If it was Tuesday, it must have been "Meet The Deadline."
For a second Tuesday in a row, Major League Baseball gave the locked-out players a take-it-or-leave-it deadline in collective bargaining talks. Either take the league’s latest proposal or leave a week’s worth of regular-season games on the chopping block.
Last Tuesday, after nine consecutive days of in-person talks in Jupiter, Fla., the Players Association rejected an offer that it said the league described as “best and final,” and watched Commissioner Rob Manfred announce the cancellation of the first week of the season. This Tuesday, after MLB shifted its position on the luxury tax and delivered a new proposal in writing, union leaders huddled with lawyers and economists deep into the night.
