Major League Baseball’s lockout continues to drag on, and we get this update from The Athletic’s Evan Drellich:

The CliffsNotes version is that the owners stink, they don’t even like baseball, and opening day is probably not going to happen. We’re very close to that officially being pushed back. The players have put a couple of deals on the table that, if accepted right then and there, would constitute a “win” for the owners. But it seems like they’re more interested in breaking the union than actually getting back to playing the game.

Reminder – owners chose the lockout, then decided not to negotiate for 42 days. They’re the ones giving the hardline stance that is going to cancel regular season games and jeopardize the 162 game season.

Jeff Passan at ESPN summed it up rather well:

Major League Baseball is in a crisis of its own making, a self-inflicted wound borne of equal parts hubris, short-sightedness and stubbornness from a class of owners who run the teams and seemingly have designs on running the game into the ground. Barring a miracle eleventh-hour agreement Monday on a new labor deal that ends its lockout of the MLB Players Association, the league has said it will cancel Opening Day games. That baseball finds itself on the precipice of such an ugly denouement is no accident. It is a study in the consequences of bad behavior — of indignities big and small, of abiding by the letter of the law while ignoring its spirit and, worst of all, of alienating those who make the sport great.

Anyway, hope you enjoy opening day in June. Or July. Or whenever this thing is resolved.