Nerve-wracking but ultimately joyful experiences like graduations or weddings don’t feel real until they are a year away from happening.

Nor do stressful and potentially miserable experiences like Election Day… or the expiration of Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement, which is scheduled to happen one year from today at 11:59 PM EST.

There’s a chance Dec. 1, 2026 will end up being a happy day filled with fans symbolically tossing rice as players and owners celebrate an agreement that tackles some of the game’s most pressing issues and takes the sport into the 2030s without a ruinous work stoppage.

Alas, it feels more likely we’ll watch the Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Don’t Call Them The Sacramento Athletics in the 2026 World Series than watch the next CBA hammered

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