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Can Major League Baseball save Opening Day today? Real fans should hope not.

COMMENTARY

No one erased Major League Baseball’s March 31 Opening Day while you were sleeping. That constitutes progress, I guess.

It’s all more maddening than joyous at this address, if I’m being honest. Cramming was a terrible strategy for your term paper, and it’s similarly not going to draw up a collective bargaining agreement that fixes much in a league that, for all we still love, needs ample fixing.

After some 16½ hours of negotiations on days No. 89 and 90 of the lockout, the former an owner-imposed deadline to preserve a full 162-game season, said deadline was slid back to 5 p.