Lockout gives fans chance to enjoy real baseball

By Joe Guzzardi

Disgusted and indignant fans have a message for near-universally detested MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the league's billionaire owners, and its pampered, overpaid players – Take your overpriced tickets, tasteless hot dogs, and warm, flat beer and stuff them.

The commissioner, owners, union and players have grievously misjudged the baseball nation’s post-pandemic, inflation-ravaged, Ukraine war-anxious mood. The last thing baseball bugs want to hear is well-heeled, privileged elitists carping about their lot and the perceived injustices they’re suffering.