One of Major League Baseball's owners just destroyed the league's entire argument for a lockout

The 2026 World Series starts later this week, and with it, potentially the last Major League Baseball games we'll see for quite some time.

On Dec.

1, the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league's owners and the MLB Players Association expires.

Barring some extremely unforeseen circumstances, the owners will immediately proceed to a lockout.

Players will be barred from contact with team personnel, unable to use team facilities, along with many other noticeable changes designed to pretend as though the stars who sustain the sport don't exist.

Nobody knows how long negotiations to determine the next Collective Bargaining Agreement will take to resolve.

Nobody knows how long the lockout will continue, or if spring training or the 2027 regular season will start on time.

If the league will miss games and potentially jeopardize the sustained growth baseball has enjoyed.

For example, the 2026 NLCS between the Dodgers and Brewers was the highest rated LCS from either league since 2015, despite lasting just four games.

WORLD SERIES CHAMPION SAYS POTENTIAL MLB LOCKOUT COULD 'ABSOLUTELY' CAUSE CANCELLED GAMES NEXT SEASON Attendance has increased.

National ratings have increased .

And the owners are reportedly committed to blowing it all up in order to fight for a salary cap.

Except one of their newest members just accidentally blew up their entire case and rationalization for it.

The salary cap fight stems from anger and outrage over the Los Angeles Dodgers' offseason spending.