By Evan Bleier After nine straight days of negotiations between Major League Baseball’s owners and players failed to result in a new CBA last week, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced his sport was scrapping regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years. Tasked with covering the negotiations for ESPN, MLB insider Jeff Passan was privy to the final offer that was made to players by owners and Manfred prior to the season’s first week of games being canceled. Passan, who would probably much rather be covering games than board-room squabbles, called the offer a “shit …
