My 2022 MLB Prediction: There Will Be No 2022 MLB Season

As depressing as COVID denialism, the Republican Party no longer accepting the peaceful transfer of power and Canada's Conservative Party embracing mob rule, I find baseball even more depressing.

My diminishing joy of the game it is accompanied by the usual idiocy of baseball's owners locking out the players with a Commissioner who makes Bowie Kuhn look like Marvin Miller. The owners and Rob Manfred are not only bargaining in bad faith they cannot be said to be bargaining at all. It has now cut into spring training and frankly the crevasse between MLB and the MLBPA is larger than that between defeated former President Trump and electoral reality. So long as MLB and MLBPA cannot be in the same room for more than 15 minutes, I do not believe there will be a 2022 MLB season. 

Then again even if there is a 2022 season, I will feel little joy in it. Aside from the likely implementation of the Universal DH, there is the strong possibility that 14 of MLB's 30 teams will make the post-season. Currently 10 teams (three division winners and two wild cards) make the post-season. As it stands now, there is a 1 in 3 chance to make the post-season and the new proposal would nearly make it a 1 in 2 chance. If there is any more watering down of the game they might as well play the game in an aquarium. 

What makes the current state of baseball even more depressing than Covidiocy and the breakdown of democracy in North America is that baseball isn't supposed to be depressing. Unlike denying a pandemic and attempting to end democracy, baseball is supposed to be fun and an escape. Instead baseball has become just yet another source of misery and suffering.