Mariners Just Won 7-3 and The League is Already Plotting to Lock Us Out of 2027

The Mariners just smacked the Angels 7-3! Yeah, you read that right. Our boys pulled off a solid win, and that feels good, no doubt. But honestly, it is getting harder and harder to just enjoy these victories without a massive dark cloud hanging over the whole damn league for 2027.

The Lockout Threat Is Real, Emerald City

We are talking about 198 days until next year’s Opening Day, but we have no idea if that March 24 date will even happen. We have no idea if the 2027 MLB season will happen at all, thanks to ongoing labor negotiations that are, quite frankly, inexorably leading toward a lockout. It is shaping up to be a total shutdown of league business, likely hitting us in December. Nobody knows if it will be like 2021, where everything got resolved before we lost games, or if we are staring down another ugly 1994-95 situation. That question is going to hover over every single discussion this offseason, and it sucks. Chris Towers, who writes these fantasy rankings, says he is just going to proceed as if it is a normal offseason, but how can we? It is tough to imagine teams making big moves when a landscape-altering CBA negotiation is looming. It is going to be a weird, slow offseason for sure. While Towers is skeptical we are headed for a 1994-95 shutdown, he admits it is not impossible.

Fantasy Rankings Feel Absurd Right Now

And speaking of weird, people are already dropping “way-too-early 2027 Fantasy Baseball rankings.” It is hard to wrap your head around that when we might not even have a full season! Like, who cares that Konnor Griffin is rising in those rankings or that Pete Crow-Armstrong leads the outfielders when we could lose games? We just got that 7-3 win, and all I can think about is whether we will actually see our Mariners back on the field next year as scheduled.

What’s Next for Our M’s

So, here we are. The Mariners gave us a solid 7-3 victory against the Angels, but the shadow of 2027 looms huge. We will be watching those labor negotiations like hawks, because everything depends on it. We just need to brace ourselves for what is coming, and hope our boys in blue and green get the season they deserve.

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Originally reported by CBS Sports.