1994 MLB Strike 20th anniversary: Who was to blame?

Many of us tend go with the tidy and lazy "pox on both their houses" approach, seeing no sense in distinguishing between the millionaires and billionaires who afflicted the game. A great many also blame the players. There's perhaps some anti-unionism baked into this, and there's also the quaint notion that ballplayers, because they get paid to play a game, should be happy with the riches they have. The former is a topic for another forum, and the latter is just envy dressed up in populism. In reality, it's the owners who should wear the labor stoppage of 1994 as a shame of their own making.