pagsz's Journal: Baseball Strike Averted

For the first time in baseball history, a labor contract was negotiated without a work stoppage. Earlier today, Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Player's Association agreed to a new labor contract to last through 2006.
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For the past couple of days, I checked ESPN and ESPNews a lot for news on the strike. As much as I said I was becoming apathetic to it (in RoaI (24 I)), I just had to know. As the clock ticked down, I wondered more and more if they were really going to do it. Go out on strike again, and shoot themselves in the foot one more time.

For obvious reasons, I had real reason to believe they were really going to do it. They'd done it eight times before, and there's still plenty of animosity left between the players and the owners. So as the deadline drew near, I began to worry that there might not be any baseball this September. For most of this morning, I kept the TV tuned to ESPN for the latest developments. And then, around noon, news came that a deal had been reached. There will indeed be a 2002 World Series.