Atlanta Braves Podcast S2E38: Lockouts and other fun topics

Atlanta Braves fans should still be all aglow after a World Series win.  But leave it to unhappy people to drag things down for the rest of us.

We were having fun here!  Fun about the game of baseball!  Fun about the Atlanta Braves winning the World Series!  Fun with the idea the a repeat might be within reach!

Then her daddy took the T-bird away.  Ergo, baseball is halted.

The MLB has locked out the Players’ Association — a move that we’re told is supposed to drive people back to the bargaining table when we all know that it’s mutually exclusive — all sides can talk about labor issues any time they choose… and we also know they will choose not to do so until desperation actually sets in.

So in the meantime, the grown-ups in the room — the fans — are the ones left holding the empty shopping bag as the children continue to go off on tantrums.

This is why I predict no labor peace on February 18th, 2022… and that might be optimistic.  But there’s still a lot of actual baseball topics that we discussed on the podcast this week:

• The Lockout and Labor issues (no, we weren’t terribly kind)
• Marcell Ozuna, Freddie Freeman and our reactions to the fact that Ozuna is on the Braves roster while Freeman is not.
• Signings and tender offers… yes, there have been a few.

We will continue to watch and comment on the business of baseball, because even while the bickering goes on without us, we are impacted since we still care about the game.

Though admittedly, the longer this argument continues, the more of you we’ll lose — and I can’t blame you.

So here’s the podcast in all of its glorious digital form:

• The direct download link is here
• Your favorite subscription site has already had it for a few hours while I was missing the first half of the SEC Championship game (took a nap)… and it appears that a bunch of you already knew that 🙂
• The direct audio player is here below…

Thanks for being our fans during this whacky and wild year — we do sincerely appreciate your efforts as we try our best to represent Braves fandom well.