On Tuesday afternoon, baseball fans finally got the news they've been dreading all offseason: after failing to negotiate with the MLBPA, MLB owners decided to cancel games. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that they would be scrapping the first two series of the year, and now the earliest that the 2022 season can start is mid-April. The two sides can't start negotiating again until Thursday -- so what happens next? Royals Insider Josh Vernier joined 610's Fescoe In The Morning to give his take.
"It just goes away," he said. "Nobody thinks about it or cares about it. I've heard what you guys have been talking about this morning, and from you're tone, it sounds like this is it. Tomorrow, we're done with baseball, and it's back to the combine, and it's back to the Chiefs, and it's back to having a good time. Baseball just goes away. Nobody's going to think about it, or miss it, until there's a nice day and you wish you were at a ballpark. But then you'll forget about it again. That's apathy. And is there anything worse? I don't care what the job is, what the profession is, there's nothing worse than apathy."
You can listen to Vernier's entire interview in the embedded player below:
