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Bill Plaschke: Blame clueless owners for selfishly canceling MLB games and hurting fans

LOS ANGELES — If you had plans to attend any of the first seven games at Dodger Stadium this season, don't bother. Baseball is locking you out. If you had plans to make a trip to check out Mike Trout or Shohei Ohtani in Oakland or Seattle during the season's first week, forget it. Baseball has torn up your tickets. That loud and startling sound that swept across the national sports landscape ...
Los Angeles Dodgers fans wave their towels to cheer before Game 4 in the National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium on Oct. 20, 2021, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — If you had plans to attend any of the first seven games at Dodger Stadium this season, don't bother.

Baseball is locking you out.

If you had plans to make a trip to check out Mike Trout or Shohei Ohtani in Oakland or Seattle during the season's first week, forget it.

Baseball has torn up your tickets.

That loud and startling sound that swept across the national sports landscape Tuesday was the bolting of the gates of 30 major league stadiums for the first week of the season, with owners canceling the first two regular-season series as part of their ongoing labor dispute with the players.

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