At this time of year, what would you typically be doing?

I would be in Florida, Arizona right now.

At some point I would be spring training at camp and it's the best.

Jared Diamond is a baseball reporter.

There is something to the whole sense of spring training.

Being a renewal, it's sign that summertime is coming and warm weather is coming.

Everyone is very relaxed and there's something just about being out at the ballpark.

Some small backfield in some middle of nowhere, Florida, around the desert,

in Arizona, and the grass is green and the sky is blue.

And you hear the crack of the bat for the first time since October.

And it's incredibly romantic and I miss it terribly and I really hope I get to experience

it soon.

Jared isn't hearing the first crack of the bat this season because baseball spring training

has been delayed.

The owners and the players union are fighting over a new contract.

This week, the two sides plan to meet every day.

If they don't reach an agreement by the end of the month, the regular season won't start

as scheduled.

And while they negotiate, everything is on hold.

There's as of right now, not going to be baseball anytime soon.

Spring training is not happening as we speak, there's serious doubt about whether opening

day will be able to happen on March 31st as scheduled.

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