As we approach the end of the third month of Major League Baseball’s lockout of its players, we also head towards the first moment of actual reckoning. Up until this point, the lockout has merely been a nuisance for die-hard fans — the ones who actually follow baseball in the dark winter months. Sadly — or perhaps fortunately in this case for the supposed shepherds of the sport — those ranks have been dwindling. For everyone else, for the casual fans of the game — the folks who will go to a few games this year and watch plenty more on TV — baseball’s lockout hasn’t been a serious issue at all….