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Super Bowl LVI drew in the neighborhood of 101 million viewers on Sunday. Baseball, meanwhile, can’t find its head for a hole in the ground. Spring training, anyone? As I’ve said before, I would prefer not to pick sides between billionaires and multimillionaires. I mean, it’s not like either side cares if the peons are behind them. No, first they practice scorched-earth negotiations, then they think a little P.R. and blather about “the fans” will fix things, PEDs optional. I wonder how the folks who depend on spring training to help put food on the table feel about that. Think of all those municipalities in Florida and Arizona that have spent tens of millions of tax dollars on facilities that the owners are too poor to build themselves. These are communities based largely on tourism, with much of it the product of fans coming to see their teams during spring training. No spring training means no fans means empty hotel rooms means empty restaurants means… Good thing it’s all about saving the national pastime.