Good afternoon.
It is Sunday afternoon, one day before the February 28 deadline MLB has pointed to as the day by which there has to be an agreement between MLB and the union in order to avoid canceling games. We are at nut-cutting time. Yesterday’s meetings did not seem to go well, with reports being that both sides were mad at the end of the day.
Today...well, there have been meetings since noon Central time. There have been two sessions so far. A third is apparently going to happen. The sides are currently caucusing separately. As I type this, MLB negotiator Dan Halem, who headed over to the players side a few minutes ago, has just left and headed back to the owners’ side, per the folks on the scene (via Twitter).