Don’t expect deal June 1 — but maintain hope

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association haven't set any hard deadlines for reaching an agreement to launch the 2020 MLB season.

Why inject more pressure into an already-volatile situation? Why place a firm date on a situation that's fluid and shifting by the day?

That said, some "soft" deadlines have been tossed around, the most recent one being June 1 (hey, that's today!). By then, it was hoped, both sides could smooth out their differences and agree upon terms and conditions to commence the 2020 MLB season.

Per a recent report from MLB Network's Jon Heyman... yeah, don't get your hopes up on that:

Being a soft deadline anyway, though, the juice of this report really sits in that…