocery stores? Selling probably two-hundred boxes of masks (40 each) for each shopping day.
My wife hypes constantly....you need to wear a fresh new one daily. I see the BS....I have one mask, and ONLY one mask.....over and over...using the same one....for the next 18 months, until the mandate ends.
I spent about two hours yesterday....watching the Senate hearing with former head of NIAID (from 1984 to 2022).
Four observations:
1. It was a wasted two hours....he said nothing.
2. I'm of the mind....questioning how in 1984....he came to the NIAID 'seat'. It just looks like insiders to the Reagan team rigged the seat....to help farm out CIA programs. All the bizarre and crazy science BS of the 1960s/1970....were crafted to be hidden by NIAID (my belief).
3. I think by the end of summer....some federal charges come up...by the end of 2026....Fauci is dead by suicide.
4. I'm of the mind....maybe at best....ten-percent of the Covid 'efforts' were legit....the rest were made-up and had nothing to do with science.
