Major League Baseball is already planning what its official websites will look like during a lockout. According to a confidential 34-page memo, reported by The Athletic, current players’ images and videos would be removed from league and club sites. When owners imposed the last lockout in 2021, active players’ photographs on MLB.com became blank silhouettes.

My 11-year-old son entered baseball this year through YouTube, the MLB app, roster pages he checked every day and questions he typed into my ChatGPT account. When those same screens carried news of the labor dispute, he asked me, “Will there be baseball next season?”

I did not know. I still do not.

I was 11 when the 1994 strike canceled the rest of the season and the World Series. I remember a summer that stopped.

I have no special insight into collective bargaining. I am a father who spent one season watching his children encounter baseball through screens and in person, sometimes with me and sometimes without me. The reported plan for MLB’s websites caught........

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